MY HO CHI MINH HERITAGE

If you haven't visited it yet, MyHeritage.com is a great place to waste an entire day.

The most amusing feature on the site allows you to upload a photo and find out which celebrity the subjects most resemble. The program runs algorithms that compare the structure of your face to celebrities in its database.

Is it accurate? You be the judge.

First, after uploading a photo of my wife and me, I obtained the following results ...



Dima = Mariah Carey? Maybe. But Me = Ho Chi Minh? Ho, please.


Next, I experimented with a weird photo of myself and used a variety of crop marks to get different results ...



Now this is definitely more accurate. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked whether I am the love child of Jet Li, Imelda Marcos, Benjamin Netanyanhu, and LL Cool J.


Finally, I uploaded a photo of Oliver ...



I never noticed until now, but O-Dub is definitely Meryl Streep's Doppelganger.

--Junichi