The economy is bad everywhere. Things are so bad in France that Parisians have been requested to stop being impatient with tourists and start smiling in the hopes that some of the tourists that left or never came in the first place will come back. There is no word from the Minister of Culture, responsible [...]

Recently one of those quirky news stories hit when the Virginia DMV banned smiling for driver’s license and other ID photos.  The reasoning being that it messes up the facial recognition software.  They aren’t the first state to do this although I’m crossing my fingers that it doesn’t get to my state before my next [...]