Archive for July, 2006

Being rich can mean that you can’t find your soul mate. Being rich can mean that everybody is running after your money and nobody’s looking at your inner heart. Finding a mate thus becomes awfully difficult.

Here comes the solution: MillionaireMatch.com.

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Absolute photo fun and weird nature failure in a Thai zoo, here comes Sai Mai, female tiger of two years initially fed by a pig and brought with piglets.

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You don’t need to look anymore. The digital photo reflex camera that brings Sony to the D-SLR market with the new Alpha brand will be available at the end of July (some say that Malaysia would be the first to receive shipments but this rumour lacks any substantiation). If you want to buy it, you will have to pre-order. All photo shops (online or not) should alow you to buy it but Sony has its own sales web site: SonyStyle.

Of course, you can buy it at your local photo dealer shop (or at most Sony distributors). It is quite probable that there will be a first rush where it will only be available with the standard zoom of 17-70mm f/3.5-5.6, but after the initial 28 July rush, the bare body should quickly become available to the masses.

FarCry, one of the best First Person Shooter video game (a game in the old shoot-them-all category of Doom or Quake), spent a lot of time on my PC. I played with it at day and at night. But Crytek, the game authoring company, is preparing Crysis as a follow-up, sequel, or renewed FPS video game.

On TotalCRY.com, the web site they opened to inform about the news about Crysis, everything points to a major technology leap.

• Immersive game play with cinematic realism
• Great images (the graphics engine/renderer seems to be ever more capable)
• Support for multi-core CPU

I have always been interested by the tele zoom lenses and a 70-200mm or 80-200mm seems to me to be the ideal companion. When it opens at f/2.8, it’s really a good solution. If it’s a macro zoom, it becomes even better.

Up to now, I was rather looking toward the excellent Konica-Minolta 70-200mm f/2.8 SSM or its little borther Konica-Minolta 80-200mm f/2.8. Two very nice lenses (white series herited from Minolta). It is quite possible that Sony will produce the 70-200mm in its new Alpha brand (see availability and price on the SonyStyle web site). But a new buying option shine now that Sigma announced a new fast tele zoom lens that could well be interesting too.

This large aperture zoom lens seems to have everything you need and a good price (much better than the anticipated 2300USD for the Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 SSM). Its hypersonic motor (HSM) will allow a precise correction of focus and its 100cm minimum focus associated to a 1:3.5 ratio opens the doors to macro. If you also buy a 2x EX DG APO Tele Converter, you get a quite serious 140-400mm F5.6 AF telephoto zoom lens.

Lens quality could not be evaluated right now.

Available for the following lens mounts: Sigma, Canon, Nikon, KONICA MINOLTA (donc Sony), Pentax (donc Samsung).

Science fiction author James Patrick Kelly podcasts some of his works as MP3s. His stories were published in famous SciFi magazines like Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

I think this would be a bad idea. This is why.

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When American people eat, they eat a lot. Some – like me – believe that this is a major source of the obesity epidemics appearing in the United States and some other Western countries. In this great consumer paradise, you find more easily giant packaging (milk delivered by the gallon is really serious milk) than our minuscule boxes and packs (1/4l is really small).

But hey! For some people it is a source of pure pride to show the world what eating is when it becomes something like an industrial activity. Right! They are not only American people, but these guys know the real meaning of too much.

And humour is not excluded: