Archive for September, 2007

Tyler Nixon offers a marvellous world of images that floats slightly above the ground in a dream-like manner that will touch your heart.

MK design designed a vase that is very surprising, and has the many advantages of being nice, elegant, useful as a lamp and a good complement for interior decoration.

Via Baekdal.com.

The 2007 Portable Film Festival has now closed its doors and the winners are known for each category. It means that you can download each of these little gems of movies.

Science-Fiction produced both the worst and the best. Today, let’s look at the worst with the help of ForeverGeek that collected the Top 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows EVER! w/Videos.

That is so bad that’s it’s admirable!

Sometimes, watches can be both good-looking and strange. I found recently a series of interesting ones where the designer went overboard with ideas to make the watch more unique.

Of course, we can start with Romain Jerome who designed his jewels from rusted steel and coal taken from the Titanic shipwreck. The result is actually a bit surprising but quite wearable:

Romain Jerome - Titanic DNA Tourbillon

Or you can just try to make a fashionable design like Starck with its Snake (from Fossil):

Starck - Snake

But I would still prefer the original: I feel that this is too much of a cheap copy of the great Rado Ceramica series:

Rado Ceramica

But what is better than asking a designer to use material that is not even from this Earth? Look at the meteorites, they are often made of a core of iron and nickel alloy. Use it to make the watch, take inspiration from the intricate designs created on their surface by the extreme conditions of outer-space void.

Then you get something quite unusual. It’s not merely rusted. It’s worked to a Widmanstätten Pattern that make them utterly recognizable.

Like the Calibre T21 Muonionalusta Meteorite Tourbillon from Antoine Preziuso:

Antoine Preziuso - Calibre T21 Muonionalusta Meteorite Tourbillon

From the bottom of the seas to the end of the galaxy, your watch is merely a matter of personal choice.

A wonderful photo location that every traveller woudl like to have collected as nicely in his/her memory cards.

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The Open Source movement does not falter. It brought to the world an impressive number of software good things.

Datamation decided to offer us the 100 best Open Source downloads.

I cannot really test it from my trip in South America. However, I thought useful to inform you that there is a new web site providing free movies. You just have to accept some ads (not very different from what you have on most TV channels).

SpiralFrog

Did I speak about its legal status? It is legal. However, everything is protected by DRM, you need to use Windows and Windows Media Player 10+, and if you don’t watch the ads at least once in 30 days, the movie and the music is out…

All WordPress users should know that their prefered tool for creating a web site has just been upgraded. WordPress 2.3 is now ready and rolled into the public.

Maybe. But the dentists found by JustElite.net are doing their best…

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Personal research: What are the web sites best ranked for a Google search on the first figures? The results are… interesting:

• 0 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search)
• 1 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search)
• 2 : w3.org (Google search)
• 3 : 3.co.uk UK telephone operator (Google search)
• 4 : channel4.org TV channel (Google search)
• 5 : five.tv TV channel (Google search)
• 6 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search)
• 7 : au.tv.yahoo.com TV guide (Google search)
• 8 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search)
• 9 : NineMsn.com.au Microsoft + TV channel (Google search)

Wikipedia collects it when nobody wants them, but TV channels are hoarding the numbers.