A wave of an optical illusion
(Wednesday, February 20th, 2008)
(Wednesday, February 20th, 2008)
(Tuesday, February 19th, 2008)
The Cormorant is clearly a bird easy to find anywhere you can find some water. In Pantanal, the Neotropic Cormorant lives along rivers and is easily seen spreading its wings in the sun while not diving for fishes.

Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus, Cormoran vigua). Brazil, 2007.
(Tuesday, February 19th, 2008)
When it comes to saving animals from extinction, many efforts are needed. Some of them seem very interesting to me. This is the case of the Northern Jaguar Project. They try to protect a large piece of land in Northern Occidental Mexico in order to ensure a large zone where jaguars could survive in a region that is considered as the nothern-most habitat of the jaguar.
They buy large pieces of land from ranches to help a group of around 120 jaguars live in a more confortable manner out of reach of most poachers and human expansion.
Actually, you can help them buy one acre (1/2 hectare or 4000 square meters) of ranch land for $49 in their Save-a-Spot for Jaguars program.
(Monday, February 18th, 2008)
(Monday, February 18th, 2008)
Its construction may be challenged by some of the historical information, but it’s fun to look at.
(Monday, February 18th, 2008)
The PDF file format is a little gem invented by Adobe that brought the enormous advantage of a portable file format able to display a document on nearly any kind of display and computer. Unfortunately, the Adobe PDF format and free player are not exempt from problems and this generated a wealth of applications worth knowing to support all your needs around the PDF format.
Here are the best ones solving what were problems (until now):
(Sunday, February 17th, 2008)

In a Pantanal fazenda, inside the room, we could find those information signs. In addition to the most usual “Do not disturb” and “make the room”, we could notice the most unusual “Please remove little frog from bathroom”.
As a matter of fact, the little guy was waiting in the shower.
Brazil, 2007.
(Sunday, February 17th, 2008)
Scientific thought is a marvellous achievement that accelerated a lot in the last millenium. This graphic timeline will give you access to this recent history.
A lot of information to assimilate.
(Saturday, February 16th, 2008)
(Saturday, February 16th, 2008)
When you’re searching for the best mid-range graphics card (200€ or $200, with the usual conversion rate for computer-software dollar), it is often difficult to find one’s way. This is why a big graphics cards comparison like the one from The Tech Report is more than welcome.
But if you want to run for the result, you can also ask Tom’s Hardware and look at their best gaming graphics card for your budget.
(Friday, February 15th, 2008)
(Friday, February 15th, 2008)
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