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A wireless bridge to link all your computers

(Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008)

Titled “Wire Your Living Room Over Wi-Fi with a Bridge“, a post from LifeHacker.

With subjects like:

  • Why a Wireless Bridge?
  • How a Wireless Bridge Works
  • Setting Up the Wireless Bridge (a Buffalo airstation)

Assassin’s Creed, a PC video game

(Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008)

After appearing on gaming consoles, Assassin’s Creed arrived on PC and it seems that the effort was made to ensure that contrary to the previous habit of bad ports from console to PC, it supported well the transfer from one platform to the next (test 1, test 2).

Notice 1: Point Of View offers the video game with most of its GeForce video cards.

Notice 2: Recently, a 3D test has shown that the DirectX 10 rendering was over-simplified by Assassin’s Creed (with undue performance gains at the cost of image quality). There is a patch planned in the short term to correct this.

Assassin’s Creed

No 5D Mk II tomorrow

(Monday, April 21st, 2008)

There is no sign of the annoucement of a new successor to the Canon EOS 5D (under the name of Canon EOS 5D Mk II) for tomorrow, despite what had been forecasted by some. There was indeed a relatively safe information given on a DPReview forum indicating an August 2008 target (and a new EOS 3D series in 2009).

Big cat photos (James Pan)

(Monday, April 21st, 2008)

A few top-quality images taken by James Pan. Felines, lovely big cats and other animals shot in perfect portraits.

James Pan - All rights reserved

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Jaws, on firm ground

(Sunday, April 20th, 2008)

Feline teeth are their most prominent exterior feature. Since the prehistoric Smilodon (the smiling feline) and its gigantic canines, big cats use their impressive dental characteristics to hunt.

Smilodon - Teeth

On the Laelaps web site, you will find a detaileld article on feline teeth, from yesterday to nowadays: What big teeth you have. Please, also notice the hunting videos (lions hunting elephant, lions hunting a giraffe).

Free nature wallpapers: Sand

(Sunday, April 20th, 2008)

Some abstract images of sand. Shot in Lagoa do Peixe (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) in 2008. To me, they looked a little like some satellite photos of the planet Mars.


Free nature wallpapers: Sand - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Free nature wallpapers: Sand - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles
Free nature wallpapers: Sand - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Free nature wallpapers: Sand - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles
Free nature wallpapers: Sand - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Free nature wallpapers: Sand - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

Click on the thumbnails if you want to access the 1280*1024 versions

Those photos can be used freely for your own wallpaper (on your own computer).

Top Dubai buildings

(Saturday, April 19th, 2008)

Dubai is definitely the place to go if you have architectural ideas: Projects are well funded and imagination is welcome. Here is a presentation of several of the best and highest ones on Mika’s Waffle.

Burj Dubai

Halo-inspired Lolcats

(Saturday, April 19th, 2008)

The dreaded fashion of Lolcats has found a new sub-genre with the Halo-inspired Lolcats: Halolcats. The video game, Halo, mixed with Lolcats…

Disappearing car doors: Real or fake?

(Friday, April 18th, 2008)

If you go to the web site setup by Jatec-LLC, disappearing-car-door.com, you will see a revolutionary kind of sliding door for your car.

But is it real or fake?

Big cats roam free in UK (Really!)

(Friday, April 18th, 2008)

Great Britain does not look like the place to look for big cats, but there are some large felines clearly not indigenous roaming freely in the United Kingdom. It is such a big thing that there is an investigative group collecting evidence about them: panthers, lions, cheetahs in the cold weather of England or Scotland.

Big cats in Britain
Big cats in Britain

Cheetahs and elephants roaming free in USA

(Thursday, April 17th, 2008)

LionsYesterday, we were speaking here about prehistoric big cats in places where they disappeared (e.g. Europe). Today, I want to point at a surprising proposal made by Josh Donlan.

Recognizing that many big cats were roaming in North America tens of thousands of years ago, he want to re-introduce lions, cheetahs, elephants and other large animals in North America. He admits that this could be a bit difficult and that there is no way to rebuild the original population. But he offers ideas about how to bring camels and lions (from the closest relatives species) to a country were they were last seen hundreds of centuries ago.

Of course, it sounds a lot like Jurassic Park for real. Are you ready to find in the United States cheetahs hunting pronghorn bucks in the Wild West (wild again) or in Montana?

Purple square illusion

(Wednesday, April 16th, 2008)

Optical illusion

Every purple square seems twisted. And is not.


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