Month: February 2009
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6 giga-pixel Tokyo
Once again a gigantic digital image: Tokyo shot with GigaPan. Can you find Waldo (er, no! the dancing policeman)? Source: Photoart – Kalmar, via YLovePhoto.
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Elephant poaching in Kenya
Everything points at a stark increase of elephant poaching in Kenya after years of relative calm. More precisely, in the Tsavo National Park, in the 6 most recent weeks, rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) found 5 dead elephants whose tusks have been sawed. This is a reminder that some habits which we thought…
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Fishing sardines, pro advice
If you want to fish sardines, ask advice from a pro : The sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus). This slides diaporama from National Geographic shows sailfishes grouping themselves to hunt a big school of sardines. Really beautiful and utterly technical.
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Collisions
News reaches a British sub and a French sub regardnig the satellite collision last week. *Snort* American and Russian dorks. I nearly rolled on the floor laughing with this one. But, generally speaking, UserFriendly.org is one hell of a good comics web site.
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One charger for all phones
Thanks to European Community! It just proposed, no! Announced that they would force the mobile phone manufacturers to all use a single type of battery charger. It’s been years that we all accumulated chargers ready to be abandonned because none is compatible with more than one phone. The EC decided to reduce pollution linked this…
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Corporate jets fight back
After several months when we all heard that corporate jets were the mark of the truly immoral bank or corporate CEOs, it seems that private jet companies are starting to take notice: All this bad press is putting more pressure on them than they would like to in difficult times like ours. Hawker Beechcraft and…
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How to cut a forest down
We don’t use this in France (storms are enough to bring a forest to the ground) but here is the real hardware you need to cut down a forest in a few days only: Link to YouTube
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Beautiful parrots
Thanks to BibliOdyssey again, we can see magnificent reproductions of XIXth Century engravings of parrots, maccaws and other Psittacidae birds. But there are also interesting modern parrots. Go and watch the videos and photos from the Perroquet project from fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø. Did I say impressive?
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Nikon D400 on YLovePhoto
Would you be interested in knowing what the next Nikon dSLR is going to be? A Chinese web site wants you to know everything about the Nikon D400.