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The largest model railway in the world

(Sunday, May 3rd, 2009)


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I am a great fan of miniature model railways. But this one is all railways, locomotive, trains geeks want. It’s ok for kids as well as adults.

Stop-motion pig and wolf

(Tuesday, April 28th, 2009)

This is so nice: A Stop-motion video that is very well done, funny.


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It’s smarter to travel in groups

(Saturday, April 11th, 2009)


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Do you love chocolate?

(Wednesday, April 1st, 2009)

…up to the point of creating a chocolate-inspired video?

…or up to the point of sacrificing chocolate for the sake of pure art?


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No fish for 1st of April!
These are bunnies.

Free movies (many)

(Saturday, March 14th, 2009)

We all love when things come free to us. Here I found a treasure trove of movies that are free to download. Legally.

Thanks to the Canadians of the National Film Board of Canada. They give us feature-length movies, documentaries, animated short movies. Everything, of the best quality, at the best price: Free.

blue-crab

Live dinosaurs? You’re kidding me?

(Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009)

If you want to meet dinosaurs, not only paintings or sculptures, go to the USA, fly to Los Angeles, California. There, in the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, there are free-roaming dinosaurs in the corridors. Not only are these automatons sized impressively, but they intereact with people and kids around them.

Woah! Stunning!


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Collisions

(Sunday, February 22nd, 2009)

News reaches a British sub and a French sub regardnig the satellite collision last week.

UserFriendly.org

UserFriendly.org

*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.

9 love messages from Planet Earth

(Saturday, February 7th, 2009)

You’d believe that our planet is in love. It can be read on its face (on its surface) merely under the form of pretty hearts nicely drawn.

Heart Reef, Australia

Heart Reef, Australia

9 other cases. Superb!

How do you make a globe

(Friday, January 23rd, 2009)

In our short series of “How do you make…”, here is the industrial manuacturing of terrestrial globes How would you do it? The same way as described here?


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Note: I said globe, not blog… :-)

Transition times

(Saturday, January 17th, 2009)

According to the Guardian, change was long overdue. 8 years of Democrat presidency in Washington was much too much. Now that Al Gore is leaving the oval office, it’s time to go to more serious stuff.

You can appreciate it if you read the first paragraph:

No one thought Al Gore would be a loveable president, but, after eight years in the White House, he has gotten truly tiresome. The droning voice, the purchase of an eco-friendly robot dog, the campaign for carbon-free diamonds – all these things were hard to take, and he has been way too smug about reversing global warming. I think we’ve gone too far in the opposite direction, especially in light of the glacier that recently crushed Wasilla.

Go to the Guardian for the rest…

Derelict Japanese suspension bridge

(Wednesday, January 14th, 2009)

You loved the Grand Canyon sky walk, and the previously available video of the El Camino del Rey Walkway. So, you proved that you aren’t susceptible to vertigo.

Will you love this old suspension bridge from Japan? It’s old, derelict. The wind is pushing it.


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Oh! Dogs…

(Thursday, January 8th, 2009)

Dogs, like many other pets, are subject to much interest and present a lot of particular behaviours that can be formed by proper training. So, today, I want you to meet two of my Internet friends of very different behaviours:

  • The dog who could not stop having fun with snow
  • the product of the most sophisticated pet training: The perfectly obedient dog

Both in video.


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The nazi time traveller [movie]

(Tuesday, January 6th, 2009)

This Hungarian short movie is in English. I recommend waiting for the end (after 11 minutes).

Monty Python, free download on YouTube

(Friday, December 26th, 2008)

For sure, YouTube has always been crouded with rip-offs of the Monty Python sketches. Unfortunately, these were both illegal and -in general- of poor quality. The guys from Monty Python decided that enough is enough, and there is now a Monty Python channel/group on YouTube where you can see excellent quality videos of their Monty Python’s Flying Circus.


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Cars, trucks gone wild (video)

(Monday, December 22nd, 2008)

You probably remember the impressive unloading of an excavator from a truck, without using a crane or even a ramp:


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But here come some more, a lot more, fun with cars, trucks, excavators and other big chunks of mechanics.

Starting with a 15-ton Caterpillar playing along.


Skills With A 15 Ton Front Loader

But should the Caterpillar stay on the ground? No, and this is what Dark Roasted Blend shows us:

hydraulic-climbing-tower

But unloading an excavator seems much easier than unloading a car from a truck:


How Not To Unload A Car

This means that you must be ready to repair your new car in all conditions. And some people really mean it. Here is the story of this rally race team. They had their car stopped by a broken throttle cable. So, in this case, what would you do? Abandon the race? Not these guys. One of them steps under the hood (!) and will handle the throttle from there to the end of the race.

repair_car_in_race

So, this is the crisis, you are not ready to these extreme measures and you still need to buy a car, I advise all of us to chase a really carbon-emission-free truck (from a well-known battery provider):

Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sirwiseowl/2514783918/" title="Electrick Truck">SirWiseOwl. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.

Free shipping on prints, posters!

(Saturday, October 25th, 2008)

Some of my best images are available are posters, cards, prints, laminated prints, etc. on RedBubble.com. I like the quality of their service, their prices and the broad support (including good discussion forums about photo).

What you’ll like even more is that they reduced the shipping costs to NOTHING for a week. They are celebrating their shipment of 100,000 photo/art masterpieces around the world. At this moment, they decided to offer one week of free shipping. You just have to use the following coupon code when checking out: ‘100000masterpieces’

PS: The promotion will expire at 2359 on 30 October (GMT). Just in time to prepare your gifts for Christmas or for your 2009 new year’s cards.

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  • Cards,
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  • Laminated Prints (between shiny plastic sheets),
  • Prints mounted on hard support,
  • Canvas Prints,
  • Framed Prints

An old Monty Python about a young would-be VP

(Wednesday, October 15th, 2008)


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