Month: May 2007

  • Free quality audio books

    There is certainly not as much titles as on LibriVox that we previously presented you here on Roumazeilles.net, but SimplyAudioBooks compensates with the perfectly professional quality of the recordings. You will find there English litterature reference works read by pros.

  • Publish your own book

    Print on Demand (POD) has become a very affordable solution for people willing to publish their own books. Previously, you had to convince a publisher to invest in printing hundreds if not thousands of copies of your book; then, you hoped for success and -usually- failed. Print your own book at: CafePress Lulu With Print…

  • South Africa: Buffalos

    South Africa: Buffalos

    We have been meeting a group of nearly 200 buffalos. Impressive animals: Jeune buffle Buffle(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image)

  • Sunset in South Africa

    Sunset in South Africa

    Coucher de soleil(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image)

  • Galapagos: bad news and hope

    The Galapagos islands have earned years ago the inscription to UNESCO’s World Heritage. You have to admit that their unique situation (recognized ince the founding travel of Charles Darwin and confirmd by innumerable TV documentaries like those from Cousteau) was quite understandable. But New Scientist tells us that this privileged status may be lost to…

  • Elephants in the South of Africa

    Elephants in the South of Africa

    South Africa has the fame of being home of enormous numbers of elephants (to the point that the question of culling is open for discussion in South Africa, to try and protect against the ecological pressure they create on the environment and the other herbivores). We have been lucky to approach a few nice big…

  • Experiment: Mobile Roumazeilles.net

    I just installed a WordPress plugin to make Roumazeilles.net usable from a mobile phone (WordPress Mobile). If you want to test and tell me about problem, you’ll be thanked.

  • Ten questions with Dr. Philip Zimbardo

    Dr. Philip Zimbardo was the psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), where in 1971 in a fake environment students experiemented with the influence of the environment on the apparition of behaviours that are considered as highly anti-social (quite normal graduate students played the roles of guards and prisoner, and quickly -in 6 days- derailed…

  • Screenshots on steroids

    Screenshots on steroids

    When you want to make a screenshot, you usually end up with a rectangular copy of your computer screen. Did you dream to be able to do more? RumShot is here for you. It allow to post-process your screenshots inside what the developer named themes. Uncommon result, isn’t it? Thankfully, they provide theme packs.