Month: January 2008
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Project Offset (working title) screenshots
I have already spoken several times here about a PC First Person Shooter (FPS) video game currently known under the name of Project Offset (a working title htat will certainly be replaced before the project goes to distribution). Its innovation comes from replacing the tired old “Space marine in charge of wiping monsters out of…
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How to identify birds?
After having shot a few hundreds (er… a few thousands) photos in Brazil, I ended up with a stack of images. Some were easy to label. Some were less esay to label. Particularly, for wild birds, the problem is to quickly determine the species that is appearing on the photo. Several solutions are open to…
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Amazing images of Earth seen from space
Source: 11 phenomenal images of earth.
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Red-crested Cardinal
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Red-crested Cardinal (Paroaria coronata, Paroare huppé). Brazil, 2007.
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Brazil, Amazonia, a floating life-style
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Black-capped Donacobius
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Black-capped Donacobius (Donacobius atricapillus, Troglodyte à miroir). Brazil 2007.
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Optimize Linux and Windows
You install your PC some time ago, it may be necessary to clean it up a little in order to keep or improve its raw speed. As a matter of fact, even if we are no longer in the old times of Windows 98 that were nearly forcing you to a re-install once or twice…
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Dog or blotches?
It is only a number of irregular spots, but our brain tries its best to build an image and finds a correspondence with a Dalmatian dog.
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Parrots and parakeets, Brazil
Blue-fronted Parrot (Amazona aestiva, Amazone à front bleu) Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus, perruche moine or conure souris or conure veuve) Nanday Parakeet (Nandayus nenday, Conure nanday) Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri, Toui à ailes jaunes) Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Parrots and parakeets are found everywhere in South American forests. For me, it…