Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Les Roses – Redouté
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) is certianly considered the greatest drawing artist of plants and flowers. Many copies of his paintings and engravings are available on line. Why not start with his page on BiblioOdyssey?
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VIA ends its forays into CPU chipsets
According to Apply Daily (via Digitimes), VIA reorganized itself with the consequence that they will concentrate on their own line of CPUs and supporting chipsets, leaving the chipsets for Intel and AMD aside.
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Screenshots for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear sky
After S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Shadow of Chernobyl in 2007, you will see S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear sky in 2008. This new opus of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. saga will retain the advantages of the original FPS game: Great playability, exceptional environment, free wandering in acres and acres of open terrain. There is now a gallery of screenshots for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.…
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American Black Vulture
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it American Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus, Urubu noir). Brazil, 2007.
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Why trampoline is dangerous
Source: Neatorama.
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Sony joins the DRM-free crowd
It was about time! I had previously wrote here that Sony was now the last major music company not having announced any plan to offer its music catalog in MP3 format without DRM (without digital rights protection). This is about to change. Sony, like the other disc producers/distributors, finally figured it out: Consumers are actually…
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A Nikon D300 goes to Antartica
Some field tests are more demanding than others. Jan Vermeer and PhotographyBlog brought a Nikon D300 D-SLR to the South of the world: Antartica. Dry, windy and cold. The article is interesting because it speaks about this very special environment and because it makes a good review of the new Nikon nearly-pro digital camera. There…
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Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper (Dendrexetastes rufigula, Grimpar à collier). Brazil, 2007.