Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Latest whale news: talk and faeces
Did you know that whales not only sing but their songs are being decoded into talk? University of Queensland researcher Dr Rebecca Dunlop thinks she now understands a lot of what they are talking about through their thumps, whistles and clacks. Also about whales, Stacy DeRuiter at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts started…
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Rich fonts for your web site
The design of a web site is notoriously opposed to the use of rich and varied fonts: You are strongly invited to stick to the small list of common fonts. Unfortunately, this is not always enough. If you already started exploring alternatives like text-in-GIF-images, have a look at this hackzine article: HOWTO – Use rich…
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Macro shot of rose flowers
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Handbook of animal anatomy (lions and others)
These images come from the classic works of the German veterinary anatomists, Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Baum, and medical illustrator, Hermann Dittrich. The texts, from which these illustrations were derived, are works published in 1898 and 1911 through 1925, all entitled ‘Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere für Künstler‘ which can be translated as “Handbook (or…
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SLR reviews
While I was browsing the Internet I found two interesting Digital SLR reviews for recent products: Nikon D300 at CameraLabs Sony Alpha 700 at Luminous Landscape
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Email trouble at Roumazeilles.net
Please, be patient! We are currently experiencing serious email problem at Roumazeilles.net. Even the contact page does not currently work. Update: This is now back to normal. No email message was lost (just delayed a lot). If I do not answer one of your messages, please, consider that it has been lost for some other…
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Free FPS game to play: Daikatana
Daikatana was a good FPS game for the PC a few years ago, in 2000. The story is of one sword fighter in post-modern tehcnological Japan and gives a little twist to the FPS genre (and some of the adversaries were the strange robotic frogs). Today it is made available for free download from GameTap…
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Wikipedia in one snapshot
A beautiful WWW is publishing views of Wikipedia where one image sums it up. This map is generated using information about each article (edit activity, links, etc.) The latest graph was done for the Science-related articles.
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The most stunning photos of hummingbirds
Greg Scott is really an impressive wild life photographer. His images of hummingbirds are simply astounding: clear, detailed, nicely framed and showing the bird in the most surprising positions. I bow to this master! Sources: Greg Scott photo gallery, Greg Scott web site.