Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Aubade calendar for 2008

    Aubade calendar for 2008

    For those who do not know it, the calendar 2008 for Aubade is now available. It maintains the already-long tradition of tasteful advertisement used by this totally-French feminine underwear company. Thanks to WebStorming.fr.

  • Canon 40D: Sales document and firmware

    Latest news about the Canon EOS 40D. Think Camera has a new review of the EOS 40D. Nothing fancy, but the reliable analysis expected from TC. They love the camera, and I can understand from what I could peek at a couple of models recently. Interestingly, the review of the Canon 40D at The-Digital-Picture.com shows…

  • Marvelous libraries

    Marvelous libraries

    A library is not only a marvelous location to read books, but it may also be -simply- a marvelous location. This is the case with the collection of cultural culmination points that are offered to our eyes at Curious Expeditions. Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands

  • Digital photo: HP stops now

    More precisely, HP stops developping new camera products. They will sign a license agreement to keep a line of photo cameras, but they will only glue their logo to the body of cameras probably designed and manufactured in South-East Asia. HP is now concentrating onto the printing market.

  • New reviews for the Sony Alpha 700

    Two new reviews were just published for the Sony Alpha 700: Camera Labs (English) Trusted reviews (English) It looks like this camera is definitely a good one. The Minolta people will like it is feeling a lot like the Dynax 7D in a better way, in a more modern technology.

  • Free SciFi books

    Free SciFi books

    A few weeks ago ManyBooks.net started to make available a number of SciFi books in PDF format and without any unreasonable restrictions (this is copyrighted material that has been left in the public domain). Decided to give it a try and not knowing these books, I chose (randomly) to download Space Prison from Tom Godwin…

  • MS Project tutorial for senior design

    “Project management is an important part of the senior design process. For the most part, teams manage projects in an informal way: They have a deadline to meet, and they monitor progress of the project as it moves along. However, computer resources are available for managing team projects more formally. This tutorial [Microsoft Word] will…

  • Insects engravings

    Insects engravings

    John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893), after obtaining a law degree, fell in love with entomology and archeology. Thanks to the Oxford Digital Library, volumes 1 & 2 of his ‘Arcana Entomologica‘ are now witnesses of his passion-filled activity (both scientific and artistic). Source: BiblioOdyssey.

  • Manuscript decoration

    Manuscript decoration

    I have always a little in love with old manuscript decorations. They form a nice example of a tightly codified elegance and of a technique serving art purposes. Thanks to BibliOdyssey, we can see a very nice sample of it. Source: Plimpton MS 296 from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University (in…