Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Stripes
After a previous hommage to the classic form of spiral, I wanted to honor stripes. They easily provide a nice basis for photographic composition (often bordering on optical illusion) and they are an excellent inspiration for the abstract artist hidden in most photographer’s hearts. by brokenchopstick by Eggz by darkmatter by s2art by miskan by…
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Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson gives us a little moment in black and white with fluid feminine forms:
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DirectX 10 vs. DirectX 9
Among PC gamers, there is a pattern of wondering whether you should go to Windows Vista and DirectX 10 (the latest technologies of Microsoft) as your gaming choice or you’d better stay hooked to Windows XP (currently the preferred gaming platform). There are now a few games allowing a fair comparison between both solutions and…
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Fifty ways to track website traffic
You have a web site, you want to see its traffic growth (it appears that this is the number one way web site creators spend their time: They track each and every little traffic change with stat tools). I offer you here a frighteningly long list of ways to satisfy your worst statistical perversions. Fifty…
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Giant jellyfish
This is too big! Did you think that sharks were dangerous? Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images, via ScienceBlog Select.
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Install multiple versions of IE on your PC
Ok! This is useless for myriads of Internet users except the web site designer that wants (needs?) to test a page under different versions of Internet Explorer, but the installer built by Yousif ontains IE3, IE4.01, IE5, IE5.5 and IE6. Not bad! Install multiple versions of IE on your PC
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Download free Nero 8 CD/DVD burner
We are told that the newest version of Nero 8, the disc burner software for CD and DVD (I love that silly “Nero: Burning ROM” tag line), is available. It does everything, but aren’t we still left wondering whether it’s not a little too expensive when we could download it for free (but legally)? For…
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UK and France separated by a gigantic flood
The scientists at the Imperial College of London learned that the separation of France and UK (today known as the Channel) is the result of a gigantic 200,000-year-old flood. A large ridge present roughly along the Calais-Dover line (Weald-Artois anticline on the picture below) was then holding a glacial mega-lake. When it broke down, the…
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Detailed image of Antartica
Thanks to USGS and NASA, we will have one of the most detailed photo of the Antartica continent. Using images from the Landsat 7 satellite, the researchers created the most detailed, high-resolution map of Antarctica. This results in what is now known as the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). Using several images of the…