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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • 25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece

    25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece

    This is an art project using the collaborative Internet to create one of the largest images in the world. MillionMasterPiece.com wants to create an historic art master piece by collating one million small 160×160 images, leading to more than 25 giga-pixels of contemporary art. You can join for free or, even better, you can donate…

  • FireFox tweak guide

    You are using Firefox, you want to use it at its best, you should go to the FireFox tweak guide.

  • Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!

    Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!

    Thanks to Neatorama

  • Fabrice Hénon, photographer

    Fabrice Hénon, photographer

    Fabrice is an amateur photographer I have been wanting to present to you for months already. You should visit his gallery (please, take not that it is “not safe for work” and may be classified as slightly erotic).

  • All (known) bodies in the Solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter

    All (known) bodies in the Solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter

    Alan Taylor created a nice representation of the largest bodies of the Solar System (it takes into account the new classification used since last Summer). A really good job of Photoshopping many images together in order to produce what could easily become a landscape poster if somebody decided to print it.

  • Monster DSLR comparison guide

    Reviewed cameras Canon 30D, 5D, Digital Rebel XT (350D), Digital Rebel XTi (400D), 1D Mark III , 1Ds Mark II Nikon D200, D2Hs, D2Xs, D40, D40x, D80 Fuji FinePix S5 Pro Olympus Evolt E-510, E-500, E-410, E-330 Pentax *ist D, K100D, K110D, K10D Samsung GX-1L, GX-1S, GX-10 Sigma SD-14 Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 This is not…

  • Top 10 infant mortality

    The other day, I was looking at the list of the ten countries most hardly hit by infant mortality (according to the CIA World Fact Book 2005). The top 10 (or should I say Bottom 10) is: Angola (197.8 for 100 births) after a civil war between 1975 and 2002 Afghanistan (163.07 for 100 births)…

  • Io is still the prefered destination for volcano watchers

    Io is still the prefered destination for volcano watchers

    Io, a Jupiter satellite, has long been the only place -out of good old Earth- where presently active volcanoes could be observed presently. It fascinated me even when the satellite was joined by other bodies in the Solar system. Today NASA confirms us that Io is still the best place where you should go and…

  • April 22: Start of the QuadCore price war

    AMD is preparing its new QuadCore solution with the intent to fight back against the Core Duo CPU line from Intel (currently AMD does not have a sensible QuadCore solution, while Intel QX6800 is nearly alone on the high-end market). The code name is Barcelona. It should come out in the middle of the year…