Category: Art
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Cover your iPod nano in paper
Some people wish they could cover their precious iPod nano with a decorated paper. The first solution is merely to go and buy to Sector29. But, I really think that $19,95 is a little too much for a piece of colored and folded paper. The solution? Do it yourself without spending so much. Use the…
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The 8.6 giga-pixel image
In the rush for higher resolution images, HAL9000 Iconos has a significant advance over the competition with its 8600 mega-pixel image. They obtained this enormous image by assembling it from 1145 individual photos of about 12 Mega-Pixel each. The result is on the Italian web site of HaltaDefinizione.com and it is impressive. You can also…
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Top quality free fonts
Plenty of web sites try to attract you with free fonts (or other free items) and fail to deliver this. If you are lucky you will find a couple of ugly (but still free) fonts. Now, it is quite exceptional to find true top-quality fonts on the web. Vitaly Friedman just did this on his…
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The digital museum for the Achaemenid Persian Empire
You certainly remember the (somewhat ephemereal) success of the many cultural CD-ROMs that appeared on the shelves five years ago to offer quality presentations of painters, museums, cities or historical periods (they were flourishing just before Christmas of course). Even if it did not disappear completely, this market seems to have been overwhelmed by the…
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YouTube wipes 30000 out
Even if it may not really be linked to the Google buyout, YouTube announced that it had removed nearly 30000 videos from its web site after the request of Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) who detected infractions about the copyrights they manage. You had to admit that a significant part…
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Space audio
These are the sounds of space collected by University of Iowa instruments on various spacecraft and observation instruments.
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Spiral pictures
Spiral is a geometric form of spectacular elegance. Despite its apparent simplicity, it grows into an astounding variety of images. The Spiral Pictures web site is a vibrant hommage to this mathematical form with photographic pictures specially selected for this.
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Free audio books
Librivox is a web site where you will find audiobooks read and recorded by volunteers who give them freely to you and any visitor. It is mostly english books and works, but there starts to appear a few non-english literature (some French, some German, for example). The selected works are part of the public domain…