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  • AllAboutJazz.com is DRM free

    This is free advertising for a major launch of a DRM-free online store: AllAboutJazz.com sells jazz music online without any DRM included.

  • History and old pictures

    History and old pictures

    The Old Pictures Internet web site is the elegant shrine for the most extensive collection of original historic photographs. More than 80,000 images taken from the years 1850 to 1940. These photographs will make you visit the world and recall the defining events of our collective history. You can even search by theme or freely…

  • 250,000 Tibetans resettled by Chinese authorities

    250,000 Tibetans resettled by Chinese authorities

    Chinese authorities have placed Tibet under their jurisdiction in 1950. Since then, the country has been submitted to a regime that, even compared to the usual Chinese standards, can be considered extreemely hard. Today, we learn that 250,000 Tibetans (1/10th of the Tibet population) have been relocated to new villages of the “comfortable housing program“.…

  • Free quality audio books

    There is certainly not as much titles as on LibriVox that we previously presented you here on Roumazeilles.net, but SimplyAudioBooks compensates with the perfectly professional quality of the recordings. You will find there English litterature reference works read by pros.

  • Publish your own book

    Print on Demand (POD) has become a very affordable solution for people willing to publish their own books. Previously, you had to convince a publisher to invest in printing hundreds if not thousands of copies of your book; then, you hoped for success and -usually- failed. Print your own book at: CafePress Lulu With Print…

  • Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter

    Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter

    For the Science Fiction fans that stop by this site, here is a new monthly online web site whose #2 is just published. Very good reading material, interesting authors and you can even have your own work published (and be paid for it). Very nice, very pro: Darker Matter.

  • Thelonious Monk on video

    While looking around in a search engine, you may find a few nice things. Today, I stopped by the quite large list of videos listed on Google search engine for the keywords “Thelonious Monk”. The guy was one of the most inventive jazz players. The first time I heard him, I was nearly rocked off…

  • Genius in the subway

    The Washington Post recently asked Joshua Bell, internationally acclaimed violonist, to go play his Stradivarius in the Washington subway at rush hour. What did you think happened? Nearly nothing, of course. A few bucks of pocket change for a violonist more used to big checks, a few passers-by stopping for a short time, one admirer…

  • Extreme macro photography

    When you start fighting for the highest possible resolution in digital cameras, you usually count in mega-pixels. METIS Systems goes further: 4 giga-pixels in a single camera. The Digital Macro Camera 1015/C [PDF] is able to photograph 12 square meters at non-interpolated 254 ppi. (100 pixel per square millimeter). This is a tool to make…