Category: Culture

  • April 4th, 1968: Death of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., great freedom fighter in favor of Human Rights and against institutionalized racism in the USA. It was nearly 30 years ago that he fell under the bullets of a killer in Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s not forget that only a few years ago,…

  • 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…

  • Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!

    Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!

    Thanks to Neatorama

  • Life Magazine dies on paper – reborn online

    This is certainly neither the first nor the last paper magazine lost, Life Magazine was a major landmark in the landscape. At the center of its fame, was the excellent quality of its photographs. Time announced that they would publish online the 10 million images of Life Magazine (no date yet). It should be a…

  • EU tax on digital photo cameras?

    According to Digitimes listening to Taiwan industry sources, Europe would be about to introduce a customs tax of 4.9% specifically for digital cameras including the ability to record videos. A small price increase to expect in June or July this year on imported cameras (Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc.) but it would not involve Digital…

  • Collector of antique toy cars

    Collector of antique toy cars

    After the First World War, the toy cars started to be democratized. This led to today’s collectors for these objects intensely linked to a past time when game consoles did not yet replace the muscular energy used by the young driver to propulse his car. The Voiture à Pédales web site is a unique location…

  • Spring time on Mars

    To celebrate Spring 2007, here is a small video gem: http://www.youtube.com/v/yjiGH9QNiU0

  • Fortran designer dies at 82

    Fortran designer dies at 82

    John W. Backus, designer of the Fortran computer language just died at 82. The software developers from the oldies will remember this language that revolutionized scientific calculus and programming, even if it is now pushed back (not unused, but less used). Some (even more exceptional) will remember his participation to language theory with the Backus-Naur…

  • DRM kills business

    It’s all over the place today: German MusicLoad revealed that 75% of its customer support calls were about complaining around the problems created by the inclusion of Digital Rigths Management (DRM) in the MP3 files they sell. Coming from a company that is living from the sale of legal MP3s, it has a lot of…