Category: Culture
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YAPB: A photoblog using WordPress
I did not yet have time to evaluate it formally but, on the paper, it seems that YAPB (Yet another photo blog) is a plugin allowing ot easily build a photoblog based upon WordPress (the size of thumbnails is configurable, WordPress themes are still usable, but there is no galery). One rule: One image, one…
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Waiting for Crysis, Ballad of the Black Mesa
For all of you lovers of the FPS games, here is a musical hommage to Half Life 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbL5elVXrU
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CD-DA life duration
In the context of the interest I have in evaluating the reliability of optical discs (more specifically CD-R and DVD-R whose use for archival purposes fully justify special attention), I found an interesting document published by the Electronic Library team of the French National Library (BNF). The BNF is the recipient of the legal deposit…
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Fireworks as art
Rosemarie Fiore is an artist producing abstract art that I like a lot, but she is definitely using a weird technique: Exploding fireworks over the paper, containing them in a way that still leaves space for rich colours pouring over the surface. It must be dangerous art, but it produces some new colours.
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Found Nemo – again
Do you remember the news bit I published in November 2005 with the following image? Today, more or less in the context of the preparation of the sequel Nemo 2, there is now a second version published on AdFreaks.
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Free movie: Rashomon
Download from Internet Archive Download from Google video Movie information from IMDB.org Today, I want to present a major movie, one of the world best films, a diamond from 1950. Rashômon is one of the most important movies of its time, and it stays as a golden nugget for both its form and its contents.…
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Ridiculed scammers
For once, a scammer let us smile (though against his will). Let’s smile. Today, it is the 419 scammers that have been baited by an Internet user who decided to have fun with them and convinced them that he would give a lot of money to people who would recreate famous scenes from movies or…