Category: Culture
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USSR science in pictures
I discovered (thanks to BoingBoing) a superb Russian blog which shows copies of scientific documents dating back to the era of communist Russia. scienceillustration.mypage.ru : A little bit of nostalgia for “communist science” (and sometimes for the Western science seen by USSR) with beautiful pictures and illustrations.
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Rien de grave – Short movie
What is nice with short movies is that there is no time for sleeping it out. Dramatisation has to be intense. “Rien de grave” with Jean Dujardin fits the definition. Since it is in French, you will have to understand this language, though. YouTube link
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Computer games before marketing
Many years ago, computer video games was already requiring advertising, but there was only a skeleton of marketing. Advertising costs were probably much lower than what today’s blockbusters budgets reach: A mere list of prices.
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Traffic lights for color-blind people
Color-blind people have all kinds of difficulties in the world we live in. One proposal has been made to ease their difficulties in a current situation and without any significant negative impact on the rest of the people. Who could oppose that? But why isn’t it around us already?
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The invention of big RAM memory
Before we could discuss of whether or not it’s useful to have more than 4 giga-bytes of RAM memory in a PC, some people had to work with slightly less space.
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This year: Nearly no card!
This was a bit of a surprise for me. This year I printed nearly no best wishes cards. Only 2 for the supervisors of my building (I tend to prefer giving them a card for this) and 1 for seniors who I keep sending new year’s wishes on printed paper rather than email. And, apart…