Category: Culture
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Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!
Thanks to Neatorama
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Spring time on Mars
To celebrate Spring 2007, here is a small video gem: http://www.youtube.com/v/yjiGH9QNiU0
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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…