Category: Film
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DirectX 9 or DirectX 10?
There are many computer gamers who wonder whether they should switch to the newest PC game technology standard from Microsoft. The question is not without merit. As a matter of fact, according to grpahics card manufacturers (starting with AMD-ATI and nVidia) and Microsoft, DirectX 10 brings a lot of major improvements to video quality. But…
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Salvador Dali on TV
“What’s my line?” was apparently an American TV show of the siwties where contestants were asked to recognize the guest star by asking questions that had either Yes or No as answers. This time, the guest was Salvador Dali. You have to admit that the vast diversity of his activities and of his abilities make…
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Music without limits
The recent news lead me to talk again about digital music and its cohabitation (or lack of) with network technology. As a matter of fact, we learn this week that our new French President is in favor of a strong action against pirated music and downloads. This is not very new, indeed, but the confirmation…
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Mauritania: The train of all records
Mauritanie has not the most developed train system. However, there is at least one train line exploited to transport iron ore that has the honor of seeing the world’s longest train. Here it is in its full video splendor. Be patient if you want to see it all.
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Internet Archive of spiders
The Internet Archive contains hundreds or thousands of movies. Today, they show a list of movies specifically about spiders. Weird, isn’t it?
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Borneo rhino on video
Borneo rhinoceros is certainly an endangered species with only a few dozen individuals alive. The first photo of one was shot only last year, but the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) project has published the first video staging a Borneo rhino. Source: The Guardian.
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09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0, prohibited number
Since the AACS (the protection of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray against copying) is technically broken, there was only one lock left: after unlocking tools, there was the need for the publication of the needed key to allow easy operation. The MPAA tries to ban this famous key number from the Internet while it keeps popping up…
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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…