Category: Science & Geeks
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Bloggers forced by US to register
There is currently a talk in the US legislative body whose intent is to force all writers of blogs having more than 500 readers to register themselves as lobyyists or face jail time. This is the result of an amendment introduced by Senator David Vitter that is currently struggling to be transformed into law, but…
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Historical anatomies – Anatomy in history
Sometimes, the Internet is not at all about new technologies but a way to reach old ones and old science. This is what happens when you visit Historical anatomies on the web, a quietly presented web site showing us reproductions of anatomical atlases from the US National Library of Medicine’s collection. This is all about…
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RSS feed – What is it?
You may have noticed a new logo appearing on our web site since the redesigned interface went online. If your web browser supports it (Opera 9, FireFox, Internet Explorer 7), a similar orange icon may appear on the web address bar. This is a feature that is good both for users and for web site…
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Chirurgy and web site
As you certainly noticed, we changed significantly the look-and-feel of our web site. The plastic surgeon used its scalpel to give a new face to the web site: reduce the size of the pages (faster downloads for you), improve readability (the white background increases the contrast), come back to a more sober graphic design (only…
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Windows 2000: Network drives are much faster than network shortcuts
I just noticed a small thing in Windows: Everything points to the fact that if I connect a network drive to a server directory (from the Tools… menu of the file explorer), the acess to this newly created drive letter (R:\) is much faster than access to its direct equivalent shortcut (\\Server\directory\). I don’t know…
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T-shirt for typographs
This T-shirt has been designed specially for typographers with a sense of humor. The word KERN (the spacing between two letters) is nicely printed on it, but cut in halves by a zipper that allow to change the kerning of letters E and R.
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ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand
Last Summer, you read the saga of The Pirate bay, Swedish Bittorrent tracker that was raided by the local police force upon request/complaint of the music industry majors (there is indeed a large number of links to pirated music and video on http://www.thepiratebay.org/). But after moving quickly to Netherlands, the server came back to Sweeden…
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Panoramic photos from the world
More and more, photography amateurs are attracted toward panoramic images and photos. Virtual Sweeden is a web site showing a large number of the highest quality. I particularly recommend the following ones: Le Louvre Museum 360° Rome’s St Peters basilica 360°
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Happy Birthday HAL-9000!
Yes! The computer from “2001, A space Odyssey” (the book from Arthur C. Clarke and the movie from Stanley Kubrick) was offically born (first powered) on 12th January 1992. So, it is exactly 15-year old today. Happy birthday HAL-9000! There, HAL-9000 is an Artificial Intelligence computer (the AI word was common then) that takes its…