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Screenplay for “The Wall” (Pink Floyd)
We do not often see the sceenplay of a movie we like. Maybe it’s fortunate because they are hardly exhilarating except when they come from Alfred Hitchcock (the man was a maniac of detailed preparation) or when they describe all about animation movies. The Wall, the Alan Parker movie created with the eponymous music album…
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VectorMagic vectorizes your bitmaps
Sometimes, you need to change your images from a bitmap (JPEG, TIFF, BMP or raw file) to a vector file that can be stretched and grown seamlessly. This is useful when the image is more or less a drawing (not a photo) with clear drawn borders (a logo, a signature, a technical drawing, etc.) Here…
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Pilosity and Co.
For all those respecting the choice of growing a beard or a moustache, there is a reference web site: Moustache and Beard Quarterly.
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Supercomputer in a chapel
The most powerful super-computer in Europe (and the 13th in the World), MareNostrum, is located in Barcelona, Spain, and has been installed in an old chapel. This gives us the most beautiful supercomputer in the world (this is nearly computer soft-pron photo). Photos by Simon Norfolk and Ronald Halbe. Barcelona, Centro Nacional de…
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Big money
Sometimes, the economy is not faring well, sometime it’s too good. In both cases, it may lead to astonishing bills. I found some cases, I really loved. The biggest single US dollar bill This is not even really a bill since it’s more a tool to manage gold exchanges in an economy that was based…
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Effervescent tablet in space
Weightlessness produces utterly weird effects. What does it do to an effervescent tablet? YouTube link
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Musical scores
Some musical scores are really out-of-this world: One musical score drawing up the map of the whole world: Play Song Buy Song: World Beat Music PI, the mathematical constant, can easily be transformed into a curious musical score may be honoring the memory of Bach and Pythagoras: But I really love the work of Atushi…
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Spider mech – for real
US Rednecks did build a powerful spider mech just “because they could”. Youtube link Don’t let your kids wander around this one!