Category: Web sightings

  • Free movie: Star Trek episodes

    Download from CBS Movie information from IMDB.org Star Trek nearly defined what a SciFi TV series is or should be. Of course, there is something slightly ridiculous to the coloured pajamas used by the actors to convince the spectator that they are in the far future with advanced technology. But despite all its drawbacks, Star…

  • Upgrade your Canon camera to OpenSource nirvana

    If you have a simple Point-n-Shoot digital camera, you may not know it, but you are limited more by the marketing teams than by the real technical constraints of your hardware. But if your camera is from Canon you may find an easy way out. The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit is an open-source software project…

  • Nikon manuals

    I found the user manuals of several Nikon SLR cameras on the web: Nikon D300 Nikon D3

  • 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…

  • Pilosity and Co.

    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.

  • Revver.com closed?

    Revver.com, the American video sharing web site, seems to have closed its doors on the Internet. We knew that they had some financial difficulties, but we had learned that Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace, founder of LiveUniverse, had just bought the site out. There is still to see if Brad Greenspan will re-launch the site,…