Technology opinions and digital photography
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Whisky galore!
If you are a whisky lover, here are a few links you may appreciate: The Scotch Malt Whisky Guide, with an excellent little historic guide to whisky that is perfectly written for those who discover this strong alcohol. the web site of the Scotch Whisky Association if you want to share your passion with other…
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Water + fluo + strobo = optical illusions
Put some fluorescent dye in water, let water droplets go and synchronize a stroboscopic light. You can get anyhting you want and it looks like magic. YouTube link
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News of Project Origin
The video game saga collectively known as F.E.A.R. (FPS games with an horror/terror ambiance) keeps pushing news opus. Before the end of 2008, we should see F.E.A.R. Project Origin on PC, PS3, XBox 360. It will be hard judging from the pre-beta demo here. Beware: This is violent and bloody. Really not for sensitive minds.…
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Two scary airports
Seriously, do you want to land in one of these airports? Source: Airliners.net.
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Memory is cheap
If you are visiting Paris, you must know about rue Montgallet. This is the nice little geek secret here. A street (and a couple of neighbouring ones) where you will find literally one computer shop every other door step. Prices are as low as they can get in France. I usually start from the top…
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Swimming pools
A few images of extreme pools (via 13 really cool pools). The next one is located at the top of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. It’s a small zone of complete quietness in the middle of furious liquid torrent. For more about this strange location: Fogonazos. For this last one, excentricity is in the photo itself.…
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Nice handling of plane bags
Here is a startling idea to ensure that your luggage will not be lost at the airport and will receive real good treatment from the airline personnel (that is a rare condition). Matt Brandon proposes to declare the presence of a starter pistol. Right! you don’t need a permit or a license of any case,…
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Disable hotlinking
When you have a web site, it becomes quite common that some people feel so easy to just borrow your images that they do not even take the time to make a copy on their own web site. Not only do they use your artwork, but they also use the bandwidth you paid for. Normally,…
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An owl and its prey
I was unable to identify the author of this very nice picture.
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