Technology opinions and digital photography
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Free movie: B horror movies from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s
List from Internet Archive Hollywood in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s created a long string of cheap horror movies that never reached the top rating lists. However, some of them, despite being left mostly abandonned by their authors, are worthy of some renewed attention. In this context, it is interesting to notice that the Internet…
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Colors in Shanghai
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Droste effect
In the year 1956, “the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title ‘Print Gallery’. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in.” The term was coined by…
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Backup while you save
It is always a bit difficult to actually think about doing backups. Either you spend too much time thinking about it or you forget about it. For Windows, I found a nice free utility program: FileHamster from MOGware. This small utility will allow you to automatically backup every single file you save or modify. FileHamster…
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Sequel to F.E.A.R. – Project Origin trailers
Assassin trailer HD trailerSD trailer
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Pink flamingo
Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber, Flamant rose). Brazil, 2007.
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Newsgroups: Freely download big files
While everybody is speaking about downloads under surveillance of law enforcement forces and **AA groups defending the copyrights of music and cinema, I wondered where the download addicts were going now to get their load of big files. I looked into the P2P networks heavily protected by a strong encryption and supposed to guarantee the…
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Roseate Spoonbill
Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja, Spatule rosée). Brazil, 2007.
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Robotic foosball table
It’s bit too slow to be a tough competitor, but it’s worth thinking about one more sport where the computer/robot is now actively playing against human beings. Autonomous Foosball Table (at Instructables.com).
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