Technology opinions and digital photography
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Server maintenance
Over the next two days, the web site may see some perturbation. We are changing the server in order to avoid a possible risk of disk failure and to bring some needed additional performance. We will try our best to ensure that this will be as invisible as possible, buy I apologize in advance for…
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Manufacturing color crayons
In our series of videos about how things are manufactured, here comes a colorful one: Crayons.
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Computer games before marketing
Many years ago, computer video games was already requiring advertising, but there was only a skeleton of marketing. Advertising costs were probably much lower than what today’s blockbusters budgets reach: A mere list of prices.
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Traffic lights for color-blind people
Color-blind people have all kinds of difficulties in the world we live in. One proposal has been made to ease their difficulties in a current situation and without any significant negative impact on the rest of the people. Who could oppose that? But why isn’t it around us already?
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Perspective on global warming
I like to see it summarized in a wider scope on the following graph: What do you not see? Via: ScienceBlogs.
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Manufacturing playing cards
Chinese workers making decks of cards. They are quick! However, I wonder how long they can sustain such a rhythm. YouTube link
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Cold? Really?
If you think that this Winter’s cold wave is really tough, you’d better think again. People living in parts of Russia welcome -20°C as the comeback of Spring… when it comes after -50°C. (images credit: Evgeny Bugaev) (images by V. Makushkin, via)
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Corporate profiles and company information
There are many good reasons to check a company profile. I can immediately think about the purchasing manager willing to evaluate whether a potential supplier is reliable, a job seeker willing to ensure that his/her résumé will go only to companies whose strength is safe enough to harbor him/her for a long time, a company willing…
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After 800,000 years: Global warming
How did carbon dioxide evolve in Earth atmosphere in the nearly 1 million years in the past? YouTube link
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