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  • A really big disk drive

    A really big disk drive

    The IBM 350 disk storage unit, with a capacity of 5 MB, was really small. But you needed a forklift to move it around.

  • Best locations for wallpapers

    Best locations for wallpapers

    You find them anywhere and everywhere, but it’s not always worth the visit. To find a beautiful wallpaper for your computer (even more if it has seevral screens), you need to find reliable sources of nice wallpapers. I wrote down a few of the best ones here: The wallpaper section of National Geographic Digital Blasphemy…

  • Let the US government teach you a language

    These are language courses which have been developed by the US government and are set in the public domain. So, you can use them as much as you want. A long list of languages: Amharic Arabic Bulgarian Cambodian Cantonese Chinese Chinyanja Czech Finnish French Fula German Greek Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Igbo Italian Japanese Kituba…

  • Hiroshima was just a beginning

    2,053 nuclear explosions took place around the world during the 20th century, starting with the detonations at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the more recent tests in India and Pakistan in 1998. YouTube link

  • Color blind: This is for everybody

    Color blind: This is for everybody

    When designing web sites, many graphic artists over-design forgetting a little-known fact: Around 5% or male Europeans or Caucasians have some sort of color blindness. For most of them it is only a small hindrance, but in some conditions it can become quite annoying. For example, when a web designer relied too heavily on color…

  • African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene)

    African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene)

    This medium-sized eagle was a great discovery for me in Botswana. The African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene) hunts for insects and small animals in dead trees and rocks. It’s very mobile and devilishly active. African harrier Hawk (or Gymnogene) (Polyboroides typus), Gymnogène d’Afrique. Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.

  • Great White Pelican

    Great White Pelican

    Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), Pélican blanc. Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.

  • Hamerkop

    Hamerkop

    I love this bird. It seems to be right out of the illustrations of a XIXth Century book about prehistoric wildlife (and it’s the only living species of the genus Scopus). I love its name. It seems a near impossibility (that’s probably why there are so many other possible names like Hammerkop, Hammerkopf, Hammerhead, Hammerhead…

  • Jabiru Stork or Saddle-billed Stork

    Jabiru Stork or Saddle-billed Stork

    Jabiru Stork or Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), Jabiru. Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.

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