Month: December 2007
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Herons in the Pantanal
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Rufescent Tiger-heron, (Tigrisoma lineatum, Héron tigre). Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Green-backed heron, (Butorides striatus, Héron strié).
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Thumbnails rather than icons: ThumbWin
Tired of storing your Windows applications as icons in the icon bar? Here comes ThumbWin, a small free application that allows to keep thumbnails (small images) of the reduced application. It’s bigger than the icon, but it’s still readable and you have a big screen, don’t you?
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you all!
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Fires in the bush, Pantanal
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Forest fires are not only happening around the most populated areas (Greece, South of France and California). Sometimes, for reasons still to be clarified (criminal or not), wild fires willl start in the bush or the forest. Like this one in the Pantanal (Brazil, 2007).
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Nature abstract art
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Pantone coffee mugs
Specially for graphics designers, for those who cannot stop seeing the word in Pantone colors, W2 Products designed coffee mugs branded by Pantone. Out of stock already.
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Tiberium: An FPS in the universe of Command-and-Conquer
GameInformer revealed in a world exclusive coverage that Electronic Arts really started the development of an FPS video game in the universe of Command-and-Conquer (a very successful real-time strategy game). Will it work? Will it produce a good game? Or simply a C&C-ploitation?
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Hyacinth Macaw
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them One of the most spectacular birds in Amazonia: Marvellous deep cobalt blue feathers on a one-meter long body, 1.5m wide wings. Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, Ara hyacinthe). Brazil, 2007.
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Robots have optical illusions, too
It was not trivial, but artificial networks trained to recognize surfaces have the same difficulties to recognize them in 3D optical illusions (as humans have). Source: CNN International, “robots tricked by optical illusion“.