Category: Art
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Brazil against DRM
IDEC – Institute for Consumer Defense – is the largest consumer association in Brazil. It lauched a campaign against Digital Rights Management (DRM) titled “Tehcnological Restrictions – You pay for it, you get less“.
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Watch TV online for free
OK, I know that I don’t have TV because I don’t want to be continuously force-fed with mindless junk. However, plenty of people would like to be able to have their TV on the Internet. Up to now, you were mostly depending on your ISP and possibly some subscription additional to your basic broadband Internet…
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Bhagavata Purana, sacred book
For the amateur of lovely art books, the Rylands Library of Manchester University publishes on the Internet this superb copy of the Bhagavata Purana, sacred book of Hinduism. Exceptionally nice visit of a web site that is providing excellent copies of antique books. Source: BiblioOdyssey.
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Sculptures that bend wood like you’ve never dreamed of
Sometimes an artist uses craftsmanship, mathematics and arts at the same time. To me, Malcolm Tibbetts belongs rightfully to this category. If you look at what it does with wood carving, you should be amazed.
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Fight SPAM and scan books
It is well known that the human brain has pattern matching capabilities much further advanced than those of the best equivalent software programs. This explains that failure rates of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program may be as high as 1% (or even 2%) of errors, which is requiring later human proof-reading to ensure a reasonable…
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Jazz photos from Farrokh Chothia
Some time ago, I stopped by a web site where I found some really neat photos. So, let me invite you to go and visit www.gianfrancomeza.com. Copyright Farrokh Chothia
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Anatomy of an imaginary creature
Canis pneumatis, or the common balloon dog, is a creature whose anatomy was not too well understood. Up to now. Today we have the first detailed poster about its anatomy.
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Salvador Dali on TV
“What’s my line?” was apparently an American TV show of the siwties where contestants were asked to recognize the guest star by asking questions that had either Yes or No as answers. This time, the guest was Salvador Dali. You have to admit that the vast diversity of his activities and of his abilities make…
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Music without limits
The recent news lead me to talk again about digital music and its cohabitation (or lack of) with network technology. As a matter of fact, we learn this week that our new French President is in favor of a strong action against pirated music and downloads. This is not very new, indeed, but the confirmation…