Category: Art
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Free movie: Rashomon
Download from Internet Archive Download from Google video Movie information from IMDB.org Today, I want to present a major movie, one of the world best films, a diamond from 1950. Rashômon is one of the most important movies of its time, and it stays as a golden nugget for both its form and its contents.…
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Azureus configuration
In the world of P2P, Bittorrent is clearly the protocol of choice for big file transfers. This is true for videos (pirated or not), for GNU/Linux dsitribution CD-ROMs, for collections of photographic images, etc. Among the Bittorrent-compatible P2P software applications, Azureus is clearly the one that receives the favors of the greatest public. It is…
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The complete work of Charles Darwin online
The largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever assembled. This is the promise from the University of Cambridge. With the help of the Charles Darwin trust, they are assembling more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts from the father of the theory of Evolution. Unfortunately, all is not…
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Download free punk music
The youngest of our readers may not know what this title is all about, but some of the dinosaurs here won’t need a music encyclopaedia to remember Sex Pistols’ “Never mind the bollocks” (1977) and their alternative music (well before they coined the word in for this context). Today, the punk wave largely left the…
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HDMI and content protection
For those of you who want to know where technology-based content protection is naturally leading: Thanks to XKCD.
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High-quality 3D wallpapers
Wallpapers? You’re probably wondering how I could drop as low as writing about a wallpaper website. Usually they are either bad and ugly, or ridden with so many ads that you can’t find the wallpapers. Usually, they are both at the same time. Now there is a change. Digital Blasphemy is the web site of…
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Picasso at work, in time-lapse video
Some of you may have already seen it on TV or in a theater, but here comes to Google the work of Picasso painting. All is converted into a time-lapse video that gives a very nice feeling about how the great painter was working.
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All about Sushi
You certainly heard about this most-symbolic meal of Japanese culture. They are probably nearly all what we, Westerners, know about Japanese food. However, I offer you to discover -or re-discover- them through a video -dubbed in Japanese- that will make their taste ring under the discreet humor of Japanese people.
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The fairest image
This web site offers to compare two images. You click on the one that seems fairest to you. It allows to build a small top-10 list of the fairest images. Curiously, the majority of the fair images are colorful landscapes. It’s your turn to judge which image is the fairest! You can also propose images…