Category: Art
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Top quality free fonts
Plenty of web sites try to attract you with free fonts (or other free items) and fail to deliver this. If you are lucky you will find a couple of ugly (but still free) fonts. Now, it is quite exceptional to find true top-quality fonts on the web. Vitaly Friedman just did this on his…
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The digital museum for the Achaemenid Persian Empire
You certainly remember the (somewhat ephemereal) success of the many cultural CD-ROMs that appeared on the shelves five years ago to offer quality presentations of painters, museums, cities or historical periods (they were flourishing just before Christmas of course). Even if it did not disappear completely, this market seems to have been overwhelmed by the…
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YouTube wipes 30000 out
Even if it may not really be linked to the Google buyout, YouTube announced that it had removed nearly 30000 videos from its web site after the request of Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) who detected infractions about the copyrights they manage. You had to admit that a significant part…
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Space audio
These are the sounds of space collected by University of Iowa instruments on various spacecraft and observation instruments.
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Spiral pictures
Spiral is a geometric form of spectacular elegance. Despite its apparent simplicity, it grows into an astounding variety of images. The Spiral Pictures web site is a vibrant hommage to this mathematical form with photographic pictures specially selected for this.
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Free audio books
Librivox is a web site where you will find audiobooks read and recorded by volunteers who give them freely to you and any visitor. It is mostly english books and works, but there starts to appear a few non-english literature (some French, some German, for example). The selected works are part of the public domain…
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Flight patterns over North America
It’s been years that I was looking again for images I found and used on September 11, 2001. They were showing flight patterns over the United States of America (the way commercial airline flights criss-cross the country). Here are the animations showing the enourmous density of planes in the US of A skies. Flight Patterns
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Search (free) photos by color
I had already told you about Yotophoto, the image search engine allowing you to choose the kind of copyright or legal rights associated to the image (and, thus, giving you an east way to find free images for your web site, while keeping you in the legal high road). Today, Yotophoto disclose another very interesting…