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  • Brussels – A colourful building

    YouTube link In the center of Brussels (near Rogier metro station), Dexia, a French bank opened its new building. 38 levels, 100,000+ LEDs and you get one of the most colourful urban vista in the world. At night. Source: CreativeReview.

  • Pintos, by Bev Doolittle

    Pintos, by Bev Doolittle

    Pinto horses, five of them, in “Pintos”, one of many optical illusion-based paintings from Bev Doolittle.

  • Chinese prefer business to sex

    We already knew that Englishmen prefer porn to sex. Now, this is the turn of Chinese to fail getting interested in one of the human activities we thought was really attractive This is the conclusion of one comparison study from Google. They observe that their Chinese search engine is used for terms like names of…

  • Art Nouveau design

    Art Nouveau design

    Thanks again to BibliOdyssey, here are nice Art Nouveau patterns. By Maurice Pillard-Verneuil (1869-1942).

  • Canon camera museum

    Canon has been a major manufacturer of photo cameras for many years. Is this worth a museum? I don’t know but they decided that they could not wait for somebody else to build it. Canon opened an online virtual museum of its cameras: the Canon camera museum. The Camera Hall is a database of historical…

  • Les Roses – Redouté

    Les Roses – Redouté

    Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) is certianly considered the greatest drawing artist of plants and flowers. Many copies of his paintings and engravings are available on line. Why not start with his page on BiblioOdyssey?

  • Japanese bug fights

    See those monstruous bugs fight each other in front of Japanese cameras. 20+ fights in a row. Amazing combinations. INTRODUCTION A lot more here after:

  • Sony joins the DRM-free crowd

    It was about time! I had previously wrote here that Sony was now the last major music company not having announced any plan to offer its music catalog in MP3 format without DRM (without digital rights protection). This is about to change. Sony, like the other disc producers/distributors, finally figured it out: Consumers are actually…

  • Warner is third to remove DRM with Amazon

    We learned this week that Warner Music and AMazon are going to gang in in order to sell DRM-free MP3 files. This is the third music major to stop and listen to its customers who did not want to suffer the indignity and incovenience of this kind of digital rights protection. EMI and Universal had…