Category: Culture
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Kindle, iPad and paper: A detail comparison
Kindle and iPad are two contenders trying to support the idea of reading on a technology gadget. It is said that this is actually as easy to read as real printed paper. So, Keith Peters tried a comparison of their displays using a microscope. The results are really impressive as you can see in Kindle…
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1910 Russia – Photos
These pictures of Russia are color photos taken a few years before the October REvolution. A memory of a far era and of a society which has been deeply transformed in the following years. Big Picture – Russia in color a century ago.
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Let the US government teach you a language
These are language courses which have been developed by the US government and are set in the public domain. So, you can use them as much as you want. A long list of languages: Amharic Arabic Bulgarian Cambodian Cantonese Chinese Chinyanja Czech Finnish French Fula German Greek Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Igbo Italian Japanese Kituba…
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JerkSystem
JerkSystem during the Emergenza National Finals, in Elysée Montmartre (Paris) on June 26th, 2010. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images Some of the images are available as posters and large prints on RedBubble.com. If you need others, please, feel free to contact me directly to arrange for other prints. JerkSystem on MySpace.
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Pixel Culture
Pixels by patrick Jean – Invasion pixels : geek tetris pacman ! YouTube link
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O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen
Found by chance alone, I wanted to let you immerse into it. YouTube link
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Mark Twain
Exactly one century ago, died Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[3] better-known by his pen name Mark Twain. So, why not celebrate this with a few tidbits about him? For example, the only known video showing Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) at home with his two daughters Clara and Jean: YouTube link…
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Zoom into the Mandelbrot set
The fashion of drawing fractals is a memory of the past (it was probably linked to the first appearance of computers able to collate the computing power for the needed calculations and the display capacity for complex images). But the pleasure is all mine to find this HD video which sends us into a Mandelbrot…