Category: Science & Geeks
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Back to port – Silly!
This boat (Danish as it seems) had a mad rush for haven in weather conditions which would normally force you not to leave the protection of a safe harbour. YouTube link The harbour is Svaneke in Denmark.
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Colorful background pictures
A web site on which you will find a colorful collection of background pictures for your PC or your Mac: Imgur. Its only drawback is that you don’t know where the picture comes from, since they are uploaded by the users as they see them here or there.
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Go to whisky extremes
With this free database program for Windows, Whisky Catalog, you can start recording the whisky bottles you own, the ones you tasted, the ones you’d like to try. Anyway, drink responsibly.
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ISS Tour – Welcome To The International Space Station!
We’re still wondering what this ISS space station is for. We can see it from the ground at night. But, now, we can visit it as comfortably as some of the apartments on sale with Real Estate agents, as if NASA was trying to sell it. YouTube link
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I want a pool like that
It should be easy: Move my flat to Singapore, were it was build on top of a 55 level building. Then, I would have a private 150-meter long pool, seemingly set a few inches from the precipice. Source: DailyMail.
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Milestone: 11 years, 1 million visits in a year
Roumazeilles.net just went through one of these moments I will easily remember! The visit count regularly climbs since the inception of the web site, but I just noticed something I’m pretty proud of: In the last year (more precisely, the last 365 days), this web site got more than one million visits as counted by…
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Dizzying! [Corrected]
After some other videos of adventurous moves a few inches from the precipice, here is the movie of some worker climbing a tower: YouTube link And you really thought that climbing a mountain top would be impressive?
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Test your web site load speed
While working on improving the performance of my web sites, I have been using several tools in order to evaluate the performance of the site itself. Some are good, some are very good, some are overwhelmingly good. You cannot avoid mentioning the Google webmaster tools. They do a lot of things and contain a performance…
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WordPress Performance: a cache plugin
I confess that I had left this issue aside for a long time: The performance of my web sites was left uncared for. This was apparently not a real issue, but laziness is trip companion that will never leave you (or after much efforts). After testing/evaluating the load times of the pages of YLovePhoto.com because…