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I have a dream…
I have a dream: I want to ride an ostrich… in Alaska. A kid heard on the radio this week.
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Great coins for Great Britain
“You’ve got to love those coins!” Do you believe that I could tell you so? Surely not. Even better, you can be surprised to learn that I found that in a web site about design and arts (Baekdal.com). And it is defintely a great design for something as old as coins. The new UK coins…
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Fiction of the day: Security question, by Ramon Rozas III
I found this funny little piece of SciFi/security litterature. I’m sure you’ll like it. The man blurred into existence behind the dense shrubs, and checked a small device he took from his pocket. Since time and date seemed correct, he straightened his sports coat and stepped from behind the bushes. […]
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Disappearing car doors: Real or fake?
If you go to the web site setup by Jatec-LLC, disappearing-car-door.com, you will see a revolutionary kind of sliding door for your car. But is it real or fake?
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Architect pornography
Everybody keeps hearing that those buildings built in Abu Dhabi are the most extraordinary ones because the architects have huge amounts of money flowing to build them. But, actually, it’s a world wide competition to create the most astonishing sky-scrappers and buildings. Here are my best finds in this huge category: Vertical urban farm Imagined…
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No Sony Alpha 500
Some soul searching and information collecting leads me to say that -contrary to what I could have suggested here before- there is no Sony Alpha 500 in preparation. It seems that this was rather a name imagined for the now-existing Sony Alpha 350.
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Screenplay for “The Wall” (Pink Floyd)
We do not often see the sceenplay of a movie we like. Maybe it’s fortunate because they are hardly exhilarating except when they come from Alfred Hitchcock (the man was a maniac of detailed preparation) or when they describe all about animation movies. The Wall, the Alan Parker movie created with the eponymous music album…
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VectorMagic vectorizes your bitmaps
Sometimes, you need to change your images from a bitmap (JPEG, TIFF, BMP or raw file) to a vector file that can be stretched and grown seamlessly. This is useful when the image is more or less a drawing (not a photo) with clear drawn borders (a logo, a signature, a technical drawing, etc.) Here…