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The icecap is breaking
Call Al Gore, please.
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No bird
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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.
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Snow plowing train video
YouTube link
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Sony Alpha 900: Sony confirms (most of) it
In today’s press conference in Las Vegas, Sony confirmed nearly everything we were saying here yesterday: The Flagship model will be coming in 2008. It will have a Full Frame sensor of 24.6MP (I was off by 0.2MP only). It will be stabilized by Super Steady Shot (the in-body Sony image stabilization). But once again,…
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3 days of Société Générale
As a complement of my previous post about the Stock markets Krach and Société Générale (“Société Générale nearly crashed the world Stock Exchange“), I wanted to provide the exact figures about the very heavy operations forced by the French bank onto the markets (closing the outstanding contracts) during the first 3 days days of last…
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Sony Alpha 300, Sony Alpha 350 – mid-range cameras
Nearly incredible, Sony let the cat out with information scooped on their Sony Style web site: New mid-range digital single lens reflex cameras. Not one, but two of them! One Alpha 300 with 10 mega-pixels and one Alpha 350 with 14.2 mega-pixels. Beware, they will be quite easy to recognize because they bring LiveView (no…
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Lost+Found: Robert Capa’s negative films
Everybody (including Robert Capa himself) thought that they had been lost and destroyed: negative films of photos taken by Robert Capa, the first modern era war photographer, during the Spanish Civil War. The containing three suitcases had been lost when Capa left Paris to flee the Nazis. However, they have been found recently and they…
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Société Générale nearly crashed the world Stock Exchange
Last week was not a quiet river for the world’s Stock Exchange markets. Even if you are not usually in tune with these issues, you could not miss the flow of troubled news: World’s stock markets violently fell in the beginning of last week, leaving most economic and financial observers in very unsure waters. As…