Category: Web sightings
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Earth seen from the Sky: Monster image
Some assemble really big images. Some do it professionally, like NASA. They took a huge number of satellite images and made a 0.5 giga-pixel photo of the Earth (up to 21600×21600), known as the Visible Earth.
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More details in Microsoft Live Maps
Microsoft Live Maps is a satellite mapping application in direct competition with Google Maps and a few others. Microsoft just added a large amount of photo images taken from planes. It produces 3.8 tera-bytes of additional data. But this mostly means more details and some of the images are taken at a slightly slanted angle…
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Optimize your trips
This week, I observed a weird tendency (random concentration?) on the information channels I check on the Internet: I saw an increasing number of news about ways to optimize parts of your trips and travels. Trippish: Take weather into account to plan your trips. Farecast: Choose the best time to buy an airplane ticket in…
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Transform a webcam into an Infrared camera
After all, most CCD cameras are naturally very sensitive to infrared and you only have to remove the filter that protects them against this part of the light spectrum. Transform Your Webcam Into An Infrared Cam! – video powered by Metacafe
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Big with Nikon, small with Nikon
From the universe to the smallest elementary particles, Nikon presents a guided interactive tour of the size scales we find around us in the universe.
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25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece
This is an art project using the collaborative Internet to create one of the largest images in the world. MillionMasterPiece.com wants to create an historic art master piece by collating one million small 160×160 images, leading to more than 25 giga-pixels of contemporary art. You can join for free or, even better, you can donate…
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FireFox tweak guide
You are using Firefox, you want to use it at its best, you should go to the FireFox tweak guide.
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Life Magazine dies on paper – reborn online
This is certainly neither the first nor the last paper magazine lost, Life Magazine was a major landmark in the landscape. At the center of its fame, was the excellent quality of its photographs. Time announced that they would publish online the 10 million images of Life Magazine (no date yet). It should be a…
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Lighted bras, a new fashion?
We previously had some fun with Japanese bras convertible into a small bag in 10 seconds. We were more or less assuming that weird ideas like that had to come from Japan. But the virus has spread much more than initially expected. Here is a company that sells bras that need electrical power because they…