Category: Web sightings
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1.5 giga-pixel for the Machu Pichu
A nice image of an marvellous archeological site (the Machu Pichu in Peru) still full of the echoes of a glorious past, Inca history. Thanks to Scott Howard, you can visit this billion and a half pixels assembled from 400 individual images.
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Visit a virtual lens plant
Thanks to Canon, it is possible and easy to discover how a photo optical lens is created. And it is a much more convoluted process than you may think. If you ever wondered why a lens cost so much money to make (and some of the nicest lenses are digging holes in our wallets), take…
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A great box for an external USB hard drive
We, geeks, are always on the look for a designer box for our PC in the obvious objective to seaprate ourselves from the ugly standard grey box. Our desire has now also extended to the boxes protecting our external hard drives. After a generation of grey, metal or black boxes, we start seeing nice packages.…
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A short break to prepare the US Presidential Campaign
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The complete work of Charles Darwin online
The largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever assembled. This is the promise from the University of Cambridge. With the help of the Charles Darwin trust, they are assembling more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts from the father of the theory of Evolution. Unfortunately, all is not…
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Why login?
If you look at the left-hand side menu on this page, you will notice that there is a link to either register yourself (Register) or login (Login). These links are here to give you the ability to identify yourself when your are visiting the Roumazeilles.net web site. It is a two-step process: Register yourself, for…
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Earth in Flash, but seen from space
You are willing to observe our planet Earth as seen from space in an interactive form? There is no better place than Flash Earth, a Flash software application allowing you easy navigation through the images from Google, Yahoo Maps, NASA, etc. This is a sort of cute synthesis for all these services in a very…
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Game: Move your mouse
One of those silly little games you spend too much time with: RubyTooth mouse 1.0 Attention! This does heavy use of sound immediately after loading of the Flash plug-in. You may prefer to turn the sound off before clicking on the link.
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High-quality 3D wallpapers
Wallpapers? You’re probably wondering how I could drop as low as writing about a wallpaper website. Usually they are either bad and ugly, or ridden with so many ads that you can’t find the wallpapers. Usually, they are both at the same time. Now there is a change. Digital Blasphemy is the web site of…