HootCourse Early 1900s in Colour - All around the world All around the world - Franny Wentzel - Thursday, May 6th, 2010 : goo [previous] :: [next] In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography www.albert-kahn.fr/english/ Autochrome was the first industrial process for true colour photography. www.albertkahn.co.uk A few photos from the collection. Portraits Algeria Dahomey - now Benin Bosnia Brasil Bulgaria Cambodia Canada China Croatia Dijbouti Egypt England France Germany Greece Holland India Iran Iraq Ireland Italy King Faisal Lebenon Macedonia Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Norway Palestine Serbia Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Syria Turkey United States of America Vietnam This article has been viewed 3310964 times in the last 4 years dglenn: Fantastic!!
Virtual, Visual, Vital Online Communications: Sococo Dirty UNIX Joke - NYT Facebook Rivals This morning’s New York Times features a story on a group of NYU undergraduates working on a would-be Facebook killer called Diaspora*, the software for which “will let users set up their own personal servers, called seeds, create their own hubs and fully control the information they share.” The article is a neat read both for the specifics of the proposal and the anti-Facebook sentiment it highlights amongst young’uns in the tech community; it also marks what may be the first time a dirty UNIX joke has managed to sneak into the hallowed pages of the Times. A tipster draws our attention to the writing on the left side of the chalkboard behind the students: “TOUCH GREP UNZIP MOUNT FSCK FSCK FSCK UMOUNT.” Wait a second: That’s not intelligible code! Pretty much every command on the blackboard is missing the argument(s) that makes it useful (e.g. filenames for ‘unzip’ and ‘touch’). Update2: Yup: it did. (title image via the New York Times; reproduced here for newsworthiness’ sake.)
Zest of life You Couldn't Make This Up Dept: "Why is Mars' Moon Phobos Hollow Mars' Moon Phobos has been analyzed as being one-third hollow according to European Space Agency reports, which has triggered some wild and utterly fascinating rumors and speculation that we've featured below. From "The Phobos Blog" -- published on March 25th: General , Science 25 March, 2010 17:21 Radio science result from 2008 Phobos Flyby now accepted for publication: We report independent results from two subgroups of the Mars Express Radio Science (MaRS) team who independently analyzed Mars Express (MEX) radio tracking data for the purpose of determining consistently the gravitational attraction of the moon Phobos on the MEX spacecraft, and hence the mass of Phobos. For a Martian moon that is demonstrably "1/3 hollow" ... as measured by two totally independent space programs, and separated by ~20 years ... under any likely astrophysical formation scenario cannot exist as just a "natural" moon. Source:
TabJacking le phishing qui va piquer ! Le Tabjacking, nouvelle technique destiné à usurper les informations privées des utilisateurs du cyber espace. Oublier les faux mails, les fausses demandes de la part de votre banque, ou toute autres techniques oldschool de phishing. Avec le tabjacking ( qui n’est qu’a l’état de Proof Of Concept) l’internaute ouvre une page qu’il croit saine, puis continu sa navigation en switchant sur différents onglets, ouvrant d’autres sites. Puis lorsque l’internaute retournera sur le premier onglet sans qu’il s’en aperçoive le site aura totalement changé de look ( titre, contenu, image) pour se faire passer pour un service légitime (google,paypal,etc…) Cette technique est d’autant plus dangereuse que l’internaute ne voit absolument rien et ne voit pas venir le piège, il va donc croire que sa session a expirée et va s’identifier de nouveau mais sur le faux site. Une des solutions possible est bien évidemment de tenir à jour vos logiciels de navigation.
Upcoming Trends of Web Design in 2010 In 2010 we are seeing the continued mainstreaming of everyday goods and services onto the internet. As everything becomes virtual, the internet becomes the first port of call when a person needs a new good or requires a new service. More and more people, from all walks of life, are becoming familiar with the internet. Particularly in the last year, as smart-phones introduce the concept of web-services to people who would not normally have exposure to an internet connected computer. We are seeing JavaScript pushing out its boundaries, new design philosophies like grid systems becoming commonplace, bigger bolder headings and banners and more and more iconification of websites. JavaScript – Light boxes, carousel, tabs and more! JavaScript is going strong in 2010 and in fact we’re seeing plenty of innovative use of this great client side language. Design style can be practical. Presenting many options to a user can make a design cluttered. Grid based websites Smart-phone Website Design