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Archive for August 22nd, 2005

[posted: Monday, 2005-08-22] [category: photo, technology]

cindy sent me the link to this cool website: www.gigapxl.org.
they take pictures on a very large film format and scan them afterwards. they’re currently getting about 4 gigapixels out of this, with outstanding pictures to present in their galleries. the level of detail is astonishing!

i know i shoudln’t be surprised, because it *is* a small world, but i was: in the travelogue, i found a mention of adam tow, who is a friend of eric cheng.
so basically, i know the gigapxl team members through a friend of a friend :razz:

[posted: Monday, 2005-08-22] [category: fun]

there are a lot of funny pictures at www.klabusterbeere.net (german link). i especially liked this one! :mrgreen: (the text, roughly translated, is “chris obviously received a warm welcome from the class!”)

and this page (that i found through klabusterbeere) offers some tricky iq-tests ;-)
(the comments are written in wienerisch (viennese), in case you mistake it for some indigenous nordic language)

[posted: Monday, 2005-08-22] [category: bats, nature, photo]

yes, it’s been two posts again, so there’s gotta be something about bats in this entry :razz:

cutting reed

the wwf is currently running a two-week mission to cut reed at schwemm [G]*.
schwemm is the last conserved swamp/moor in northern tirol, and fertilizers are constantly infiltrating from the surrounding agricultural areas. so now the reed is sprawling, and the nutrients are reduced (at least the wwf is trying to do so) by harvesting parts of the reed. here’s an article in german.
* yeah, the greenish-brown speck in the center doesn’t look very exciting, but it is! there are several endangered species of plants and animals there

like many others, i volunteered for a day, trying to make my contribution…

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