…A stitching of 2,346 single photos showing a world-record breaking, very high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital (354,159x75,570 px). One can zoom in on famous monuments of the French capital, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Beaubourg and the Notre Dame de Paris.
http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html…the music, the views –they take you right there…
Why India Loves Facebook
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
Getty Images The social-networking giant has opened its first-ever office in Asia—in the country where being all up in one another's business is practically a birthright.
Facebook and Indians have a magnetic connection. Everyone in my family in India except my father—who, at 77, is entitled to his suspicions of the medium—is a Facebook user. Every single friend of mine in India—except for an eccentric Bengali writer who idolizes a 19th-century British viceroy, Lord Curzon, for which reason he cannot be said to have come to terms with the modern world—is a Facebook user.
Facebook “allows [Indians] to do two things they love: Tell everyone what they are doing; and stick their noses into other people’s business,” says Sree Sreenivasan.
Every single friend of mine of Indian origin, anywhere in the world, is a Facebook user. And a great number of my Facebook "friends" are Indians who, having read my journalism, or seen my name on a sibling's or (genuine) friend's page, have sought me out and "friended" me as a reflexive act of connection; and being of Indian origin myself, I've always found it infernally hard—if not virtually impossible—to say "no."
Facebook Mania.... :-)
Future Games....... Worth listening to this!
ARCSABER Z-SLASH smash speed of 421 km/h is certificated as the world record!!
[Topix] …2010/03/11
YONEX Co. Ltd. (HQ: Tokyo, President: Ben Yoneyama) is proud of announcing that Guinness World RecordsTM certified the fastest badminton hit (male) is 421 km/h (261.6 mph) by Tan Boon Heong (Malaysia) using ARCSABER Z-SLASH on September 26th, 2009.ARCSABER Z-SLASH is the first of a new generation of slim racquets which has reduced air resistance whilst providing maximum smash speed. We already had recorded a smash speed over 400 km/h at the speed test in the development stage. (Tested by nac Image Technology Inc.)
In September, 2009, YONEX Co. Ltd. shot the moment of Tan Boon Heong (Malaysia)’s smash using ultrahigh-speed camera. The camera can shoot 20000-exposure a second. We calculated the initialspeed of shuttlecocks by the photography records.
As a result, the record for the initial speed of badminton smashes, at 421km/h has been certificated by Guinness World RecordsTM. On March 8th, the President of YONEX Co. Ltd., Ben Yoneyama received the certification.
The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
Ernst Haas commented on this in a workshop in 1985:
Two laddies from Nova Scotia had made a huge effort to be there and were great Leica fans, worked in a camera store, saved to have them and held Ernst on high for being a Leica user (although he used Nikons on his Marlboro shoots, when the chips were down).
About four days into the workshop, he finally maxxed out on the Leica adoration these kids displayed, and in the midst of a discussion, when one of them asked one more question aimed at establishing the superiority of Wetzlar, Ernst said, "Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Nobody talked about Leica, Nikon, Canon or any other brand of camera equipment for the rest of the workshop.
He also said, "Best wide-angle lens? 'Two steps backward' and 'look for the ah-ha'."
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