Pics and Titbits

professor samuel forrester, world famous immunologist pays tribute to computer virus writers, for their role in making computers “stronger”. developers are forced to write software with better immunity (aka patches).

retired brigadier general carter clarke is manufacturing real diamonds at the cost of $5 a carat! reason behind high price tags is debeers’ diamond cartel price inflation. now a diamond proposal ring won’t be elusive for women.

eos30 | e100vs

since the time when humans were living in caves, mars was never so close to earth like yesterday. now you can be awed by photos from the hubble space telescope, and the sharpest red planet photo snapped from earth.

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if you archive precious data in cd-recordables, they might be unreadable 2 years later. unfortunately, no brands were revealed in the test.

more transcript of the architect and observations.

portraits of astreal members from baybeats.

ginette and alwyn

muhammad

nick

lc-a | portra 160vc

fancy guiding the lost lemmings to salvation? dhtml brings the classic game back into your browser.

john wehr photographed the new york blackout day. the city that never sleeps, slept on that night.