I have always been interested in how the cities evolved through the 20th century. Urbanism and urban planning came to the game and changed the way where streets were built, what buildings were built and how public spaces appeared.
Old aerial photos are hard to find, only military or intelligence agencies did some aerial shots before [...]
Historical Aerial Photos In Google Maps?
August 23, 2010 at 17:10 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
Blog vs Blog Post
There has been an interesting misconception going on in the Slovak blogosphere since its opening to the wider audience and general public by the Slovak daily SME in 2005. The misconception arises from the understanding and use of the two terms: a blog and a blog post.
A blog is
[a] website that allows users to reflect, [...]
August 12, 2010 at 09:34 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
Blade Runner Photo Deconstruction Is Here
If you have seen the Blade Runner movie, you will know what I am talking about: A blade runner logging into his computer, checking photo evidence found. Zooming into the photo (we can do that, right?), checking different parts of the photo and (behold!) zooming on the various objects, so the flat image transforms into [...]
August 10, 2010 at 19:26 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
Music Wiki & Video Games Wiki
What Last.fm is to music, MobyGames is to video games.
If you are looking for specific information about a song, go to Last.fm. If you need to know specs or what operating system a game runs on, visit MobyGames. Easy. Great complementary sources to their well-know brother – Wikipedia.
July 6, 2010 at 01:02 :: Filed under Internet :: [*] :: No Comments ::
My Favourite Online Comics & Strips
I have always been a big fan of serious comics and graphic novels. Spending my time in US, John Porcellino’s Perfect Example had caught my interest and from there on I had loved to browse San Francisco Public Library’s comics section. I used to borrow everything they had often hitting the top number of books [...]
June 4, 2010 at 17:19 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: 6 Comments ::
New Pandora? Tips for improving Soundz.fm
Soundz.fm is a new Slovak startup that provides you with (quoting their slogan) “Listening to the radio, new school style.”
They provide list of radios you can add to your account and listen to via Flash player. If you don’t like the song playing on radio X, you can quickly switch to a different radio station [...]
March 8, 2010 at 23:21 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::
Retro Folk Dolls Chocolate Packaging
Figaro, a Slovak chocolate and sweets company owned by Kraft Foods, launched their retro style chocolate packaging featuring folk dolls well-known to the older generation. The company has also started a competition on their website (due to the entirely Flash website, it is impossible to link to the competition directly).
Dolls are named Jana, Dana and [...]
February 17, 2010 at 19:28 :: Filed under Internet :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::
Death Of Interstitial Pages
Ten years back, interstitial pages used to be almost customary. Many websites had their logos, special announcements or even advertisements displayed at the interstitial page right after you visited the respective domain. Interstitials were set to automatically redirect to the requested page after some time (generally 10 seconds) via META refresh tag.
The custom to display [...]
February 13, 2010 at 14:30 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
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