{"id":1632,"date":"2007-10-28T20:49:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2007-11-01T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T22:29:58","slug":"that-famous-painting-and-other-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"That famous painting (and other links)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia the BBC I <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7065903.stm\">discovered that DaVinci&#8217;s &#8216;Last Supper&#8217; has been digitized<\/a> and posted to the Internet (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haltadefinizione.com\/en\/\">actual site<\/a>).  According to the article, the produced image is about 1600 times detailed than a photo from an average DSLR: what can you say of a <em>16 bn pixel<\/em> image. Wait I know: can you compress it? The actual site (see earlier link) is hard to get by today (sluggish, rather) but is worth a visit.\n<\/p>\n<p>Argentina is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7065837.stm\">about to choose a <em>female<\/em> president<\/a>: As it looks like right now, the next president is going to be the <em>wife of the current president<\/em>, mrs. Cristina Fernarndez de Kirchner. There&#8217;s a comment from a BBC reader (a certain Brian from NY, USA) that made me laugh out loud:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">The husband wife political swap reeks of corruption and nepotism\n<\/p>\n<p>How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1151\">Polish evil twins<\/a>?\n<\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2007\/10\/28\/dalai-lama.html\">started his visit to Canada<\/a>. The Buddhist leader addressed a (sold-out!) crowd of 8,000 people at the Ottawa Civic Center. Later this week, the Dalai Lama will meet with Stephen Harper. Also fom the CBC some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/dalailama\/to-canada.html\">excellent analysis on this visit<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7066776.stm\">It looks like Kirchner won the elections.<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the BBC I discovered that DaVinci&#8217;s &#8216;Last Supper&#8217; has been digitized and posted to the Internet (actual site). According to the article, the produced image is about 1600 times detailed than a photo from an average DSLR: what can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[195,194,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}