When people got tired of going again and again to the same web page when looking for updated news, someone invented the strange idea of syndication. This technology allows you to get the items that have been added or updated since your last visit to the web site (ie, slashdot, BBC…). In general, these items [...]

This is the most famous picture in computer graphics history:

The image of Lena Soderberg was scanned from a Playboy magazine for becoming the most famous image used for testing compression algorithms, video transmission systems or error correction mechanims.
The story can be read from here, where they explain how the picture of a nude model was [...]