MicroPaleoLab at Entomodena, April 2022 - A 25 minutes interview with Cesare Brizio and Mauro Ferri (Italian language, from the TV show "Detto tra noi" on TRC television)

FPO - «Foraminiferi Padani» 2nd edition (1982) online - a tribute authorized by the Historical office of ENI S.p.A.

«L'hobby dei Foraminiferi.pdf» - slides (Italian text only), a step by step guide for non-professional collectors of Foraminifera

«MicroPaleoLab.pdf» - slides (Italian text only), including advice about usage of sieves and foram picking by wet brush

«Riconoscimento dei Foraminiferi.pdf» - slides (Italian text only), a short guide about the criteria used to recognize and classify the species of Foraminifera

(WORK IN PROGRESS) FZP - Foraminifera From Zola Predosa (Pliocene, Emilia Romagna, Italy)

(WORK IN PROGRESS) FZP - Foraminifera From Zola Predosa (Pliocene, Emilia Romagna, Italy) - an A2-size poster with photos of Pliocene foraminifera

NOF - Not Only Forams (Pliocene, Emilia Romagna, Italy) - reference pictures for biogenic matrix elements, Foraminifera excluded

FFPF - Foraminifera From the Pachuta Formation (Eocene, Alabama, USA)

"Foraminifera From the Pachuta Formation (Eocene, Alabama, USA)" - an A3-size poster with photos of Eocene foraminifera

F3 - Foraminifera From Fluminimaggiore

"Foraminiferi da Fluminimaggiore" - an A3-size poster with photos of recent foraminifera from Portixeddu

My collection of Dinosaur miniatures

My collection of Dinosaur miniatures - Just the thumbnails with no data

Hoplokyklodromìa - a couple of pages of the original website dismissed in 2022 (Italian text only)

HPMC4 - Hand Push Model Car Chalk Circuits Championship - Rules (Italian text only)

"Humine", my 2005 proposal for a technological alternative to mines (Italian text only)

"An Agenda for the new Army", a proposal for a reconsideration of the military (Italian text only)

"Le Scritte di Bologna" - Delirio Urbano nei primi Anni Ottanta (Italian text only)

"Operation Broken Chestnut" (Italian text only)

"Operation Broken Chestnut" in a single PDF file

Sasquatch - italian translations of cryptozoological articles

NSJAP - Nationalsozialistischen Jamaikanische Arbeiterpartei

Softball: Big Apple Softball Club

Gruppo Modenese Scienze Naturali - GMSN

World Biodiversity Association

My Microscopes

Snyakutz Towers

Space Landscape

Alvis Stalwart

Apollo 11 Lunar Module

Convair XFY-1

Land Speed Record Cars

Matchbox Models

«Mini-Chickens» - not real modeling for sure, yet a painstaking job!

The Seven Swabians

Edelweiss

Cesare Brizio + Johnny Spec & the Goggles on Soundcloud

Johnny Spec & the Goggles

Virtual Sound Rotogrid (Italian text only, with audio file)

Home Page, classic branch & leaves version

Home Page, "kill marks" version

      Lighting

• Diffused light for small, shiny subjects
• LED strip illuminator for diffused light
• Selected insects pictures taken in diffused light
• Best Softbox ever? A solution based on A5 LED tracing boards
• A cheap dual gooseneck dimmable LED microscoscope illuminator
• Ultra-thin peripheral reflected light illuminator for small working distances, with dimmable LED strips

      Optical setups

• Photomicrography with micro- and macroscope
• Photomicrography - Polarized & Trasmitted Light with A Meiji Techno Short Unimac Macroscope
• Photomicrography - Polarized & Trasmitted Light with a Lomo Biolam 70 Microscope
• How to attach microscope objectives to video- or photocameras

      Dark Background Photography

• Dark background for studio macrophotography
• Gallery of dark background macrophotographies

      Macrophotography (Arthropoda)

• My 10 (+1...) best field macrophotographies
• Macrophotography (Arthropoda)
• Macrophotography (Arthropoda) - Thumbnail pages
• Macrophotography (Arthropoda) - my few Entomological Boxes (Cicadas, Lantern Bugs and relatives, a Butterfly, a big Acridid)

      Other photography pages

• Digital cleanup and restoration of images
• Deep zoom on selected macrophotographies
• Some photos of mine on Fieldguide - The field guide for everything.
• Scientific Paper from "The Festivus" - Quick, massive (≈ 1000 items), manual digital photography of a small (≈ 1÷10cm) specimens collection by a professional digital video camera (DeltaPix Invenio 8DII)
• Homemade Spectroscopy

Color-highlighted HTML version - Python source code, proof-of-concept of the Colour Enhanced Time/Pressure Envelope (CETPE), a novel on-screen rendering of digital sound at a colour depth of 24-bit RGB

     --------------> Python source code, proof-of-concept of the Colour Enhanced Time/Pressure Envelope (CETPE), a novel on-screen rendering of digital sound at a colour depth of 24-bit RGB

     --------------> Wav file, audio example used in the proof-of-concept of the Colour Enhanced Time/Pressure Envelope (CETPE)

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Python source code exemplifying filtering methods by bitmasks (separate highlights, midtones and shadows)

     --------------> Python source code exemplifying filtering methods by bitmasks (separate highlights, midtones and shadows)

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Python source code exemplifying the use of image filtering methods based on bitmasks

     --------------> Python source code exemplifying the use of image filtering methods based on bitmasks

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Python source code exemplifying the use of image filtering methods based on kernel convolution

     --------------> Python source code exemplifying the use of image filtering methods based on kernel convolution

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Small Basic source code exemplifying the use of the Simplex Method

     --------------> Small Basic source code exemplifying the use of the Simplex Method

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Small Basic source code exemplifying the use of direct and inverse FFT transforms

     --------------> Small Basic source code exemplifying the use of direct and inverse FFT transforms

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Small Basic source code of an «Oliva porphyria Pattern Generator»

     --------------> Small Basic source code of an «Oliva porphyria Pattern Generator»

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Small Basic source code of a badly over-engineered «Seashell Pattern Generator»

     --------------> A zip file with the badly over-engineered «Seashell Pattern Generator» and all the files required by the program

A tribute to the complexity of the Oracle stored procedures that I developed in the early 2000's: the color-highlighted HTML version 2400+ lines long PL/SQL DB maintenance procedure

Compact, searchable-by-LIKE hierarchical trees in RDBMS tables (January 2023 - at last, an accurate description of an idea of mine from the mid-1990s)

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Small Basic source code of an on-screen analog clock, originally developed in 1985 with BASICA language

     --------------> Small Basic source code of an on-screen analog clock, originally developed in 1985 with BASICA language

A color-highlighted HTML version of the Small Basic source code of an on-screen digital clock

     --------------> Small Basic source code of an on-screen digital clock

«PAPERCAC 2020» (a 1996 prototype of mine, redesigned by Alessandro Di Carlo)  (b)

Biosequence alignment (code samples, Italian text explanations)  (b)

Graphics programming with Processing.org (does not work on Chrome browser, NPAPI is not supported anymore)

Neural network (code sample, explanations in Italian)  (b)

VDBIOCOL - my software (1999) for the management of zoological and paleontological collections (Italian User Manual)  (b)

(b) MS-Access was chosen because it's a self-contained DBMS and interpreter, well suited for didactical use.