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Hypnotic photo
I was looking a [Lorenzo](http://www.alberton.info/)'s [slides](http://www.slideshare.net/quipo/nosql-databases-why-what-and-when) (slide 50) and found a very interesting and hypnotic photo. I stole it from his slides a...
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Published 2011-04-15 on legacy zcourts.com. Estimated reading time: 1 min.
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