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  • Bloggers forced by US to register

    There is currently a talk in the US legislative body whose intent is to force all writers of blogs having more than 500 readers to register themselves as lobyyists or face jail time. This is the result of an amendment introduced by Senator David Vitter that is currently struggling to be transformed into law, but…

  • Historical anatomies – Anatomy in history

    Historical anatomies – Anatomy in history

    Sometimes, the Internet is not at all about new technologies but a way to reach old ones and old science. This is what happens when you visit Historical anatomies on the web, a quietly presented web site showing us reproductions of anatomical atlases from the US National Library of Medicine’s collection. This is all about…

  • Sexual consent

    Responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms. Or so it seems if you want to have really safe sex. But it may lead to some really weird situations if you need assistance. Sexual ConsentDirected by Jason Reitman Not safe for Work.

  • T-shirt for typographs

    T-shirt for typographs

    This T-shirt has been designed specially for typographers with a sense of humor. The word KERN (the spacing between two letters) is nicely printed on it, but cut in halves by a zipper that allow to change the kerning of letters E and R.

  • ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand

    ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand

    Last Summer, you read the saga of The Pirate bay, Swedish Bittorrent tracker that was raided by the local police force upon request/complaint of the music industry majors (there is indeed a large number of links to pirated music and video on http://www.thepiratebay.org/). But after moving quickly to Netherlands, the server came back to Sweeden…

  • Panoramic photos from the world

    More and more, photography amateurs are attracted toward panoramic images and photos. Virtual Sweeden is a web site showing a large number of the highest quality. I particularly recommend the following ones: Le Louvre Museum 360° Rome’s St Peters basilica 360°

  • Happy Birthday HAL-9000!

    Yes! The computer from “2001, A space Odyssey” (the book from Arthur C. Clarke and the movie from Stanley Kubrick) was offically born (first powered) on 12th January 1992. So, it is exactly 15-year old today. Happy birthday HAL-9000! There, HAL-9000 is an Artificial Intelligence computer (the AI word was common then) that takes its…

  • Everything you DON’T want to know about your kid’s sex life

    Parents usually think they know their kids and that they have a relatively good grasp of what they do and think. If you speak about kid’s love and sex life, parents are always a little less at ease, but they keep their confidence. A study from the NY Mag confirms that parents don’t know nothing.…

  • Supersize your images

    If you ever dreamed of printing images in much larger size than what your personal printer allows (let’s say 3′ by 6′), you have either to buy a very expensive printer or use a very expensive photo printing service. You see the common words here: very expensive. The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any…