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We could think that this is very far from us but there is a way you can participate thanks to the Internet. A web site, Kiva, offers you to also lend money (at no interest for you) to people from around the world (maybe in your own country too).

Kiva recruits small credit banks all other the world and puts them in contact with people willing to act, from US$25.

You will earn no money, I don’t. There is a small risk seeing somebody unable to reimburse (weather, sickness are common causes I could observe). But how could you not feel obliged to use a few dollars/euros to help people who have no other chance to invest in their future since they have no access to big international banks (the same ones who hesitate to lend money to people like you and me or Ben Bernanke)?

So, since 2011, I lend small sums, I get reimbursed, I lend again. Twice, the money did not come all back. Once, it took a real long time before I got repaid. But I fear I am considering this as a very small price to pay for changing a life or transforming the future of a family or a group of people.

Why wouldn’t you try too? Just go to Kiva and send them 25$ (or 50€?)

PS: Don’t worry! I will earn nothing if you click on the links here, except the small egotistic satisfaction of seeing people following my advice.

No need for an engineer’s degree!

Even McEnroe did not complain.

This video from Bill Hammack explains it all in details.

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Bravo à Philippe L.

Better! The snow has frozen.

Worse: A pilot takes a formula car on a trip around the track and we can have a peek. No speed record for sure but a very unusual show.

Today, I was stopped by the sheer simplicity of this documentary film about a man who is the last piano repair parts reseller in Paris. A moment out of time.

La Mer de Pianos from Films & Things on Vimeo.

Here is how they made books in this long-gone era:

Forget all that and move to real middle-aged battle league: Use a two-handed Great Sword made of true good steel. To be sure of the advantage it gives or if you just want to figure what impact could such a sword have in knights battle, check this video below:

After such an ad (there is really a company manufacturing and selling these ultra-realistic swords to a public willing to avoid the low vulgarity of handling an automatic machine gun), I can’t avoid thinking that the knights wielding this kind of weapon must have had a nice tough build to hold and use this kind of nail clipper.

It ends with 5 minutes of cooling down for the brakes. If you want to see why and to have a better detailed view of it, look into it on a similar Airbus A380 brake test.

Worth reading. Worth keeping.

The discovery of WYSIWYG:

Precisely one year ago, BP should have followed this excellent advice and checked about the status of the Deepwater Horizon platform before it became an oil spill.

This white paper explores the aspect of reliability for this relatively new and specifically difficult soldering technology used in the manufacturing of boards of electronic components soldered according to the newest regulations requiring not to use any lead (even in soldering where it has long been the basis for solder paste because of its low fusion temperature).

Who thought that industry could be so densely colored?