Category: Social issues

  • Sharks facing extinction

    It is often believed that wide-ranging oceanic sharks are so fast and powerful that they are quite resilient when it comes to fishing pressure. Actually, this is quite the contrary. Most sharks are carnivorous and thus rely on the availability of a lot of animal food, they also tend to mature slowly (so all early…

  • Replace commercial application with free ones

    AceBackup: Free Windows backup Ad-Aware 2008: Free anti-spyware StarBurn: Free disc burning, audio ripping utility (download Nero for free) LogoEase: Create your own logo for free AutoGK: Rip your DVDs to DivX and Xvid formats Opera 9.5: an excellent replacement for Internet Explorer Comodo Friewall Pro Free: Free Windows firewall for Windows XP Antivir: Free…

  • Open the bottle for Wine 1.0

    After years of preparation and beta-phase, finally, Wine has been able to reach launch as Wine 1.0. Why is it significant? Because this is the software package designed to be able to run many Windows applications from a GNU/Linux distribution. If you want to switch to Linux, you may not be willing to abandon some…

  • Platon portraits

    Platon portraits

    A photographer must love his models to make the best possible portraits and to serve completely the models. This is all the more obvious when it comes to photographing celebrities and famous people. Platon does a great job for this. Source : Platon. All photos are Copyright (c) Platon – All rights reserved.

  • Near the end of whaling?

    This is the question or the hope that we can have after the opening of a legal investigation in Japan. A public prosecutor announced on last 19th of May that he decided to explore the observed operations of sale of whale meat to restaurants. Greenpeace actively participates and there are many people hoping this to…

  • Japan: Whaling for research purposes

    Japan: Whaling for research purposes