Category: Social issues
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Free movies, ad-supported, DRM-spiked
I cannot really test it from my trip in South America. However, I thought useful to inform you that there is a new web site providing free movies. You just have to accept some ads (not very different from what you have on most TV channels). SpiralFrog Did I speak about its legal status? It…
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30 years of video nagware
This month we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the agreement that led to the one-minute nag at the beginning of all DVD. We all have to watch at this no-fast-forward page of information about piracy. As if this had any impact on pirates. As if it was good practice to annoy 100% of your customers.
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1 million casualties in Iraq
This is the calculation done after a poll realised by ORB, the British poll company in Iraq, and asking the following question to 1481 people aged 18+: “How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (ie as a result of violence rather than…
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Download free PowerPoint
You wanted to be able to produce those pro presentations with PowerPoint. But Microsoft Office seemed to expensive to buy it, so you decided to download an illegal (but free) version. No! Hold your horses. Real solutions are appearing all over the place. Up to now, you had the possibility to use Open Office (which…
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Iceland stops all whale hunting
Iceland ministry of fisheries, Einar K. Gudfinnsson, decided that whale hunting -who started again in 2003- had no longer any reason to be. The reasons probably lie between the international opposition to whale hunting, lack of internal Iceland market and lack of exports to Japan. Source: Futura-Sciences.
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Oil reserves, a world map
The Sietch blog publishes an interesting map of the world where country sizes are proportional to the size of their underground oil reserves. Colors can also point to the big users of oil (headed by the United States of America) which are also the big CO2 producers. Why do you believe that every country in…
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Download Microsoft Office for free (on Apple Mac)
Really! Who would like to have Microsoft Office. It’s expensive. If you donwload it for free, it’s just illegal. However, you can download the excellent Neo Office for OS/X (a Mac OS/X port of OpenOffice). It’s now available.
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Download free PC games: FarCry, Prince of Persia, …
Just spotted: A few excellent games to download freely from FilePlanet. Free version: FarCry (I recommend heavily this excellent FPS, I still play with it) Free version: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Free version: Rayman Raving Rabbids Apparently, this is ad-supported so you have to accept a little annoyance and to have an account…
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Blog Action Day
I will participate to Blog Action Day (posting on 15th of October specifically about an action that could help save the planet from the actions of men). If you have a blog, you should do the same.