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Category: Social issues

  • Suicide, a fundamental right

    Michelle Roohani is not only an interesting photographer that I already mentionned here a few months ago, a good friend, but also able to stir things up a little. In a recent post titled “Suicide, a fundamental right“, she suceeded in promoting a quite interesting talk about a difficult philisophical subject. I think that it’s…

  • YouTube starts ads, TubeStop stops ads

    Google announced, soon after its buying of YouTube, that it wouold add some advertisment on the amateur video web site. This is now what they did. But it did not leave the software developers insensitive: TubeStop is a FireFox plug-in that hides or closes that ads in YouTube to keep the same pleasure without the…

  • Microsoft WGA servers are down

    Those servers are central to validate the “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” service. In plain words, they provide the verification that you are really a registered user authorized by Microsoft. But these servers are currently down (some kind of network failure?) and Microsoft forecast about two days before going back to a normal situation. This simply means…

  • Bioshock is having real DRM problems

    We have been speaking a lot about Bioshock the newest First Person Shooter (FPS) PC video game from Second Take. We expected a very nice game in a complex environment with varied adversaries and game tactics. But we did not expected the most poweful adversary: The Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection against copy. TwitchGuru video…

  • News from the P2P front line

    It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…

  • Spirals

    Spirals

    A few images collected all around the place to celebrate this nice form. by davesag by gadl by Martin Sweeney by whatdavesees by gardawind by s e u s s by Pascal by blue fam by optik by roddh by NeverB4Breakfast by purefinder by tom Q by 0olong by [ Petri ] by fdecomite Collected…

  • Acronis True Image as a free download

    Acronis True Image is one of the best disk utilities of the market: Like Norton Ghost it allows to make a full-image copy of one hard disk drive and to restore it later in one pass. Unfortunately, up to now, it was a little expensive at $49.95. did you know that a lot of us…

  • Very nice graphic textures

    A graphic designer, a web site designer often need to find a reliable source for graphic data and more specifically for graphic textures. Here comes an excellent small web site: In-Texture.com bring a very rich collection of graphic (and photographic) textures that are available for free. And a few very nice samples!

  • National Geographic’s photos

    National Geographic’s environment photos & wallpapers.