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Category: Social issues

  • Jesuits always missionaries for Christ: Second Life

    Jesuits belong to a catholic church order that can be rightfully praised for its passion for spreading the word of God to all ends of the world and for science in general (and some less brilliant moments, I have to admit). Today, we learn from Antonio Spadaro in La Civilta Cattolica a Jesuit Rome-based journal,…

  • I Was Gored by a Bull – Is my life in danger?

    I Was Gored by a Bull – Is my life in danger?

    That is the very interesting question answered in this article from Slate. Whatever you think about corridas (Spanish bull fights) it may be interesting to look at the consequences of being gored by a bull, like it happens in the encierro of Pamplona (when they free the fighting bulls in the streets to have them…

  • All the Warner catalog for free

    And it does not even look illegal: Warner signed a partnership with imeem to share the adveertisment revenues from the web site when the North American users freely listen to the music freely available from the Warner catalog (including Madonna, Linkin Park, Green Day, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, John…

  • USB memory sticks

    USB memory sticks

    Netherlanders are really nature lovers. Even in USB memory sticks.

  • The advantages of self-employment

    The advantages of self-employment

    When you’re self-employed, you have all the advantages of the world: Copyright Andy Singer.

  • What do you do when someone steals your content

    Authors of a web site sometimes (more and more often) find themselves in the difficult situation where the content of their site is “borrowed” by someone else. I just found a very helpful and detailled post by Lorelle (“What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content“) that explains what to do and how to…

  • My Whale day

    My Whale day

    I have recently found quite a number of interesting tidbits about whales (mostly from scienceblogs) I wanted to share here with you. Do whales sleep? Whale sharks do it deeper? Whale sharks are not whales, only sharks, but it seemed adequate enough for this category. Studying whale behaviour Pacific whale decline ‘a mystery’ The Acoustic…

  • FileHamster: Better than backup

    FileHamster: Better than backup

    It’s often (but not often enough) repeated: data backup is a critical element of the security of your data. Too often, we frget about it because of a lack of tools easy enough to support it without significant user involvement. Here comes the main advantage of the excellent freeware tool for Windows: FileHamster from Mogware.…

  • GNU-emacs, version 22.1

    GNU-emacs, version 22.1

    One of the most efficient way to start a religious war between white hat hackers is to ask “what is the best text editor?” Everybody got their own choice and they are quite sensitive to the issue. My own choice is Emacs. Today I have the pleasure to announce that GNU-Emacs is released in its…