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Category: Social issues

  • Free icons of good quality

    Mark James, a part-time web developper, produced more than a thousand slick little icons that are distributed freely on famfamfam.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that if you want to use them, you only have to remember to state clearly that Mark James is the author and…

  • Augmented Breasts Will Require Additional Inspection at Airports

    The TSA’s changes to the complete liquid ban may require persons with augmented breasts (or other body parts) to comply with further inspections at security checkpoints. Really, can you imagine what it will be for a person having had surgical breast augmentation to suffer that kind of “search“? I’m not speaking about the young bimbo…

  • Free audio books

    Librivox is a web site where you will find audiobooks read and recorded by volunteers who give them freely to you and any visitor. It is mostly english books and works, but there starts to appear a few non-english literature (some French, some German, for example). The selected works are part of the public domain…

  • Bad modem/routers for P2P

    I recently found a intersting list of modems/routers that do not survive well with P2P applications (let’s remember here that these applications can be very stressful for a network and its devices: hundreds or thousands of connections with a total traffic usually reaching the maximum limit of the network link). This is a list of…

  • 2006 ig-Nobel prizes (From smell of human feet to inaudible telephone ringtones)

    The Annals of Improbable Research (a magazine dedicated to the public celebration of the research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK) have organized the 2006 ig Nobel awards. The categories are less rigid than their equivalent in the more presentable cousin of the family (the Oh! so dull Nobel prizes) since there are established…

  • BitComet v0.7x configuration

    BitComet v0.7x configuration

    As the PC I use to run BitComet is rather old (it’s still running under Windows 98) it is easy to believe that this configuration is a good basis that will work on any small machine and old configuration for BitTorrent. Cet article traduit en Français Of course, it would also work very well on…

  • Search (free) photos by color

    Search (free) photos by color

    I had already told you about Yotophoto, the image search engine allowing you to choose the kind of copyright or legal rights associated to the image (and, thus, giving you an east way to find free images for your web site, while keeping you in the legal high road). Today, Yotophoto disclose another very interesting…

  • Download your word processor (free)

    For a very long time, one of the greatest hits of search engines sending visitors to Roumazeilles.net has been “free download word”. Now, we are nearly in position to offer another advice than the usual Go download OpenOffice. I still consider OpenOffice as the best replacement for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but new opportunities are…

  • SpamHaus condemned to 11.7 millions of $$$

    The marketing company e360insight sued SpamHaus for wrongly listing it as a spammer. But we just heard that SpamHaus lost and will have to pay a record 12 million dollars fine.