Category: Social issues

  • Free movie: The night of the living dead

    Free movie: The night of the living dead

    Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org The grand-daddy of all gore and zombie movies. A cult movie. George Romero invented nearly all when he did this film. A group of people isolated from the rest of the world in a farm is assaultd by flesh-eating and blood-thirsty zombies (living dead eating human flesh).…

  • MSI announces its first Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI interface

    MSI announces its first Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI interface

    It has been a long time since I started to tell you about the lack of HDMI-ready PC graphics cards on the market. It leads to the impossibility to display correctly HD-TV from a HD-DVD or BluRay DVD from your PC (even with the most powerful graphics cards). But, today, MSI announces such a card.…

  • E-passports already failing at security tests

    It did not take long: The electronic passport, that several countries actively defend (particularly the United States of America that tell us it will be the ultimate weapon against terrorists and frauders) and are preparing for full distribution, met a string of very significant problems last week in the Black Hat convention of Las Vegas.…

  • Ban the standby button in UK!

    Her Majesty the Queen Elisabeth II and her royal subjects take energy savings very seriously indeed. They noticed (in a document recently published by the Energy Review) that electrical appliances in sleep mode consume 8% of domestic energy. Let’s admit that this is impressive and tackling with waste cannot be a bad idea. What’s the…

  • Pirate party, 1, 2, 3

    There was already a Pirate Party in Sweeden (along with ThePirateBay.org): Piratpartiet. But things are speeding up neatly in those days with the appearance of two French-speaking parties: In France, le Parti Pirate prepares actively the Presidential elections of next year. In Belgium, le Parti Pirate. But, of course, this is only part of it…

  • Being rich can be difficult

    Being rich can mean that you can’t find your soul mate. Being rich can mean that everybody is running after your money and nobody’s looking at your inner heart. Finding a mate thus becomes awfully difficult. Here comes the solution: MillionaireMatch.com. You’re rich, very rich, filthy rich. You can’t find a good match. You need…

  • Free Science Fiction in MP3

    Science fiction author James Patrick Kelly podcasts some of his works as MP3s. His stories were published in famous SciFi magazines like Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

  • They eat too much

    They eat too much

    American people eat a lot. Some eat too much. A few are proud to show you how much they can eat.

  • Opera 9: Differentiation

    The new Opera web browser is adding a surprisingly new feature: BitTorrent client to share file (à la P2P). Peer-to-peer file sharing should be simplified.