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The astronauts were drunk
Accoridng to a recent report from NASA (or more precisely according to a single paragraph of that report), alcohol is circulating freely among the astronauts and most specifically during pre-flight. To the point that some worried that the state of the crew may endanger the mission itself. But local management did not seem as worried…
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Tough week on the Stock Exchange floor
The stock exchanges have been subjected to hard winds this week, as it was expected by nearly all the expert analysts. I find it quite interesting that so many observers who are also actors on the market were able to forecast accurately the crisis but were not able to anticipate it enough to avoid it.…
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National flag design critique
What would happen if a designer team submitted national flags to customer countries? And listened to the ciritiques or comments? Link Via: Information Aesthetics.
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Don’t date Japanese married women
In most circumstances, men should avoid dating married women. There are plenty of good and bad reasons against it. But it’s even more critically true when she is married to a Japanese man. At the very least, you should be ready to face the involved risks, which go much farther than mere STM diseases. Get…
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An excavator and a truck
The most ingenuous method to unload an excavator from a truck. You no longer need a crane and a ramp. From Thailand, through Neatorama.
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Air traffic controllers make jokes too
Air traffic controllers have fun too and some of it is collected at this link.
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Welcome to Nokia phone users
My statistics show that the users of the Nokia mobile phones are starting to represent a signifcant portion of the visitors of this web site (10th or 11th most seen browser on this site). Feel free to comment if you have difficulties or if you want to offer ideas of possible improvements.
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The advantages of self-employment
When you’re self-employed, you have all the advantages of the world: Copyright Andy Singer.
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Paper plane flight simulator
It is clear that Flight Simulator, Microsoft’s PC video game, has become more and more complex and less and less playable with years. What should have been a simple neat little game using efficiently the PC ressources requires today a powerful PC (sometimes more powerful than what is needed for games of a complexity that…