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  • Ted Stevens isn’t the less tech savvy Senator

    Alaska senator Ted Stevens has become the epitome of I-have-no-clue-about-technology US Senators after his describing Internet as “series of tubes” (and don’t dare sentence them to ignominy if you’re -like me- from France, a country where President Jacques Chirac failed to remember a few years ago the name of this little rodent we use with…

  • Steady Cam

    This is the title of an article from Scientific American (October 2006 issue, “Working knowledge”) that describes with clear and simple details the various techniques used to stabilize images in today’s photo cameras and video cameras: moving an optical element deforming an optical element moving the sensor digital or software stabilization Source: Scientific American newspaper…

  • Bush wants to be space boss

    I am not sure if this is linked to the recent attack of US satellites by Chinese blinding laser beams, but GW.Bush signed recently a policy that states that “freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power” and that “the United States will preserve its…

  • Eating for Arousal

    VillageVoice has a long paper about what food is really aphrodisiac. Is it for real?

  • Space audio

    These are the sounds of space collected by University of Iowa instruments on various spacecraft and observation instruments.

  • Copy-cats don’t make a business

    A company named Genetic Savings & Clone, based in California, was created to sell expensive pet clones: Clone your cat for 32,000$ and more. Unfortunately, in the 6 years of its life, the company could sell only 2 animals. They went bankrupt. Finally, not everybody is dumb enough to buy a cat of that price…

  • Spiral pictures

    Spiral pictures

    Spiral is a geometric form of spectacular elegance. Despite its apparent simplicity, it grows into an astounding variety of images. The Spiral Pictures web site is a vibrant hommage to this mathematical form with photographic pictures specially selected for this.

  • 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…

  • 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…