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  • TSA recent failures

    TSA recent failures

    The TSA (or Transportation Security Administration) is in charge in the US of the organization the safe transportation of people in planes and through airports. Unfortunately, either they have a lot of other responsibilities (which is true) and fail at this one (which is also true), or they utterly incompetent at insuring the security of…

  • TSA: batteries are weapons prohibited in planes

    Here we are! Transport regulation authorities added the Lithium batteries to the list of banned objects in carry-on luggage in planes. Of course, Lithium batteries can explode. But they took the additional step of prohibiting them when they are out of the device and contain more than 2g of Lithium… Photographers leaving for a long…

  • Western Digital: audio/video police included

    Western Digital: audio/video police included

    What could be the use of network hard disk drive of one Tera-Byte which would strictly refuse to serve files because there may be a risk of breaching licensing agreement potentially applicable to them? This is the question that potential buyers should ask before purchasing the Western Digital disc drives using WD Anywhere Access: WD…

  • 52 photos that warped our collective minds

    52 photos that warped our collective minds

    Year after year, there are a few photo images that wrote History. LukeProg found 52 of them. The choice is always subjective, but most of them really hit the public.

  • The hypothesis of heterosexuality

    The hypothesis of heterosexuality

    I was recently confronted (during the preparation of my photo trip to Brazil) to a situation somewhat common. I did not take notice of it before, but I was tickled this time. Facts first: In order to reduce the cost of lodging during my trip the travel agent offered to share my room with another…

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  • 1 million casualties in Iraq

    1 million casualties in Iraq

    This is the calculation done after a poll realised by ORB, the British poll company in Iraq, and asking the following question to 1481 people aged 18+: “How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (ie as a result of violence rather than…

  • Suicide, a fundamental right

    Michelle Roohani is not only an interesting photographer that I already mentionned here a few months ago, a good friend, but also able to stir things up a little. In a recent post titled “Suicide, a fundamental right“, she suceeded in promoting a quite interesting talk about a difficult philisophical subject. I think that it’s…

  • 250,000 Tibetans resettled by Chinese authorities

    250,000 Tibetans resettled by Chinese authorities

    Chinese authorities have placed Tibet under their jurisdiction in 1950. Since then, the country has been submitted to a regime that, even compared to the usual Chinese standards, can be considered extreemely hard. Today, we learn that 250,000 Tibetans (1/10th of the Tibet population) have been relocated to new villages of the “comfortable housing program“.…