Category: Social issues

  • 9 love messages from Planet Earth

    9 love messages from Planet Earth

    You’d believe that our planet is in love. It can be read on its face (on its surface) merely under the form of pretty hearts nicely drawn. 9 other cases. Superb!

  • Underwater movies

    I recently met a couple of fine underwater movies. One shows a dive to find a nautilus at great depths; The second shows a phosphorescent amalgam of abyss animals. Always a source of great surprises. YouTube link YouTube link

  • Obama inauguration seating chart

    Obama inauguration seating chart

    It seems that there will be plenty of people to be present during the inauguration of Barrack Obama. Needless to say, most people will not even have a hint about what happens on stage, if they are located as suggested in the following map: Kudos to Tom Toles.

  • Transition times

    According to the Guardian, change was long overdue. 8 years of Democrat presidency in Washington was much too much. Now that Al Gore is leaving the oval office, it’s time to go to more serious stuff. You can appreciate it if you read the first paragraph: No one thought Al Gore would be a loveable…

  • Replace MS-Word for free

    I often advise downloading the free OpenOffice.org desktop suite to fully replace MS-Office (why should you pay for a Microsoft product that is leading you to spending more and more to get a suite that is more and more difficult and incompatible with time? Just dump Word and Excel for a better solution). But, a…

  • Monty Python, free download on YouTube

    For sure, YouTube has always been crouded with rip-offs of the Monty Python sketches. Unfortunately, these were both illegal and -in general- of poor quality. The guys from Monty Python decided that enough is enough, and there is now a Monty Python channel/group on YouTube where you can see excellent quality videos of their Monty…

  • OpenOffice, a few ideas

    Just in passing, here are a few ideas to help the users of OpenOffice.org, the best replacement for Microsoft Office: “Impress: Using Master Slides” explains how to use master slides in order to make a presentation look better and more homogeneous. “Mail merge in OpenOffice.org” : Doing mail merge from a desktop software suite like…

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Article 1  All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. …   The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at Palais de…

  • Wallpapers: Quality photos

    It is always more pleasant to work with a nice wall paper on your PC (or Mac) desktop. Here are two interesting source sof beautiful wallpapers based on photographic quality images: dozens of nature-oriented images (including some cartoons) on UsingMac.com; ligthning and storms (15 images). Downright spectacular.