Category: Social issues

  • Cheater in the bull fight

    Cheater in the bull fight

    Unknown author.

  • Hiroshima photos – never seen before

    On August 6th, 1945, Hiroshima was bombed with the first atomic weapon. U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces, found undevelopped films with many pictures that are available only this year. They are disturbing to say the less (I wanted to use one photo to illustrate this post, then decided…

  • BritFilms – Short films for free

    You want to download free short movies. Here comes BritFilms – Short Films. A neat web site with a very pro look and content. Filled with short movies, some news about independent cinema and quite a few other things to discover.

  • Cute, but risky

    Cute, but risky

    Unknown author.

  • Sudden drop of minke whale populations

    A scientific study coming from Iceland suggest that in the recent years the minke whale population suddenly dropped from 45000 in 2001 to less than 15000 last year. This is a enormous change that is not yet explained for a small whale that was more or less protected by its smaller size (big whales bring…

  • 101 great downloadable fonts

    101 great downloadable fonts

    hanks to FreeGeekery, here are 101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers. I am sure that you will appreciate teh variety, the diversity and the quality of this archive.

  • Sharks facing extinction

    It is often believed that wide-ranging oceanic sharks are so fast and powerful that they are quite resilient when it comes to fishing pressure. Actually, this is quite the contrary. Most sharks are carnivorous and thus rely on the availability of a lot of animal food, they also tend to mature slowly (so all early…

  • Replace commercial application with free ones

    AceBackup: Free Windows backup Ad-Aware 2008: Free anti-spyware StarBurn: Free disc burning, audio ripping utility (download Nero for free) LogoEase: Create your own logo for free AutoGK: Rip your DVDs to DivX and Xvid formats Opera 9.5: an excellent replacement for Internet Explorer Comodo Friewall Pro Free: Free Windows firewall for Windows XP Antivir: Free…

  • Open the bottle for Wine 1.0

    After years of preparation and beta-phase, finally, Wine has been able to reach launch as Wine 1.0. Why is it significant? Because this is the software package designed to be able to run many Windows applications from a GNU/Linux distribution. If you want to switch to Linux, you may not be willing to abandon some…