Category: Social issues
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Get pixellated DOS games on your new PC
If you have an old collection of PC MS-DOS games that has been sleeping at the bottom of a drawer, you may have two approaches: A/ you prefer to forget the old pixels and buy new games, B/ you were so found of those that you want to play even on your newest PC. However,…
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Défi pour la Terre
A campaign to protect Earth and save energy by CLM BBDO.
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Photoshop: 101 tips and tricks (ebook for free)
SitePoint is giving away (for a limited time only) an excellent e-book about PhotoShop. It’s well worth the effort to donwload the PDF file. SitePoint sensational Photoshop book is now FREE to Download!
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Free movie: B horror movies from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s
List from Internet Archive Hollywood in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s created a long string of cheap horror movies that never reached the top rating lists. However, some of them, despite being left mostly abandonned by their authors, are worthy of some renewed attention. In this context, it is interesting to notice that the Internet…
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Nearly 1 million American terrorists according to FBI
In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 – and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per…
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Great coins for Great Britain
“You’ve got to love those coins!” Do you believe that I could tell you so? Surely not. Even better, you can be surprised to learn that I found that in a web site about design and arts (Baekdal.com). And it is defintely a great design for something as old as coins. The new UK coins…
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Big cat photos (James Pan)
A few top-quality images taken by James Pan. Felines, lovely big cats and other animals shot in perfect portraits.
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Jaws, on firm ground
Feline teeth are their most prominent exterior feature. Since the prehistoric Smilodon (the smiling feline) and its gigantic canines, big cats use their impressive dental characteristics to hunt. On the Laelaps web site, you will find a detaileld article on feline teeth, from yesterday to nowadays: What big teeth you have. Please, also notice the…
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Free nature wallpapers: Sand
Some abstract images of sand. Shot in Lagoa do Peixe (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) in 2008. To me, they looked a little like some satellite photos of the planet Mars. Click on the thumbnails if you want to access the 1280*1024 versions Those photos can be used freely for your own wallpaper (on your…