Category: Social issues
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Bras with chopsticks
Triumph, famous brand of feminine underwear well rooted in Japan, insists on answering to the finest needs of their nippon customers. Today, it’s a piece of underwear with the following advantages: at the right side, a bowl of rice, at the left side, a bowl of miso soup, chopsticks provided in side pouches. They prove…
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Mute your browser
Sometimes it comes handy to silence your browser. When it opens a Flash media file and starts shouting. Here is FlashMute. It mutes Flash into your browser or all of your browser, leaving the rest of the computer in its normal state.
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CAD: Predator
I love Ctrl-Alt-Del comics. Today, we learn something about predation in the savanah.
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No DRM is good for the media business
Or so it seems from the more recent news I received through different channels these days. First, BluRay BD+ copy protection and DRM system appears to have been cracked. In the latest revision of AnyDVD (a quite well known DVD copying software), there is now an option to handle BD+. It means that even the…
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New census sees half the tigers
According to NewScientist, despite the difficulty in counting the big cats, experts estimated that there were more than 3500 tigers in India in 2001 and 2002. Unfortunately, the latest figures are pointing at a figure nearer to 1300-1500. The size of the populations in large parks seems to be still enough to ensure the survival…
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Free SciFi books
A few weeks ago ManyBooks.net started to make available a number of SciFi books in PDF format and without any unreasonable restrictions (this is copyrighted material that has been left in the public domain). Decided to give it a try and not knowing these books, I chose (randomly) to download Space Prison from Tom Godwin…
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Iguazu Falls
Iguazu Falls (Foz do Iguaçu) are, at border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, the place where the Iguaçu river, draining into Parana, rushes from the top of a volcanic plateau through more than 250 water falls spread over a circus of nearly three kilometers (Wikipedia information). Two days of visit were welcome to get the…
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GIMP, competition to Photoshop, now in version 2.4
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. That makes it a quite serious competitor to Adobe Photoshop, even if Adobe is still both much higher-priced and more…