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  • Metro stations, everywhere

    Metro stations, everywhere

    If you need a map for a metropolitan railway (or underground tube, or metro, or most tramways), there is only one place to go: UrbanRail.net has all kinds of public transport maps All over the world. And some news about public transportation.

  • Report An Unauthorised Firm

    Have you been contacted by an unauthorised overseas firm trying to sell or buy stock shares (in the United Kingdom)? The FSA would like to hear from you. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is an independent non-governmental body, given statutory powers by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to regulate the stock market and…

  • Man fined for ‘pregnancy’

    A man living near Johannesburg (South Africa) was recently fined by a court for a bizarre reason: He stole a pregnancy certificate and forged it to get seven days off work. Apparently, he did not think that somebody would notice the ‘difficulty’ a man would have to become pregnant. Source: BBC news.

  • AntiGravity: Toilets flush and Microsoft

    AntiGravity: Toilets flush and Microsoft

    There is no end to jokes about what Microsoft did wrong (they’re the number one target for many jokes and many grievances, just from their being #1 software company). Today, I want to point you to an excellent little paper by Steve Mirsky published in his excellent column in Scientific American magazine. In the October…

  • From Bras to Bag in 10 seconds

    Ok! We already knew that Japanese people were not thinking exactly like the rest of the world (it makes them both loveable and totally foreign to us Westerners). But, this time, I admit they caught me by surprise with this major (?) technological innovation serving what is at the core of every woman in the…

  • American Secret Service are no protection against… theft

    This is becoming obvious for those who discovered that one of the twin daughters of George W. Bush has been robbed of her handbag in an Argentinan restaurant. Not that the country is such a security risk, but the dinner was happening under the protection of the best of the best: The American Secret Service…

  • The best Thanksgiving ever!

    Sure! I’m not really into Thanksgiving (I’m French), but I thought it was a good idea to try and help you all Americans to have a great Thanksgiving. So, here is a link to a long article titled “How to Have the Best Thanksgiving EVER!“, for those who are not easily offended. As Art Burchwald…

  • Public-Key cryptography ready to shatter?

    Public-Key Cryptography is a very common technique used to protect sensitive information by encoding it in such a way that decoding relies on the extreme difficulty of some mathematics techniques (like finding the root factors of a prime integer). Today, a large part of our security is relying on this (including most of the secure…

  • Wired starts chasing Paedophiles on MySpace

    Wired senior editor, Kevin Poulsen, has done one thing that MySpace said was impossible: Finding a registered sex-offender on the social network web site. Now, you would say that this is good news. I have a differing opinion. Let’s remember that he is now announcing the delivery of the tools that would allow anyone else…