World Facts

In France, one work day of the week is given to government.
In France, government employs one of four workers.

Origami

Microsoft is playing Origami with your mind.

Working on driverless vehicles

It can move without a driver inside it !

So I was right !

Whegs !

I know some people who will just love this !

The G in "write"

Gmail + Gtalk, gotcha you !


Google just anounced that you can have your own Gmail server.

So:
- Google Search is for everyone, you can buy a Google Search server for your enterprise.
- Google Earth is for everyone, you can buy a Google Earth server for your enterprise.
- Google Mail+Talk is for everyone, you can buy a Google Mail+Talk server for your enterprise.

I'm starting to see a partern here...

The G in "Your Soul"

Google is getting terrifically good.

When does Beagle + a "P2P system like a FON but for pervasive information access services" will get as good as it... wait, I just got an idea !

Nice

Get a miniature adaptive optics telescope over your nose !

Artist of the week

Ben Ricour (look at the videos)
Author of the single Vivre à même l'amour.

Blest ignorance

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A few weeks ?! Are you kinding ?!

Do not read this text

Maybe you already heard about the last conflict between the musulman and the occidental world.

This are the images that you do not have to look at.

Weird question

Does Lula has nine fingers ?

World Facts

If you reading this, nine other persons can not.

If you have a phone at home, four other persons do not.
If you have a cellphone, four other persons do not.

In ten years, phone lines passed from 10% to 20% of world population coverage.
In ten years, cell phones passed from 1% to 20% of world population coverage.

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World Facts

Starting a serie of world facts that appears on my way. Part of my research about "what it is important" and "what should I do".


Andorrians live 2.5 times longer than the people of Swaziland.


One third of the world work force is unemployed.


USA invest five times more dollars in war than the second most important war force (China).


French women invest 100 Euros per year in underwear, french men 20 Euros per year.


Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invests as much money in world health than the World Health Organization.


Air is finite, water is finite, biomass is finite, uranium is finite, oil is finite, coal is finite, metals are finite, the energy throughput received from the sun is finite, the energy stored in the earth core is finite. The ecosystem has an unknown complex behaviour.
Current scientific predictions include the end of world oil suplies (50 years), the end of uranium supplies (100 years), the contamination of world waters (100 years), the extintion of world biodiversity (100 years), that existing metal supplies are not enough to provide for current style of life for the world population (100 years), and that probably we already attained a point of world climatic change beyound human life adaption capabilities (yesterday).

A french radio reporter included "burning wood instead of oil" to warm houses as an "renewable energy" alternative.


Chile has six times less public debt than France or USA.

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Tom Clancy

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Benjamin Disraeli

It is alife ?

"It" created this on my screen:

Grbbl, grrblle

"It" is not stronger than me.
("It": the final bug)