Earth to America

Skype enabled wifi phone

Previously presented, available June 2006 at the entry price of 250 USD.

Noodles for the world

Today, while shopping in my usual supermarket (in France) I decided to buy some instant noodles.
I buy "Ayam Instant Noodles", with an underline in Chinese characters ("instant noodles" probably). "Ayam Authentic Asian" is the lema.
Arriving at home I check the packages: Product of Malaysia packed and imported by A Clouet (Australia).
Taking a better look, I found an arabic inscription, under it, "Islamic Development Department of Malaysia".
Finally, looking at the Ayam website, I discovered that Ayam means "rooster" and was created by a French colonizer (the rooster is the French national symbol).

Latin, Arabic, Chinese; Australia, Malaysia, France and some Islamic union; all just in a pack of noodles.
This is globalization.

200 Km2@8%

What does it takes to build 200 Km2 of solar energy converters?
Build six of those, a cost efficient way to distribute the energy, and you will have solved the world energy problem.



Notice that this calculations where made under the assumption of 8% of efficience. It is also interesting to notice that Europe is not in a good position for solar energy.

It's Christ party time !

Tapioca

• Full Interoperability with GoogleTalk.


• Completely rewritten architecture, now more extensible


• D-Bus introspection and activation


• NAT traversal support


• Presence


• Server-side Contact List


• Python bindings (C# bindings comming soon)

Available now as .deb .rpm .tgz !

What a good idea !

what ... ? what ... !?

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If you live in the Netherlands and don't hear well, you'll soon be able to buy a new hearing aid, a pair of Varibel glasses. These special glasses originally developed at Delft University of Technology have four small interconnected microphones in each leg of their frames. And these microphones can 'selectively intensify the sounds that come from the front, while dampening the surrounding noise.' So these glasses offer a better sound quality than other hearing aids.
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work

How do you work ?

Information Techonologies Ethics

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in February, the [South Korea] government released a 256-page "IT Ethics" textbook for junior and high school students. Teachers are expected to spend 30 hours instructing from the textbook, whose chapters include "Healthy Mobile Phone Culture," and "Protecting Personal Privacy."
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can't wait the translation !