Articles like this make me want to become a journalist. A company (a canadian company too, makes me ashamed) reinvented the de-humidifier, packaged it with a catchy name (the “watermill”) and a magic bacteria killing UV light and sells it for an outrageously high price (1200$). I understand journalists can’t be expected to know everything about . . . → Read More:

The biggest flower in the world… in HD!

The Titan Arum in Milwaukee is about to bloom. To allow everyone to share on the experience, there’s an HD feed of the flower available. If you can’t access it or if you’re not inclined to install VLC, then I suggest you go to the static image feed updated every 5 seconds. More details on the . . . → Read More: The biggest flower in the world… in HD!

Wassup

If you’ve seen the original ads, you’ll probably find this hilarious.

Originally seen on Undercover . . . → Read More: Wassup

FOSS taking over the world

The french legislature switched from windows to linux in July 2007. ZDnet ran an article a year later (in french) with several first hand accounts of the effects of the transition. The conclusion was that everything went well.

Now, the German foreign ministry is in the process of migrating its 11 000 desktops to linux with about . . . → Read More: FOSS taking over the world