Category Archives: society

access the worlds public photo collection

November 3, 2008 – 20:47

Over at the excellent Flickr photo sharing service they now have a new category of pictures called The Commons. It’s not the Creative Commons searchable pictures database I talked about before. This is a collection of copyright free images which are also publicly available from libraries or other archiving organisations around the globe.
It makes me [...]

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the infection is spreading

April 19, 2008 – 20:23

Photo by Scott Robinson, cc-licensed
I’m writing this post because I want to warn you about a virus that is slowly but surely infecting people’s brain. In the last months I’ve been seen this creep up all over the place, infecting all sorts of people around me.
Do you think it’s normal that for some reason people [...]

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belgian radar speed-control petition

April 6, 2008 – 22:38

fast reds by pbo31, cc-licensed
One of the things that’s starting to seriously grow beyond any reason in that little country called Belgium is the radar speed control. Using the ever-so abused excuse of wanted to guard public safety the Belgian government has now allowed automated speed control radars installed all over the country, and particularly [...]

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war ain’t cheap

March 13, 2008 – 19:44

Photo by SGT Buttler, cc-licensed
3 trillion dollar. That’s what the war on terror has cost the US of A until today. I can’t even imagine how much that is, but if nobel prize winner Joseph Sitglitz says so, I bet he ain’t bullshitting. Check the link and google news for the details but you can [...]

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