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TOSBack keeps an eye on 58 website policies. Every time one of them changes, they publish an update. It is good to see that once again the EFF is watching our backs. Would it be useful in France ?
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News stories from Saturday 20 June, 2009
We can prove anything we want about ourselves, without leaking our whole identity. The technology exists, but policymakers have lacked technical understanding and vision of the possible.
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News stories from Friday 19 June, 2009
Ou est la limite entre le reportage et l'illustration ? Entre l'amlioration du rendu d'une ralit sa fabrication intgrale, le journalisme trouve ses limites. Dmonstration dans cet article.
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News stories from Thursday 18 June, 2009
Only 39% of the inhabitants are of Parisian origin. And on top of being so numerous, the immigrants remain grouped in clusters quite easily identified among the population. What should we do ?
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News stories from Wednesday 17 June, 2009
Where else could I make that piece of news known to you ? With your blessings, I'll prepare the upgrade over the summer. Pligg 1.0.0 looks like everything 9.9.X users have been waiting for.
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When fire starts in underground inflammable materials such as coal or natural gas pockets, it can smolder for decades or even centuries. Old story, but impressive and new to me...
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News stories from Friday 12 June, 2009
A label can tell you there are 39 grams of sugar in your soda, but what does that much sugar look like when regular sugar cubes (4 grams of sugar each) are stacked up ?
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News stories from Friday 05 June, 2009
With light sources of varied colors and shapes moved in front of a long exposure camera, Arabic characters are painted in the air, using outdoor scenes as a background. Beautiful light painting !
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News stories from Thursday 04 June, 2009
This interactive map lets you select a foreign-born group to see how they settled across the United States since 1880. Too bad that data is shown as absolute numbers instead of relative density.
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News stories from Wednesday 03 June, 2009
Nice example of infography showing the results of the UN's investigation into the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, known as "The Melhis Report". Watch those phone logs !
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Wouldn't it be awfully helpful to have a sense for whether English is still the majority language on the Internet, and when that fact might change ?
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