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Mixedness

Iranians arrested for net dating

General Ahmad Rouzbehani told Irna: Some people were using an internet site to allow girls and boys to talk and arrange meetings in a place in north Tehran where they had illegal relations.

Saddam doit partir, de gré ou de force ! (via Douze Lunes)

Saddam Hussein n'est sans doute pas le seul dictateur, mais lui, au moins, nous avons la possibilité de le mettre hors d'état de nuire en soutenant la pression des forces anglo-américaines aux frontières de l'Irak.

Education in Africa: a task as large as Africa itself. And the Peace Corps decide to help Small Businesses in Senegal to get wired and use (US) computers

Oregon likes Open Source

According to the press release we received from the bill's primary proponent, Ken Barber, "Unlike California's Digital Software Security Act [which has not yet become law - ED.], Oregon's bill does not mandate the use of Open Source Software; it only requires that it be on the list of approved products for State use. It also requires state agencies to provide justification to the taxpayers any time proprietary software is purchased."

I'm sure I could make an analogy with SoftwareLibre and weblogs, using A-Blogging They Won't Go, or why big speakers that are paid to talk/write won't do it for free on the web. But I'm lazy.

Christian Science Monitor's Treeless Edition: save money and trees — buy the actual newspaper through the Internet.

Cela marche avec le Monde aussi: édition électronique du Monde

Dark side of the Monde

De même qu'un lecteur de The Economist se sent appartenir à la classe dirigeante mondiale, un lecteur du Monde fait indiscutablement partie de l'élite intellectuelle française, et donc, puisque la France est le royaume de l'Idée, de l'élite tout court.

Me sens pas tout ça, moi! Assurement va falloir que j'adapte mes lectures à mes ambitions.

Damn, I need MTV: Le Vrai Monde. Next Real World will be in Paris. Seven Ugly Americans will hit the City of Lights this summer

A survey (and of course the fun goes on in the comments, as usual)