Daily Archives: March 29, 2008

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Google turn to the dark side

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One of Google’s mottos is “don’t be evil”, meaning they shouldn’t do anything that takes advantage of the user’s quest for information. They shouldn’t abuse their position, cheat with results, that sort of thing.

However, today Google has succumbed to evil and turned to dark side, sort of. Well, they’ve gone black at least.

See for yourself here.

Black Google

Why have Google done this? It’s for something called Earth Hour, and it’s for today only as you can read on Google’s website here.

They’re hoping to raise awareness of how we can conserve energy. Personally I’m off to turn the heating up as it’s a bit cold in here, it’s also stuffy so I might open a window too. Where’s my jumper?

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France’s last survivor of WWI dies

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Earlier this month, the last remaining survivor of World War I died in France. Lazare Ponticelli was an Italian who decided to ‘fight’ for the French, for some strange reason.

The full story can be read here.

France’s last remaining veteran of World War I died Wednesday at age 110 after outliving 8.4 million Frenchmen who fought in what they called “la Grande Guerre.”

Now, while I think it’s great that someone who was around in WWI is still alive, or was earlier this month, is it really that much of an achievement that a French ‘soldier’ managed to survive so long? Let’s face it, the French didn’t actually do a lot of fighting anyway. The Germans and the British were at it hammer and tongs the whole time, so any of them surviving today is something worth shouting about, but as France’s contribution to war is to eat some cheese, drink some wine, give a Gallic shrug and offer up an extensive collection of finely made white linen in exchange for their flag, any Frenchman surviving isn’t really that surprising.

If  Lazare Ponticelli put as much effort into war as his adopted countrymen then he was always going to last a good few years.

As for why an Italian would choose to fight for France, that’s a whole other ball game.