A recent report has revealed that France’s national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization’s workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015. ars

I live in a state where the governer, in order to maintain his moral and ethical high ground, must refuse any stimulus package money whatsoever. I also live in a state that just accepted piles of stimulus money to start up a number of shovel-ready projects. If my calculations are correct, this money will tranlate…

Today, the last witness for the Franken campaign made it through the weather and testified. Franken’s side rested! The special side case of the Nauen petition “count my votes” appeared to finish. However finishing does still seem to be a problem, because apparently the rebuttals and cross-examinations of rebuttals can go on a long time.…

You probably know by now that the travelling exhibit featuring the bones o Al-288-1, known to most as “Lucy,” has been drawing small crowds, and the museums that are hosting it are losing money. Why? I have guess.

Dr. Erik Klemetti is … a geologist who spends most of his professional time thinking about magma. Looking for info on the latest eruption? You’ve found the place. You can’t have too many geologists. Welcome Eric! ERUPTIONS

An interesting example of natural selection. If these organisms were humans, someone would be asking “Has evolution stopped for these jellyfish, I mean, humans?” And the answer is no.

The crew of the international space station had a close call with a spent satellite engine in Earth orbit Thursday, forcing the crew to take shelter aboard its return capsule before the object passed harmlessly, NASA said. cnn Well, as George Carlin would say, “That was not a near miss. It was a near hit.”

Coleman, that is. Stephanie Zvan kicks Norm Coleman’s ass all the way from here to Bognor Regis. Read it here.

A 24-year-old ski lift operator who fatally shot the general manager of the Eldora ski area was determined to kill co-workers who weren’t Christian, according to court records obtained Thursday. Ed’s got this covered.

Details here. Help Al Franken out with the trial expenses here. Please.

March 12, 2009 (Computerworld) WASHINGTON — While new federal CIO Vivek Kundra gave a speech here this morning on his vision for the U.S. government’s use of technology, the FBI conducted a search of the District of Columbia’s IT offices — where Kundra worked until last week — and arrested an employee and another person…