Actually the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile is the official speed record certifying bodies - it's a French organisation. There's one for the motorbikes too which is also French. Last time I checked, both most certainly aren't British ;-)

As for the Budweiser rocket car, even the USAF say it wasn't an official sanction of the speed either and that it was done by USAF personnel in their personal time and the speed that they actually recorded was something like 35mph! I think it was from a passing car rather than the rocket car itself that they measured but if they made this kind of a mistake, I wouldn't take their claims seriously. Eventually some time later after the car was driven (I think it was next day) the speed was actually calculated from the accelerometer data, which the team did not make public - so basically the Budweiser rocket car's team have claimed that they've broken the speed of sound barrier, but have no data to back it up but their words.

But the major evidence against the Budweiser rocket car's claim was the lack of a sonic boom - this wasn't heard and yes a car breaking the sound barrier will create one. The Thrust SSC did create a sonic boom that was heard over a very wide area.

One real world example of how open source is actually saving money France's Gendarmerie Nationale switched to Ubuntu to replace Windows XP. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars Training cost is factored in however this is also pointed out as here: "Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users," said Lt. Col. Guimard. "Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority." They claim that Microsoft said you require training to switch from XP to Vista. By switching to open source they're saving 70% on their IT budget.

They will release the linux version soon I'm sure of that. That news was about publisher not the developers. 2D Boys aren't bankrupt. The publisher is. They don't make the games so that's OK.

Erm...not a fail...the menu at bottom is in very tiny text. I find it a bit difficult to read that. It's ignoring my browser set preferences in minimum font size, so using Flash in this case is a fail. What's wrong with using HTML for the menu? Why does it need to be in Flash where it can ignore my choice of minimum font size, it's more like 4 points size where my minimum is 12.