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Especially OS/390 on which none of the other languages mentioned in this discussion will even run.

Python appears to be available for OS/390:

No perpetual motion machines there afaik, but something equivalently stupid in the software field. I really can't understand why archive.org hasn't used this technology to compress all their movies into 1 bit files yet ;-)

My Canon A40 works just fine in Linux, using Digikam (via gphoto2). A large number of Canon and Minota cameras are supported under Linux. Also, many Canon and Minolta printers are supported.

I agree about a native PSP for Linux - that would rock - but have you tried it with Wine?

Most digital cameras these days support both of these protocols;

1. USB mass storage
2. Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP)

The Kodak is probably one of them. If it is using another mode, or if one of them does not work well enough (typically PTP), switching to the other mode will fix the problem. This is a camera setting, not an OS setting.

This means; no special software for each specific camera. All PTP camera-aware tools work the same. All mass storage cameras work just like flash storage drives.

In addition, most distributions support linking known USB cameras to the /camera or /mnt/camera mount point automatically; plug it in and a camera shows up.

Here's another brilliant one: a amazingly stupid patent for a data compression algorithm that successfully compresses anything, even random data. I think you could convince someone without a lot of mathematical expertise that this is mathematically nonsense.

Here is a page about the Paris subway ghost stations (only eleven, much less than London).

What is the most amazing to me is that these stations seem to have escaped time: you can see ads from the 50s on the wall. When there was some works done at the Roosevelt station, they removed a part of the wall coverings, revealing the original wall, covered with ads, and a map of the subway as it was in the mid 60s.

This is great for Open Source, since it circumvents that ingenious patent (see the patent here) on lossless compression of any data (including random data). The patent is brilliant because by applying it recursively you can "shrink any file down to a few bits". Fantastic! (I especially like the Lzip FAQ - if you haven't read it yet check it out!)