Regardless of whether that statement is true or not, 20% time is alive and well, based on my own experience, that of everyone else I know who's also done it and (if to a lesser extent), all levels of management having asserted so repeatedly since rumours started. I've even found it to be encouraged by certain managers to alleviate the "itch" to work on something different without having to leave one's current team.
The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical "bonded" interface. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends on the mode. Generally speaking, modes provide either hot standby or load balancing services. Additionally, link integrity monitoring may be performed.
Bonded Interfaces operate at a lower level. There are many different "bonding modes" in the Linux Kernel. None of them would allow you to present a single "bonded" interface across multiple independent network interfaces where each interface belongs to a separate network. Case in point: You cannot "bond" two interfaces where one is connected to a cable modem and the other a DSL modem. Typically (in most configurations) a bonded interface receives one IP.
You can, but you need to make two tunnels (GRE, IPIP or whatever you fancy) over those two uplinks, then create a bond over those - if that's technically possible (I believe interfaces must at least have equal MTUs, can't remember what other requirements are). Obviously, this requires configuration on both sides of the bond.
And, ahem, correct load balancing over bonded interfaces is not trivial as it may seem (although, usually it's more likely you'll be able to distribute approximately evenly than not)
For what it's worth, "romano" means Roman in Spanish. As in, an inhabitant of the city of Rome, both in the classical and modern senses. The proper Spanish term would have been "rumano". I guess the guys over at the Italian capital are happy about the free compliments
No Mountain Dew at CERN's vending machines. But they do sell Perrier in cans the same size and shape as coke (33cl). After all, CERN is half over France too...
And in general, the most popular vending machines are coffee ones, much a more popular beverage than sodas. On the other hand, Restaurant 1 is open from 6am until 11pm for all your caffeinated needs, with freshly grinded coffee -the machine grinds in a JIT-fashion ;)-
EDIT: you can even check the menu of Restaurant 2 online (http://resto2.web.cern.ch/resto2/cgi-bin/dsr?menu). They used to have hilarious Engrish translations of the French names, such as "eat man" for "croque monsieur" -a kind of sandwich-.
