April 2012
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Angil and the Hiddentracks étaient hier mercredi...
February 2012
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Pour preuve de ce qu’il y a de beau chez Joe...
January 2012
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December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Bless the toolreaders
Looking back on my formative years, I’m always amazed at how much my culture has changed. Ten years ago, I used to be derisively referred to as “le philosophe”—and recently a bunch of literary somethings called me an engineer. I gasped.
Robin Sloan’s latest post on Snarkmarket came at the right moment for me:
Bless the toolmakers… but I’m worried that everybody...
July 2011
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June 2011
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There is no step 5
cpb:
1) Take some cool smart guys, very young; 2) Add covert and obscure military funding; 3) Shake in the sands of time; 4) Spam! Same as it ever was.
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck?
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Dakar
Mon avion est arrivé tard, vers 22h locales, ce qui m’a laissé deux bonnes heures pour me préparer au dîner – nous devions nous rendre dans un restaurant de viande avec des amis de mes hôtes, et le temps de prendre rendez-vous et d’aller chercher tout le monde, voilà. De cette soirée, j’ai retenu le poulet à mains nues, une malformation inédite de mon nom...
April 2011
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Le monde s’est arrêté, et toutes les choses sont restées figées. Seul un esprit, une mèche, un geste restent vifs.
All you need is red.
Who wants to lick the bowl?
Musique et valeurs dans les sous-cultures →
listentotheleaves a écrit un truc trop bien, sur la musique, la morale et la violence :
Article co-écrit avec Eglantine de Boissieu et publié dans la revue Sens Public.
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Comment j'éduque mon chat
Avant tout, il faut qu’elle comprenne.
Le monde est clos. Il s’appelle l’Appartement. En dehors de l’Appartement, il n’y a rien. Le monde derrière la Porte est Illusion. Dans l’Appartement ne se trouvent que deux Choses : la Gamelle, et le Maître.
La Gamelle est Vide. Le Chat est dans les tourments ; il faut qu’elle comprenne que la vacuité...
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Plus rien à écouter
Plus rien à écouter. Pourtant, il reste des disques encore empaquetés. La playlist « Nouveautés » est pleine. Celle « Jamais écoutés » est humiliante. Mais rien ne va. Ce n’est pas non plus qu’il n’y ait rien de bon à écouter, rien qui plaise, que nos goûts aient changés. Plus de soixante morceaux à cinq étoiles sont là, prêts à nous sortir des pire déprimes –...
December 2010
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Announcing Microcultures →
I believe I should have mentioned Microcultures here earlier—it’s the production company I’ve started with my pal Jean-Charles Dufeu a couple months ago. Our first project—flying Phantom Buffalo from Portland, Maine to Paris, releasing their latest album in Europe, having them tour in France and Belgium—ends tonight with their last concert. It’s been a blast. I am proud and grateful and awed.
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September 2010
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Paul The Wine Guy
Why “Paul The Wine Guy” (see previous post) decided to disappear:
I’ve decided to delete the “Understanding art for geeks” set from both Flickr and my blog. I started it all just for fun, with a genuine enthusiasm: I enjoyed a lot mocking pieces of art that I like, just to show the funny side of it all – or at least what was funny to me. It was personal, and it made me feel fine.
Then...
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Advice From a Probable Axe Murderer →
modernnerd:
‘What cereal’s best for fighting?’
‘Fighting?’ I replied. I’d probably misheard him. He’d said writing. Or kiting. That was it. The scars on his forearms were from kiting mishaps, I assured myself. It made sense now. This would all work out fine.
‘Fighting,’ he said again. ‘Lots of fighting.’ I considered whether or not corn flakes would prove effective in preventing his...
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Against Data
From Jose Antonio Vargas’ profile of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, for The New Yorker:
Zuckerberg’s ultimate goal is to create, and dominate, a different kind of Internet. Google and other search engines may index the Web, but, he says, “most of the information that we care about is things that are in our heads, right? And that’s not out there to be indexed, right?” Zuckerberg was...
Reasonable Doubt →
From Slate’s blog about what it means to make mistakes, an interview with the cofounder of Innocence Project, an organization that tries to overturn wrongful convictions in past judiciary cases.
This is just one of the many stories they have:
We took a deposition last week of a guy who was the lead detective in the prosecution of a young man named Jeffrey Deskovic. Jeff Deskovic was a...
Worry Isn't Work →
Dan Pallotta:
Worry isn’t work. Being stressed out isn’t work. Anxiety isn’t work. Entertaining a sense of impending doom isn’t work. Incessant internal verbal punishment isn’t work. Indulging the great unknown fear in your own mind isn’t work. Hating yourself isn’t work. […]
It’s OK to take care of yourself. To take time to exercise....
Washington, We Have a Problem →
A day in Obama’s life. Written by pessimists.
There is a Horse in the Apple Store →
Frank Chimero:
There is a horse in the Apple Store and no one sees it but me.
For real. He goes on explaining that “not noticing” is an acquired, adult talent.
Since then, John and I have a term called a “tiny pony.” It is a thing that is exceptional that no one, for whatever reason, notices. Or, conversely, it is an exceptional thing that everyone notices, but quickly grows...
August 2010
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“…the wizardry I discovered some time in 1985 or so as I typed BASIC into...”
– Neven Mrgan, interviewed by Shawn Blanc
An Anesthetic Default →
Andy Matyschak:
When I get home from work, I sit down on my couch and open my laptop. When I’m waiting for the next bus, I pull out my iPhone. […]
What’s worse, in this mode, I’ll put off anything I see that might take thought. Hard email? Leave it. Long blog post? Send it to Instapaper. But yay, hooray: funny tweet, clever picture, keep it going, friendly email, don’t make me...
How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23... →
Quite self congratulatory, but with interesting insight. I’ve been wondering how much sci-fi, especially of the seventies televised kind, has influenced computer interfaces and technologies. My general dislike of Star Trek is mostly due to the “technology will fix everything” stance I believe kids got out of the show.
Still, the show’s designers apparently strived for better usability:
“One...
The Wilderness Downtown →
It sounded like a horrible idea at first.
Is it the nineties again? Aren’t we done yet with CD-ROM? “Interactive movies”? Someone’s seriously making art out of fucking pop-up windows? Come on, say it: multimedia is baaaaaaack!
Still, seriously, there’s a lot to like in this Arcade Fire clip/interactive movie by Chris Milk/Chrome Experiment/HTML5 Showcase.
The deal is that it uses Google Earth...
Keith Jarret – Paint My Heart Red from The...
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May 2010
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Jakob Nielsen – iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing:
For more than a decade, when we ask users for their first impression of (desktop) websites, the most frequently-used word has been “busy.” In contract, the first impression of many iPad apps is “beautiful.” The change to a more soothing user experience is certainly welcome, especially for a device that...
“Microsoft’s products from the last decade have felt like elaborate rides. Much...”
April 2010
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“And let’s not confuse shyness with modesty or humility. Charles Darwin, who was...”
– James Parker — Shyness
J’ai préparé un cours à la main, sur du papier. (J’avais un nouveau crayon à essayer.) Maintenant, je suis hanté à l’idée de ne pas avoir de sauvegarde de ces trois feuilles, devenues plus précieuses que tout ce qui sort de mon clavier. J’étais moins trouillard auparavant.
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“One deficit an electronic reader has over printed media, and this is only a...”
– Penny Arcade - By Way Of Explanation
March 2010
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“ “If I die.” This was the first time that he had said that with reference to...”
– Letters of Note: The most beautiful death – Aldous Huxley’s wife, Laura
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What is my cat’s voice?
Meet Plume.
I’m still unsure about her choice of font; she does seem quite literate though. What do you think?
“What we need now, I feel, is not another essay repeating No Silver Bullet for...”
– Puppy! - Joel on Software
