A beautiful metaphor of books and reading
2012-01-27 22:50 (comments: 1)
I love animation. And I was really spoiled in the latest years with the great realizations of artists and great advances of technology. But I think "The fantastic flying books of Mr. Lessmore" is my favorite now. An artistically and visually beautiful metaphor of books and reading (another passion of mine).
This site and new internet censorship laws
2012-01-18 19:39 (comments: 2)
If your internet usage is not limited at e-mail and ping (and even the...) you most assuredly heard of law projects pushed to USA Congres (so called SOPA and PIPA).
When reading about those, I was forced to think to the future of this site and its related services.
Would I be better with a .ca (or even a .ro) domain name and out-of-US geographically located server? Granted, it might cost me 3-5 times more, not to speak of all the trouble with changing base public domain names, but it is probably worth it.
What do you think/do about all this?
Best radio show in a long while
2012-01-14 11:56 (comments: 0)
I had a steady liking for Terry O'Reilly's radio shows on CBC for a long time now. He started a new show recently: Under the Influence (a worthy companion of his older show, Age of Persuasion). This week's episode is absolutely great! If you're enraged by sexism (or even only concerned by it) and you'd like a week-end's worth of infuriating soundbite memories, you definitely shouldn't miss this: Men are from Sears, Women are from Bloomingdale. I love the careful data research, the comical yet subtle presentation and the profound socio-psychological suggestions and findings. Well worth 30 minutes of auditory and brain candy.
Digital art
2012-01-08 19:07 (comments: 0)
I was intrigued for some time already about the possibilities rising from taking some photos and giving them a rather radical digital treatment. Here is an excellent use of this technique (thanks to Joshi Daniel for the link).
Aaa! La poésie de la langue française...
2012-01-07 23:56 (comments: 3)
(yeah, I risk to become the target of irony of my french speaking friends, for my lack of "cultural experience" ;-)
A semitone
2012-01-07 17:51 (comments: 0)
Yepp, the difference between mere mortals and genius talents might well be a puny semitone. But if you ever hoped to once prove that your're a musical genius, try Tim Minchin's test for a humbling experience!
Wow! Just wow!
Trombone Shorty
2011-12-24 14:11 (comments: 0)
Catchy name, huh? Trombone Shorty is the artist name of Troy Michael Andrews, an excellent jazz instrumentist. His latest album, For True, catched my ear while idly browsing on a (too) big online music store. I bought it and, boy, am I delighted! Try for yourself:
Hitch is no more
2011-12-16 06:45 (comments: 1)
Christopher Hitchens died today at the age of 62, from esophageal cancer. May his memory and his explosive literary and journalistic creations continue to make us better forever.
libre.tibirna.org
2011-12-10 19:24 (comments: 0)
Let's see what gives: libre.tibirna.org is up. A few projects I decided to adopt or that I was pursuing for some time but never made public are already there. My interest for qgit comes from the almost complete switch to this tool in all projects I was with (last to be converted, hopefully next year, being my daily job). I used eqonomize for a 3 or 4 years already (after having used cbb for 10); mighty little app; needs some love. The others are not even born.
Battling Bad Science
2011-11-05 14:10 (comments: 0)
Ben Goldacre about battling Bad Science (yes, with capitals). All things we know and get outraged about, but not outraged enough to do something. Ben does things (and he finds it amusing to be answered with bullying and threats for his efforts) and I very much like his enthousiasm. Pay particular attention to the depressing humor of finding bias in litterature that studies bias in scientific litterature.
