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Literature and Latte - Scrivener
La colère de Jeanneney contre l’accord Google-BnF - La république des livres - Blog LeMonde.fr
Le moteur de recherche Google est une réussite universelle et il rend bien des services. Mais lui confier, et à lui seul, qui vit du profit de la publicité et est enraciné, en dépit de l’universalité de son propos, dans la culture américaine, la responsabilité du choix des livres, la maîtrise planétaire de leur forme numérisée, et la quasi-exclusivité de leur indexation sur la Toile, le tout étant au service, direct ou indirect, de ses seuls gains d’entreprise, voilà bien qui n’était pas supportable.
Desperate Japanese head to 'suicide forest' - CNN.com
Taro, a 46-year-old man fired from his job at an iron manufacturing company, hoped to fade into the blackness. "My will to live disappeared," said Taro. "I'd lost my identity, so I didn't want to live on this earth. That's why I went there."
L'écologie profonde est-elle un humanisme ? I - Mouvements
une règle des bibliographies françaises sur l’écologie : elle ne compte aucun représentant, direct ou indirect, de l’écologie philosophique, de l’éthique environne-mentale, ou de la « deep ecology ». Ni le Norvégien Arne Naess (né en 1912), ni les Américains John Baird Callicott (né en 1941), Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), Edward Abbey (1927-1989), Edward O. Wilson (né en 1929), ni le Britannique James Love-lock (né en 1919) n’y figure. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’ils ne sont pour ainsi dire pas traduits en français. Pourquoi ne sont-ils pas traduits en français ? Parce que l’écologie philosophique a chez nous la réputation d’être une pensée « controversée ».
Mocking : is there a difference between asking and telling?
ASCII by Jason Scott / Datapocalypso!
And as for “free”, I think we’re going to have a few rounds of root beers over whether a place, like Google, that browses through your e-mail via robots and uses it to generate statistically relevant advertisements on your page, or places like Flickr that do in fact have advertisements for seeing your content and charge you on top of that for additional features, or places like Ustream that have profit-sharing and used to do indirect advertisement but now overlay ads on your content, are “free”. Some people confuse “no money down” with free and that’s why they’re getting fucking kicked out of their houses, finding themselves at the mercy and procedures of actual eviction law.
Peu de choses sont réellement gratuites, et même quand elles semblent l'être, votre propriété est en réalité très limitée.
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2008
228 Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
effet papillonThe spark that set off the uprising occurred on February 27, 1947, when a police agent attempted to confiscate black market cigarettes from an elderly Taiwanese woman, Lin Jian-Mai. She resisted and, as accounts allege, was then pistol-whipped by the agents. An angry crowd soon gathered around the agents and the woman. After a warning shot fired by one of the agents went astray and killed an onlooker, the crowd pursued the agents to a nearby police station. The crowd surrounded the building, and demanded that the officer be given to them. The captain refused and the anger of the crowd heightened when it was discovered that the agents had been spirited out of the building via a rear entrance. Violence finally flared the following morning on February 28.
Indirect Manipulation » Blog Archive » Looking Through the Facets
One could argue that the Web will become more immersive, more visual, more haptic, more identity-driven through avatar technology. Is it likely? I don’t know. Is it possible? You bet.
Indirect Manipulation » Blog Archive » Life on Mars?
Now here’s the thing, and this is what I’ve been thinking about. I’m seeing the Internet as we now know it being split into multiple streams. One will be increasingly text-based, one will be highly immersive, one will be transactional, etc.
2007
Firefox 3 Beta 1: The Memory Use Says It All
Pourquoi il ne faut pas utiliser d'underscore dans les URL - WebRankInfo
Man kills hostage, self at NASA building
Network Printer Can Cost You Job or Business
Petit portrait au flash
Man shot while trying to steal car
