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23 June 2009
avec les plantes - Le blog de virjaja
by sbrothier
LA SOUPE DU ROI-SOLEIL
le roi Louis XIV n'aimait que les bonnes choses, meme simples.
c'est ainsi que son potage préféré était a base d'orties et de coquelicots.
ingrédients de cette soupe royale:
250g de feuilles de coquelicot, autant de jeunes pousses d'orties.
3 pommes de terre
gruyère
pain grillé
sel, poivre
31 May 2009
Ponoko Blog
by karlcow
If anyone has ever been involved in Industrial Design, Interior Design or Architecture for a large (or even mid sized) corporation you will know the pain of an incredibly slow process punctuated by hours of mind numbing meetings where an original concept is diluted beyond recognition by accounts, engineering, marketing, middle management, upper management, directors and the weird guy who is either in the IT department or servicing the coffee machine.
Dezeen » Blog Archive » Virtual Realities by NL Architects
by karlcow
Phantom Pain - in the capitals of Europe 18 square kms of office space is left unused. This equals more than half of Manhattan. Or a ghost town of 50 twin towers.
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23 May 2009
Sauvons les riches !
by Neewok
& 1 other
Le Collectif « Sauvons les riches », dans le cadre de la campagne Europe-Ecologie, vise à instaurer un revenu maximal autorisé européen, de l’ordre de 30 fois le revenu médian, au-delà duquel les revenus seraient massivement imposés, sur le modèle de qu’avait instauré Franklin Roosevelt en 1942, qui a fait chuter les inégalités aux Etats-Unis pendant 40 ans. Dans ce but, les jeunes contestataires, armés de baguettes de pain et de paquets de spaghettis, interpellent à leur manière nos amis les riches, accros à un mode de vie destructeur, non-généralisable, et finalement tellement triste.
14 May 2009
EasyWP Install (Beta)
by oseres
A better way to install wordpress…
Traditionally to install WordPress you would have to download the archive, extract it to your computer, upload over 600 files to your website, and then set up your databases, etc.
EasyWP takes all this pain an complexity out of installing WordPress by automating the whole process.
Easy WP is a single php file that automatically downloads the latest version of WordPress to your server, extracts the archive (on your server), and takes you to the built in WordPress setup process.
09 May 2009
Testing Software for Web Professionals - Litmus
by gregg
& 8 others
The advanced testing tool
for web professionals.
We've felt the pain of getting website designs to work correctly across different browsers. Not to mention designing email newsletters that work on all email clients.
Litmus makes compatibility testing easier.
Litmus is lightning-fast, reliable and affordable. It's relied upon by thousands of smart freelancers and switched-on agencies; as well as big companies like Yahoo!, Facebook and eBay.
04 May 2009
03 May 2009
Retr0Bright - home
by jerome
Comment restaurer un plastique d'un grille pain, d'une console, ... qui a jauni
21 April 2009
Organ Donation, Tissue Donation, Organ Transplants - The Gift of a Lifetime
by gregg
A man waits and wonders if a new heart will arrive. A woman walks without pain with a bone transplant, and a child grows up with a new liver. A mother in the midst of a tragedy helps give life to others through organ donation. These are the stories of lives transformed by the miracle of organ donation and organ transplants. These are the stories of Americans who give and receive The Gift of a Lifetime.
Transplant Journey
Waiting for and Giving the Gift — In this dramatic photo-documentary journey, experience the stories of patients whose hopes rise and fall with each passing day as they wait for organ transplants. Learn how families look beyond their grief in order to give life to others.
02 April 2009
tweetCC | Publish & license tweets with Creative Commons
by sbrothier
tweetCC started as a conversation on Twitter between Andy Clarke and Brian Suda. Andy wanted to show tweets and avatars for a new book on web design.
His publisher needed him to get permissions to republish and that meant asking everyone. This was, not to put too fine a point on it, a pain. Brian agreed.
07 March 2009
Réparations kitesurf - surf et windsurf
by jinox
Réparation d'aile de kitesurf, couture spy, déchirures et autres accrocs. Réparations planches de surf, résine, pain de mousse.
Surf'n Kite est situé dans les Landes, à Sanguinet, proche de Biscarrosse et du bassin d'arcachon (le Pyla)
23 February 2009
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
by znarf
Memcache later
If you memcache first, you will never feel the pain and never learn how bad your database indexes and Rails queries are.
True
08 February 2009
Brave New World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by karlcow
Our desire for abondanceSocial critic Neil Postman contrasts the worlds of 1984 and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death. He writes:
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
26 January 2009
globeandmail.com: The spread of the digital nervous system
by karlcow
It's always been easy to blame the media for preferring to cover a local hot-dog roast rather than a distant war. But when distant nerves fire off pain signals that can reach anywhere, there will be no excuse for looking away. We're going to discover just how good we are at ignoring the throbbing.
06 January 2009
How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time | Anthony Short | Web Design & Development
by delavigne
& 5 others
(via)
How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time
Working with Internet Explorer can be a pain for the everyday web designer. But it doesn't have to be. Many, if not all, of the bugs can be fixed quickly and easily by understanding how the occur. I've put together a list of the major problems beginners have with cross browser compatibility.
07 December 2008
03 December 2008
5 Ways to Spice up Your Images with CSS
by Tiagut
& 3 others
(via)
Here are a few simple tricks to add some flavor to your typical bland images. Using Photoshop to style each image can be tedious and difficult to maintain in the long run. These following CSS techniques will help you ease that pain! If you have some of your own techniques, please share them!
La cinquième astuce est spécialement cool!!!
27 November 2008
Le monde de Linou: Pain à la farine de chanvre
by camel
(via)
Un bon pain à la farine de chanvre. j'aime bien la coloration que prend le pain avec cette farine.
Pour 600g de pain
- 230 ml d'eau
- 270g de farine T65
- 1CS de d'huile de noisette
- 1cc de jus de citron
- 40g de farine T110
- 40g de farine de chanvre
- 1cc de sel
- 1CS de sucre non raffiné
- 2cc de levain déshydraté
Mettre les ingrédients dans l'ordre dans la map.
Lancer le programme "pain classique".
Au bip, ajouter 30g de graines de lin doré.
Pour information, l'huile de noisette, c'est pour renforcer le goût de la farine de chanvre et le citron pour attenuer le goût du levain.
17 November 2008
12 November 2008
Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin
by helmeloh
& 1 other
MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved.
It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself.
This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate.
09 November 2008
Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin
by camel
& 1 other
MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved.
It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself.
This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate.
01 October 2008
23 September 2008
Rock Solid Form Validation With xHTML, CSS and jQuery
by damdec
So you know how to code rock solid HTML into your forms, you even know some styling techniques, but client-side validation is still a pain to implement.
21 September 2008
By the numbers. And what do they mean for our industry | Monday Note
by alexandre
& 1 other
This is the Fall season of business plans for the coming year. The numbers will mean pain for the media industry. Below is a set of facts and figures to keep in mind when considering newspapers, advertising, search, mass collaboration… and coffee.
14 September 2008
HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more
by marco
HTML4 requires alt but doesn't give any advice about how to use it. With HTML5, I added a long section that describes how to use it in detail and said that in some cases (e.g., webcams), there might not be any useful replacement text, and so it would be ok in those cases (and only those cases) to omit the attribute. This caused a firestorm of protest from so-called accessibility experts.
