Ecoutez bien, dans les jours et les heures qui viennent, les présentateurs qui vous parleront du rapport de l’inspection des Finances, censé apprendre lundi au pays soulagé qu’Eric Woerth, non, quelle surprise, n’a pas donné d’instructions écrites, en trois exemplaires, avec copie carbone et exemplaire aux Archives nationales, demandant de ne pas contrôler le patrimoine de Liliane Bettencourt.

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Se faire blanchir par l’administration placée sous ses ordres : si Poutine (au hasard) avait recours à cette grosse ruse, on entend d’ici les ricanements de la presse française. En France, on trouve encore des journalistes pour détailler la perfection du système.

Daniel Schneidermann sur Rue89

In 1625, Georges de La Tour painted what to do about the vuvuzelas !

(Image GNU licensed, via Wikipedia.)

USA - The Smurfs get “politically corrected”

The Original

The US Version

[Via Des Bulles Carrées]

[Source: The Oatmeal]

[Source: The Oatmeal]

(Reblogged from thedailywhat)

Juliet, Naked: The Playlist by Nick Hornby

For the launch of Juliet, Naked in France, Nick Hornby (hopefully it was really him and not an intern at Editions 10-18!) shared a “mini” playlist on Deezer. The author played it safe (maybe too safe) with mainstream tracks from the like of Ray Charles, Sinéad O’Connor, Bonnie Raitt or Emilou Harris.

So at best they did zero research before they launched Reddit into a space that kinda relies on the founders knowing where to find cool new stuff online.
Paul Carr (quoted by Michael Arrington)on Reddit Founders saying they never even knew about Digg when they decided to build a Digg clone half a year after Digg launched.

Word of the day: Unitasking

As used by Al Jacobs in an article about doing one thing at a time. He spelled is ”uni-tasking” with an hyphen, but I prefer the way Jason Kottke wrote the word: unistasking.

How the fashion industry is thriving, not in spite of but because of the absence of copyright laws!

Apple Simplicity Fail

“Finally, to shut down your Mac using the keyboard, press Control + Option + Command + Eject (⌃⌥⌘⏏).”

Source: The Apple Blog