Merrill Goussot

"Ecoutez bien, dans les jours et les heures qui viennent, les présentateurs qui vous parleront du..."

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0100

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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.

(…)

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...

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:32:00 +0100

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

(Image GNU licensed, via Wikipedia.)

USA - The Smurfs get "politically corrected"

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:57:00 +0100

The Original

The US Version

[Via Des Bulles Carrées]

[Source: The Oatmeal]

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:29:00 +0100

[Source: The Oatmeal]

Juliet, Naked: The Playlist by Nick Hornby

Mon, 31 May 2010 16:12:32 +0100

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..."

Mon, 31 May 2010 10:45:00 +0100

“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

Fri, 28 May 2010 16:02:00 +0100

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.

Warner Bros sued for pirating anti-piracy tech‎nology

Thu, 27 May 2010 11:08:28 +0100

Warner Bros sued for pirating anti-piracy tech‎nology:

Via Nofrag

How the fashion industry is thriving, not in spite of but...

Wed, 26 May 2010 16:58:00 +0100

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

Apple Simplicity Fail

Wed, 26 May 2010 12:51:52 +0100

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

Source: The Apple Blog

From KickAsss (yes, they have 3 “s” at the end of...

Tue, 25 May 2010 10:54:00 +0100

From KickAsss (yes, they have 3 “s” at the end of their name!), a clothing company located in the town of Biarritz a.k.a. the French Mecca of surfing!

Adwords Revenue Shares finally revealed

Tue, 25 May 2010 08:50:00 +0100

AdSense for content: 68% revenue share
AdSense for search: 51% revenue share

Source: Adsense Blog

"Ireland is the first country in the world where a system of “graduated response” is being put in..."

Mon, 24 May 2010 13:11:00 +0100

“Ireland is the first country in the world where a system of “graduated response” is being put in place. Under the pilot scheme, Eircom customers who illegally share copyrighted music will get three warnings before having their broadband service cut off for a year.”

- That’s not the reason why I closed my account with Eircom today, but I’m glad I’m not with them anymore. Irish Times via Boing Boing

French Cinema: Controversy 2.0

Fri, 21 May 2010 12:32:00 +0100

Notre jour viendra (Our day will come) by Romain Gavras, who directed the controversial Justice’s Stress and MIA’s Born Free music videos.

Enter the Void by Gaspard Noé, who directed the controversial Irreversible film.

Count Ketchup, available for sale on Spread Heads [hat tip to...

Thu, 20 May 2010 14:04:00 +0100

Count Ketchup, available for sale on Spread Heads [hat tip to Radek]

Photo

Thu, 20 May 2010 11:21:00 +0100

Clap your hand and say yeah!

Tue, 18 May 2010 23:57:00 +0100

Heather from Fuel Friends Blog has compiled 32 tracks in a “Double-CD/Gatefold LP supermix” that I garantee will have you clap your hands and stomp your feet in no time.

Treat yourself to songs that, as Heather writes, “bubble up effervescently with that passion which has to explode out your extremities in the form of claps, stomps, and other forms of bodily percussion.”

Your browser settings are unique and identifiable

Tue, 18 May 2010 08:52:30 +0100

New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet.

The findings were the result of an experiment EFF conducted with volunteers who visited http://panopticlick.eff.org/. The website anonymously logged the configuration and version information from each participant’s operating system, browser, and browser plug-ins — information that websites routinely access each time you visit — and compared that information to a database of configurations collected from almost a million other visitors. EFF found that 84% of the configuration combinations were unique and identifiable, creating unique and identifiable browser “fingerprints.” Browsers with Adobe Flash or Java plug-ins installed were 94% unique and trackable.

EFF Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net

added to my Amazon wishlist. [via Fluctuat]

Tue, 18 May 2010 08:34:00 +0100

added to my Amazon wishlist.

[via Fluctuat]

"In 1995, the Chicago Reader profiled a little-known professor (and lawyer and philanthropist and..."

Fri, 14 May 2010 13:53:00 +0100

“In 1995, the Chicago Reader profiled a little-known professor (and lawyer and philanthropist and author) who had decided to run for office to get back to his true passion: community organizing.”

- Do you know who the professor was? Via Longform