Le blog
\bl—ɡ\, masculin (Anglicisme informatique) (Internet)(désuet) Site Web, ou partie de site Web, personnel dans lequel l’auteur note, au fur et à mesure de sa réflexion sur un sujet qui lui importe, des avis, impressions, etc., pour les diffuser et susciter des réactions, commentaires et discussions. Les articles ou contributions individuels sont connus comme billets.
Le mien existe, sous une forme ou une autre, depuis 2003.
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Publicité et nouvelles façons de regarder la télévision
Here’s the wow-quote of the day, from Jeff Gaspin, the head of entertainment at NBC, explaining to The New York Times, with remarkable clarity and certainty, that watching TV shows on-demand is more satisfying than watching them live. « The commercials broke the tension … I hate to say this to the AMC executives and everybody else in the business, but I will never watch ‘Walking Dead’ live again. » » Primetime… →
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L’Ontario va taxer les plus riches
It’s a lot easier to ask government workers to take a wage freeze if we’re also asking a little bit from our wealthiest residents, said one Liberal MPP, referring to plans to freeze wages for doctors, teachers, nurses, and hundreds of thousands of others on the public payroll. » Ontario Budget: McGuinty agrees to Horwath’s tax-the-rich scheme, Toronto Star. La province canadienne, sous la pression du parti progressiste NDP, entend ainsi… →
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L’élégance d’un mammouth en ballerines
Se voir signifier la fin de la période d’essai, la fameuse « FPE » qui sonne ici comme un couperet, et qui est prononcée avec une certaine jubilation par certains « RE », peut arriver à tout moment. Le tout avec la finesse et l’élégance d’un mammouth en ballerines. Où que l’on soit, quoi que l’on fasse, un responsable d’équipe peut surgir à tout instant en vous regardant et lâcher… →
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Les toits verts de Toronto
On April 30th, Toronto will become the first city in North America with a bylaw that requires roofs to be green. And we’re not talking about paint. A green roof, also known as a living roof, uses various hardy plants to create a barrier between the sun’s rays and the tiles or shingles of the roof. The plants love the sun, and the building (and its inhabitants) enjoy more comfortable… →
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Keep them out of gay bars
Ladies, we don’t mind going to your bachelorette parties, because we love and support you as friends even if we find it a little insulting (and genitally incorrect) that you keep calling us « one of the girls. » However, if we don’t know you, we have no interest in being at your party. That means keep them out of gay bars. We know you want to look at strippers, but you… →
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The Internet is (really) for porn
YouPorn hosts over 100TB of porn, and serves over 100 million page views per day. All told, this equates to an average of 950 terabytes of data transfer per day, almost all of which is streaming video. This is around 28 petabytes per month, which means our 29PB estimate for Xvideos is on the low side; it probably serves 35 to 40PB per month. » Just how big are porn… →
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Alouette
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Free et le storytelling d’entreprise
Que Xavier Niel et Iliad — via Free — souhaitent se donner une image décontractée, sans intérêt particulier pour l’argent et le pouvoir, malgré des profits colossaux, une place de choix dans l’univers des télécommunications, un conseil d’administration peuplé de hauts cadres issus du monde des banques et des grandes entreprises, et des associations directes avec (entre autres) les joyeux drilles de Goldman Sachs ou les plaisantins de Doughty Hanson… →
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Tina Fey t’apprend à danser
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Venus, Jupiter et Paris
Photo: Serge Brunier (TWAN), depuis la Tour Montparnasse. » Astronomy Picture of the Day. On les voyait clairement depuis ma terrasse avec Max, en attendant le début de Top Chef, je me demandais ce que c’était (Max penchait pour une planète Melancolia-style), jusqu’à ce que sa proprio nous éclaire quelques jours après. » Best Venus-Jupiter conjunction in years in mid-March 2012, Earthsky. →
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«Casse-toi pôv’ con», une opération de com
d’après le témoignage d’Yves, son vif échange avec Nicolas Sarkozy n’avait rien de spontané : tout était organisé par l’Elysée. Ce qui devait être une opération de communication destinée à faire passer le Président « bling bling » pour un chef d’Etat plus proche du peuple — et doté d’un solide sens de la répartie — a tourné au fiasco. » « Casse-toi pôv’ con » : le récit de… →
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Hunger Games Tweets : White until proven black
On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, The Hunger Games, logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site he called Hunger Games Tweets. The young man, whom I’ll call Adam, had been tracking a disturbing trend among Hunger Games enthusiasts: readers who could not believe—or accept—that Rue and Thresh, two of the most prominent… →
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It Gets Betterish
» It Gets Betterish. →
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«What’s a drive in ?»
Le clip qui m’a fait tomber en amour avec 30 Rock, en 2006. →
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Bully et la véritable obscénité
With its unerring instinct for being on the wrong side of every major social and aesthetic issue, the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings board has refused to budge off its R rating for Bully, an earnest and moving documentary made for and about tormented preteens and teenagers. There’s almost a perverse, Santorum-style integrity about the MPAA’s staunch resistance. Its ratings board — an anonymous group of Los Angeles-area parents — stands… →
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Une corde de velours pour impliquer les lecteurs
So instead of just hitting a wall after a certain number of stories, readers who contributed comments or moderated the comments of others — or provided other forms of useful data or labor — might get a benefit that others wouldn’t, whether it’s access to certain content or an invitation to a real-world event they might be interested in. In that case, readers might actually volunteer to pay, because it would no longer… →
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Amoureuse
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Les corps du sport
This is a photoshoot of various Olympic-level athletes by Howard Schartz and Beverly Ornstein titled The Athlete. Like many others I tend to fall into the trap of drawing the same body type over and over for athletic characters. This photoshoot serves as awesome reference reminding us artists that strong bodies come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and muscles show up in different ways. » Athletic body diversity… →
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Pourquoi il faut laisser les enfants manger de la terre
In a study published online today in Science, the researchers show that in mice, exposure to microbes in early life can reduce the body’s inventory of invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells, which help to fight infection but can also turn on the body, causing a range of disorders such as asthma or inflammatory bowel disease. » Early exposure to germs has lasting benefits, Nature. →
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Gay the Pray Away
An attempt by failed NSW Christian Democrat candidate Peter Madden to hold a Queensland Election Prayer Rally featuring the now infamous ‘hate truck’ has backfired in Brisbane overnight. Approximately 500 pro-marriage equality protesters flooded King George Square in the Brisbane CBD from late afternoon, forcing the 12 attendees of the prayer rally to retreat to an upper balcony area under police guard. » Protesters gay the pray away, Star Observer. →