Jean-Baptiste Soufron

I am thinking about getting a new place, and I just loved this...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:17:24 +0100

I am thinking about getting a new place, and I just loved this one coming from Japan.

F-White House in Japan by Takuro Yamamoto Architects

via tewfiq and files.posterous.com

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:46:31 +0100

via tewfiq and files.posterous.com

[GRAPH] Why A Salad Costs More Than A Big Mac As the comment...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:14:15 +0100

[GRAPH] Why A Salad Costs More Than A Big Mac

As the comment says: this is why you’re fat.

Fetichisme industriel

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:23:33 +0100

Fetichisme industriel:

Je suis en train de réfléchir à organiser une série de rencontres sur les enjeux industriels français, et je dois admettre que je partage un certain nombre d’idées exprimées dans ce post d’éconoclaste. Il me semble notamment assez important de sortir d’une logique de hiérarchie des blocs industriels, pour développer une nouvelle grille de lecture basée sur leurs interactions. C’est évident dans le secteur du numérique où la distinction entre contenus et tuyaux devient de plus en plus désuète, mais c’est aussi vrai pour de nombreux autres secteurs industriels.

10 niveaux d’intimité dans les communication...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:25:39 +0100

10 niveaux d’intimité dans les communication d’auhourd’hui (via olivierl)

To Beat a Book: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:04:22 +0100

The Dispossessed is not a difficult book. The setup is based on a thought experiment: two planets face each other, one is governed by a radically anarchist government, the other one is governed under a no-less radical class system.

But Le Guin excels at tearing the thing apart. The nonlinear story forces the reader to recollect the events and the logics of the book, allowing step by step to a better understanding of its inherent complexity.

It’s one of the rare books to actually show a real understanding of the dynamics of society. Things moves. They evolve. The tensions between the individual mind and the collective society impacts everywhere, whatever the collective organization will be.

Once closed, this is nowhere to be seen as a defense of anarchist theory. The book gives the feeling to teach something about social dynamics. Not unlike George Orwell’s 1984, but in a less pessimistic way. Too bad it’s just an illusion.

After some search, I was able to find that Samuel R. Delany wrote a piece entitled “To read The Dispossessed”. After being extremely critical of the artistic and scientific value of the book, he concludes as this: The Dispossessed will excite young and generous readers — indeed, will excite any reader beginning to look at our world and us in it. And it will excite for a long time…. Nevertheless, some of these excited readers who return to the book a handful of years later will find themselves disillusioned: What excited them, they will see, was the book’s ambition more than its precise accomplishments. But hopefully — a year or so after that — they will reach another stage where they will be able to acknowledge that ambition for what it was and value it; and know how important, in any changing society, such ambition is.

Published in 1974, and winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula, it’s a must-read and a pleasure for the mind.

Have a look at The Dispossessed on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed

And once again, have a look at Samuel R. Delany article. It’s an interesting reading in itself: “To read The Dispossessed”

I saw that Theodore Sturgeon had also written on it, but I was unable to find his text.

Babye bluuuue… Giorgio Moroder Promo Video (via...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:58:48 +0100

Babye bluuuue…

Giorgio Moroder Promo Video (via StrangeFindings)

The new worldwide startup

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:57:27 +0100

The new worldwide startup:

For once, I really agree with Scoble.

The infrastructure needed for a startup now exists everywhere in the world.
PR is being decentralized. Thanks to blogs, Skype, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook you can get onto TechCrunch no matter where in the world you are.
Costs are coming way down. And it’s probably cheaper to hire French people than to try to get some fresh SF graduates.
Silicon Valley no longer has a lock on geeks.
Tax advantages. Scoble takes the example of Vancouver. But the French government offers a lot of grants for example.
Lower costs of living and better quality of life than San Francisco.

Awesome! Misa Digital Guitar Demo (via misadigital)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:58:52 +0100

Awesome!

Misa Digital Guitar Demo (via misadigital)

Welcom back in the 70s. Videocracy (2009) - Alden Volney

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:08:56 +0100

Welcom back in the 70s.

Videocracy (2009) - Alden Volney

blondeau: mary1in: gtokio: pdl2h: mattlehrer: Ages of...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:35:57 +0100

blondeau:

mary1in:

gtokio:

pdl2h:

mattlehrer:

Ages of social network users via chart porn.

Anonymous member covered in pubes runs into scientology...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:09:02 +0100

Anonymous member covered in pubes runs into scientology building… the people from 4chan can be really strange and somehow disconnected from reality, but nevertheless efficient!

Also have a look at this techcrunch article related to the ensuing trial:

We Are Anonymous. We Are Legion. We Plead Guilty In Court.

Atelier Open Music Data le 2 mars à 20h00 à la Cantine

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:08:40 +0100

Atelier Open Music Data le 2 mars à 20h00 à la Cantine:

Le groupe musique de Think Digital organise avec Collibri (la communauté web 20/logiciel libre de Cap Digital) un atelier le 2 mars à 20h00, à la Cantine sur le thème “Open music data”: une heure pour débattre ensemble des enjeux liés aux données de l’industrie de la musique :

Données de…

Sometimes Even Batman Needs a Break

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:52:42 +0100

Sometimes Even Batman Needs a Break

Twitter Users Sending 50 Million Tweets Each Day

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:48:28 +0100

Twitter Users Sending 50 Million Tweets Each Day

"While most people are worried about getting paid for their work, I’m more concerned that journalists..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:01:50 +0100

“While most people are worried about getting paid for their work, I’m more concerned that journalists might be the digital-age equivalent of monks illuminating manuscripts, a group whose skills will soon disappear.”

- Sheelah Kolhatkar

Have Keyboard, Will Travel - NYTimes.com

The view from my hotel room at the Marriott Marquis for the TOC...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:08:00 +0100

The view from my hotel room at the Marriott Marquis for the TOC conference.

[GRAPH] Evolution du budget de la Nasa (via @nodesign)

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:21:47 +0100

[GRAPH] Evolution du budget de la Nasa

(via @nodesign)

Tomorrow, I’ll be in New York… In Neeew...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:22:32 +0100

Tomorrow, I’ll be in New York… In Neeew Yooork…

A Softer World: 528

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:24:19 +0100

A Softer World: 528