Archive for December 2008

 
 

Japan Crazy Machine

When physics met children games.

If programming languages were cars…

"Lisp looks like a car, but with enough tweaking you can turn it into a pretty effective airplane or submarine."

Awesome geek jokes!

Seadragon Goes Mobile

Microsoft's first iPhone app looks really cool.

Though, there's one thing I really hate about Microsoft (and Apple too) : software names that doesn't say anything about what's inside. Internet Explorer is a good name. iPhoto, iMovie etc. Preview, Address Book, Media Player, you know what you are dealing with. Seadragon for pictures browsing ? Silverlight for a web plug-in ? Oh, and Quicktime ?

10.5.6 update still a work in progress

Just look at the list of changes… WOW.

Top 100 Radiohead Songs 4

This year, we all have to participate.

It's IMPORTANT.

Scientists extract images directly from brain

“These results are a breakthrough in terms of understanding brain activity,” says Dr. Cheng. “In as little as 10 years, advances in this field of research may make it possible to read a person’s thoughts with some degree of accuracy.”

Google Zeitgeist 2008

In "Fastest rising requests in Paris" category : "laposte.net", "facebook.fr"…

Two things that scare me :

1) French people still don't know how to use a search engine.
2) French people still use laposte.net website.

14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely

The Twitter Netiquette.

It's funny, Twittering someone now sounds just like texting.

- "Hey, text me tomorrow!"
- "But, what's your phone number?"
- "@KevinBongart"

Be Patient For TextMate 2

Allan Odgaard :

"Put TM 2.0 up there with Duke Nukem Forever and be positively surprised the day it is released :) "

My Delicious Tag Cloud

Thanks to Alexandre Testu, I found this beautiful Java applet that created my del.icio.us tag cloud.