January 2010
7 great products for telling the world you're a... →
Numbers 4, 3 and 1 are quite baffling.
Haha, Simon Pegg on Doctor Who. No, wait, scratch that : Doctor Who.
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to...”
– J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) - The catcher in the rye (as borrowed by his obituary on the NYTimes website)
“Déjà, mourir, c’est pas facile.”
– Nicolas Sarkozy
Le mot du jour - fat finger
“verb, to enter a trade order incorrectly into an electronic stock trading system: He fat-fingered that sell order by accidentally adding two zeroes. The term comes from the idea of a clumsy, “fat-fingered” typist, who presses extra keys without being aware of it.”
(Fr: entrer un ordre d’achat ou de vente erroné dans un système électronique d’échanges...
Six insane fan theories that actually make great... →
One of the two cracked articles that I read today that pointed out a plot hole in The matrix.
Chavez Writes Off Haiti’s Oil Debt to Venezuela →
(via eldafto§bossa§crowth§fyeahsocialism:)
“Haiti has no debt with Venezuela, just the opposite: Venezuela has a historical debt with that nation, with that people for whom we feel not pity but rather admiration, and we share their faith, their hope,” Chavez said after the extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, or ALBA. He also announced that ALBA...
RT @Maitre_Eolas: Jean Sarkozy se déclare candidat à la présidence de l’iPad. (Tweet à la demande expresse de @bonpourtonpoil)
"La bande pas dessinée" : technique marketing →
J’ai remarqué que quand une pub passe sur spotify et que je baisse soudainement le son, tout s’arrête. Fonctionnalité sournoise de l’application ou bien farce de mon ordinateur ?
(oh, and via brave patrie , by the way.)
Je travaille mieux quand j’arrête de réfléchir (c’est à dire au bout de 12 heures).
Le mot du jour - craft
O.E. cræft “power, strength, might,” from P.Gmc. *krab-/*kraf-. Sense shifted to “skill, art” (via a notion of “mental power”), which led to the n. meaning of “trade.” Use for “small boat” is first recorded 1671, probably from some nautical sense of “vessels of small craft,” referring either to the trade they did or the...
Guy out on bond for grand theft auto is arrested... →
caro:
Yes, this really happened.
The Real Cause of the Financial Crisis: An MIT... →
(via outlawpoet)
RT @Canardpcredac: L’excellent guide de BoingBoing sur les meilleurs jeux étudiants de l’IGF : http://cpc.cx/Gv (en english mais plein d …
Right now I would just need to close my eyes, and I’d go to sleep.
Hesitating between working some more or going to sleep …
A tale of two qubits : how quantum computers work →
(via ArsTechnica)
fouduroi asked: No, for real. Pick your date, we're going to London! Any easter holidays ?
Le mot du jour - anon
O.E., on an “into one, straightway (in one course), at once” (see one); by gradual misuse, “soon, in a little while” (1520s). A one-word etymological lesson in the enduring power of procrastination.
Du vieil anglais on an : immédiatement, d’un seul coup ; par détournement graduel, “bientôt, dans un petit moment” (aux alentours de 1520). Une...
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck (via delgrosso)
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Watch(via kevindavidcrowe§brahmsband) That’s The Hookup » Blog Archive » Passion Pit & BRAHMS @ Terminal 5
“Writing to ‘get it right the first time’ is like driving a car with the...”
– Joan Bolker (via merlin)
Goodbye tumblarity, hello new interface !
