May 2013
2 posts
Words that last →
A research team led by Mark Pagel at the University of Reading in England has identified 23 “ultraconserved words” that have remained largely unchanged for 15,000 years.
April 2013
4 posts
“The internet was expected to help democratise China. Instead, it has enabled the...”
– China’s internet: A giant cage | The Economist
“People are not “plug and play,” as he puts it, and you cannot expect to drop a...”
– Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World
March 2013
3 posts
Montréal de 1947 à maintenant →
Comparaison super intéressante entre des photos aériennes de 1947-49 et celles de Google!
James Palmer – China's generation gap →
“It takes a certain grit to dodge convention altogether. ” .. I’m more than fortunate to know one intimately!
February 2013
4 posts
“nous quittons une économie de l’attention pour entrer dans une économie de...”
– Quand les mots valent de l’or | Frederic Kaplan
Quand ça vaut trop cher pour ne pas être gratuit →
Bien dit, bien expliqué… Jean-Martin Aussant, dans Urbania
January 2013
1 post
September 2012
2 posts
“About 75 percent of the $2.8 trillion in annual health care costs in the United...”
– The Optimal Diet - NYTimes.com
August 2012
2 posts
June 2012
3 posts
“Congestion effectively prevents people from getting places, but the real problem...”
– Ethan Kent in From Place to Place: Shifting the Transportation Paradigm with Placemaking
Table de vérité : implication
À propos de la hausse des frais de scolarité au Québec, je cite Alain Dubuc citant l’OCDE :
Compte tenu des évolutions démographiques à long terme, il faudra que le taux de scolarisation dans l’enseignement supérieur continue d’augmenter pour maintenir l’offre de main-d’oeuvre qualifiée.
Si comme prémisse on a que l’éducation (ou la scolarisation) ne...
May 2012
3 posts
“Au Québec, cet utilitarisme s’abreuve de plus à un anti-intellectualisme...”
– Christian Rioux Une idée de l’université | Le Devoir (malheureusement, le plein texte n’est accessible que sur paiement)
“Si la jeunesse n’a pas toujours raison, la société qui la frappe a...”
– François Mitterand en 1968, juste une parmi une pléthore de citations allant jusqu’à Socrate dans l’excellent billet de Stéphane Laporte : La jeunesse expliquée aux vieux
“The Quebec student movement draws its inspiration not from the nationalist...”
– A good description of the student unrest… Chantal Hébert: Quebec’s streets not unique in staging discontent
April 2012
5 posts
“The Innovator’s Patent Agreement is a nice sentiment, but the loophole potential...”
– Twitter’s “Innovator’s Patent Agreement” – Marco Arment
“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that,...”
– Carl Sagan
Fanfare for the Comma Man →
Get your commas in tune.
Global Village Construction Set - Open Source... →
DIY civilization.
Wind Map →
Hypnotizing!
March 2012
3 posts
General Electric bulbs still light up after 100... →
While modern electronics are often on the fragile side, with relatively short lifespans, it’s impressive to see an old piece of technology with such staying power.
“I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends...”
– Bill Maher: Please Stop Apologizing - NYTimes.com
“Ce budget, comme c’est souvent le cas au Québec, en est un de...”
– Jean-Robert Sansfaçon : Budget 2012-2013 - De la microgestion | Le Devoir
February 2012
3 posts
“If someone steals something, you don’t have it anymore. If you copy it, both...”
– Pirate Bay: The RIAA Is Delusional and Must Be Stopped
“Jamais les deux réalités médiatiques québécoises ne m’avaient sauté dans...”
– Deux mondes | Pierre Foglia
Fountain | A markup language for screenwriting. →
Fountain is a simple markup syntax for writing, editing and sharing screenplays in plain, human-readable text. Fountain allows you to work on your screenplay anywhere, on any computer or tablet, using any software that edits text files.
January 2012
2 posts
“So the best way to approach this problem is to ask yourself: what are people...”
– Paul Graham: YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood
“The poorest fifth of the world pays one-fifth of the world’s lighting bill...”
– How solar power can help the billion people without electricity
December 2011
5 posts
HTTP Status Cats →
When the web server coughs up fur balls!
TextMate 2.0 Alpha →
Cue in Händel : “Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes form us.” (not quite the end of Part II yet!)
Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design →
via @otisyves
“The future is disintermediated.”
– John Gruber, Daring Fireball.
“Une culture généralisée de l’illettrisme produit...”
– Le Québec analphabète - Jean-Benoît Nadeau
September 2011
3 posts
The bottom line
Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20 minutes stand for 2 minutes AND MOVE.
“J’aime le café, surtout lorsqu’il est bon”
– Erik Satie … qui aurait beaucoup apprécié ceci 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee - The Oatmeal
The Patent Pledge →
No first use of software patents against companies with less than 25 people.
June 2011
2 posts
Why don't they ask this question? →
Should math be taught in the schools?
May 2011
3 posts
WatchInteractive Exploration of a Dynamical System (by Bret Victor)
