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
Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System (by Bret Victor)