J’ai bien failli ne pas pouvoir faire cette note : il m’a fallu négocier longuement avec mes partenaires sociaux pour réaliser ces prises de vues. (Avec un peu négociation, et un morceau de chocolat au noir, on arrive toujours à ses fins.)

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/ford/" rel="tag"Ford/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mercury/" rel="tag"Mercury/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan/1171533/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/01_2010_mercury_milan_live_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr / div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"smallClick above for high-res image gallery of the Mercury Milan/small/spanbr //div br /It's almost hard to believe that a few months ago Mercury was headed for the River Styx. Now it's slated to live, although life is only slowly returning. The Mercury Milan sat up on its plinth at the LA Auto Show today and didn't do much - not even turn - but it didn't look too bad. The revamped model has a new grille, fenders, hood, front and rear fascias, and a cleaner underbody for aerodynamic reasons. Inside gets more leather - embossed skins on the Premier Edition - and backlighting for the gauges.The 3.0L V6 gets an extra 19 hp to touch 240, and you'll get up to 5 mpg more than those other, previous-gen Milan owners. Sorry, no 3.5L V6 for the Milan though, as that larger, more powerful engine is exclusive to the new Fusion Sport. But the Milan has also been filled with more electronic doodads than the CES convention. Check them all out after the jump, and check out the gallery of high-res photos below.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan/"LA 2008: 2010 Mercury Milan/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan/1171533/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/01_2010_mercury_milan_live_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan/1171534/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/02_2010_mercury_milan_live_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan/1171535/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/03_2010_mercury_milan_live_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan/1171551/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/04_2010_mercury_milan_live_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan/1171536/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/05_2010_mercury_milan_live_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-mercury-milan-hybrid-1-ab-la2008/"2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-mercury-milan-hybrid-1-ab-la2008/1167683/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/00_milan2010_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-mercury-milan-hybrid-1-ab-la2008/1167661/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/01_milan2010_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-mercury-milan-hybrid-1-ab-la2008/1167662/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/02_milan2010_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-mercury-milan-hybrid-1-ab-la2008/1167668/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/03_milan2010_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-mercury-milan-hybrid-1-ab-la2008/1167679/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/04_milan2010_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /strongsmallLive photos copyright (C)2008 Jonathon Ramsey/small/strongsmalla href="http://www.drewphillipsphotography.com/"strong/strong/astrong / Weblogs, Inc./strong/smallbr /br /br /br /br /br /br /pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/19/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan-stays-out-of-the-fray/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emLA 2008: 2010 Mercury Milan stays out of the fray/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/19/la-2008-2010-mercury-milan-stays-out-of-the-fray/"LA 2008: 2010 Mercury Milan stays out of the fray/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:31:00 EST. 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The credit default swap market says the Oracle of Omaha is headed for trouble.

In its third reincarnation since its debute in 1996 and redesign in 1998, web site Kvetch now harnesses the time-wasting powers of Twitter to call a farshtinken tokhis leker a schmuck behind their...

Nokia and GPS mapping subsidiary Navteq are developing an application that uses GPS cell phones to collect data about real-time traffic patterns.

The pending departure of Jerry Yang from the CEO's chair at Yahoo! brought fresh speculation that Microsoft could launch a fresh bid for the company. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer...

Inspired by Emmett Williams, a practitioner of concrete poetry, Rob Giampietro has written three poems: Wastebasket, Snowflakes, and Spraypaint.

Giampietro has put out a call for someone to develop a Williams Word Generator. Drop him a line if you can help out...shouldn't be too much different than the many "words within words" generators scattered around the web.

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Financial crisis has now wiped out 5 1/2 years of gains on Wall Street after Dow drops another 427 points
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Of the many television and film documentaries produced on Jonestown, the 2006 PBS American Experience feature Jonestown: Life and Death of People's Temple, directed by Stanley Nelson, seems to me to be one of the most sensitive and comprehensive. I read somewhere that Jim Jones' adopted son -- who appears in this film -- also felt that way. Google Video embed above, and here's the link. Amazon Link to purchase DVD, and here is the PBS website, with additional background....br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=88a17874ad075d74a107740cb76dfdf1" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=88a17874ad075d74a107740cb76dfdf1" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

Le rythme de mise à jour de la technobiosphere est un peu chamboulé ces derniers temps. La raison en est, outre une grande quantité de travail, trop régulière pour mériter d’être signalée, c’est plutôt la mise à jour de mon wordpress et la création d’un nouveau template qui me préoccupe durant mes minutes perdues. En ce qui concerne la migration, je suis heureusement assisté d’Arthur qui me débrouille pas mal de chose au niveau SQL. Le template est encore à l’état embryonnaire du fait que j’hésite entre 2 styles radicalement différents ce qui m’impose de faire un choix et ce n’est pas évident.
Je vais prendre mon temps, faire les choses bien en espérant que le résultat sera à la hauteur.

Pour revenir au titre de cet article, qui, vous l’aurez remarqué, n’a aucun rapport avec le premier paragraphe, je dois affirmer ma surprise quant au fait qu’assez fréquemment, durant une durée indéterminable, certains sites ne sont plus accessibles pour les freenautes :
- le site de recettes de cuisine cookpad
- la plateforme communautaire mixi
- et plus d’autant plus étrange : Vimeo

J’ai déjà contacté Free à ce sujet il y a quelques temps. Et devinez la réponse… aucune. Etonnant, non ? Et ça continue de plus belle.
Même si ce n’est rien de vitale, c’est désagréable !

Be honest with yourself: you've always wanted a dedicated, 16-key emoticon keyboard with "keys" that pulled doubled duty as expressive jewelry, right? Well, you got it! Bajca's Smile Keypad aims to "make real the emoticon," and as far as we can tell, they've totally nailed it. The USB-friendly keyboard has classic smiley face-looking keys which pop out using some special tongs, then are popped into pieces of jewelry -- rings, bracelets, necklaces -- sky's the limit, apparently. It's not really crystal clear if all of these pieces are going to be included, or if they'll be sold separately, or if this is ever going to make it to the market. All we can do is hope. Check out a few more emotionally charged shots after the break.

[Thanks, Matilde]

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage and said the ban should stand pending its ruling.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=QbOjSTrM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=YRRRhLvQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=YRRRhLvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=BI40RKO8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=BI40RKO8" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/ue04SEG1EcE" height="1" width="1"/

No sé si fue con la versión 2.0.1 o con la 2.0.2, pero desde entonces tengo problemas para ver las ilustraciones de los discos del Ipod. A veces se totalmente negro el espacio donde va la ilustración (tanto en el reproductor como en la pantalla de navegación de música) a veces se ve la imagen cortada o a veces se ve en una pantalla y en la otra no.

He restaurado el Ipod como 3 veces y he intentado cargar las ilustraciones una por una, pero nada funciona.

Alguien sabe que está pasando?? Cómo puedo resolverlo?

Mi ipod es un ipod touch primera generación de 16 gb

Grax

Theres some ingo about next, paid, multiplayer version of Aurora Feint, called Aurora Feint: The Arena



Quote: Last night we were able to speak briefly with Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron, the developers of Aurora Feint: The Beginning [App Store] about their next major release which has just been submitted to the App Store.

For those not familiar with the original Aurora Feint, it was one of the first games to appear on the iPhone back in July and won a huge following due to its polish and complexity (not to mention also being free). The developers are following up the success of the original with a new pay version that builds on the existing world and adds head-to-head competition into the mix.

Aurora Feint: The Arena, as it is called, contains all the components of the original game which revolve around a typical color-matching game but set in a role playing environment. Players can earn crystals while ”mining” and subsequently level up and purchase additional tools to add to your abilities.

The new game reframes the ”tools” as ”weapons” which can be taken into battle. The central feature of the new game appears to be the ability to play unique competitive battles against other players.

Rather than ”synchronous” head to head competitions, the developers are proud of the unique ”asynchronous” system they have developed that seems well suited for casual gaming. This means that you can sit down and play against opponents who aren’t actually online at the same time as you are.

The developers accomplished this by allowing users to play 90 second sessions called ”ghost sessions” in which you try to do their best. Players are allowed to bring three weapons (that they’ve earned) into the battle. This gaming session is saved for others to challenge at any time. Particularly aggressive players can actually affect other player’s boards and slow down their play (see Mana Orb docs).

The game also incorporates social aspects allowing users to leave comments and challenges on other player’s ”walls”. Meanwhile, a world newsfeed provides a constant ticker of real-time events taking place by other players. Overall, the game also seems to offer a lot more guidance and documentation than the original.

The game should appear in the App Store within the next few days and will be priced at $9.99. Source: Toucharcade

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^^

My ipod is jailbroken and I do not want to lose all my stuff so to I have to update it.

Microsoft says it will now offer its antivirus software for free; Psystars legal claims against Apple get shot down; and Steve Ballmer wonders when everyone will stop asking him about Yahoo.

Current TV contributor Charmosh produced this interview with Jordan Vilchez, a Jonestown survivor who lives in the Bay Area. In 1971, cult leader Jim Jones established the headquarters of the Peoples Temple on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, CA. The building is now a US Post Office. Vilchez, a survivor of mass deaths in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978, remembers what it was like in the early days of the Peoples Temple. (thanks, Gabriel del Rio)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=c662c0df16c8aeb584f851657cd8f8b7"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=c662c0df16c8aeb584f851657cd8f8b7" border="0" //a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c662c0df16c8aeb584f851657cd8f8b7" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

Il y a les réseaux sociaux et il y a un réseau social soit-disant “premium” pour les personnes “classe”, sophistiquées”, pas accessibles à “Monsieur tout le monde” et qui propose un accès avec abonnement à 10$/mois, en fait ce réseau social existe et il s’intitule Mint 11.

Sans m’attarder sur les fonctionnalités du service ou encore sa promesse de côtoyer la jet-set society, stars, assister aux soirées / concerts privés, voyages de luxe, dégustation de grands crus et autres cadeaux, je vais plutôt partager avec vous pourquoi, à mes yeux, un tel service ne fonctionnera jamais ! En fait non, je vous laisse plutôt me le dire en commentaires

PS: Vous pouvez être méchants et complètement subjectifs

If you have an iPhone, you’ll probably want to check out SnapTell Explorer, a free application now available on the App Store. The premise is simple: take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game, and the application will automatically identify the product and find ratings and pricing information online.

I was skeptical when I first saw the app - the iPhone has long had difficulty with image processing for barcodes, and most image recognitions systems I’ve tried on other platforms have been iffy at best. But SnapTell just works. Every time.

The app correctly identified just about everything I threw at it: Xbox games, Pocketbook O’Reilly manuals, The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom, Kurt Vonegut novels, and a number of more obscure books (yes, it worked on The Twinkies Cookbook). It even managed to ID a copy of Civilization 4, despite the fact that it was covered in obnoxious price tags and stickers. I actually tried to mess it up by taking photos in poor lighting and odd angles, but the app still stayed nearly flawless. No, it doesn’t have everything - I managed to stump it on a book about Danish Grammar - but it will do just fine for any trip to a retail store.

But while SnapTell seems to have the technology perfected, the app itself still needs a little work. Once you’ve located a product there is no rating or description offered - instead you’re directed to the appropriate links on stores like Amazon and Barnes and Noble (it would be nice if some basic rating information was pulled into the app). There’s also currently no way to quickly view a product’s price across multiple online stores, though this will be included in the next release which is expected in the next few weeks. The UI could also use some more polish - buttons are oddly placed, and the app doesn’t look nearly as slick as it should.

SnapTell works best on Wi-Fi and 3G, but also supports Edge (it takes around 10-15 seconds to upload the image on the slower network, versus a moment or two). The application will also be coming to the Android soon, and will feature both the image recognition seen on the iPhone version as well as barcode lookup (which is popular on Android but very difficult to pull off on the iPhone). The app was developed by SnapTell, a company that primarily focuses on image-recognition based marketing, and is making use of the company’s 5 million+ product database.

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If you click on over to BDTV you can check out the official trailer for Henry Selick's (Nightmare Before Christmas) latest animated stop-motion feature Coraline, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. In the 3-D feature, a young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life only much better. But when this wondrously off-kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit parents (including Other Mother) try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home and save her family.