Un peu comme une météorite qui entre dans l’atmosphère, les Humanoïdes associés n’en finissent plus de se désintégrer avec le départ des plus grands titres et auteurs de leur catalogue. Cette fois c’est Ptiluc qui quitte la maison de Métal Hurlant pour Soleil. Le 10e volume de Rat’s, sa série phare, y est annoncé pour juin 2009.

30 ans après sa parution aux Humanos, le mythique Arzach de Moebius va avoir une suite en 2009, chez Stardom, maison d’édition perso de l’auteur. C’est ce que révèle actuabd.com, qui annonce que la nouveauté sera une sorte de “Blueberry mâtiné d’héroïc fantasy”. D’ici là, nous pourrons toujours nous plonger dans les carnets de l’auteur avec Inside Moebius, dont le cinquième tome est attendu ce mois-ci.

Bien loin des considérations de TF1, Étienne Davodeau nous raconte les aventures extraordinaires de Lulu, ménagère de moins de 50 ans. Mariée, trois enfants, à la faveur d’un énième refus dans sa recherche d’emploi, elle décide de prendre des vacances sur un coup de tête. Un voyage en dehors de sa routine. En spécialiste des fictions du réel, l’auteur nous procure dans ce premier tome une aventure singulièrement zen, tant tout semble couler de source pour sa femme au foyer moyenne. Un bol d’air frais qui donne envie, tout simplement.
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D’Étienne Davodeau, aux éditions Futuropolis - 80 pages - 16 €

Hacking at Random has set a date and location for what sounds like a rather worthwhile conference:

International technology & security conference. Four days of technology, ideological debates and hands-on tinkering.

On August 13-16, 2009 the 20th anniversary edition of the four-yearly Dutch outdoor technology-conference will take place near Vierhouten, NL.

What is HAR?
Since 1989 the international community that builds the internet has been getting together on a series of conferences to discuss the state of contemporary technology, the future of it and the sociological and political consequences of their work. The participants vary from students and people with personal interests to researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs who are widely recognized as the best in their field.

The atmosphere is friendly and relaxed, the average level of knowledge is high and outside of the official lectures the site is buzzing with energy, ideas and projects. The New York Times likened the 1997 edition to a "Woodstock for Hackers". We do our best to keep that atmosphere.

Woodstock for Hackers? I'm drooling already:)

Yahoo appears to be quite serious about openness and promoting third party content and applications on their massively visited home page. Today they’re announcing the addition of an eBay widget to the new Yahoo home page, which is still being tested with just a subset of Yahoo users. The widget will be added to the My Applications dashboard area on the left.

eBay users can use the widget to monitor buys and sells, check recent bids and get reminders about auctions that are about to close. They can also search listings without leaving Yahoo.

Yahoo, like AOL, has made a subtle but important shift in their home page strategy. In the old days the home page linked out to other Yahoo pages, or advertisers. Now they’re willing to provide content that users want on the home page, no matter the source. The fact that users can access this eBay widget, presumably without eBay paying a sponsorship fee of any kind, shows Yahoo is willing to put users above revenue (in the hope that happy users will mean more revenue down the road).

By the way, Yahoo sure does love Southwest Airlines. Every screen grab they supply the press with has a big fat Southwest ad in it.

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