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Des bouquins atypiques, il en sort de plus en plus en BD. Merci à la
surproduction. Mais les ovnis comme Rosalinde, la nouvelle bande
dessinée de Thomas
Cadène, sont beaucoup plus rares. Après Regards
croisés, son premier album paru chez KSTR,
Rosalinde arrive chez le même éditeur, au format
cartonné de KSTR2 ! Joli destin pour ce personnage né sur le forum Café
Salé il y a plus de 3 ans.
Déjà, le pitch désarçonne : Rosalinde, mémé la morale
en puissance – ex-agent secret – coule des jours heureux
dans sa campagne, jusqu’à ce que les extraterrestres envahissent la planète.
Ni une, ni deux, la vieille femme aux seins dégoulinants jusqu’aux genoux met un
terme à l’attaque, après avoir levé une armée. Elle est
aidée par son amie et rivale Mushu, une soixante-huitarde botoxée, sorte
d’Edie Britt à la française – pour qui connaît
Desperate Housewives. S’en suit une refondation, conduite par 7 leaders avides
d’étendre leur pouvoir. Pour y parvenir, ils vont tout faire pour manipuler cette
idiote d’héroïne, avec un certain succès…
Au premier coup d’Å“il, tout ceci n’a aucun sens. Mais là
où Rosalinde impressionne, en plus de son originalité,
c’est par sa cohérence. Tout coule de source. Le narrateur, complice du lecteur, y
est sans doute pour beaucoup, avec son “parler jeune” et sa profonde connaissance de
Rosalinde. Le second degré et la dérision s’occupent du reste
– mention spéciale à l’improbable dialogue sur
l’île Secrète R (île secrétaire pour Rosalinde)
–, pour faire du bouquin une chouette curiosité de la rentrée.
Après Cabrel, Dès, Brassens ou Goldman, c’est à Bob
Dylan, un autre chanteur mort, que les éditions Delcourt
s’intéressent. Ah, on me dit qu’Henri Dès n’est pas mort. Bref,
ce nouveau collectif musical regroupe 14 auteurs BD qui revisitent autant de titres de
l’artiste rock, blues & jazz. Parmi eux, on trouvera McKean, Bézian,
Zep, Mattotti, Götting, Alfred ou Smudja. 104 pages de BD à
venir en novembre aux éditions Delcourt.
The juicy "Gearbox is developing Halo 4
OMG" rumor continues to be at the top of fanboy debate lists, with Microsoft confirming to
Kotaku that Corrinne Yu, director of technology at Gearbox and pictured in full Spartan armor, has
been hired as principle engine architect (fancy!) for the Xbox manufacturer's internal
Halo team. The official statement: "As the Halo franchise continues to flourish,
Microsoft Game Studios is growing its internal team to develop future Halo projects."
And what could "future Halo projects" entail? Microsoft isn't blabbing, but suspicious men in
trenchcoats posit that Yu will be working on the nebulous Peter
Jackson project and putting her Unreal Engine 3 expertise to good use.
Trying to divine what Apple's up to from patent applications is never easy, but every
now and again the diagrams actually make it obvious -- and it looks like Steve and his elves are
hard at work on large-format touch interfaces, possibly for a tablet Mac of some kind. The latesttouch-relatedfiling is
some 52 pages long and details everything from working with multiple finger inputs to onscreen
keyboards how window controls would work, but we're mostly transfixed by the claw-like demon-hands
that seem to be operating all this kit -- apparently Apple engineers have the same nightmares as
the rest of us. If we had to bet, we'd say that a tablet Mac is still a long ways off, but we've
been wrong before -- and there's always a chance Steve's got something wild in store for next
month.
Welcome back to another edition of Insert Caption -- the game that makes beer pong look like a
visit to the dentist's office. Last week we asked you to rock our worlds and come up with your
funniest caption for a photo from the new movie Hamlet 2.
Needless to say, you delivered all that and then some ...
1. "Since the school won't teach you the theory of evolution, I have decided to teach it
through the wonders of interpretive dance." -- Ryan S.
2. "...come on you guys I am very clearly a mailbox, I have never seen a group of people so
horrible at charades." -- Dana C.
3. "When hunting rabbits you have to be vewwwy vewwwy quiet!" -- Chris R.
This week we really have something special for you kids going back to school. And when I say
school, I mean college. And when I say college, I mean -- BEER PONG! Oh yes, we're not messing
around with this one. (Cinematical is heading back to school in style!) In honor of the
new movie College -- about
three almost-freshmen who take a weekend trip to visit a prospective college and wind up in wayyy
over their heads -- one grand prize winner will stumble away with a sweet beer pong table. And if
you don't know what beer pong is, then, well, how in the world do you not know what beer pong is?
Dude! Sound off!
Please note that you must be 21 to enter this particular contest. Read the official rules
for the contest right
here.
You wouldn't know it from watching television this week, but political conventions are about far
more than politics. They are about policy, about embracing the successes of the past and
preparing for the challenges of the future. They are the parties' best opportunity to share their
visions for America with the people who will decide which course we will take. And because a
nation is not defined by lines on a map but by the ideals it stands for, conventions are about
America itself -- who
we are, what we'll do, and what we won't.
It was easy to lose sight of that while watching television coverage of the Democratic convention
this week. Not because the convention speakers weren't talking about policies and values and
ideals -- they were -- but because the media wasn't paying much attention to any of that.
Instead, the media treated the convention as purely a political matter -- are the Democrats
unified? Should they criticize President Bush and Sen.
John McCain more? Was Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech good enough? Too good? (No, really: several
journalists suggested that might have been the case.) How many pronouns did she use? Will Sen.
Barack Obama get a "bounce" in the polls? ABC's convention coverage actually featured Good
Morning America co-host Robin Roberts channeling Republican mockery of the stage design for
Obama's speech by chanting "Toga!
Toga!" Yes, that really happened.
Watching television coverage of the convention, with the relentless focus on what the Democrats
should do, whether they did it well enough, what they didn't do but should have, and how people
would react to it, it often seemed that many journalists don't really have much interest in
journalism; they'd rather play armchair campaign manager.
The media's obsessive focus on what the Democrats should be doing and how they should be doing it
is, of course, a spectacular waste of time. But it's worse than that: It squanders the attention
of the American people, during one of the weeks when they pay the most attention to the
presidential campaign. Tuesday night,
26 million viewers watched Hillary Clinton's speech, nearly as many as the 27 million U.S.
viewers NBC's Olympics coverage averaged per night. More than 38 million
people watched Barack Obama's speech Thursday night -- more than watched the Olympics opening
ceremony, the final American Idol, and the Academy Awards this year. It's
possible that most of those viewers were tuning in to hear Chris Matthews' assessment of
who is and is not a "regular person" (answer: middle-aged white men). But it seems more likely
that they were watching for more substantive reasons -- if they wanted to watch journalists
playacting at being campaign strategists, the cable news channels would probably have
significantly higher ratings during non-convention weeks.
So there was a huge audience -- an Olympic-sized audience -- tuning in to watch a
political convention; a perfect opportunity for the media to help voters educate themselves about
the parties and candidates -- what they've done, whether it worked, what they say they'll do, and
how it will likely affect the country.
Instead, readers and viewers were treated to an endless parade of journalists substituting
cocktail-party chatter for useful coverage. During Wednesday's convention coverage, CNN's Jeffrey
Toobin and Carl Bernstein seemed fed up with their own profession:
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN (CNN host): Do you think it matters at all -- anyone can jump in on this -- that
President [Bill] Clinton will not stay for Barack Obama's speech on Thursday?
TOOBIN: Zero.
O'BRIEN: Really?
TOOBIN: Nothing. Who cares? My God, we fixate on these ridiculous little things.
O'BRIEN: Well, I'm not -- I didn't --
TOOBIN: I mean, I just think it's ridiculous. Who cares whether he's there or
not?
O'BRIEN: OK, I asked that tone -- that question in a nice tone, and you're jumping on me.
BERNSTEIN: No, I think -- I think it's part
of a larger question, and that is: What is the role of the press, particularly cable news, in
this election? And at what point do we tip to a kind of minute picking apart and tea-leaf
reading? I'm not even saying your question is --
O'BRIEN: I don't take it personally, don't worry.
BERNSTEIN: -- is -- but I think -- and it's the evening news shows, as well, but I -- and on the
Web -- but I think that we need more perspective. We need to step back.
[...]
BERNSTEIN: I think we ought to stop telling
people what they need to do.
On Thursday, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus provided a perfect example of
journalists' obsession with analyzing campaign strategy at the expense of actually providing
their readers and viewers with useful information. Marcus
wrote:
As issues become increasingly complex -- voters can't be expected to parse the technical
differences between the candidates' cap-and-trade emissions plans or the distributional effects
of their tax cuts -- biography, especially biography laced with conflict and resolution, becomes
a proxy for providing assurance that the candidate can be counted on to get it right on the more
difficult matters.
Voters can't be expected to parse the differences between the candidates' policies, according to
Marcus -- and in many cases, she's right. But news organizations can be expected to do so: They
have the time, and the resources, and they can hire reporters with the necessary expertise or the
ability to obtain it. They can clearly and consistently explain what the candidates' policy
proposals mean, how they would work, and how they differ. That would provide actual
value to their customers, giving readers and viewers something that, as Marcus notes, they
cannot get on their own.
Instead, they too often spend their airtime and column inches offering "analysis" of things like
whether the candidates are "connecting" with voters. This provides absolutely no value to their
customers. A reader doesn't need The Washington Post to tell her whether she feels a
"connection" with Barack Obama or John McCain. If the reader cares about "connections" with
candidates, the reader knows far better than the Post whether she feels one. The
"analysis" is perhaps marginally interesting as cocktail party chatter; as journalism, it is
pointless vanity and role-playing -- if reporters want to be campaign managers, they should go do
that. But if they want to be journalists, they should start by giving their customers important
information they can't get on their own -- like helping them "parse the technical differences"
between the candidates' plans.
This week's convention coverage provided a golden opportunity to do so: Olympic-sized audiences;
an electorate desperate for new ideas and leadership (81 percent of Americans are dissatisfied
with the way things are going in the United States, according to the latestUSA
Today/Gallup poll); convention speeches that were largely about policies and American ideals
and themes rather than personal criticisms, and plenty of airtime and column inches to fill.
But too few reporters seized that opportunity. Next week provides the media a second chance to
give voters the substantive coverage they need. Let's hope they take it.
News/release from Sylus101:
Just so it's clear and the purpose of the app isn't in question (as I think it might be) this is
intended to be a developers helper in designing/modifying sprites, particularly for use with PALib,
but since there is a binary export now I'm gathering they could be used with any dev platform (not
like there are many others...).
Here's v.92.9 a quick update compiled with the new community build. Hoping it helps tayete's
problemDownload and Give Feedback Via Comments
Attached Files pixelmanv929.zip
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Linux.com: "If you're a frequent business traveler who keeps important company
files on your laptop, using a centralized management solution to back up files automatically during
a fixed time interval won't work. Instead, consider Box Backup, which backs up files from a laptop
directly to a backup server over an encrypted link."
Good news, everybody*! Nintendo expects to make even more
money during its 2009 fiscal year than it had previously anticipated. And it had previously
anticipated quite a bit.
According to VentureBeat's
Dean Takahashi and Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter, Nintendo has raised its financial forecast for
the six months ending Sept. 30, 2008, as well as its expectations for the full fiscal year ending
March 31, 2009. Thanks to phenomenal Wii and DS sales and improved foreign currency exchange rates,
Nintendo now expects to shift 30.5 million DS units in the full fiscal year, along with 197 million
DS games, 26.5 million Wiis and 186 million Wii games.
Projected fiscal 2009 revenue? Two thousand billion Yen. That doesn't even sound like a
real number!
*Particularly those obsessed with the financial wellbeing of emotionally detached megacorporations.
Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt continued his unstoppable streak of form with a comprehensive win
in the 100 meters at the Zurich Golden League meeting on Friday.
News via Nintendomax
Tigro realizes the first version of "WALLPAPER, What About LLearning Polish lAnguage with Personal
nativE speakeR?" Application that allows you to learn Polish.
Quote:
As you should know, "Knowledge is key to a success" - I, as a native speaker of Polish language, am
going to give you interesting knowledge - I'll try to teach you Polish! Language, which was used
for many hundred years, by great poets, kings, scientists and ordinary people.
Then, I decided to try to learn you this beautiful (but, not hide it, hard to learn) language.
Think about these hot chicks around you, when you say "Czesc" instead of "Hi!" About these
gangsta-wannabes trying to hide from you, when you say "Nie wkurzajcie mnie!" instead of "Do not
piss me off." About these full of fear Persians escaping from the battleground when you scream
"Przygotujcie sie na chwale!" to your soldiers instead of "Prepare for glory!". Think about all
these profits!
This homebrew, as it's 0.1 version, you will learn basics of Polish - next will make you
P0l15h-14ngu4g3-1337. Do not waste your time - begin your journey with Polish!Download and
Give Feedback Via Comments
Attached Files WALLPAPER_01.rar
(1.02 MB)
News/release from pypebros
After a year of development just across the board, I am pleased to announce the launch of the new
version of my favorite graphics editor on DS: SEDS.
On the menu this version 0.3.2, a new editing mode 32x32 pixels and the ability to edit "horse" on
two blocks with brand new mode "slider" that you appear with the button R. I also added a "palette
fast" under the grid, more ergonomic and allows to reorganize the color palette or import via wifi
colors of any image.
Not bad for improvements in memory management, files largest, can mix blocks 16x16 and 32x32,
consistent with the level editor, and a library LGPL to use all that stuff in your programs.
Obviously, controls the previous version are still valid. There is always that 4 files directly
manipulated by the publisher (loaded with START + L + (ABXY) and saved with START + R + (ABXY)),
but a backup system automatic range the previous contents of the file / data / seds if you ever
decide to crush it. You can also simply rewrite the edited file with START + R + R.
It is always a Beta version, meaning that the top screen is filled with message and debug company
and I am holder of any feedback succeptible to improve the program. The publisher of animation (L +
SELECT) is still rudimentary, and the editor of pallets (SELECT) also
PS: if you want to try the functions of automatic update (START + SELECT) or file transfer via
WiFi, make sure you do not have files exec_stub.arm * of the previous version, which dragged on
your SD card: the current version to download the application (QUIT button).
Pixelez well _ ^ ^ Download and Give Feedback Via Comments
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Ce matin, j’ai eu l’honneur de participer en tant qu’intervenant sur la table
ronde des réseaux sociaux à l’université d’été du Medef au
côté de Olivier Marcheteau, Isabelle Juppé, Orianne Garcia, Jean-Louis Constanza,
Olivier Iteanu et Guy Rider le tout animé par Jean-Michel Billaut.
Je vous livre ici un petit résumé de mon intervention.
J’ai commencé à m’intéresser aux réseaux sociaux en 2003 avec la
découverte de Linkedin. J’ai tout de suite commencé à capitaliser mes
contacts INPG ESISAR (mon école d’ingénieur) sur ce réseau puis quelques
mois plus tard sur Viaduc (nouvellement Viadeo).
Que sont les réseaux sociaux professionnels ?
Les réseaux professionnels sont pour moi une gigantesque base de CVs dynamiques couplée
à des millions de carnets d’adresses interconnectés entre eux.
Quels sont leurs potentiels ?
Le potentiel de ces réseaux est énorme pour peu que l’on prenne le temps
d’agréger nos contacts sur ces derniers au fur et à mesure des rencontres.
L’idée est d’envoyer/de connecter son carnet d’adresses pour
bénéficier des relations de ses relations. Ces réseaux deviennent très utiles
quand vous avez capitalisé beaucoup de contacts dessus. Cela vous donne accès à
plusieurs millions de personnes seulement avec un degré de séparation de 3 (le carnet
d’adresse d’une relation d’une de mes relations).
C’est également une mine d’or quand vous recherchez un profil bien particulier
ou un contact ciblé directement à l’intérieur d’une entreprise.
Cependant, cela a ses limites et les concepteurs de réseaux sociaux l’ont bien
compris. Au départ, Linkedin donnait 4 degrés de profondeur pour faire passer ses
requêtes de contact. Viadeo en avait même mis 5 si je ne m’abuse. On dit souvent
"les amis de mes amis sont mes amis". Mais qu’en est-il du lien avec les amis de mes amis
de mes amis ?
Quels sont leurs limites ?
Je dois avoir capitalisé aujourd’hui plus de 1500 contacts sur linkedin mais dans un
contexte d’affaire, ce réseau est un peu trop statique à mon goût. Il
n’est pas évident de maintenir une présence active et cela devient vite
consommateur de temps si vous souhaitez y développer un réseau de contact actifs.
En quoi le blog est complémentaire d’un réseau social
?
Le web est un puissant catalyseur de relations sociales dès lors qu’on sait
l’utiliser à bon escient. Google joue très souvent l’entremetteur en
permettant aux uns d’afficher leurs pensées publiquement et aux autres de les trouver
et de se connecter avec leurs auteurs. C’est pourquoi, j’ai ouvert ce blog en
novembre 2005 (1er en france entièrement dédié au web 2.0) pour pouvoir aller plus
loin dans l’établissement d’un réseau social actif autour des
thématiques qui me passionnent.
A partir de là, mon réseau social n’a cessé de grandir et les relations
sociales n’ont cessé de se renforcer. 1 mois après avoir ouvert ce blog, je
m’installais sur Paris et je rencontrai mes associés actuels sur Ziki.com. Nous
parlions déjà d’identité numérique, de gestion de contenus en ligne, de
mise en relation et de l’impact que toutes ces choses auraient sur nos vies.
Vers une identité "active" en ligne ?
Notre vision était qu’à terme la mise en relation de base entre les membres
d’un réseau social grand public serait directe et gratuite avec comme contrainte la
génération de contenus. Nous avons donc construit le premier aggrégateur
d’identité en ligne en permettant aux blogueurs et producteurs de contenus de
rassembler leur présence en ligne en un seul point, facilitant ainsi la prise de contact
directe avec nos membres. Afin de transformer leur identité, en identité active ou se
mèle des contacts & des contenus entre personne et société.
Et l’international ?
Nous avons très rapidement acquis une base de contact à l’international et
aujourd’hui nous avons des membres dans plus de 152 pays. Cela nous a été utile
pour faire la promotion du service à l’international et nous as permis
d’identifier des potentiels partenaires, clients, fournisseurs dans le monde entier.
Quelles méthodes pour développer son réseau social ?
Pour moi, il existe 2 approches du networking en ligne:
une démarche de contact active et
une un peu plus passive via la création de contenu.
Je me suis déjà exprimé à ce sujet ici et là. Aujourd’hui,
ma présence sur le web me permet de bénéficier de mises en relations ciblées.
Je ne fais que très peu de recherche active de contacts. J’ai simplement à
dépiler les mails et traiter les requêtes que l’on m’envoie.
La déferlante facebook !
L’année dernière, Facebook a fait une entrée fulgurante sur le paysage des
réseaux sociaux français alors même qu’il n’était pas
localisé (and i thought that our english level is sooo bad) ! Comme nous l’avions
pressenti sur ziki,
la mise en relation sur facebook est directe et gratuite,
il s’agit d’un réseau dynamique où l’on peut partager de nombreux
contenus et en faire des usages qui vont du dating à l’échange professionnel.
Cette confusion des genres donnent d’ailleurs lieu à d’interminables débats
passionnant entre pudeur et impudeur. La pénétration de facebook est telle
qu’aujourd’hui qu’il est fréquent que j’aille chercher le CV
qu’il me faut sur linkedin et que je passe ensuite sur facebook pour contacter la personne
en direct. Avec la profusion actuelle des outils 2.0, il faut savoir composer pour les rendre
réellement profitables.
Ma stratégie de networking en ligne
Personnellement aujourd’hui, j’utilise majoritairement mes blogs et mon micro-blog
(twitter) pour étendre mon réseau. Ces contenus sont ensuite automatiquement
synchronisés avec mon Ziki et mon statut facebook qui ont alors le rôle de diffuseur de
contenus.
C’est très puissant. J’ai un besoin, une question, je le « twitt »
(140 caractères) et je reçois des réponses via twitter instantanément mais
aussi via mon profil Ziki ou mon profil via Facebook avec plus de 1600 contacts. Donc oui les
réseaux sociaux permettent d’avoir un carnet d’adresse mondial mais pour moi ce
n’est pas le plus intéressant. Aujourd’hui ce qui m’intéresse
c’est plutôt d’étendre mon réseau social « actif » : celui
avec lequel j’interagis au quotidien. J’aime créer des liens en son sein, rendre
service afin de pouvoir à mon tour bénéficier des faveurs de mon réseau actif
et ceci quelque soit sa langue ou sa localisation.
Voilà le témoignage de ce matin (vous avez eu la version extended). J’ai
continué le débat en interview sur l’aspect recrutement 2.0 avec miss Mathilde
Cristiani de l’atelier.
Puis au stand Medef TV pour un super trio avec Hervé Bloch et Frédéric-Michel
Chevalier (sera publié très prochainement je pense). Et qui ont encore continué en
discussion privée jusqu’en début d’aprem.
Une journée complète à nourrir ma réflexion sur les réseaux sociaux au
contact des autres dans l’environnement de polytechnique. J’aime pas, J’adore !
Merci au MEDEF de m’avoir invité, je reviendrai avec plaisir