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L'actu en patates -
9 hours and 56 minutes ago
Cela fait plusieurs jours que j’hésite à faire un dessin sur ce thème
qui occupe pourtant la une de tous nos quotidiens depuis le début de l’année.
Le sujet est tellement sensible qu’il engendre invariablement des réactions
passionnées dans les commentaires dépassant souvent largement le contenu des notes
ou des articles (on le comprend). Alors j’ai parlé du froid, des soldes, de la
nouvelle année… Aujourd’hui, je poste quand même ce dessin assez
léger et un peu périphérique au conflit. Je compte sur vous pour laisser des
commentaires respectueux (et modérés).
Par précaution et parce que je ne tiens pas à le retrouver sur des sites plus
orientés, merci de ne pas reprendre cette illustration sur vos blogs ou forum.
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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
10 hours and 19 minutes ago
Après avoir fait
sensation l’an dernier avec son
Meteor Slim, sorte de roman graphique carré en noir et
blanc, construit comme un morceau de blues, Frantz Duchazeau visite un nouveau
genre de musique : la country ! Avec Les Jumeaux de Conoco
Station, à venir mi-janvier chez Sarbacane, il met en images une aventure
carrément allumée, farcie de péquenauds, où les personnages clefs,
fameux jumeaux, sont un pur hommage aux deux horribles hillbillys les plus connus du Net. Complètement
barré !
Même format, même traitement en noir et blanc, avec des pleines pages de
décors de toute beauté, Les Jumeaux de Conoco Station
font la différence avec leur prédécesseur grâce à un ton plus
détendu et rigolo, et des péripéties à peine croyables, plus
savoureuses les unes que les autres. On trouve des parents zombifiés, des persos idiots
– certains se pissent dessus, d’autres pourtant proches de la tradition
sont plus ou moins homos –, bref, la brochette de personnages hauts en couleur
sert un scénar riche et enthousiaste avec le grain de folie qui manquait à
Meteor Slim. Si le blues n’est pas la country, là
c’est sûr, Les Jumeaux de Conoco Station sont aussi
plaisants à lire que beaux à regarder. Quoique...

Les images sont © Sarbacane, Duchazeau.


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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
10 hours and 51 minutes ago
Comment réguler
la population et accroître la productivité ? En inoculant des bombes
à retardement dans le corps des enfants bien sûr ! Sur 1000 injections,
une seule sera mortelle. Et des fonctionnaires se chargeront de porter aux
intéressés, âgés de 20 à 24 ans, leur Ikigami, sorte de
préavis, annonçant la mort sous 24 heures. Ça promet !
Nouveau thriller psychologique dans un style très réaliste,
Ikigami risque de provoquer de jolies sueurs froides et
d’alimenter les débats sur le net, à la façon de Death
Note, à l’origine de nombreux clashs existentialistes très
passionnés. L’auteur, Motorô Mase n’en est pas à
son coup d’essai en matière de récit psychologique ; on a pu
découvrir chez Akata-Delcourt les quatre tomes de Heads, une
série scénarisée par Higashino Keigo, où un homme lutte contre une
double personnalité meurtrière, qui squatte son corps à la suite d’une
chirurgie expérimentale plus que douteuse. Ikigami arrive en
France fin janvier chez Asuka, alors que la série, en cours, compte 5 tomes au Japon et
une adaptation ciné. Une des séries événement de ce début
d’année.


Les images sont © DR.


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Forbes.com: News -
15 minutes ago
The recession is in full swing, but CEO Wagoner believes everything is alright.
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CNET News.com -
20 minutes ago
All eyes are on the handheld pioneer to see if it can pull off a comeback.
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CNET News.com -
24 minutes ago
Nine Inch Nails is allowing fans to create cool videos from recent concert footage and more people
are watching mobile television than ever.
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TechCrunch -
30 minutes ago
Socially-conscious Better World
Books, a for-profit online bookseller that shares its revenues with literacy initiatives
worldwide, released some pretty impressive holiday sales figures recently which we thought were
worth sharing.
First, a little background about the company. It was founded back in 2002 by three friends from
the University of Notre Dame who started selling textbooks online to earn some extra dough, and
has now grown to a company with more than 200 employees. The store sells new titles, but also
actively supports book drives and collects used books and textbooks through a network of over
1,600 college campuses and partnerships with nearly 1,000 libraries across the U.S.
Better World doesn’t charge any shipping fees for shipments within the US (and only $3.97
worldwide), and every order gets shipped carbon neutral with offsets from Carbonfund.org.
Unlike traditional for-profit companies, Better World Books adds a social component to everything
it does as a commercial venture. So far, the company has converted more than 16.4 million donated
books into $5 million in funding for literacy and education.
It’s a remarkable company, and I’m really happy to see that they seem to be doing
very well, and that they killed during the holiday period. Better World Books reports that its
overall traffic increased 131% during the holiday rush, and that they saw a
500%+ increase in gift certificate sales over the previous holiday season. That translated into
194% revenue growth for the site in December 2008 (up until Christmas), compared to the year
before.
We asked for some more details, and got some absolute numbers for the holiday sales: December
revenues grew to $2.1 million and revenue for this month is expected to top $4.5 million
(apparently January is always the best month for BW thanks to textbook sales). The company says
it’s on target for $31 million in revenues this fiscal year, which ends June 2009.
If revenues in January actually ramp up to $4.5 million, that will match in just one month the
amount they raised in venture capital from Good
Capital in April 2008.
Not bad for a bunch of do-gooders.
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memeorandum -
31 minutes ago
Marvin Hier / Wall Street
Journal:
The Jews Face a Double
Standard — Why doesn't Israel have the same right to self-defense
as other nations? — The world-wide protests against Israel's ground incursion
into Gaza are so full of hatred that they leave me with the terrible feeling that these protests
have little …
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CNET News.com -
33 minutes ago
In an interview with CNET News, Bill Veghte talks about Windows 7 and gets a little protective of
Vista while telling consumers his companys software is a good deal when moneys tight.
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memeorandum -
36 minutes ago
Brian Knowlton / New York
Times:
Obama Presses for
Action on Economy — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack
Obama on Thursday urged Congress to act quickly to pass sweeping economic stimulus measures,
including a tax cut and an infusion of as much as $800 billion, or face the likelihood that
“this recession could linger for years.”
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CNET News.com -
38 minutes ago
INQ is a relatively new company in Europe that plans to bring social networking capabilities to
regular cell phones, and not just smart phones. INQ1 is its first ever handheld, and it comes with
built-in Facebook, Skype, and Windows Messenger, all of whic
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Reg Hardware: Product News and Gadget Reviews from The Register -
38 minutes ago
h4From cheapo buds to premium cans/h4 pstrongMacworld Expo/strong At this week's Macworld Expo,
audio giant a href="http://www.harman.com/" target="_blank"Harman International/a announced that it
would begin selling its premium-quality headphone brand, a href="http://www.akg.com/"
target="_blank"AKG/a, in the US consumer market..../p
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FT.com - World, Europe -
42 minutes ago
The impact of the Russia-Ukraine crisis grew, as energy-intensive manufacturers
– from cars to cement and steel – slowed or shut down
production – south-eastern Europe was most hit
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"Bloody-Disgusting" -
42 minutes ago
Action-Figure.com learned today that NECA is back with another Jason Voorhees figure, this time a
19" version based of Derek Mears in Warner Bros. remake hitting theaters February 13, 2009.
"This brand new Jason figure stands 19" tall. Jason comes with 2 interchangeable heads and a
machete that can be slid in out of a sheath on Jason's left leg. The figure is incredibly detailed
and is based on his new look. Ball jointed neck and shoulders and swivel forearms, wrists and
waist. Look for the unstoppable Jason next month!" Read on for a look!
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Joystiq -
42 minutes ago
pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a, a
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href="http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8977836amp;publicUserId=4549175"posted/a the magazine's
last cover on his blog, revealing that the issue will be available to read (in hi-res) on 1UP. You
can print it out and put it in your mailbox out of respect for the publication's a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/06/official-ugo-buys-1up-egm-dead/"demise/a.br /br /Mielke's
post goes on to discuss his eight-month stint in the captain's chair -- following the a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/11/dan-shoe-hsu-ends-long-career-at-ziff-davis/"departure/a of
longtime editor Dan Hsu -- and features candid images of the mag's final days. Toward the end of
the piece, Mielke claims the a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/egm"emEGM/em/a circulation was
between 550-650K and its death "was simply a matter of a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/ugo"UGO/a
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Gizmodo -
42 minutes ago
Palm just named their new OS, dubbed "Web OS". It focuses on segregating your personal and work
info, while somehow integrating it on one device.
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Hotel Blogs by Guillaume Thevenot -
43 minutes ago
pYesterday, we saw the announcement of another bedbank a href=http://www.medhotels.comMedHotels/a
snapped by the tour operator Thomas Cook. MedHotels was the property of Lastminute.com acquired for
£16.1M in December 2003. a
href=http://www.travolution.co.uk/blog/2009/01/bedbanks-are-not-as-cool-as-ai.phpTravolution/a has
already hinted that the deal was sealed with an estimated £20M price tag. It this is true, it
would mean Lastminute and their parent company Sabre Holdings would only have pocketed a £4M
premium after running the business for 5 years. To me it looks like MedHotels was such a different
business to run compared to what Lastminute used to do (B2B vs B2C) that Lastminute couldn#39;t
really see how to grow the company forward. And surely a Tour Operator like Thomas Cook could
leverage this business better with their agencies. /ppThere is already a
href=http://www.e-tid.com/pm.aspx?article_id=31837amp;showLive=1amp;useCache=1some speculation/a
that newly acquired bedbanks (hotels4u and medhotels) won#39;t be independent anymore because of
their tie with Thomas Cook. And therefore this is positive news for independant bedbanks like
LowCostBeds or YouTravel (founded by John Kent who founded MedHotels funny enough) who will benefit
for reaching more trust with independent travel agents. /ppI beg to differ. /ppExample: HotelBeds,
proprietary of TUI Travel - did the acquisition meant they lost travel agency customers and also
faith with independent agents? I heard they are still going strong in core markets like Spain for
instance./ppWhat#39;s interesting in 2009 is to see what it is going to happen with the remaining
independent bedbanks. With offers as low as £5 per night in some resorts hotels in Turkey,
you can imagine that margins are thin and you need to sell and secure a lot of bed nights to
survive the crisis. Also, some bedbanks are financed by VCs, will they inject some further money as
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Gizmodo -
45 minutes ago
Trendnet has unveiled what they are calling "the world's smallest wireless N travel router" with
the TEW-654TR. There have been other pocket-sized routers of course, but not one this small with
Draft...
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Next Generation -
46 minutes ago
img
src="http://www.edge-online.com/files/imagecache/article_homepage_large_144x108/easportsarena.jpg"
alt="EA Sports Finds Home" title="EA Sports Finds Home" class="imagecache
imagecache-article_homepage_large_144x108" /br /pstrongAs part of CES on Thursday, Megapublisher
Electronic Arts announced its first plans for Sony's PlayStation Home Beta virtual world: EA Sports
Arena./strong/p pThe area will allow EA Sports fans to meet up for quot;exclusive new EA Sports
multiplayer games,quot; view leaderboards and watch video content from EA Sports franchises./p pThe
company said that EA Sports Arena, due to launch in spring, was developed in conjunction with Sony.
The publisher will announce additional Home support in the near future./p
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Mashable! -
47 minutes ago
MySpace, Yahoo, and Intel have unveiled a joint plan on CES to
offer consumers a way to use their favorite
social network directly on the TV. Imagine a tiny application that shows up on TVs and other
devices equipped with Intel’s special chipset that enables consumers to access MySpace and
interact with their buddies while watching television.
Well, I’m imagining it, and I don’t see the point. It’s ok, I guess; but why
would I want to do this over the television set? When you watch TV, you want to watch TV, and
little else (except perhaps eating popcorn). When you want to interact, you use your computer -
which is probably not that far away from your TV set.
Plus, I don’t see how this beats mobile social networking. We’ve got all these
beautiful devices with large screens like the iPhone and G1, with fantastic social networking
applications developed for them. With a TV, you’re stuck in one corner of the house. With a
mobile, you can go anywhere and carry the social network with you.
This is a try to squeeze some life out of a notoriously non-interactive medium like the
television, and - like all similar initiatives before it - it will end up nowhere. In the
meantime the rest of us will enjoy social networks on our computers, handhelds, netbooks or
mobiles.
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