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.
En deux mots : Partir un jour
D’Étienne Davodeau, aux éditions Futuropolis - 80 pages - 16 €

Aujourd’hui, de nombreux sites qui traitent de l’école ont fermé, en soutien du mouvement de grève. J’ai réalisé un dessin pour l’occasion libre de droit et que vous pouvez voir par exemple là , là , là , là , là ou encore sur les sites de cette liste . (Mais bizarrement pas sur ce site ).

Et parce qu’elle est toujours d’actualité, je rediffuse cette planche de l’album “Le journal d’un remplaçant ” que vous avez probablement tous déjà lu (sinon ça vous fait une bonne idée de cadeau de Noël ) et que j’avais dessiné à l’occasion de la grève du 18 janvier 2005 :

À lire sur leMonde.fr : Grève dans l’éducation : les revendications

The Cincinnati Junior Makers group started as a bunch of bike riding fathers with young kids. The group used to go on rides hauling their cherubs around on bike trailers and tagalongs. Now the kids are old enough to ride on their own, but not quite up for the challenge of traffic. Since they like each others' company and are raising clever kids, they have turned to Make to help provide some worthwhile activities.

Brad Writes:

We spent a few hours making and decorating the rockets. Then off to the local park to launch. These were simply AMAZING! A friend who is also in the club had made 2L water rockets last year - he brought his setup as well and we had a rocketfest! My wife is taking the video - you can see from her response at the launch how successful this was (I am the guy in the black Make t-shirt). We spent maybe 2-3 hours launching, repairing, and modifying the rockets. Who knew that simple fin modifications could be so impactful. This one was so successful that I have done it 3 times since with people who missed the first session.

You can check out the article in Make 15, or try these links to the digital pages. First - Second Third - Fourth - Fifth - Sixth

Would you like to use Make as a resource for organizing activities and project with students and kids? If you do, take some pictures and video, add them to the Make Flickr pool. If you have a set of pictures, add some text explaining what you did to the set description.

System monitoring tool Nagios offers a powerful mechanism for receiving events and commands from external applications. External commands are usually sent from event handlers or from the Nagios Web interface. You will find external commands most useful when writing event handlers for your system, or when writing an external application that interacts with Nagios.

Little did we know that LG has a hand in Chuwi’s latest -inch touchscreen player. The big M70 sounds more like a personal navigation device than a portable media player but a PMP it is with no navigation features but plenty of video and audio support. No pricing has been announced but the UI is ready and guess what, it doesn’t look a bit like the iPhone UI. Screen resolution is 800 × 480 with 16 million colors. You can also do gaming. Something to watch out for, eh?

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Taylor Swift dethroned the Twilight soundtrack from the top of the Billboard 200, selling 592,000 copies of her second album Fearless. [RollingStone.com]

Guns N’ Roses’ long-awaited Chinese Democracy and Electric Arguments, the first album from Paul McCartney’s electronic side-project the Fireman in a decade, are streaming on each artist’s respective MySpace pages. [PopEater.com]

Following Jackson Browne’s August lawsuit against John McCain for using Browne’s song “Running on Empty” in McCain’s campaign commercials, McCain has filed a motion to dismiss Browne’s suit and an anti-SLAPP motion, which is often used by defendants to seek monetary damages after a plaintiff has subjected a defendant to a lawsuit meant to chill free speech. [Billboard.com]

Speaking of lawsuits, Taco Bell has issued a response to 50 Cent’s lawsuit against the fast-food chain for a publicity stunt that mentioned his name without his permission. [Idolator.com]

Veteran blues-punkers Boss Hog are reuniting for a December 17 show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, marking the band’s first hometown show in eight years. [AntiMusic.com]

Radiohead’s spring 2009 tour plans — which involve Mexico and South America — are slowly leaking out, one date at a time. [PitchforkMedia.com]

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: Pritzker turns down Commerce  —  Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker, national campaign finance chairwoman for the Obama campaign, has taken herself out of the running to be secretary of Commerce because of vetting issues, a Democratic official said.