Toujours aussi frais et instructif, le deuxième tome du Kaboul Disco de Nicolas Wild se dote de nombreux bonus à découvrir gratuitement sur le web. Illustrations, story-boards, pages coupées, tout un tas de petites histoires et de dessins sont à reluquer pour pas un clou ! De petites friandises en attendant le troisième tome de la série, attendu l’an prochain chez la Boîte à bulles.

Véritable franchise cross-média, Blue Dragon a bénéficié des services d’Akira Toriyama, le créateur de Dragon Ball Z, lors de la conception du jeu vidéo sorti sur Xbox 360. En février 2009, Kana sort le premier tome de l’adaptation en manga signée Tsuneo Takano et mise en image par Takeshi Obata, le dessinateur de Death Note. Cerise sur le gâteau, la série ne compte que 4 tomes, vendus chacun 6,25 euros.

Curt Brown / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
171 uncounted ballots turn up in Ramsey County; Franken nets gain  —  The final day of recounting in Ramsey County in the U.S. Senate race kicked up controversy today when 171 uncounted ballots from Maplewood turned up.  The ballots apparently had been uncounted because of a ballot-counting-machine malfunction on Election Day.

The program is listed as the 'official' client for Linux by the NOS (state television), and I'm getting quite some mails -- but interestingly, not one single bug in three years. To be honest, there is a bug remaining: there is too much bad news in the news section. I am working on that one, but it might take a while.

I am also preparing a Maemo-version. Interestingly, I had a version running on an 770 in early 2005 at LinuxTag, but I never got to packaging it. Anyway, the work has to wait until after my trip to a friend's wedding in the Eternal City of Rome, where I'll be flying.

As if all of that were not enough, I started a blog with tips for emacs-users; the idea is to have frequent small posts that show one useful trick: Emacs-Fu. Let's see if I succeed.0 0

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Lucasfilm’s Habitat Promotional Video. From 1986.

And to prove that things are still the same:

Roger Ebert rails against our infantilizing celebrity obsessed media.

The AP, long considered obligatory to the task of running a North American newspaper, has been hit with some cancellations lately, and no doubt has been informed what its customers want: Affairs, divorces, addiction, disease, success, failure, death watches, tirades, arrests, hissy fits, scandals, who has been "seen with" somebody, who has been "spotted with" somebody, and "top ten" lists of the above. (Celebs "seen with" desire to be seen, celebs "spotted with" do not desire to be seen.)

The CelebCult virus is eating our culture alive, and newspapers voluntarily expose themselves to it. It teaches shabby values to young people, festers unwholesome curiosity, violates privacy, and is indifferent to meaningful achievement. One of the TV celeb shows has announced it will cover the Obama family as "a Hollywood story." I want to smash something against a wall.

As in most matters, Ebert speaks for me in this regard, the smashing in particular. His final line -- "The news is still big. It's the newspapers that got small." -- is spot on and, I'm increasingly convinced, the way out for newspapers in the long term. The news is big and newspapers need to get back to covering its complexity, significance, and interestingness.