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La Pologne vue par les
yeux d’une enfant, c’est à la fois très singulier et universel. Parce
que tout le monde n’a pas passé son enfance dans un pays communiste, où le
quotidien des années 80 est fait de files d’attente et de rationnement pour la
viande, l’essence, le papier hygiénique, bref, pour tout. Mais parce que plus de
monde a fait des bêtises en bande, appuyant sur les boutons d’ascenseurs ou chahutant
les habitants d’un immeuble.
Ce quotidien, mis en image dans Marzi par Sylvain
Savoia, le compagnon de la scénariste Marzena Sowa profite
d’une réedition chez Dupuis sous forme de roman graphique tout à fait
indispensable. Parce qu’en plus d’une compilation de 250 pages à 25 euros, les
planches ont été redecoupées au format carré et les couleurs revues,
passant d’un ensemble plein de punch et de couleurs vives à quelque chose de moins
gai, fait de nuances de rouge et de gris.
Ce nouveau format, peut-être plus “roman graphique” pour ne pas dire adulte va
vivre une existence tout à fait autonome aux côtés de la série de 48
pages cartonnées. Un deuxième volume est attendu à l’automne prochain,
soit peu de temps après la sortie du cinquième tome de
Marzi.
Derek sez, "We recently produced a line of vinyl wall decals featuring the vintage 1978 modernist
designs of the Toronto Subway system." These colors and lettering are permanently etched into my
brain from a thousand million rides. Walloper (Thanks, Derek!)...
Snapdragon, Qualcomm's soon to be released mobile device chipset will be featured in the company's
first every briefing in Australia for analysts and media on November 19.
Recently, there has been increasing demand for ISPs to filter and block illegal filesharing by
their users. Many forum-goers on the net have laughed at this idea, that it's utterly impossible to
filter with such accuracy, and it seems they have been proved right. After being told by the courts
that it had to block any illegal traffic in 2007, Belgian ISP Scarlet has now told them it is
completely unfeasable. They are seriously hoping the court takes this into account, as they are
currenlty paying 2,500euros in compensation per day traffic goes unfiltered. Utter madness.
sidenote: appologies for the lack of entries last week, have bad some internet troubles. All back
now though. See
full article.
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The
reason everyone loves Guillermo del Toro can, I
think, be summed up in this new Hobbit related quote. "Believe me, I am jumping
up-and-down inside this fat body!"
Yes, del Toro teased us all with Hobbit
talk when he appeared at the Director's Guild of America recently and spilled all kinds of
information regarding Middle Earth and his adaptation of Frankenstein. ComingSoon has the whole delicious
thing, but I'll post my favorite bit -- his research into the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien: "I find you
have to discipline yourself to write in the morning, and then watch and read in the afternoons
stuff that seems relevant, even in a tangential way. For example, reading or watching World War I
documentaries or books that I think inform The Hobbit, strangely enough, because I believe
it is a book born out of Tolkien's generation's experience with World War I and the disappointment
of being in that field and seeing all those values kind of collapse. I think it's a turning point
that you need to familiarize yourself with."
And naturally, he sounds most excited about tackling Smaug. "Essentially, Smaug represents so many
things: greed, pride ... he's 'the Magnificent,' after all. The way his shadow is cast in the
narrative you cannot then show it and have it be one thing, he has to be the embodiment of all
those things. He's one of the few dragons that will have enormous scenes with lines. He has some of
the most beautiful dialogues in those scenes! The design, I'm pretty sure that will be the last
design we will sign off on, and the first design we have attempted. It is certainly a matter of
turning every stone before figuring out what he looks like, because what he looks like will tell
you what he is."
Nice skakeboard grip tape pattern made with subhead
anti-slip stickers via BB.
Usually used for slippery areas, designer Jesse Milden has a lot of nice patterns for keeping
humans upright.
Sony has just announced the launch of its BD rewards program, set to begin with the debut of this
week's 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan.' The free program, entitled the Sony Pictures Blu-ray Club,
rewards...
AMD's Fusion for Gaming tool is
finally out of beta, and ready for download. So what's it all about?
Well, for starters, it's no doubt intended to create a little buzz for a platform that has taken a
bit of a beating in the recent past.
Beyond that, Fusion is designed to boost performance by shutting down background processes and
applications automatically before you settle in for a gaming session. While most power users
already know how to do this using services.msc and other tools that ship with the OS, the average
user or lazy efficiency-minded geek will find Fusion a very handy way to get the job done.
There really aren't any other tools out there right now that offer Fusion's one-click
simplicity.
Overclocking features are built-in as well, though they'll only be available if you happen to be
running a pure AMD platform (Athlon CPU and ATI video card). If you do, Fusion will automatically
tweak your CPU and GPU to squeeze out a few extra ounces of gaming muscle.
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We've
been eagerly awaiting the upcoming introduction of the 2010 Ford Taurus since we first laid eyes on
the Mondeo-inspired clay mock-up that was
leaked across the Internets. Ford already announced that Ecoboost technology would power at least
one version of the 2010 model, and with a 350-hp twin-turbo V6 underhood, we're thinking it's
finally SHO time again. The scribes over at World Car Fans have supposedly heard
otherwise, though, at least when it comes to the name. Word from industry insiders has the
nomenclature as Taurus ST.
World Car Fans got more than a scoop on names; they got some pics of the sporty Taurus, as
well. It looks like Ford designers opened up the lower air dam to help feed the force-fed
powerplant. The next generation of the corporate grille is partly visible, too, and it appears as
though the bars got thinner and less cartoonish in execution. Headlights visible through the heavy
camo appear to be of the LED kind, and they look far more modern than the current Taurus' 1990's
design. Massive, MKS-like 20-inch rims help show this undercover Taurus has sporty pretenses, as
does the duel exhaust out back. Also evident from the spy pics is the fact that the bulbous
roofline from the current Taurus has been replaced with something far more shapely and
contemporary. We're still a few months from seeing the 2010 Taurus in the flesh, but it's good to
see that the high-performance version is well on its way.
Remember that deal from last week where you could save $50 on a new Xbox Elite at Dell? Well, I
really hope you didn't listen to us. Because this week—today only, actually—you can
save...
Remember that deal from last week
where you could save $50 on a new Xbox Elite at Dell? Well, I really hope you didn't listen to
us. Because this week—today only, actually—you can save $80 on an Elite at Dell.
Enter the code 'NP?CKPRH$KTWLL' at checkout and knock the price down to $320 (with free
shipping). If you did listen to us last week and paid a bit more for an Elite, make sure to hop
in your time machine and punch us in the face. It probably won't prevent anything but it might
make you feel a bit better. [Dell
via eDealinfo]
The Private Islands blog has an update on Xavier Rosset's trip to Tofua Island in the Kingdom of
Tonga. (See "Adventurer will live 300 days as Robinson Crusoe") As I reported previously Swiss
adventurer, explorer and islomaniac Xavier Rosset has set out on an expedition to spend 300 days
living alone on Tofua Island, in the Kingdom of Tonga. Xavier’s arrival on Tofua Island was
delayed because of bad weather conditions. Once Xavier was alone on Tofua, he started to get
organized and tried to put together his camp and food. Xavier has to be ready as quickly as
possible; the hurricane season is starting in more or less 6 weeks. The first concern of Xavier was
of course to find food. So he went fishing. But despite his best goodwill, he didn’t catch
that many fish, only one every second day. On the top of that, the rain didn’t spare him so
he couldn’t make a fire and had to eat his fish raw. These factors affected his nerves by his
second week on the island. He was disappointed and wanted to give up, feeling lonely. But Xavier is
stronger than that and brought himself together quickly. Explorer reports on his first two weeks on
Tofua Island...
Port Washington, N.Y. - Apple's (NASD:
AAPL) iPhone 3G was the top-selling smartphone among U.S. consumers from June-August,
commanding 24% market share, and was second only to Motorola's (NYSE: MOT)
RAZR in overall mobile phone sales, according to a report from market research firm NPD Group.
We
knew it would be going down, but the formal announcement has finally been made: MSI's Wind will
soon be gracing store shelves at Best
Buy. As early as "right now" if you're lucky enough, the 10-inch netbook can be procured at your local BB (no word
on Future Shop), and we're told that it'll pack a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, Windows XP Home Edition, a
10-inch WSVGA (1,024 x 600) display, GMA950 graphics set, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 120GB hard drive,
3-cell battery (sigh...) and a
black or white motif. You might expect to just snag one real quick like for $399, but don't expect
to leave without being hassled for one of those Product Replacement Plans. Fun, fun! Full release
is after the break.
One of the most popular events of the annual New Yorker Festival is Calvin Trillin's
food-oriented walking tour of SoHo, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, and Little Italy. According to the New York Times,
one of the tour's favorite destinations is Banh Mi Saigon Bakery, also one of my top lunch
destinations.
Standing outside, dipping his roll into peanut sauce, he said he liked to eat standing up. "If I
couldn't eat in a four-star restaurant again, it would mean nothing to me," he said. "But if
someone said I couldn't eat any more cilantro, I would be very upset."
Start your clocks and count the delays: Microsoft has named the first half of 2010 as the window
for the next version of SQL Server - codenamed Kilimanjaro....
You've gotta love Japanese television. Two nights ago, the show NTV showed the results of an
experiment it attempted involving baseball, tanks and rocket launchers. I don't speak Japanese, so
I don't...
You've gotta love Japanese television. Two nights ago, the show NTV
showed the results of an experiment it attempted involving baseball, tanks and rocket launchers.
I don't speak Japanese, so I don't know what their scientific justifications were for the
experiments, but I do know the results, thanks to the below videos captured by Japan Probe: sheer lunacy.
The crew trekked down to Cambodia to use the military's equipment. At first, the
Cambodian military didn't want to use a tank, so instead they taped a baseball to a
rocket. This, obviously, didn't show how well the baseball would travel at such speeds, as
it just blew everything up, as you can see above.
Then, after changing their minds, the Cambodians allowed a baseball to be loaded into
one of their tanks using some super-secret method that was blurred out like the undergroomed
nether regions of a Japanese porn star. This was much more successful, with the tank launching a
baseball at about 203mph. The aiming, however, could have been better.
So simple, so ridiculous, so satisfying. Thanks, Japan! [Japan Probe]
We'll
spare the "too human" jokes and get right to it: Silicon Knights laid off 26 employees today as the
studio reshuffled its size in preparation for "several new and exciting" projects. Before the
"temporary" cutback, the company totaled just over 180 employees.
"These 26 individuals are hard-working and valued team members that we hope to bring back as we
ramp up on our future projects," head knight Denis
Dyack said in a statement. The layoffs are consistent with typical development cycles in the
industry, but do come at a time when global markets are wavering. Silicon Knights has not yet named any of the
individuals affected by today's downsizing, but a tipster suggests the group includes "a few
long-tenured ones."
Read the full statement from Silicon Knights after the break.
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You've gotta love Japanese television. Two nights ago, the show NTV
showed the results of an experiment it attempted involving baseball, tanks and rocket launchers.
I don't speak Japanese, so I don't know what their scientific justifications were for the
experiments, but I do know the results, thanks to the below videos captured by 
We'll
spare the "too human" jokes and get right to it: Silicon Knights laid off 26 employees today as the
studio reshuffled its size in preparation for "several new and exciting" projects. Before the
"temporary" cutback, the company totaled just over 180 employees.