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À l’approche
des fêtes et de la nouvelle année 2009, la rédaction s’est
interrogée sur les BD à retenir cette année. Classés par
thèmes très généraux, puis par prix du moins cher au plus
corsé, retrouvez notre guide d’achat maison de 77 titres à
découvrir. Il y a de tout, de l’intime, du mainstream, du manga, du
comics, des oublis, du franco-belge, tout ça de bon goût.
Certes Cubik vous dira que non, mais il n’aime ni Watchmen ni
Death Note ni les Filles perdues, preuve
s’il en est de l’éclectisme de notre sélection ! Pour découvrir
nos listes, cliquez sur notre bannière inspirée des meilleures pubs de lessive ou
passez par le bar de Manu (ou la barre de Menu).
Cinq personnages de
la bande à Tchô s’apprêtent à passer de la 2D
à la 3D dès février 2009Â ! C’est Muttpop,
la boîte à qui l’on doit les toyz Lucha Libre et
Molly d’Oban Star-Racers qui est à l’origine de
cette série de figurines vendues à l’unité, pour 8,50 euros.
Désignée par Ohm, l’auteur de Bao
Battle, la première fournée comprendra Malika
Secouss, Lou, Captain Biceps et des personnages de
Zblu Cops et Bao Battle. Des
présentations complètes sur les personnages seront prochainement à lire sur le site de Muttpop.
Un sixième personnage à houppette – vous ne devinerez jamais qui
ça peut être ! – a été démembré et
plusieurs parties de son corps ont été dispatchées dans les boîtes des
autres personnages. Il faudra donc s’offrir la série complète pour pouvoir
monter soi-même la figurine mystère. Vendue dans toutes les bonnes librairies et les
chaînes comme Fnac dès février prochain, la série s’accompagnera
de deux déclinaisons collectors avec une série classico
(personnages en tons de gris) et une autre phosphorescente, qui serait plus dure
à dénicher mais carrément plus chouette que des luminous.
L’anecdote est rigolote, c’est pourquoi on vous propose d’écouter une
réponse de Mourad Boudjellal, patron des éditions Soleil, au micro de
RMC dans le Moscato
Show, le 3 décembre dernier. En réponse à une question sur son
frère, l’auteur Farid Boudjellal, l’éditeur raconte avoir
“monté” Futuropolis avec Gallimard. En vrai, il a “juste”
relancé la maison par une joint-venture éditoriale, mise en sommeil suite à sa
vente à Gallimard dans les années 90. C’est Etienne Robial et
Florence Cestac, ses fondateurs, qui vont être content !
On ne sait pas trop s’il y a eu un changement de dernière minute ou si plusieurs
affiches officielles cohabiteront ensemble, mais le site du Festival International de la Bande Dessinée
d’Angoulême a mis en ligne une nouvelle affiche officielle
signée Dupuy & Berberian, présidents de
l’édition 2009. Toujours sur le thème de l’explosion, les couleurs
– le logo rouge sur fond bleu arrache – et la composition
ont changé par rapport à la précédente version dévoilée lors de la
conférence de presse, et visible un peu partout sur le site.
In ze pocket. En 2009, Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante et le
décevant Joséphine sortiront aux éditions Livre de
poche, pour vraiment pas cher. C’est ce qu’annonce Pénélope
“JolicÅ“ur” Bagieusur son blog. Récemment, c’est le
Découpé en tranches de Zep qui est
ressorti en petit format souple pour
7 euros.
Ils n’étaient plus que cinq en compétition à se disputer le
Grand prix 2009 de la critique, décerné par l’ACBD,
l’association des journalistes et critiques de bande dessinée. Si le prix ne sera
remis qu’en mars 2009, lors du Salon du Livre, c’est l’anglaise Posy
Simmonds pour Tamara Drewe, paru en septembre chez Denoël
Graphic, qui remporte la bataille.
Ah ça, visuellement,
rien à redire. Les planches de Bec sont détaillées à
l’extrême, les doubles pages d’illustrations mémorables et la mise en
couleur particulièrement soignée. Les allergiques à
l’ultraréalisme risquent de tiquer, mais on reste tout de même loin du
photoréalisme de Jean-Michel Ponzio. Non, le vrai problème de
Prométhée, c’est pour le moment son
scénario. Si l’aspect fantastique et mythologique est très prenant,
impossible de se faire une idée précise sur l’histoire à la fin de ce
premier tome. C’est à la fois frustrant et déconcertant, vu le nombre de
pistes lancées – conquistadors, arrêt des pendules à 13 h
13 en 2019, disparition d’une navette spatiale – sans qu’aucune ne
soit vraiment approfondie dans le premier volet. En deux mots : Attendons la suite De Christophe Bec aux éditions Soleil - 48 pages - 12,90 €
Nicolas Sarkozy a présenté jeudi 4 décembre, un plan de relance
budgétaire axé sur l’investissement et les entreprises d’un montant de
3,8 euros. Il a annoncé également le versement, en avril, d’une prime
exceptionnelle de “solidarité active” de 26 milliards euros à
chacune des 760 millions de personnes qui bénéficient des minima sociaux. une aide
qui représente un investissement total de 200 euros et qui anticipe la mise en place, en
juin, du revenu de solidarité active (RSA).
Bon, je ne sais pas vous, mais en ce moment, les chiffres ne représentent plus grand chose
pour moi : j’ai tendance à confondre les milliards, les millions et les centaines
d’euros. Il se peut donc que quelques données aient été tout à
fait malencontreusement inversées dans mon texte explicatif. Je m’en excuse
évidemment platement et je vous invite à lire les vraies informations en cliquant
sur les liens ci-dessous.
Superhero movies are like
Lay's potato chips (it is Lay's, isn't it?) -- you can never have just one. JoBlo caught up with Will Smith during his press
rounds for Seven Pounds, and asked him if we would ever see any more of his reformed
superhero, Hancock. The answer? "Definitely."
In fact, Smith is uninterested in ever playing another superhero because there's enough franchise
potential in this one. He told JoBlo that there's plenty of unexplored characters in Hancock's
universe that would be ripe for a sequel -- and that we'll find out who they are in an eventual
sequel. It's not expected for a few years, which is puzzling. It did well at the box office, but it
wasn't particularly memorable. In two or three years, will anyone actually remember Hancock enough to flock to a sequel? Won't
their brains be overloaded with all those Marvel and DC movies? Shouldn't Peter Berg and Smith
while the iron is relatively hot?
Then again, we are talking Smith. He's the King of Summer. The iron is always hot.
Audiences will probably flock to see him whether or not they remember the original film or not.
Let's turn it over to you guys -- are you up for a Hancock sequel? Do you see the
unexplored characters and potential that could keep Hancock competing with Marvel and DC for years
to come? Or was he just a summer one-shot?
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added up all the money I spent as a kid playing Arkanoid I would have been able to afford the NES I
never had. Nearly 20 years later, it's still an addictive, fun game that I can't seem to put down
once I get started.br /br /Developer a href="http://www.schillmania.com"Scott Schiller/a has
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mouse movement well, but DHTML Arkanoid is silky-smooth.br /br /As you can tell from the
screenshot, all the power-ups are there. If you've never played Arkanoid before, the one you want
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Have you been looking for an ebook reader with a responsive color display and availability for
around $100? If so, Photoco's miBook sounds like a wish come true -- but after reading
PhysOrg's review we'd advise you to keep polishing that lantern. This is just a
re-packaged 7-inch LCD photo frame, lacking the e-ink display of the Kindle or Reader and offering a paltry two hour battery life. It
isn't even a good photo frame, likened to an "old tube TV set" thanks to its flickering,
blurry display. The kicker, though, is that it's not even meant for reading books, instead asking
you buy $20 SD cards packing how-to videos on subjects like cooking, home repair, and "fun and
healthy pregnancy." The MSRP on the thing is $120 (a $50 premium over its photo-viewing
counterpart), and while plenty of women would pay lots more for a gadget capable of making
pregnancy "fun," somehow we think that would take a lot more than an overpriced digital frame.
5th December 2008: Due to a naming conflict with a well-known company, Audio Damage has voluntarily
renamed its Reverence plate reverb effect plug-in to ADverb, and put installers for Mac OS X VST
and AU and Windows VST...
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width="1" height="1" //divpThis year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a
preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met
Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average
temperature for 2001-07. /ppThe relatively chilly temperatures compared with recent years are not
evidence that global warming is slowing however, say climate scientists at the Met Office.
"Absolutely not," said Dr Peter Stott, the manager of understanding and attributing climate change
at the Met Office's Hadley Centre. "If we are going to understand climate change we need to look at
long-term trends."/ppProf Myles Allen at Oxford University who runs the climateprediction.net
website, said he feared climate sceptics would overinterpret the figure. "You can bet your life
there will be a lot of fuss about what a cold year it is. Actually no, its not been that cold a
year, but the human memory is not very long, we are used to warm years," he said, "Even in the 80s
[this year] would have felt like a warm year."/ppAnd 2008 would have been a scorcher in Charles
Dickens's time - without human-induced warming there would have been a one in a hundred chance of
getting a year this hot. "For Dickens this would have been an extremely warm year," he said. On the
flip side, in the current climate there is a roughly one in 10chance of having a year this cool.
/ppThe Met Office predicted at the beginning of the year that 2008 would be cooler than recent
years because of a La Niña event - characterised by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the
equatorial Pacific Ocean. It is the mirror image of the El Niño climate cycle. The Met
Office had forecast an annual global average of 14.37C./ppAllen was presenting the data on this
year's global average temperature at the Appleton Space Conference at Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory, near Didcot yesterday. The 14.3C figure is based on data from January to October. When
the Met Office makes its formal announcement next week they will incorporate data from November.
"[The figure] will differ from it, but it won't differ massively," said Stott, "We would expect the
number to go up rather than down because the early parts of the year were still under the La
Niña conditions."/ppAssuming the final figure is close to 14.3C then 2008 will be the tenth
hottest year on record. The hottest was 1998 - which included a very strong El Niño event -
followed by 2005, 2003 and 2002. The data are a combination of measurements from satellites, ground
weather stations and buoys which are compiled jointly by the Hadley Centre and the Climate Research
Unit at the University of East Anglia./ppIn March, a a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/07/climatechange"team of climate scientists
at Kiel University/a predicted that natural variation would mask the 0.3C warming predicted by the
Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change over the next decade. They said that global temperatures
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Microsoft last month launched US
availability of its Online
Services (Microsoft-hosted email and collaboration software, available on subscription). I
snuck into a blogger
roundtable held at the event and felt privileged to witness the spectacle of a team of
Microsoftees celebrating the benefits of moving applications to the cloud. Of course they
maintained the official mantra that customers have the choice whether to stay on-premise or go to
the cloud. But hearing how delighted customers are to bypass the horrors of on-premise
implementation and the upfront costs of conventional licensing, I wondered aloud how many are
ever likely to choose to go back on-premise once they’ve experienced a cloud deployment.
Privately I wondered also whether even Microsoft has the cash to fund large numbers of its
customers moving to the cloud model — in which the vendor, rather than the
customer, takes on all the upfront cost of building and deploying the computing infrastructure.
In a keynote at the SIIA OnDemand conference the
following day, Omniture’s CEO Josh James highlighted the horrendous cash demands that weigh on
pay-as-you-go computing providers. It struck me that, if SaaS and cloud really do take off
— and many people are saying, supported by anecdotal evidence of rising sales
this past month or two, that recession will
accelerate rather than delay uptake — then the entire industry could face
a cash crisis in a few years’ time.
Estimates vary, but the global software industry probably generates annual revenues of about $500
billion. Industry analysts are saying that up to 25% of new software sales will be delivered as
SaaS within the next few years. That implies a shortfall of some $100 billion of license revenue
that won’t be collected upfront any more, along with whatever it takes to buy and set up
the infrastructure to operate it — maybe another $100 billion?
These are scary numbers, and others can do a better job than I of validating them, but
let’s say they’re even half accurate. Will the industry have enough nerve
collectively to fund that revenue gap, not just for a year,
but over a period of several years as the big switch to cloud and SaaS accelerates? Especially if
such a huge financial shortfall coincides with the tail end of what is starting to look like it
will be a deep, traumatizing recession?
The best route out of that recession, of course, will be to encourage investment in the
technologies and industries that will fuel economic recovery. I believe Web-hosted applications
and business services will play a huge role in stoking growth and profits as we enter the next
upturn. But today, the US federal government is
being urged to spend money propping up the past — as governments often do
— rather than investing in the future.
Of course there’s a social obligation on government to do what it can to avert the economic
destruction of entire communities. But real jobs come from forward-looking, innovative
industries. Instead of bailing out inefficient (and speculative) auto makers, the US
taxpayer might be better served by providing tax breaks to the cloud providers who will have to
risk so much capital to fund the coming shift to SaaS and cloud computing.
On 5 December 1933, 75 years ago today, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the Twenty-First
Amendment of the United States Constitution, a
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