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Près de deux ans se seront écoulés depuis la fin
d’Inri, deuxième volet du Triangle
secret, avec la publication en mars prochain du premier tome des
Gardiens du sang, troisième cycle – ou
saison, c’est la mode – de la saga ésotérique conduite
par Didier Convard. Denis Falque sera chargé de la
plupart des dessins sur un tome qui se passera essentiellement de nos jours, avec
l’assassinat d’une huile du Vatican par un mystérieux tueur au service de la
foi.
Sans même entrer
dans le vif du sujet, Bottomless Belly Button, roman graphique de
Dash Shaw, en impose par
ses mensurations : 720 pages, un dos de 5,5 cm sur lequel on trouve une foultitude d’infos,
bref, une sacrée bête. Acclamé meilleure bande dessinée
indépendante de l’année aux USA, le pavé édité par
Fantagraphics arrive aux
éditions Çà et là pour 30 €, un an
après la sortie du tout aussi imposant Château l’Attente.
Mais rien à voir ici avec de la fantasy médiévale, Bottomless Belly
Button flirte du côté de la chronique sociale iconoclaste à
travers les aventures de la famille Loony, qu’on croirait presque sortie d’un film de
Wes Anderson, genre Famille Tenenbaum. Il faut dire qu’après 40 ans
de mariage, les parents Loony annoncent leur divorce, et réunissent tout le monde dans la
maison familiale. Fantaisie parmi d’autres, Peter, le cadet de la famille, apparaît
la quasi-totalité du bouquin sous les traits d’une grenouille –
même s’il nous a fallu un quart du livre pour comprendre que ses narines
n’étaient pas ses yeux ! –, en écho à sa position
de loser que ce soit sur le plan professionnel ou sentimental. Lui, comme les autres, va vivre un
séjour riche en rebondissements tapant au cÅ“ur de ses complexes. À la
fin, tous les personnages auront évolué de façon perceptible.
Varié et hétéroclite, tant sur les thèmes que sur le plan visuel,
avec des mises en pages éclatées pour rythmer les différentes parties et de
nombreux jeux graphiques avec des onomatopées d’ambiances “musique à
fond” et de mouvements “emmêle”, les 720 pages se lisent d’une
traite. Pourtant, Bottomless Belly Button aura du mal à
séduire ceux pour qui les histoires qui mènent en voyage dans la psyché des
personnages ne font ni chaud ni froid. Reste qu’en la matière, grâce à
ses trouvailles graphiques et à sa façon de traiter de façon simple les
choses complexes, le roman graphique de Dash Shaw est ce qui s’est fait de mieux cette
année !
À la façon de l’Étrangleur de
Tardi chez Casterman, Carabas s’essaye au format tabloïd en proposant
une histoire courte de Low Moon, le nouveau Jason, déjà
dispo chez l’éditeur dans un petit format de 180 pages vendu 20 euros. Cette version
allégée, proposée 3 euros au format journal, nous fait profiter en
très grand format des situations cocasses imaginées par Jason, soit un western
où le jeu d’échec semble avoir remplacé les bons vieux colts
poussiéreux. À cela s’ajoutent les habituels running gags et les innombrables
comiques de situation. Forcément Jasonesque.
En deux mots : Western et mat De Jason, aux éditions Carabas - 20 pages - 3 € (visuel
récupéré sur placedeslibraires.fr)
Anyone who travels with their notebook understands the need for more battery life. You could bring
extra batteries for your notebook, but what about for your BlackBerry and your iPod? If you need
extra battery power for multiple devices the best option is a universal power source, such as the
Duracell PowerSource Mobile 100, that provides both AC power and DC power from its own internal
battery. Is the Duracell PowerSource Mobile 100 the best battery solution for road warriors? Let's
find out.
So, I've got LOTS of apps from the app store, and also participate in beta tests for
developers.
If I were to jailbreak, can I keep all the apps, and continue to download apps from the appstore if
I jailbreak?
Also, is there anyway to tell that it's jailbroken without seeing it on Apple or ATT's part?
Should I jailbreak? I'm not quite sure if it's sturdy enough, and I'm just nervous. I need someone
to tell me if I should jailbreak, or keep what I have.
There have been a number of laptop thefts at gun/knife point in my neighborhood recently. I'm
backing up all my data frequently, but wouldn't want a thief to have access to my personal
information like bank statements, personal pictures, etc, stored on my laptop. If I set "Require
password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver" in Security of System Preferences, does
this really mean there's no way for somebody else to gain control apart from re-formatting the
drive?
Lately my mac has been freezing up.. almost everyday now, when a month ago is was fine (and had
been for over a year) never freezing once. I am thinking I need to do a reinstall of the operating
system.
A few questions,
Will I still be able to keep all my current programs?
How do I do this?
Any help and/or additional suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I was an original Macbook owner. I have the black, 2.0Ghz model with integrated video and 2gb ram,
80gb HD etc. from summer/2006.
My fiance needs a new computer, but just for writing and browsing. My thoughts were to give her my
macbook, which is just fine for that.
I don't have a ton of money, but I feel like I would be wasting my time with a new macbook. I am a
pretty heavy CS3 user, as a hobby, but a frequent user nonetheless. I work with a lot of .cr2 raw
files that are all over 10mbs, and my system tends to get quite toasty and sluggish. I also have
recently started using my MB for games, when I have the time, which tend to run like they're stuck
in mud.
I know the new MB's have discrete video and are a significant upgrade over what I have, but I feel
like I'd be better off with a penryn MBP, 2.5Ghz/8600 GT Nvidia, matte screen, either refurbished
from apple for 1499 or NEW from amazon, with a rebate for 1549 from the release before this one.
That was the previous top of the line 15inch MBP. I couldn't possible afford the new MBPs, and I'm
not a huge fan of glossy screens anyway.
I guess what I'm asking is how does the performance compare between those two models (new MB vs
penryn MBP) considering they're essentially the same price.
I'm running XP 64-bit Pro on my 2008 Mac Pro... the February drivers for it work fine, but there
have been 2 updates since then, both of which screw up the card. Are the drivers on the Leopard
disk the only ones designed specifically for it or can newer one be used?
[Matthew] sent us this Nintendo 64 stuffed into an NES. He did a great job really, everything looks
nice and tidy. the presentation is decent with only the game ports visible on the front to tell you
its not stock. The accent lighting on the side vents is not overpowering. Overall this was a really
well done mod. Just like the Nintendo 64 in a Wii mod, this only plays Nintendo 64 games. OK guys,
lets get some mods going that don’t involve cramming one Nintendo product into another
Nintendo product.
Sugar
Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 culls highlights from Neil
Young’s two shows at Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, MI on November 9 and 10, 1968. Like
its two predecessors in Young’s Archives series, the concerts captured on
Sugar Mountain are legendary among Neil Young collectors, in this case because of the
gentle, tentative version of the title track that showed up on Decade — prior to
this, the only official release from the concert. At first glance, Sugar Mountain might
seem similar to Live at Massey Hall 1971, as they’re both solo acoustic sets, but
the tenor of the two shows is quite different. Massey Hall captured Neil in full flight,
just before the release of Harvest, whereas the concerts on Sugar Mountain were just a
month or two shy of the release of his first solo album.
He had hits with Buffalo Springfield — much of the set list leans heavily on Springfield
songs, such as “Mr. Soul,” “Expecting to Fly,” “Birds,”
“Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing,” and “Broken Arrow” — but
he had yet to prove himself as a solo artist, so the endearing tentative quality of his
performances shouldn’t come as a surprise, and yet it does: Young’s reputation as a
steely renegade often suggests that he never second-guesses his moves. Neil doesn’t
second-guess here but he is fragile and human, telling stories (sometimes at considerable length)
before sliding into these delicate songs, wryly lamenting that he should have some happy songs to
sing before testing out the melody for “Winterlong,” stopping short because the song
isn’t quite written yet. It’s a marvelously intimate performance, unguarded and
open-hearted, unique in its delicate touch: it’s Neil Young before the myth crystallized,
and listening to it anew, it’s easy to fall in love with him all over again.
Ewan's well into his long term Nokia N85 review period now, and here he brings us a chatty overview
of its hardware, looking in particular at the OLED screen, the fingerprint-attracting styling and
the slightly hit and miss d-pad. Read his N85 review - part 1. Subsequent parts will take a look at the new features in S60,
the camera and multimedia capabilities.
"Nokia's N85 is a curious beast. The specifications of the device, with a 5 megapixel Carl
Zeiss-equipped camera, a super bright and colourful OLED 2.6 inch screen, dual LED flash, Wi-Fi
connectivity and MicroSD card support for storage put it squarely in the territory of the top line
Nseries devices such as the N96 (and the previous flagship N95 8GB).
Side by side to the N95 8GB, the N85 looks modern, light, svelte, and a touch sexy. Its styling is
actually one of the best elements of the device. At no point while looking at the device does it
scream 'smartphone' or 'massively complicated' to the user. It has a subtle, understated look that
looks perfectly at home on the prow of a yacht on the French Riviera or the dashboard of a Golf
GTi, screaming across the roundabouts of Milton Keynes." Read on
Bloodlines: Inside Higher Ed published an article on the recently revived
lawsuit by the Havasupai tribe
against researchers at Arizona State University. The suit alleges that researchers (other
than the original investigator who collected the blood) have used blood samples for purposes
other than outlined in the IRB protocols. Said one commenter:
“This is a really interesting case because it opens up some questions of the reasonableness
of practices that have been flying under the bioethical radar,” said Jonathan Marks, a
professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an expert on
informed consent and bioethics. Marks said that while he did not know the specifics of what
happened in Arizona, he sees a widespread problem of anthropologists collecting blood for one
purpose (with informed consent) and then having other scholars use the blood (without consent).
Ethics issues abound, he said, because some of the subsequent research is potentially lucrative
and because of the realities that these interactions do not take place on a two-way street. Building/Burning Bridges: Hanna Fearn wrote for the UK Times Higher Ed
Supplement on the divisions between evolutionary and sociocultural anthropology. Sometimes, one
is left wondering whether The
Great Divide Fearn speaks of is between evolutionary vs. social anthro or between U.S. and
British models, as a lot of the British scholars interviewed suggested that the rising tide of
evolutionary anthropology is coming from the States. Hmm, if that’s the case, the Chagnon
reference might not be the most convincing. (Thanks to Crystal at Travel
Scrabble for linking to this).
Archeology of Homelessness:Phys.Org reported on the research of Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI for the midwesternly challenged) anthropology
professor Larry J. Zimmerman and IUPUI student Jessica Welch. The archaeological survey was
designed to look at homeless life outside of shelters, where most ethnographies of the homeless
take place. Welch, herself formerly homeless, and Zimmerman will be publishing results in
Historical Archeology early next year.
Saying Goodbye to ‘the Stranger’: NY Magazine published a fairly
lengthy article challenging the isolated
individual trope that seems to linger on in urban and online studies (even Louis’s
Wirth’s 1938 classic essay “Urbanism as a Way of Life” makes an appearance.) If
you can ignore the self-loving parts where the author reminds us how quintessentially urban and
wonderful New York is, it’s a pretty good article. (Thanks to Arts and Letters Daily for posting this).
Ladies and Gents, the punchline: What would a news roundup be without some fun
stuff? The first one comes from deathpower.
Cleverest Hegel joke this week: Most Hegel scholars agree there are 3 kinds of people: those who
don’t really understand Hegel, and those who never liked arithmetic anyway.
The second is filed under ‘weird toys’ on Visual
Anthropology of Japan. Enjoy!
Adding to the already impressive pile of Vista-deflating features we're expecting to see in Windows
7 is WARP, a tech which will allow your PC's CPU to act as a graphics accelerator, possibly doing
away with the need for integrated graphics hardware to render user interfaces and low-end games.
Not-so-seductively described as a ‘fully conformant software
rasterizer’, WARP requires nothing more than an 800MHz processor for
complete—if comically slow—DX10
compliance.
I'd say that I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'll be honest, I spotted this 1697 sketch while
looking through a UFO conspiracy site. And as far as I'm concerned, it's clearly an ink rendition
of two Xbox 360 logos floating in the sky.
Hämmastav, kuidas
ühte väikesesse nädalasse mahub kaks ajaperioodi, mis on suuremad, kui see
nädal ise. On mittenädalavahetus, mis on täielik hullumajand (tulemus näha
dets. keskel) ning on nädalavahetus, mis… ei ole.
Ja on uus nädal, mis algab hamba juurekanalite puhtaksrookimisega ja mis kipub taas kiireks
minema… Egas midagi, ootame, nagu ikka, neljapäeva. Neljapäev on uus reede.
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