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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)
Une élection présidentielle que l’on peut qualifier d’historique, une
crise économique qui l’est autant, et même la fameuse Hannah Montana herself
n’ont pas été en mesure de saisir la 1ère dans le classement annuel
des termes de recherche requêtés sur Yahoo. Au lieu de cela, pour la 7ème
fois en 8 ans, ce titre sera attribué à Britney Spears !
Dans son announce, Yahoo essaye d’expliquer ce résultat “En 2008,
elle a fait un retour avec un nouvel album, trois MTV Music Awards, une apparition en guest dans
un sitcom et un documentaire autobiographique”. Certes, cela peut sans doute expliquer cet
engouement envers la chanteuse mais on est en droit de se poser des questions surtout
lorsqu’on voit le Top 10 du moteur de rechercher qui inclut un bon panel de
représentants de people: Miley Cyrus, Jessica alba, Lindsay Lohan, angelina Jolie ou
American Idol (l’émision qui cartonne partout dans le monde), Obama n’arrive
qu’en 3ème résultat de recherche.
En plus des termes les plus recherchés Yahoo a établi un ranking des politiciens,
athlètes olympiques, femmes, termes économiques… les plus populaires.
Ne pensez pas que la fascination pour les “peoples” est propre à Yahoo,
souvenez vous des search rankings for 2007 de Google, Britney était également
numéro 3 avec American Idol, Anna Nicole Smith et autres Paris Hilton en tête de
liste. Il est clair c’est chauffeurdebuzz et PurePeople qui ont tout compris, on n’est clairement pas dans le bon business
Warner is set to bring the John Grisham blockbuster 'A Time to Kill' to Blu-ray this February,
though sans any bonus features. Starring Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock, the hit legal
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Boinx Software on Monday announced Mouseposé 3.1, the latest update to its mouse-pointer
highlighting tool for presentations, screencasts and demos. Users can now define a list of custom
keystrokes that remain invisible when using the keystroke display, with the full range of key
combinations only shown when modifier keys are pressed. The update is also claimed to improve
stability and performance...
You might think you're some kind of l337 h4x0r because you used software to unlock your iPhone. Big
deal! You've got nothing on the Vietnamese hackers that'll unlock your iPhone for you the hard
way....
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Onilne service Joost says it has published a native supporting application for iPhone and iPod
touch owners. The app lets users view hosted video, which is normally restricted for Apple
handhelds due to the latter's incompatibility with Flash. Joost claims to have over 400 TV shows
and 1,200 movies on its network, as well as some 18,000 music videos. Content is divided into
genres such as anime...
Weightbot ($4) is a weight tracking application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Users can set goals,
record their weight and then track their progress over time. Progress can be viewed in a graph form
that can be plotted by days, weeks, months or years. Users who would rather keep this information
private can also choose to add a numeric password to keep the data safe.aSleep ($1) contains a
series ...
Onilne service Joost says it has published a native supporting application for iPhone and iPod
touch owners. The app lets users view hosted video, which is normally restricted for Apple
handhelds due to the latter's incompatibility with Flash. Joost claims to have over 400 TV shows
and 1,200 movies on its network, as well as some 18,000 music videos. Content is divided into
genres such as anime...
Pownce, the microblogging service often compared to
Twitter, has been acquired by Six Apart. According to the company blog, the service
will be shutdown on December 15th, while the main Pownce team – Leah Culver
and Mike Malone – will join Six Apart. Users will have the option to
“import [their] posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.”
The brainchild of Culver and Digg founder Kevin Rose, Pownce launched with much fanfare in 2007. But
despite the early buzz and in many ways a superior feature-set, the service hasn’t been
able to gain nearly the type of traction as the darling of short-form messaging
– that of course being Twitter.
It doesn’t sound like Six Apart has aspirations to revamp Pownce and take on Twitter
either. They echo the sentiment that this deal is more about acquiring talent from Pownce,
writing, “we are very sorry the site will be closing ... We’re planning
on doing great things with the help and expertise of the Pownce team, and can’t wait to see
all the results of their hard work.”
Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka will also be joining Six Apart as advisers as part of the deal.
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Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:
Leahculver / The Pownce Blog: Goodbye
Pownce, Hello Six Apart — We have some very big news today at
Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology,
have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad
and Vox.
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//div a href="http://www.gladinet.com/p/index.htm"Gladinet/a is a new Windows utility that aims to
help bridge the divide between desktop and web-based applications and storage. Here's how it works.
You install the free (at least while in Beta) Gladinet utility and select the web based services
and applications that you want to access locally. For example, you can mount your Windows Live
SkyDrive or Amazon S3 Storage as a local drive that you can access using Windows Explorer. br /br
/You can also mount your Google Picasa Web Albums and Google Docs folders as if they were local
folders, allowing you to upload, download, and access documents and images stored on Google's
servers as if they were on your desktop.br /br /But the ability to mount remote storage as a local
folder is just the tip of the iceberg. You can also use Gladinet to launch web based applications
like Google Docs, Google Calendar, or ThinkFree Doc, XLS, or PPT viewers in a standalone window as
if they were desktop apps.br /br /Last, but certainly not least, you can use Gladinet to mount
folders on remote computers as local folders. br /br /[via a
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Now that we've entered the final month of the year, look for our site (and several others) to spend
some time looking back at 2008. We here at Cinematical will kick off our year-end
festivities real soon, but in the meantime Yahoo Movies was
first out of the gate with a list of the most popular movie trailers of 2008. Keep in mind this is
only according to Yahoo's numbers and represents the most watched, not necessarily the best (we'll
have that list later this month).
As expected, a good majority of this list is made up of big summer blockbuster-type stuff, and
guess which flick leads the pack? Yup, the one with that damn bat. The top two (Dark Knight and Indiana
Jones) don't surprise me in the least, but the next two are ... Twilight (3) and The Incredible Hulk (4)?
Really? Those vampires even beat everyone's favorite boy wizard, Harry Potter, who came in at a
disappointing sixth on the list, behind Iron Man. Check out the titles below -- anything
surprise you? Did you expect Twilight to take the third spot behind whoppers like Dark
Knight and Indy? Sound off ...
1. The Dark Knight
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
3. Twilight
4. The Incredible Hulk
5. Iron Man
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Wanted
8. Hancock
9. Sex and the City
10. Kung Fu Panda
The federal government is reviewing applications from hundreds of banks seeking rescue funding and
is "actively" developing new programs to right the nation's unsettled financial system, Treasury
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Incoming national security adviser Jim Jones is a retired general who advocates for a diverse
energy supply and clean-energy technologies in the name of national security.
Barack Obama put the finishing touches on the senior echelons of his administration almost two
months before he takes the oath of office, with Hillary Clinton, his former rival, topping the roll
call of announcements
The Mucky Wheel electronic
instrument turns out the blips, bleeps, and bloops with a satisfyingly sea-going motif. Design
and construction photos available here. [via Synthtopia]
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//abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for high-res gallery of the Bentley Continental
GT Speed/small/strong/embr //div br /Ever since Bentley came out from under the shadow of
Rolls-Royce after the Volkswagen takeover in the late 1990s, the marque has been on a roll. The
venerable British brand started getting its first bespoke designs in over half a century, which
paid off in a huge spike in sales. After topping 10,000 sales for the first time in 2007, Bentley
is feeling the same force of gravity as everyone else (except Audi it seems) this year. So far
sales have dropped by 30 percent in 2008 and the Crewe factory has already cut production by 15
percent. Further cuts are likely and Bentley is providing assistance to dealers who have too much
inventory. With the situation on Wall Street unlikely to abate anytime soon, it appears that
Bentley's 37 U.S. dealers will be feeling the pain for a while longer.br /br /div
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