Fundamental softwares:- Quicksilver : application launcher. - ecto: blog interface. - Transmit: ftp client. - bibdesk: bibtex managing tool (bibliography). - subethaedit/: txt editor rendezvous enabled. - NetNewsWire: RSS/RDF aggregator. - Mudwalker: a MOO client. - Proteus: instant messaging clien...
[LifeHack] Ideas all day long
What to do when you have ideas all along the day... Idea Recording by Charles Cave. get ideas at all hours of the day. What can I do? How can I keep a journal to record my ideas? Tell me about Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks? How can index cards be used to organise my thoughts? ...
[Space and Place] Cool lab: Cognitive Sciences Institute, Lyon, France
I really appreciate this lab: Cognitive Sciences Institute, located in Lyon, France. This low rise building, made of concrete, has a nice japanese garden where people can keep on chatting about statistics, brainstorm, reading papers quietly and other researcher-activity... ...
[Prospective] A remote control to stop cars
Read in the guardian: A hi-tech device that can bring speeding cars to a halt at the flick of a switch is set to become the latest weapon in the fight against crime. Police forces in Britain and the US have ordered tests of the new system that delivers a blast of radio waves powerful enough to knoc...
[Weird] Map-Art
Maps converted into cool arty drawings. This is japanese. ...
[Weird] Porn without porn
An interesting trend: porn picture with figures removed. ...
[Research] Augmenting Expectation in Playful Arena Performances with Ubiquitous Computing
Funny stuff: Augmenting Expectation in Playful Arena Performances with Ubiquitous Intimate Technologies by Alice Bayliss, Simon Lock and Jennifer G. Sheridan. The inherent freedom of playful arenas combined with intimate ubiquitous technologies has led to a new breed of performance. We draw on theo...
[Research] Statistics with R
This week, I am trying to learn how to use R, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics (GNU project ). I wrote a kind of awfull tutorial. It is cool to compute statistics and to visualize results. I tried R on an old data set coming from my masters thesis. Here is for insta...
[Space and Place] Mapping Paris' Noises
This Parisian website allows you to check the noises level in Paris. This portion depicts the area where my friends David and Elodie lives (Big up!): ...
Position Paper for a workshop about Game Analysis
Our position paper (.pdf) for the workshop (British HCI conference)Games and Social Network: analysis of multiplayer games has been accepted. Analysis of a Location-Based Multi-Player Game by Nicolas Nova and Fabien Girardin The growing number of location-based services fosters the creation of mult...