L’effet pépito souligne l’impact de la compétence collective sur l’activité des entreprises. Suite au transfert de son usine de productions de pépito à l’Est, un groupe de l’agro alimentaire a été confrontée à une baisse de ses ventes de pépito liée à une perte de goût de ceux-ci. La compétence col...
[VideoGames] Mushroom-related game design
Myamoto's interview on gamasutra about mushroom-related game design. They have a very interesting point: The big challenge was the connectivity. Our question was, "How do we use the Game Boy Advance screen, and how do we use the GameCube screen, and find a way to make that fun?" The best example I ...
[Locative Media] BlueMonger: Bluetooth devices in the near vicinity
I am testing Bluemonger. This software for bluetooth-enabled mobile phones "running Java with support for the Bluetooth API. It will poll for Bluetooth devices in the near vicinity, list those devices and post their discovery to your weblog via XML-RPC". ...
[Tech] Anemone-based visualization tool
You can see nice anemone created thanks to data extracted from the usage of acg web site for the last few weeks or months. You can also watch this with live data by visiting this page. ...
[Culture] Mimiyo Tomozawa's work
I am a great fan of Mimiyo Tomozawa's artwork. Especially the booklet called "Viens chez moi" which describes the house of the future, explained for children, with children. You can also find a very nice book at dokidoki.fr. I am still trying to find one of her manga but it is really hard. ...
[MyResearch] A replay tool for half-life
The Big Brother Game Viewer is a simple and processor inexpensive way to monitor half-life games running the FlexBot mod. I still have to test it to see if it could be helpful for my purposes. ...
[MyResearch] A tentative schedule for my phd
Gosh! Eventually, this is my objective... ...
[LifeHack] ifeedyou/rss4you meeting
Today, roby and I met jerome. This was a fruitful discussion about our respective motivation to develop web-based news aggregators (jerome developed i feed you and we developed rss4you). Of course, one could say that our projects are competitors but I don't really think it is, since they should be ...
[Prospective] How to lure scientists
The International Herald Tribune about how to call scientists back home. This is still a hot topic! The world's scientists are like a flock of flamingos that migrates from briny lakes when they dry up and returns only when the lagoons are replenished. (...) A few years ago, gatherings like these of...
[Weird] Do you want to be a caregiver for the Gorilla Foundation?
Found on Craiglist: Major Responsibilities: * Daily care of gorillas Koko, Ndume, et al, and their facilities * Research in interspecies communication (via sign-language) Minimum Qualifications: * Undergraduate degree in a field relevant to above responsibilities (e.g., linguistics, anthropology, z...