I already talked about the fact that I do not believe in social software (link) and I do prefer using each other's blogroll as the actual networking tool. I explained that it is because I am more interested into what people do (directly explicit in weblogs) than what people are. Last week end, whil...
[Weird] Pictures of a dirty apartment
I am always impressed by this kind of things, I was looking for pictures of dirty appartment and finally I stumbled across this cool website: Squalor Survivor: Squalor is a confronting word. It's a degree of mess that goes beyond untidiness. The state of the house deteriorates, small piles be...
[Prospective] William Gibson, streets and tools
I do agree with William Gibson about the fact that "The street finds its own uses for things" as mentioned by Gareth Branwyn in his book "Jamming The Media". La spirale: I noticed that you quote William Gibson's sentence "The street finds its own uses for things" in Jamming The Media. Was he a big ...
Paper intéressant: "Hierarchie européenne ou réseau mondial? Une analyse relationnelle de Paris et de Lyon" par L. Vereecken*, B. Derudder*, F. Witlox* and P.J. Taylor. Nombreux sont les auteurs à mentionner la position dominante de Paris et de Londres en tant que métropole européenne. Cette affirm...
[Tech] Game Boy to handle text messaging
According to news.com, the Game Boy will handle text messaging . Software maker Majesco is readying a wireless application for Nintendo's popular Game Boy console that will let the gadget handle cell-style text messaging. (...) The product will be available later this year. Majesco already makes vi...
[Weird] Minimal onomatopeic blogging
barf!(this concept has been launched by mirweis) ...
[Weird] Reverse engineering of CIA report
I am no into cryptographycal stuff but this is interesting (in french). David Naccache presented at Eurocrypt 2004. Un passage recouvert à l'encre noire dans un document récemment diffusé par la Maison Blanche a été reconstitué. La méthode pourrait être appliquée à bon nombre d'archives déclassifié...
[Space and Place] I like Manchester
I really like Manchester. Here are some pictures taken there last week at the Futuresonic conference. ...
[Research] Ben Shneiderman: Human Needs and Mobile Technologies: Small, fast, and fun
Ben Shneiderman will be keynote speaker at Mobisys The central thesis of "Leonardo's Laptop" (MIT Press, 2002) is that designers who are sensitive to human needs are more likely to make the breakthroughs that yield new technologies successes. Therefore, a theory of mobile devices would focus on co...
[Space and Place] Mobile Phone in Morroco
This picture shows a "Teleboutique" in the Ourika Valley (Morroco). They sell mobile phone, calling cards and allow you to phone. And the network is good (nice roaming as well). In addition, Morroco seems to be a very good place for the Internet, I found lots of cybercafés in Marrakech and even th...