I am a great fan of the architecture of World Financial Center (by Cesar Pelli). Great stuff, especially the top.Unfortunately, those following pictures were taken 9 11 2001 and some towers are missing in the background. ...
[Weird] Nouveau concept francais: la webisation
Lu sur une mailing list française: Le 9 février dernier, le premier ministre a officiellement lancé le projet Adele qui vise à mettre en place l'administration électronique en France. Un grand nombre de chantiers concernant le Web se mettent en place dans les collectivités territoriales et notammen...
[MyResearch] Event Like Experiment Analysis: what about rugby !
I was recently reading the french newspaper Liberation and they were mentionning an interesting topic: rugby analysis: Depuis cinq ans, à Marcoussis (Essonne), le centre national du rugby, tous les matchs internationaux sont ainsi répertoriés, numérisés, disséqués et passés au crible impitoyable d'...
(Space and Place) Immortel Ad Vitam Buildings
I just saw the new Enki Bilal's movie Immortel Ad Vitam. I really liked this esthetic, a kind of retro-futurist arty architecture: . The action takes place in NYC in 2095, the WTC has been redesigned in a very odd way (which I like). I think the author kept the Battery Park buildings which are alre...
[MyResearch] Wireless positionning: 2 solutions
According to Johnny Shih (thesis, pdf file), it seems that there are two solutions for localizing a device thanks to a 802.11b network, both use the signal strength: - empirical model: based on storing pre-recorded measurements in a database (a series of selected points for which the locations (coo...
[Humor] Educate people regarding God's Law
Via heures creuses, a letter from Jim.He asks some hilarious question to a religious person. Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a US radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination accordin...
(Tech) Gnod: a graphical search interface for cultural stuff
Gnod is a self-adapting system, living on this server and 'talking' to everyone who comes along. It allows you to discover new bands and artist, know related authors linked to your favorite, discover new movies and so forth. ...
There is the Game Developpers Conference 2004 in San José. Gamsutra did a webpage about this event (live news coverage). I wish I could attend Amy Jo Kim's talk about Social Trends in Mobile Entertainment. To create great mobile games for this audience, we need to understand how they use cellphone...
[Video Games] My first video ame: 3D Monster Maze
Screenshot of the first video game I played: 3D Monster Maze, in 1985. ...
(Space and Place) Dark Future a la Blade Runner: Destroyed Buldings from Sarajevo
Cruising around on the Web, I found those pictures of destroyed buildings in Sarajevo. This is just meant to remenber that war occured in Europe in 1990s... I see this as possible pictures of our future. In previous wars indeed, there were not lots of high rises. It's a kind of dark blade runner fu...