[Space and Place] World Financial Center

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. ...

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[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...

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[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'...

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(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...

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[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...

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[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...

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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...

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