This morning in Lausanne, people seem eager to live in trees: ...
[VideoGame] Map Of Zelda
Via FAQ: Legend Of Zelda, the map of Yrule: ...
[MyResearch] Epistemic action versus pragmatic action
Kirsh, D. & Maglio, P. (1994). On distinguish between epistemic from pragmatic action. Cognitive Science, 18, 513-549. Epistemic actions: physical actions that make mental computations easier, faster ore more accurate. They are external actions that an agent performs to change his/her own computati...
[Weird] Royal Navy
I like British humor, read in the guardian: It was reported gravely by the papers that carried the story, the Royal Navy would, for the first time in 300 years, have fewer surface ships than the French navy.(...) we still have more submarines than they do, so war with France remains an option, shou...
[Weird] Mobog comments are amazing
Mobog display pictures sent by user of your camera-phone. What is great here, IMO, is not the variety of shitty picture, but rather the amazing comments made by viewers: - nice tits...better than janet jackson - go get the mailman!!! - You could spear fish what that nose!!! - steroids...no doubt - ...
[Weird] on-line simon
Simon is on-line here ! Thank you Mirweis Kahn Woualid Sangin ! ...
[Weird] Saddam Hole
I was amazed by all the picture depicting, describing, analyzing Saddam Hussein's hole in Tikrit. One of the most well documented is the one from the BBC: ...
Via le figaro, a propos des adeptes de la secte du mandarom: Ils guettent, paraît-il, la réincarnation annoncée de leur seigneur, le défunt Gilbert Bourdin, alias Rhamsa Manarah, emporté il y a deux ans par un diabète après s'être autoproclamé «messie cosmoplanétaire» : grand pourfendeur, à coups d...
[TheWorld] Critics toward Richard Florida
Very critical paper coming from City Journal: But cities rushing to embrace Floridas ideas have based their strategies more on wishful thinking than clear-eyed analysis. Neither the professor nor his most ardent adherents seem worried that the Internet generation formed its eccentric capitalist cu...
[The World] decline decline decline
As a matter of fact, after reading Richard Florida's book and few papers aside like Florida's take about War and the US or Nature (Immigration controls introduced under the 'war on terror' are restricting the flow of foreign researchers into the United States), it appears that EVERY COUNTRY believe...