Résumé de Impostures Intellectuelles (Jean Bricmont & Alan Sokal) d'après Michel Siggen. Les deux auteurs s'attaquent au postmodernisme et au relativisme cognitif et culturel issu des sciences humaines du courant French Theory (Derrida, Lacan, Kristeva...). Ils dénoncent trois points : - le fait qu...
Tomorow's jobs and Phoenix Foundation Phoenix
You guys all remenber the Phoenix Foundation and its famous Director of Operations Pete Thornton as well as the best operative of the world : Angus MacGyver. The Phoenix Foundation was an entirely benevolent organization, with activites like diplomatic relations, environmental studies, technologica...
Visualizing Blogs
Via furrygoat.com. Look at this : This is a hierarchical view of 10 blogs, with 154 total entries. It also shows the size of the entries and details on how recent the posts are. By using a "TreeMap" (first designed by Ben Shneiderman), huge amounts of hierarchical data can be shown in a small amou...
Happy New Year 2004
OK, let's move forward ! ...
.doc meta-analysis
Rafi Haladjian proposes an interesting way to read word documents from a meta point of view in his book Devenez beau, riche et intelligent avec word, excel et ppt (in french) : - if the author has not used a stylesheet (for instance all the document is Normal and the authors put bold and italic stu...
CRAFT XMAS Special !
CRAFT XMAS Special Video ! (Quicktime) ...
odd future
Je lis je ne sais plus ou que les cloneurs raeliens se reunissaient a Crans-Montana il y a peu (rejoins par un Michel Houellebecq les soutenant). Des scientifiques timbrés voualnt cloner, cette histoire de serveur peer-to-peer situé dans les Territoires Occupés à Jenine... cela correspond finalemen...
Tactile Awareness Box
It's Christmas, so, I am into games today. Via freedom rider, the Tactile Awareness Box is described as "A treasure chest of "touchie-feelies." Set includes one of each: spiderball, 3" sensaball, squeeze ball, mini koosh ball, foam ball, waterlog, sticky squash ball, plus an Awareness Guide and pla...
Alain Bublex
I like Alain Bublex, a french artist who builds fake cities made up of standardized element that could be configurated in different ways. The "plugin city" before and after : He also proposes "Unités mobiles d'Habitation" located on buildings' roofs. So cool. ...
Integrated Data for Events Analysis
Integrated Data for Events Analysis (IDEA) "provides a comprehensive events framework for the analysis of international interactions by supplementing the event forms from all earlier projects with new event forms needed to monitor contemporary trends in civil and interstate politics. It uses a more...