Friday, October 7, 2005

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." 6:55:44 PM

The Daily Poligraf En lions 3 en 3 pour les équipes du DBFC cette semaine ! Lundi, les Nordiks ont remporté une victoire de 5 à 4 face à The Molix. Et hier soir, les Skywalkers ont vaincu la Grimace 5 à 2, tandis que les Chewbaccas n'ont fait qu'une bouchée de leurs adversaires qu'ils ont déclassés par la marque (approximative) de 12 à 2. La saison s'annonce amusante ! Work : About to be reading : Tea in the studio : Tea spoon : Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson [via The Mediaburn Radio Weblog] Soeurette Ruth a publié d'autres photos de son périple dans l'ouest. Voici "Les rockies" : Knowing the world you live in : Le diplomate Norvégien Charung Gollar s'est fait demandé de présenter aux Nations Unies un graphique montrant les principaux problèmes dans le monde en 2004. Il a présenté une série de huit images appelée "Le pouvoir des étoiles" et s'est fait applaudir pour la simplicité de son idée. Malgré le fait qu'il n'avait aucune prétention, son travail a été présenté afin de participer au Prix Nobel de Marketing. Les Québécois passent au numérique : Les Québécois sont entrés de plain-pied dans l'ère du numérique. En cinq ans, ils ont presque réussi à combler l'écart qui les séparait de l'ensemble des Canadiens en matière d'équipements et de services numériques. Si bien qu'aujourd'hui la majorité des ménages du Québec possède au moins un ordinateur (66 %), un lecteur DVD (63 %) et un téléphone portable (56 %). Par contre, seulement 36 % d'entre eux sont branchés à Internet haute vitesse. Un pourcentage qui pourrait toutefois grimper à 44 % au cours de la prochaine année alors que 246 000 ménages ont manifesté l'intention de s'abonner. 'teresting... Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters Annular Solar Eclipse at High Resolution : Eclipse Madrid : - poligraf [The Daily Poligraf] 2:23:32 PM

From John Battelle's Searchblog News: Google Announces Google Reader. Google is announcing as I type a new feedreader - a first generation one, but full text, which I think is the best approach. It's not up yet, but it will be shortly, in their Labs section. Google also announced its work on determining sex of a person using pattern recognition in photos. This is a first step toward ID'ing faces, then searching by face. Cool. Yahoo, by the way, also showed some cool photo stuff, a flickrstream that shows tags and images by cluster a long a timeline. Update: It's live. [John Battelle's Searchblog] 2:20:22 PM

Internet Over Power Lines Switching on power line Internet connectivity. One in five Europeans today enjoy broadband Internet access via competing technologies. Low-cost and fast data access over electricity network power lines is one such technology that is being extensively tested in four European nations. [Physics Org] 11:58:51 AM

RSS News Reader From Google news reader on steroids. Google Reader. Google has launched a news reader at the Web 2.0 conference. [MetaFilter] 11:55:30 AM

Darmstadt iPod SiM war in Darmstadt!. BjÃ?rn hat sich in Darmstadt iPod und Fotoapparat geschnappt. Freut mich sehr, danke schÃ?n! By podcast(at)annikrubens.de. [Schlaflos in Muenchen] 10:17:45 AM

Hello and Welcome to the Mental Health Hotline Podcast: "Hello and Welcome to the Mental Health Hotline." 9:23:13 AM

An Apple Supercluster for Europe An Apple supercluster for Europe. According to eWEEK and HPCWire, a U.K. startup company, Omneta plc, is about to build a distributed supercluster able to reach a peak performance of 120 teraflops for a sustained performance of about 70 teraflops. This supercomputer, which would become the most powerful in Europe, will be made of several thousands of Apple Xserve G5 servers and Xserve RAID storage systems. The cluster will use the Interoute network which covers today 61 cities in 19 countries. The system should be commercially available next year, offering several solutions to potential customers, such as pay-as-you-go programs or fixed term contracts. However, there are significant issues to solve before this deployment can be successful, both financial and technical. Read more... [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends] 8:24:03 AM

VeriSign Buys Weblogs.com from Dave Winer VeriSign snags Weblogs.com. Internet domain registrar acquires Weblogs.com and its "ping" service in a $2.3 million cash deal. [CNET News.com] 8:16:04 AM

From BrainFuel Shop Composition. Shop Composition is one of those unique sites you run across every once in a while. There’s just something about it that breaks the mold. I mean, how many sites do you see that are all Flash like this and include full screen graphics yet load almost instantly? Plus, the full sized graphics are all super-colorful, look great, and easy to get to. [BrainFuel] 8:08:30 AM

Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library image database. 30,000 photos in the online archive of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library, a non-profit initiative from the University of Virginia, offering a large database of texts, audio, video, images, maps, bibliographies, journals, links and other resources for Himalayan studies. [MetaFilter] 8:05:00 AM

Ron and Sue's Pumpkin Pumpkin weighs in at 1,085 pounds. MILTON, W.Va. - It took five men and a forklift to get Ron and Sue Boor's prize pumpkin onto the scale at the West Virginia Pumpkin Festival. The verdict: 1,085 pounds, a record for the event. [azcentral.com | thebuzz] 8:00:47 AM