Nothing and Some More

Hier y'avait Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine sur Arte et c'était cool. Et histoire de faire un peu d'audience, ils vont passer Romance. Rocco Siffredi sur Arte, donc. Le prochain c'est Baise moi ?

A propos du Chinois en Chine et de Ursula Andress en maillot sur la plage en particulier, Dr No était sorti 3 ans avant.

Reading Excel files in Perl, without win32.

What's the Baffler ? Sample from the 14th edition I'd Like to Force the World to Sing
An ode to OK soda , and the AltCultute entry.

A propos de Okay generation, faut quand même que je mentionne Les visiteurs (donc le remake a pas vraiment marché aux USA (un peu moins de 5 milions de USD au BoxOffice US dixit The Movie Time (et imdb confirme))

Interesting Japanese Mailing lists

Democracy held hostage

We are fighting for freedom -- including the right to vigorously debate.
More distressingly, the silence-is-patriotic mentality has also gained momentum in the Democratic Party, the press and even liberal activist circles.
An elite press consortium made up of the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and CNN also apparently handed the Bush administration another big favor this week when it indefinitely delayed making public the results of its Florida election recount.
In the end, it won't be military superiority that determines the outcome of this war. As our implacable fundamentalist foes have told the world, this is a war of values. We cannot win by sacrificing ours. If democracy and freedom are to win over the forces of terror and theocracy, they first must flourish at home.

E-learning, a way to revive rural areas ? (via JiT)

German Firm Battles Banner-Free Web Content If I understand well, the engine counts the hits: if you download the main page, but not the nice banner, that does mean you're blocking add.

"Internet companies are going down," he said. Web sites have a right to force visitors to make a choice between watching banners or being denied access to content, he maintains.

J'imagine bien mon poste TV qui refuse que je zappe pendant les pubs.

The Hitachi mu-chip

Disney Forms Game Entertainment Business Unit

Entertainment game software is a fast growing business, with retail software sales expected to reach $15 billion this calendar year. Disney stated that soon, people no longer will have to sit together at a table -- or at a single PC or game station -- to play a game. They will be able to play and interact across continents and thousands of miles, through a variety of platforms or stations. Unlike most parlor games and even current online games, they need not even speak the same language to play together.

Dans Sega Phantasy Star Online, y'a une simili traduction automatique qui permet de jouer avec tout le monde ou presque.

Big Brother or Big Monster ?