Looking for the The Google Font? It is Catull, but found out more about the Google logo by reading the Google Font Page
Fancy reading my Looking for the Spam collection ? It's even getting multilingual
Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux... want to try it ??? Knoppix is really nice. And easy. Download, burn, reboot. Et voila, Linux is running...
People enjoy adventure. People want to fantasize, people want to explore. People want to nurture. People want to grow. People want to procreate.
Celia Pearce: (Laughs)
Louis Castle: And I don't mean in that way, I mean they want to fulfill their creative desires and build and create. They want their ideas and their thought patterns to exist beyond their mundane and somewhat limited existence. And all of those things can be supported in games. The only problem is that people also like to dominate and people like to control. And it's really easy to make games about this. So right now all games are focused around dominance and control, by and large, because it appeals to a 10-15 year old male audience who is willing to spend the money and sees a computer or gaming system as a device that they can entertain themselves with. I think it goes back to arcades. They went into the arcades and this was a way for somebody to dominate and control a particular peer group if you weren't physically fit to do it. It was no different than sports.
CP: Sports for nerds.
LC: Yes Sports for nerds.
"Who knows why?" one publishing executive sighs. "Books are competing more with movies and cable than ever before."
And, he adds, "you do reach a price issue here."
Just-published hardback books are expensive. It's hard to pay $25 for a book, he says, if 20 pages into a story you discover you don't like it.
A program that may push cognitive technology to a new level is being launched by the Department of Defense. The DOD, a longtime supporter and user of artificial-intelligence systems, aims to build what it is calling an "enduring personalized cognitive assistant," or Epca.
The system will be able to "reason, use represented knowledge, learn from experience, accumulate knowledge, explain itself, accept direction, be aware of its own behavior and capabilities as well as respond in a robust manner to surprises"
[SOS Media is a 10-year-old] global programme to support the development of editorially independent and non-partisan media in areas ravaged by conflict. [It] has achieved impressive results in Southeastern Europe, Africa and Asia. As the media became instruments of war in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, UNESCO sought to support non-partisan reporting. To this end, it provided print and broadcast journalists with equipment and supplies, helped them communicate across lines of fire and organize distribution. With the World Association of Newspapers, the International Federation of Journalists and the Council of Europe, UNESCO helped set up the Independent Balkan Media Coordination Centre in Slovenia to keep track of press freedom violations in the former Yugoslavia.
What is the impact of globalization in the fields of education, culture and knowledge sharing?Read the book Globalization and Its Discontents (interesting reviews here and here)
New technologies can support cultural diversity by making it easier for communities to express themselves. But globalization has sometimes been pushed too fast and in an inappropriate way, threatening the stability of existing cultures. Many societies have traditional ways of handling social support, but sometimes international institutions have come in with assistance programmes that undermine those local systems.
Relentless population growth and declining working conditions are creating a severe shortage of teachers in the worlds classrooms, which may lead to a slide in educational standards according to a new global survey of teaching conditions.
The thing that I found from the reading was that visualisation is masculine ability, while linguistics is a feminine brain ability. To be a programmer, you need both of the above abilities - the visualisation ability to be able to build the dependency structures and mentally model the code, and then linguistics to be able to express the solution in the appropriate target language.Reminded me of the old classic: The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Etre listé parmi les weblogs francophones me laisse un sentiment ambigü, car j'ai été frappé par le fait que les weblogs qui m'intéressent sont surtout des weblogs anglophones, et que les francophones que j'apprécie sont plus souvent québécois que français...
contrairement au monologue intérieur, le blog s'efforce d'être cohérent, d'éviter les redondances. comprenez: l'évocation d'un seul lieu, un mot, fait défiler devant mes yeux des centaines de souvenirs, y compris le souvenir même d'évocations passées et des discours intérieurs qu'elles ont provoqué. pour vous, le lieu n'évoque rien, et le mot provoque des associations différentes, auxquelles vous êtes très probablement indifférents.Classement de YahooFr
As I disembarked at Charles-de-Gaulle airport early Monday morning, I was elated to be "home". It felt so comforting being crushed by a mass of returning French people as they pushed to get closer to the front of the immigrations line. That yellow marker on the floor that says Attendez-là - I screamed at a guy - is there for a reason. Pauvre con! he uttered, and I knew I was back; yes, just as slick Nokias started playing electronic Beethoven and the Macarena in the pockets of fellow plane-mates. As our bags rolled out, 43% of my adopted compatriots lit up dangling Marlboros with expressions of great physical and self-righteous relief, inches in front of signs that forbade smoking. I was suddenly a true-blue American again, and thought (in English) that undisciplined egotists like these should be lynched.
This despite lingering unemployment, the stifling of entrepreneurial energy, rising racial tension, the moral bankruptcy of the French political class, the humiliation of some of the country's most ambitious companies, bitterness at France's declining role in the world -- and the general misery of everyday existence in that desperate country.
the 2002 Durex Global Survey showed they are enjoying a busy love life, having sex an average of 139 times a year. And some countries are racing way ahead - the French are the most amorous, having sex 167 times a year, while lovers in Singapore are lagging behind on 110.
jm - @writeme@