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...
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
A few days (or even hours!) of searching the blogosphere can overwhelm newcomers. The amount of information is incredible. How can a user keep track of various blogs? It seems impossible to stay in touch with more than a hand full of bloggers each day. Fortunately, a solution exists to simplify the process of reading large numbers of blogs: RSS (rich (or RDF) site summary).So What is RSS?
Perhaps French should have done as Spanish and Portuguese have, ruthlessly adapting English words to their own orthography. You might guess a listin, even a mitin, a meeting (and Chileans reverse the process with a walking closet, a cupboard you can walk in to). But would you spot bluyinsblue jeans? The Peruvian guachiman (and his wife, the guachimana) guarding your house, maybe. But the hitchhiker's ride, a raid, perhaps with the driver of a picape? Or the Portuguese queque, a little cake? And what is a Cuban's jonron? A home run at beisboltwo of many sports terms that have gone worldwide: you may suffer a nocaute if you deride the gol scored by the favourite time of some Brazilian football fã, unless, being a slang-speaking Italian, you deflect trouble at the last moment and are salvato in corner.comme mèl ou cédérome. Et blogue!
ON THE six square feet next to the computer on which this article is being written, a complex ecology has developed. There are approximately (it is impossible to be precise without disturbing the natural order) 100 assorted print-outs (e-mails, web pages, newspaper articles), 12 books, ten academic articles, six pamphlets, five notebooks, three newspapers, two magazines, two faxes, two telephone books, one file containing further faxes and print-outs, six pens, one box of matches, one key (origin unknown) and one handheld organiser. Some of this is being used in the writing of this article. Some of it will be used in the writing of future articles. Some of it will never be used at all, but will eventually, when the reason why this correspondent originally thought it so interesting has faded, be thrown in the bin.The character, value and management of personal paper archives (PDF) Can't find the others two papers.
Kids don't have a clue about how things work. Sure, kids can whiz through a lot of menus and commands, etc. But I understand what is happening underneath -- they are clueless. This bothers me. Society seems to think that because kids have memorized the actions required to get something working that they understand it. "My kid is a whiz at technology," they brag. This scares me. This is why China will become the dominant nation and the US will fall behind. We don't understand that true knowledge is more than learning how to push the buttons. In fact, those with true knowledge are not necessarily adept at using the stuff. Let's not confuse one with the other.Reminded me of what Douglas Adams wrote in How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:
- everything thats already in the world when youre born is just normal;
- anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it
- anything that gets invented after youre thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until its been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
Innovation can just happen serendipitously, but don't count on it. The kind of innovation you need for continued success requires intentionally providing the right inputs and transforming them into valuable innovative outcomes. You need an Innovation Machine comprised of the right processes, organization and culture.Je cherche une autre traduction/adaptation de brainstorming session que remue méninges. Des propositions ? Il faut que cela rappelle le groupe, la coopération, la folie furieuse crescendo et puis le calme serein une fois l'idée férrée: il ne reste plus qu'à l'habiller.
Force your way in with a joke, counsels Veronique. It's a cruel world out there and he who dares definitely wins. Statistically if you try 10 times it's going to work once or twice.Paris ? Where is Paris ?
For women Veronique's advice is different. Even if you are running your own company you have to appeal to the man for help, make him think you need him, she says.
The article concludes that there is no single magic bullet, but using abstinence as a part of an overall program seems to be more effective than not mentioning it at all.
Although its growth is still somewhat sluggish and in the early stages, Internet-based calling - based on a technology called voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP - has expanded so much that it is understandable why monopolistic telephone companies, especially in the developing world, are feeling threatened.
Internet-based calls account for more than 10 percent of all international calling traffic today, up from almost nothing five years ago, as they reached about 18 billion minutes worldwide, from 9.9 billion at the end of 2001, according to TeleGeography Inc., a Washington-based research firm. Most of these calls started or ended in poor countries.
Unlike more orthodox and optimistic sci-fi writers, Lem emphasizes the paradoxes and problems that new knowledge will bring with it. For Lem, artificial intelligence entails artificial stupidity. As the narrator of The Futurological Congress (1971) puts it, A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it... And therefore we have the malingerants, fudgerators, and drudge-dodgers, not to mention the special phenomenon of simulimbecility or mimicretinism.
Nine names were selected to represent each category: black women, white women, black men and white men. Last names common to the racial group were also assigned. Four résumés were typically submitted for each job opening, drawn from a reservoir of 160. Nearly 5,000 applications were submitted from mid-2001 to mid-2002. Professors Bertrand and Mullainathan kept track of which candidates were invited for job interviews.
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is planning to extend the copyright protection period for movies to 70 years after release from the current 50 years, agency officials said Sunday.
Six of one, half a dozen of something totally opposite - that's the setup of E!'s embarrassingly enjoyable new "Star Dates" - a series matching show-biz has-beens with desperate wanna-bes for one train-wreck half- hour weekly.
And it's not only about content, says Koerner. It's about the way HBO does business. They commit to the concept and to the creators, and then they let them go ahead.
A lot of people who gravitate to HBO are uncomfortable at first because they're not used to all the freedom. It's atypical of the business models that creative people are used to.
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