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 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...
I still prefer my text files and my own MySQL databases to anyone else’s, and I’m not sure why I’m so alone in that sentiment.
Read also Slavery 2.0: Them, Us, and Me (ou la version originale: Esclavage 2.0 : Eux, nous et moi)
When /. discovers the french dsl boxes: Finally, a real reason to hate the French...
Lucky for them they haven't read the Freebox spec then. (et pour les dégroupés, 28Mbps, débit maximal)
Since PHP code found on the internet can be crap, this new project will be helpful!!! An automatic code auditor for php Spike PHP Security Audit Tool (written in php and based on RATS). Once the code is ok, Optimizing it is the next step.
When /. discovers politics.
The Guardian: Israelis ignored repeated warnings before killing UN observers
The Unifil commander, Major General Alain Pellegrini, 59, who has served in international missions in Bosnia and Sarajevo, made several calls to a liaison team within the Israeli military, known as the foreign affairs unit, to say the strikes were dangerously close to his troops.-- Jerusalem Post: US blocks UN from condemning Israel
An Irish army officer in the area also warned the Israeli military six times that their attacks were putting UN observers at risk, Ireland's foreign ministry said yesterday. "On six separate occasions he was in contact with the Israelis to warn them that their bombardment was endangering the lives of UN staff in south Lebanon," a department of foreign affairs spokesman said. "He warned, 'You have to address this problem or lives may be lost.'"
Earlier Wednesday, UN officials said that the UN observers in Lebanon had telephoned the IDF 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position.-- [New Zealand Prime Minister] Helen Clark criticises Israel over UN bombing
Jane Lute, assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping, told the UN Security Council in New York that the UN observation post near Khiam came under close IDF fire 21 times Tuesday - including 12 hits within 100 yards and five direct hits - until the peacekeepers' post was destroyed.
UN officials said Hezbollah guerillas had been operating in the area of the post near the eastern end of the border with Israel, a routine tactic to prevent Israel from attacking them.
"We did repeatedly in recent days say (to Israel) that this was an exposed position, that Hezbollah militants were 500 meters (yards) away shielding themselves near UN workers and civilians," UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said. "That's why it is so inexplicable that what happened happened."
I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a United Nations observer post in southern Lebanon that has killed two United Nations military observers, with two more feared dead.
This coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long established and clearly marked United Nations post at Khiyam occurred despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that United Nations positions would be spared Israeli fire. Furthermore, General Alain Pelligrini, the United Nations Force Commander in south Lebanon, had been in repeated contact with Israeli officers throughout the day on Tuesday, stressing the need to protect that particular United Nations position from attack.
The four peace keeper killed were from China, Finland, Canada, and Austria.
Beirut's Haret Hreik quarter before and after, on GoogleEarth and the KMZ file of the current Israel-Lebanon war. Ou en français Le conflit au Liban sur Google Earth
Resource-Intensive Google Queries or trying to find a google query that takes longer than a second to run (via Link Machine Go)
The political brain: a recent brain-imaging study shows that our political predilections are a product of unconscious confirmation bias
PlayPumps or Kid powered merry-go-round water pumps.
95 Theses of Geek Activism: how to defend freedom with tech (via Boing Boing)
Everything will enter the public domain some day- even Mickey Mouse.
Steal This Disc, an independent filmmaker talks about movie piracy
What Does Blogspace Look Like? It reminds me of some parts of the Mandelbrot set
10 questions to a bunch of really great programmers
Compare them to the answers of a really shitty programmer:
How did you learn programming? Ordinapoche, CALL -151, locksmith, Mandelbrot, ftp.funet.fi et le web, ou comment j'ai produit mon premier bug
Were any schools of any use? yep
LtU turns six!. LtU is Lambda the Ultimate, the programming Languages weblog.
Almost every time I visit, I realize how little of Computer Science I actually learned during my undergrad days.
Boy, amen to that. Were it not for LtU and one private mailing list I'm on, I would likely not have learned about TAPL, the Curry-Howard Correspondence, Coq, Haskell, etc. (Amazingly, I learned about O'Caml somewhere else.)
What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should posses? Laziness counterbalanced with a certain obsession with perfection... and the will to read around.
Although Linus answer is spot on (go to the Daily WTF)
Do you think mathematics and/or physics are an important skill for a programmer? Why? I can't say, I haven't been on the other side of the pond, but I have the gut feeling that math helps.
What do you think will be the next big thing in computer programming? X-oriented programming, y language, quantum computers, what? I wish it would be a modern Hypercard (or the python version of eToys), but for sure I will have fun with quantum computing...
Alan Kay Keynote at EuroPython and the video part 1, part 2 and part 3
If you had three months to learn one relativly new technology, which one would you choose? it's not a new technology but I'd really like to learn how to build my own hardware.
What do you think makes some programmers 10 or 100 times more productive than others? Talent, practice, experience. And knowing your tools. And talent.
Creating an Application in Five Minutes
Probably the first truly easy-to-use GUI programming tool was HyperCard. HyperCard was so easy to use and so good at what it tried to be (and so oddly implemented) that it has never really been bettered. Even the various attempts to clone HyperCard (notably Toolbook, SuperCard, Runtime Revolution) ever succeeded in making a completely live development tool (i.e. where using your program and developing your program were seamless acts). Indeed, I would suggest that a web-based HyperCard clone is a true killer app.
What are your favourite tools (operating system, programming/scripting language, text editor, version control system, shell, database engine, other tools you can’t live without) and why do you like them more than others? the first thing I install is a fast to launch text editor (usually SciTE and/or e3). Then Firefox. Then a web server and a scripting language (first perl then python). Then my homemade scripts.
What is your favourite book related to computer programming? The one I use the most is actually the Perl Cookbook. But Internet and a search engine is really how I program these days.
What is Your favourite book NOT related to computer programming? A dictionnary
What are your favourite music bands/performers/compositors? In no particular order, Prince before he went down, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, the Cowboy Junkies, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Serge Gainsbourg, Georges Brassens, Randy Newman. And some of Frank Zappa.
Tite Yokossi : de Natitingou au lycée Louis-le-Grand
"Oui, il n'est pas mauvais. Il y a mieux dans la catégorie hors du commun en prépa à Louis-le-Grand. Mais parmi les personnes normales, il est excellent."
C'est Israël le vrai responsable or the english original A letter from Chomsky and others on the recent events in the Middle East
Sinon y'a aussi BHL La guerre vue d'Israël
Confronting Porn's Double Standards
Porn fans love to speculate, debate, and bicker on adult-industry message boards, and a favorite subject lately—one which has generated several threads and hundreds of posts on adultdvdtalk.com and xxxporntalk.com—has been a male performer named Christian (myspace.com/christianx33). He's a popular topic cum target of conversation and controversy because he has appeared in gay, heterosexual, and transsexual movies.
beautiful agony - facettes de la petite mort (via Reddit)
Beautiful Agony is dedicated to the beauty of human orgasm. This may be the most erotic thing you have ever seen, yet the only nudity it contains is from the neck up.
jm - @writeme@ - un ptit mot ?