Category: Culture
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It was Halloween in Paris
A few images I shot in the streets of Paris during the 2005 Halloween celebration organized by an association of shop keepers in the Guy Moquet quarter. The costumes were quite interesting and the acting was very lively. Click on the thumbnails below to open the larger image. Real fun! If you know who the…
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«The alchemy of desire» of Tarun J. Tejpal
«The alchemy of desire» is a surprising book. Its author, Tarun J. Tejpal, is know in India as an essay writer and an investigative journalist participating fully to the political life of his country. But his first novel is a total success. I had heard an interview of the author in les Matins de France…
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First Sony HD-DVD: Already late!
Sony was preparing a worldwide launch of its first High Definition DVDs (on Blu-Ray discs) for the 23rd of May. They decided to move it into the future. For a good reason: “The majority of our retail base and hardware partners have requested that we reconsider this date to better coincide with the first commercially…
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Books that will induce a mindfuck
Books that will induce a mindfuck is a post on Everything2.com, and it gives a list of pretty interesting English books.
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This Boring Headline Is Written for Google
That is exactly the title of an article just published in the New York Times and explaining how online publication had to adapt itself to search engines, their literal-minded approach to text and the impossibility to use nice, intelligent, witty, humorous, sarcastic titles.
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The best answer to the “What I’m doing with my life” question
I plan on living forever. So far, so good.
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First HD-DVD: I want action, more action!
This is probably the shouts heard in the corridors of the marketing department at Universal Video when preparing the launch of HD-DVD. In the coming month, the first titles for high-definition DVD will be: Serenity: action and science fiction Doom: horror, action and science fiction Apollo 13: suspense and action Cinderella Man: boxing and love…
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HDCP/HDMI broken, or nearly broken
The technology supposed to protect the equipments aimed at digital TV with a semi-secret protocol using techniques borrowed from the military in order to ensure that only approved devices can see the previous digital data of our movies, seems to be on its way to be broken and is already the target of very serious…