July 2010
8 posts
Under Singapore law, the government can buy the land at any time, at a...
– Singapore Prepares to Gobble Up Its Last Village - NYTimes.com
Je crois sincèrement que la meilleure critique est celle qui est amusante et...
– Charles Beaudelaire, 1846.
June 2010
8 posts
"Apple of My Eye" - an iPhone 4 film on Vimeo →
Entirely shot & edited on the new iPhone 4. Impressive.
It is good for the PlayStation I think, but I don’t know how well it is...
– Mark Webber about the new stupid idea from the FIA for F1 next season (2011): Adjustable rear wing.
A good (board)game is a game in which one is always lacking one action point,...
– Wolfgang Kramer
May 2010
7 posts
Musique. Elle isole ton film de la vie de ton film (délectation musicale). Elle...
– Robert Bresson (Notes sur le cinématographe).
Facebook is a Ponzi scheme run by a very bad actor. The best way to
express our...
– Jason Calacanis in his email.
Ponzi scheme is a good way of putting it.
Tasteful video about swimmingpools in California.
The Enemy Within - Magazine - The Atlantic →
The tale of the Conficker worm. A good introduction to computer worms (there are 4 pages, don’t miss them).
April 2010
7 posts
A consumer is something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled...
– William Gibson
March 2010
8 posts
2 tags
Single Table Inheritance in Rails [Alex Reisner] →
Important article Rails article if you are going to use STI.
L’ensemble de l’univers Facebook est ludique à consulter, sauf les paramètres...
– LeTemps.ch | La guerre pour sauver la vie privée
February 2010
17 posts
Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages - NYTimes →
via Mr Gruber.
[…] Dans un pilote de série TV, beaucoup de choses sont amorcées sans être...
– Roland Kermarec à propos du pilote devenu Mulholland Drive.
[…] But on the other hand, the game systems are all cleverly designed and...
– Bruno Faidutti about El Grande
LLVM compiles itself. →
I always love those stories of compilers compiling themselves…
Just like the chicken & egg paradox…