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You might have heard about Alison Jackson, controversial photographer which tries to makes us think about our relation (or fixation as shes says) with fame and celebrity culture.

She’s currently exhibiting her art in LA and will be in Paris from April 2 to 7.

Bush with Rubik’s Cube

From a recent presse release :

Alison Jackson creates films, photographic images and sculptures about our fixation with fame and celebrity culture. These Mimeses use look-a-likes of celebrities and public figures to create a photographic or filmic image, which challenges the observers’ perception of reality by creating a false reality. Only on second or third glance does the viewer question the truth of what they are seeing. Jackson describes her work as an exploration of what we see and what we imagine, the interplay of our voyeuristic needs and our urge to believe, challenging the photographs’ claim to tell the truth.

> Click here to see more pictures

Je ne m’étais jamais vraiment soucié de cela, je pensais en fait même, à tort, que cette pratique n’existait pas dans le canton de Vaud. Etonnement, le sujet est devenu récurrent ces derniers temps. Que ce soit dans les médias et lors de discussions. Après avoir entendu presque autant de versions qu’il doit exister de croyances j’ai donc décidé de me renseigner, après tout, pourquoi payerais-je un impôt pour l’église ?

• Première étape, le site Web du canton de Vaud sur lequel j’apprends que l’impôt église est “Non perçu dans le canton de Vaud”. Information vérifiée par téléphone qui m’apprends que cet impôt est perçu non pas par le canton mais par la commune de résidence.

• Ma seconde étape m’amène donc aux bureau des impôts de la ville de Lausanne qui me confirme que cet impôt est perçu d’office mais que tout personne qui ne fait pas partie de l’église évangélique reformée ou de l’église catholique romaine (apparemment les seules bénéficiaires) peut demander d’en être exonéré, voire même remboursé jusqu’à concurrence des cinq dernières années.

• La troisième étape consiste donc à écrire une lettre au service en question (adresse) en mentionnant que vous ne désirez dorénavant plus payer cet impôt et, éventuellement, que vous désirez être remboursé pour le pourcentage retenu à cet effet sur votre impôt communal.

Et voilà, même si le montant perçu semble être très faible (je n’ai pas obtenu plus de détails à ce sujet), je suis au moins certain que mes impôts ne sont pas utilisés n’importe comment… on s’comprend !

These are my links for January 28th:

• StuffSafe : Online Home Inventory Software - Creating a home inventory can be a challenge. StuffSafe makes it easy by offering you…
• Cookthink: What is Cookthink? - Cookthink.com is the first of its kind to let you search for recipes by a combination of ingredients, dish types, cuisines and moods so that we can answer the question: What are you craving?
• How To: Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required - Now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac?no command line hacking required. In addition, the resulting installation is?theoretically, at least?can be upgraded without fear of breaking
• In Revolutioneyes - The Revolutioneyes application provides a guideline for how specific models of eyewear will look on you. It is not intended to be a precise representation of the true fit due to variance in actual facial sizes and shape, and the picture chosen
• CSS Reference -

A télécharger gratuitement et surtout à voir absolument !

Steal This Film II est un documentaire qui s’intéresse au problème de la propriété intellectuelle et plus particulièrement du phénomène du contrôle des droits d’auteurs. En effet, le canal de l’Internet semble demander une remise en question entière du système à l’heure où ce nouveau mode de distribution rend l’application de lois totalement inefficace.

Distribué, bien entendu gratuitement, les protagonistes appellent même le public à dupliquer le film et à le redistribuer plus loin, quelque soit le support utilisé.

Cliquez ici pour télécharger le film aux formation XVID, DVD, iPod ou encore HD (les sous-titres en français sont également disponibles).

> Via Vilain.com

These are my links for January 23rd through January 24th:

• Lightbox 2.5 plugin for Wordpress - Lightbox 2 allows you to present images in a slick window, while darkening the rest of the page. It makes your site look professional, and adds very little to page load times.
• favicon.ico « WordPress Codex - A favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is an icon associated with a website or webpage; in this case-your selfhosted WordPress blog. The favicon.ico is the tiny icon before the website url in your browsers address bar.
• Apple’s Q1 2008 earnings transcript - Full transcript from Apple’s Q1 2008 earnings including Q&A session
• Warmer Nails nail polish heats you up - Japan Aesthetic Service has concocted a polish which, when applied to your nails, warms your hands and feet. The secret? A far-infrared radiation ceramic composed of capsaicin and tourmaline essence, whose warming properties can improve circulation
• Adtunes.com - Find Music from TV Commercials, Film Trailer Music, TV Show Soundtracks, Video Game Music, Film Soundtracks and more.
• The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press - Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design.

These are my links for January 20th through January 21st:

• Wordpress Theme Generator - This online generator creates your own custom unique WP Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge. Change the colors, settings, layout, preview live, click “save” and download your unique Wordpress theme zip-file.
• Best Wordpress Themes » Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes - Wordpress users have thousands of themes to choose from. We hunt out the best of the best so you don?t have to. You can thank us later.
• Wordpress OpenID Plugin - OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. Applications may use it to assert ownership over a given identity url. This plugin lets visitors to a WP blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using OpenID.
• WASABI WP Plugins Wiki / Related Entries - This WordPress plugin will output a series of “related” entries based on keyword matching.
• flickrRSS for WordPress - This plugin for WordPress allows you to display Flickr photos on your weblog. The plugin supports user, public and group photostreams. It?s easy to setup and configure via an options panel. It also has support for an image cache located on your server.
• 5 ways to pimp out your WordPress weblog - So, you got your domain name registered, your hosting plan set up, and you’ve configured your brand new WordPress weblog. Look no further, we’ll let you know how you can pimp out your WordPress and give you that happy fuzzy feeling about your blog again.
• 10 Remarkable (and Free) Wordpress Themes - Numerous other well-designed WP themes are available to you, but these are 10 that stand out to me for various features including good usability, organization, attractive use of graphics, cross-genre appropriateness and even search engine optimization.
• Angular attic staircase — cheap, steep, and does the trick - This low-cost attic staircase was built out of stacked pine boxes, filling a space too narrow for regular steps. Plenty steep but damned cool
• Mothers Ruin Software: Suspicious Package - Suspicious Package is a plugin for the Quick Look feature of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). It allows you to preview the contents of a standard Apple installer package without launching the Installer. Just select the icon in the Finder and select Quick Look
• WpLicense - CC Wiki - WpLicense is a plugin for WordPress which allows users to select a Creative Commons license for their blog and content

Seen on Slashdot, an anonymous reader writes this question :

My Health Sciences Campus has about 8,000 desktop computers, and on any given night about half of them are left on. I know this because I track all the MAC addresses in case there is a virus outbreak. Aside from the current fad of ‘being green’, has anyone had any success in encouraging users to power-down at night? You could potentially eliminate running bots, protect yourself from the next virus outbreak, keep your data safe, etc. Do security concerns and power consumption issues matter enough to do this?”

He’s not wrong, not at all. When I was working at the University of Lausanne, I cannot count the number of Mac or Windows machines that were left on at night… for no reason. So, either they could be used for some grid computing projects (such a programm is being developped at the University of Lausanne) but if not, just shut’em down !

These are my links for January 18th:

• 5 must have plugins when using WordPress as a CMS - WP offers almost every functions you need for a blog but there are a few things missing when using it as a CMS for a corpo site. Those plugins are considered must haves because they provide various functionalities which contribute to a successful website
• Wordpress As CMS: Pages, Nav, Crumbs, And Plugins - This series helps others implementing WordPress as a CMS. And, hopefully, we?ll benefit from comments from real WordPress experts out there.
• Glance - One-button web demo, sales presentation, desktop sharing tool -
• Vanishing of the bees - Little-understood phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear. CCD was originally found in Western honey bee colonies in the US in late 2006. Vanishing of the Bees is a documentary about it… scary !
• WordPress Themes : Brian Gardner -

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