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Inspired by the famous “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from Apple, this 3 episode series brings the idea to the snow sports world where telemarkers (or pinheads as some like to name us!).

I’m an alpine skier

I’m a snowboarder

I discovered recently a new Web show named “Penn Says”, hosted by community/social/video/game/sharing site Crackle.com. The idea of the show is quite simple, Penn gets a bunch of video cameras and share his thoughts, freely. There are now 8 videos available online with hopefully more to come. Make sure to check all of them, they are great. Here’s one of my favourite :

For more informations about Penn & Teller, here’s their official Website and don’t forget to check out the page for “Bullshit“, an excellent show broadcasted by Showtime.

These are my links for January 1st through January 11th:

• Microsoft’s Brainwashing Children’s Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From? - “Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?” is a children’s book dedicated to “Helping Your Child Understand the Stay-At-Home Server.” An amazing piece of propaganda as well as an excellent reading to laugh your guts out ! Thanks MS
• Inco - Inco is a dashboard and administration tool for Mac OS X. Inco runs on the machine you want to monitor, and you can access it from any web browser and of course from your iPhone with specially designe pages !
• keybr.com - Typing at the speed of thought! - Need to learn typing or improve your keyboard typing ? Keybr.com is a excellent solution and offers not only an english configuration but french, german, spanish, …
• RichardDawkins.net - Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) a delight to watch
• WP-Print Wordpress Plugin - WP-Print will create a printable version of your posts by using its own CSS file, and it will automatically launch the printable page when the user clicks on the ?Print this? link that you will insert on your blog.

What they do know: Several reactions take place at once. One of them produces iodine, which gives the amber color. Hydrogen peroxide reduces other chemicals into iodide ions. Along with normal iodine, the charged particles interact with starch to create it a blue-black color. The speeds of those transformations are constantly changing. As one overtakes the other, the color suddenly changes.

I can’t resist to think what some “people” (you know… I’m talking about them from time to time on this blog) would say when seeing such an experiment… “Wow, science can’t explain it, must be a miracle ! god’s hand is surely at work”.

And, on the other hand, some people keep digging, trying to figure out, research and eventually find and come up with a scientific explanation. Isn’t that much more fun (and helps our world to move forwared) than just dropping out god’s name when facing the unexplainable ?

Allez, je l’avoue. Même si je suis quand même moins “atteint” qu’il y’a quelques années, l’approche du Salon MacWorld qui se déroule dès la semaine prochaine à San Francisco me rends quand même impatient. Surtout en raison de la traditionnelle conférence inaugurale présentée par Steve Jobs et qui réserve généralement sont lot de belles surprises (pour rappel, iPhone y avait été présenté l’année dernière).

La tension est montée d’un cran supplémentaire cette semaine avec la présentation de la nouvelles gamme professionnelle (Xserve et Mac Pro) qui, selon certains observateurs, a été faite une semaine avant l’évènement (en plein CES) tout simplement pour laisser de la place aux nombreuses annonces qui seraient faites la semaine prochaine.

Gizmodo illustre d’ailleurs très bien tout ça :

Christian Athiesm Guy, London Copyfighters’ Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop, Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, London, originally uploaded by gruntzooki.

 

> Grimmy.com

In its February issue, Wired is publishing “The Untold Story” of the Apple iPhone. You can either read the whole article or go to Walleywag which get the essential of the whole story in a 300 words version.

Can you imagine Steve Jobs, being angry at you but, instead of screaming or whatever, just giving you a scary stare ? Just thinking of it makes me shiver !

C’est toujours amusant de voir deux très grosse sociétés en train de défendre leurs intérêts, d’autant plus quand il s’agit de Microsoft et Google.

Si le rachat de DoubleClick par Google a été accepté aux Etats-Unis, les discussions sont plus tendues en Europe et Microsoft y va de son grain de sel en expliquant de manière très intéressante le danger que cela représenterais pour l’industrie de la publicité en ligne.

Le plus intéressant est ce pdf qui illustre la façon dont laquelle Microsoft explique la position de monopole que pourrait avoir Google en rachetant DoubleClick

On se souvient de l’énorme procès intenté contre Microsoft à la fin des années 90 au sujet de l’exploitation de sa position dominante sur le marché des OS et on se demande si les avocats du géant de Redmond n’ont pas simplement réutilisé ce qui avait été fait à l’époque par les plaignants. Il suffirait de mettre quelques “Netscape”, “RealPlayer”, “QuickTime” ou encore “Java” à droite à gauche et on arriverait certainement à quelque chose de tout à fait cohérent.

Via Slashdot

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