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qui m’a fait penser à ça.
L’ancien domaine fonctionne toujours, bien sûr, mais tout le traffic est maintenant redirigé vers le nouveau nom, OILQ.org.
Je suis toujours ouvert à vos suggestions pour améliorer le site, ainsi qu’à vos dons pour aider à réaliser ces suggestions.
Misteur Valaire is a Québec electro-jazz band who sold around 1000 albums yet got their ticket to the Olympic Games in Vancouver. Their secret? Over 40,000 downloads of their web album Friterday Night available through a Creative Commons non-commercial share-alike licence since 2007.
I’m only mentionning it because it’s something I wanted to do maybe five years ago and car accidents was my first thought. Without the Tiger Wood caracter of course. You can read more about this in The blurry lines of animated ‘news’ on the CNN website.
Which reminds me of another idea I had: why not make a site to predict the stories that will appear on Slashdot tomorrow or in a couple of days? It could even become a fun gambling site. Who knows…
I’ve long been thinking about a cool gadget I’d like to have. It might remind you of the set of pen computers if you’ve seen it, but what I want is much simpler, just one pen but probably hooked with bluetooth to other devices.
What is the quickest way to play a song when you know its name? If you’ve got a keyboard, typing its name is the obvious choice. If you have a GUI, drilling down and selecting it (going through genres, artists or years maybe) is the way to go. But if all you have is a pen, why not just write it out? You want to pause it? Two parallel vertical lines should do the trick, and obviously a triangle pointing right will have it play again. Where does the sound come from? Bluetooth headset or maybe even a tiny speaker directly on the pen. Or maybe it’s controlling some remote computer. Where are the songs stored? Probably not on the pen, although we can easily imagine a pen holding 3000 songs (say, 16 GiB). Lots of possibilities.
Hmm, how did I come up with 3000 songs? Say a song is 5 MiB for a cheap MP3 encoding. Take your new super pen, and write it out: 16,000,000,000 / 5,000,000 (with commas, spaces, or using GiB and MiB units, it doesn’t really matter), finish with an equal sign and what happens? The pen can tell you the answer, using that tiny speaker and its voice synthesizer. Maybe we could also add a small display on the side of the pen, or even have the output sent to your watch screen. The possibilities are endless!
How else do you think this could be useful? Maybe the pen could provide some haptic response (say, to correct your spelling). What else?
It’s a well known fact that you are your worst ennemy. Once you come to realize this, you might want to turn your attention to some ancient or not so ancient martial art, perfecting your expertise in redirecting your opponent’s strength against himself, away from you, careful not to inflict any harm.
For 2010, my greatest ambition is to turn all the negativity I hold within me into something good, positive, actual lessons learned and most importantly felt.
15-20 years ago, I was living a plentiful life, not doing much but spending time with friends, working a normal job (phone surveys, baking donuts, etc.) and messing a bit with computers. I was also into poetry, hosting a radio show, a couple of poetry nights every week and writing plenty. I had a business card that wasn’t one. It was a presentation card, describing a bunch of stuff I was into, as long as my arm. But then things changed. One day, I decided spending time idly chatting and optionally drinking with friends was mostly a waste (yes, kick me). I got more into poetry, more serious, forming a group of 15-20 people and went as far as to renting le Lion d’Or, a 200+ space for a poetry night. And that’s when it changed. That’s when, instead of flowing, I started to really take charge. Of my life, of my surroundings and everything in between. I really felt I had to do something with my life, for others, people I didn’t know. I owed it to the world in general. That was my biggest mistake. Looking back, it’s quite obvious but to tell you the truth, I’m not sure what could have prevented it. (more…)
Parlant de nouveau parti politique, Rawdon aussi aura le sien : Option Rawdon. Il n’y a pas beaucoup d’information en ce moment mais un site est en construction.
Je ne suis pas fervent des partis politiques municipaux mais quand on voit ce qui s’est produit à Rawdon avec l’affaire de diffamation qui a pris des proportions monstres, je ne peux qu’espèrer un peu de fraicheur à la municipalité. C’est en lisant les procès verbaux qu’on s’aperçoit à quel point toutes les décisions sont unanimes et on se demande où sont les débats constructifs.
Il y a pas mal d’action au Canada autour du droit d’auteur en ce moment. La consultation du gouvernement sur le sujet y est pour beaucoup mais ce n’est pas tout. Depuis quelques mois, des canadiens se sont regroupés pour former un nouveau Parti Pirate. Il y a eu plusieurs rencontres un peu partout au pays. Un site web (le nouveau site est en construction et sera bientôt dévoilé), un wiki, un forum, un canal IRC et beaucoup d’intérêt dans toutes les provinces. Ce qui me plait le plus c’est tout l’effort qui est mis pour rendre l’initiative bilingue et de ce fait, très inclusive.
Quels sont les enjeux importants pour ce parti ? (more…)
Le Rendez-vous des médias citoyens à la SAT le 26 août prochain me fait penser qu’il existe beaucoup de plateformes du genre au Québec. Le tout nouveau webdo est arrivé le 21 juin 2009. Le Centre des médias alternatifs du Québec est né en 2000, c’est proablement le plus ancien. Enfin, le site Cent papiers est parmi nous depuis mai 2006 si je ne me trompe pas.
Et c’est sans compte les carnets personnels de plusieurs citoyens qui proposent une catégorie et un fil sur l’actualité.
This is going to be another of those strange posts that sometimes crawl out of me to infect minds. Please handle with all due care.
I think we’ve all had that Hulk moment as a reaction to some awful situation when anything is possible.
“I’m gonna flip this car I’m so mad!”
Yet it never really works that way. Often it’s much less obvious, but the general reaction is to turn to brute force to solve whatever problem we may be facing. Other times, you may feel like just giving up. I mean, you know you won’t flip that car, no matter how angry you are. We don’t let the adrenaline myth take over.
If we’d stop to think about it for a second though, we might realize we have everything we need to overcome whatever’s in our way. It’s called leverage. So yes, you can flip that car if it’s going to solve a problem for you. Just use a sturdy stick and a rock and go ahead, tumble that car. (more…)
