The recent tasering of a feisty student at a John Kerry speech, which left pretty much everyone there indifferent, Kerry included, inspired Stephen Colbert to make some of the most pertinent remarks I’ve heard about the Internet generation and Internet activism (about 1/3 into the video, during the Wørd segment). No wonder the US is…
Catégorie : Old sknoblog (2003–2011)
Remote Possibility: 13
I’m delighted to report that Remote Possibility have posted a 14th song on their SoundClick page, the aptly named 13. From the story behind the song: The sessions were immediately productive, with the basic tracks for several songs recorded (to be finished and released at a later date). However, they did completely finish this one…
Youthful naiveté
Growing up during the cold war in Europe, I, like most of the people I knew, felt stuck between a rock and a hard place. To the east was, well, the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union. Even the leftiest among us thought they had betrayed the potentially positive aspects of real socialism. We knew…
More surfin' stats
Here’s another follow-up on my recent rant on lousy and expensive Internet service in the US. The indispensable Presurfer just linked to this chart: Average Broadband Speed per Country. Definitely worth a look!
Another strange musical endorsement…
I was just contacted by the people at dogmazic, the French music site where I’ve posted some of my French songs. They have put together a compilation of 150 songs (out of 5,034,598 as of this writing), which includes two of mine, Rue du Renard and Jouir. This free music compilation will be included in…
I, Cringely: The $200 Billion Rip-Off. Our broadband future was stolen.
Following-up on my previous post, here’s an article that describes in great detail why Internet service is so poor and expensive in the US. The article is quite technical, but you can read the last two paragraphs to get the general idea.
Surfin' in Santa Monica
One of the reasons I haven’t been blogging much, is that the Internet connection here, at my mother’s house in Santa Monica, California, is terrible. It’s so slow it feels like dial-up. Of course, I’m spoiled. Back home in Paris, my connection is blazingly fast. It’s also quite fast in the family home in Normandy,…
Playground, revisited
Pamela just posted a great little piece on frogblog about the Playground of the Baby Giants, where we are staying for another two weeks. Interestingly, I came up with the Baby Giants metaphor because I was struck by how L.A. looks so fake and architecturally simplistic, as if kids had made a town out of…
Geeks In Love, Public Service Announcement
After 25 full-fledged episodes, a couple of interludes, and contributions from two guest artists (and a last minute server outage), the are taking a well deserved break. Hopefully, they will be back by September.
Out of order
The server that hosts Geeks In Love is apparently hosed. Free, my ISP, is working to fix it. So just to reassure you, I didn’t pull the plug on the Geeks.