I’m not at liberty to tell you what I was doing in Cupertino, California all last week. Let’s just say that while a certain company was unveiling its new offerings in the opening Keynote to an annual World Wide Developer’s Conference, I was driving back to San Francisco Airport, to fly home to Paris. But…
Catégorie : Old sknoblog (2003–2011)
Electric Cars, in B flat
Many years ago, while daydreaming, which I do a lot, I was thinking about how to solve a very real and big problem with electric cars (besides autonomy). They are so silent, that pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles don’t hear them coming. And so I thought to myself that electric cars should emit noise of…
I was on Facebook for 24 hours
The title says it all.
Time to upgrade, epilogue…
As I surmised, I didn’t exchange my new 24″ iMac for a new one. I actually had a crazy dream the night before the exchange deadline, in which I unpacked a new one, and the glass was cracked, and the Mac housed a rich, tropical ecosystem of tangled vegetation, fungus, insects and condensation. At least…
Chips, shoulders, Sex and the French HADOPI Internet "3-strikes" Law
The French assembly is about to vote a really dumb « three-strikes » anti « Internet piracy » law. Among many other obscenities, it puts the onus on citizens to protect their Internet connections against people who would use it to download copyrighted materials. And the only way you can prove you are innocent is if you install some…
Round and Round
I badly needed a music-making mental health break. So I spent a chunk of my weekend writing and composing and recording and mixing this silly little song, which is a self-referential commentary on silly little songwriting, and the obvious motivations behind that crafty craft. The following official version of Round and Round is NSFW as…
Geeks In Love: Episode 97. Perspective.
Germany is known for its quality design and signage, and rightly so. France? Not so much (as anybody who’s landed at Charles De Gaulle airport will tell you). Still, the baffling public transportation ticket vending machines in Cologne, Germany, that the Geeks are confronted with this week, stand in stark contrast to the Paris Metro…
Henry Major and Bugs Baer – Hollywood
Stunning (and huge) collection of vintage caricatures of Hollywood bigwigs from the 30’s by Henry Major, from a limited-edition book published at the time. These absolutely blow me away. I love the balance between realism and caricature and the economy of lines. Via Drawn.
Vote Earth!
Turn off your lights between 8:30 & 9:30 pm tonight, March 28th. Come on, you can do it ! Check out earthhour.org for more info.
Time to upgrade, cont.3
I have 24 hours left to exchange my 24 inch iMac no questions asked. I think I’m not going to do it and live with the screen imperfections. Because I just can’t stomach going through the exchange for nothing, and the evidence shows that the odds of getting an even screen are slim at best.…