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…
Catégorie : Surfin’
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.
Sponge Mode
After a burst of activity around these parts, things have been rather quiet lately. For one thing, my muse is far away. For another, I’ve been working like a fiend. For once, I’d love to talk about that, because I’ve been translating pretty high-visibility stuff, for instance for a company whose products I use and…
Safari 4 beta and ad blocking
As I indicated here (in no uncertain terms), I probably wouldn’t browse the net half as much if I had to endure the obnoxious ads that most sites foist on visitors. As such, I rely on SafariBlock for ad blocking and ClickToFlash for elective Flash animation loading. I’d seen reports that ClickToFlash, which is not…
Make my Logo Bigger Cream
So true… (Via CreativeBits).
A List, Mostly Music Edition
Another list, another Woody Allen movie and another Coen brother’s movie. We used our new HDTV to watch: Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Woody sure knows how to tell a story, with minimal means and effects, that brilliantly captures the human condition. Burn after reading is no Hudsucker Proxy, but I wasn’t bored for a second, which…
Fuck Flash, Fuck Ads, Fuck Flash Ads
I hate ads. On the Internet, in the Paris Metro, on TV. I hate Flash. I link to an occasional YouTube video, and yes, I even use Flash for my numerous music players, but it’s slow, it hogs ressources, especially so on the Mac. Which is why I surf mostly ad-free, using Safari and SafariBlock,…
Striking a chord (or 3)
I’ve always been puzzled by the fact that 99% of the pop music hits out there leave me totally cold and unmoved. I’m not a snob (I’m just a sknob). I like my share of simple or simplistic music. Maybe this incredible video by The Axis of Awesome explains it! See for yourself…
A List
Pamela tells me lists sell. On blogs, there’s pretty much nothing more popular than posts that list things she tells me, and she should know, now that she’s gone pro. Things, things to do, things to avoid, as long as they’re in list form. So, in a crass attempt at driving up traffic in these…