A while back, I whined that the Geeks weren’t really doing as well as I had hoped. They’re still getting only a few visits a day, with a weekly peak when a new episode comes out… And so, a couple of weeks ago, the unthinkable happened: I didn’t post a new Sunday episode. I was…
Catégorie : Surfin’
Solitarity
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…
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!
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…
The hard dish installs the manual
A little (more) translation humor (via Reddit).
Disaster Recovery
A few months back, I told you how a misbehaved piece of shareware randomly erased a few folders on one of my external hard disks, including the source files of all my little Flash programs. I had no backup of these files, so that was that. I still had the compiled versions (here on sknoblog…
Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution
According to this Gallup poll, a « majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution. » That’s how Gallup presents its findings. But before you start mocking those cretinous, obscurantist Republicans, consider this: Yes, 68% of Republicans doubt evolution, but so do 40% of Democrats and 37% of Independents. Gallup should therefore have said that a majority of…