Effects of Drugs and Alcohol on Spider Webs

Merci à Zu!

Could Barack Hussein Obama be the next US President ?

A BBC article on him here.

Barack Obama also has a good line to fend off any questions about his weird name.

“When I first started to work in public life… people would ask: ‘Hey brother, what’s with your name? You called Alabama or Yo’ Mama?’”

As for the unfortunate middle name, Hussein means “blessed” in Arabic and as the senator puts it: “The American people don’t care about middle names.”

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His inexperience in the Senate may turn out to be an asset and he has the same talent that JFK apparently had of appearing glamorous and humble at the same time.

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When pressed about an apparent admission in print that he had smoked marijuana, Barack Obama replied: “Yes, and I inhaled. That was the point.”

He sounds a bit like a preacher in the above clip.

Interesting links on him:

http://www.barackobama.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

http://obama.senate.gov/

His new book (The Audacity of Hope) is now on Amazon’s #2 Sales Rank, just after: You: On A Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management ;)

The French CNN; France 24

http://www.france24.com/live/

As of today, this is a new source of information to compete with CNN, BBC World, AL Jazeera …

It’s in French, English and Arab. Chirac’s baby…it should give a French spin on world events. I would be happy if this was as good as the BBC.

Here’s the Wikipedia take on it.

Mr. Dion, Mr. Harper……ou une séparation?

Victoire surprise de Stéphane Dion:

Contre toute attente, c’est Stéphane Dion qui a remporté la course à la direction du Parti libéral du Canada, samedi. M. Dion a battu Michael Ignatieff au quatrième tour de scrutin.

Je suis content de voir Mr. Dion à la tête du PLC. Je ne crois pas qu’il pourra devenir premier ministre du Canada. Jamais les Québécois ne pourront voter pour lui. Celui qui a concocté la loi sur la clarté en 1999. Un peu plus de Harper fera surement du bien à la cause séparatiste.

Voir un article intéressant du Devoir “Le nouveau vilain”:

Même dans leurs rêves les plus fous, les souverainistes n’ont sans doute jamais osé imaginer que Stéphane Dion devienne premier ministre du Canada, mais la course au leadership libéral est devenue une telle boîte à surprises que cette hypothèse n’est plus complètement farfelue.

Du site de Dion pour la chefferie du PLC:

For years, Stéphane Dion was the most-reviled politician in Quebec. He was the so-called “arch-federalist” that all sovereigntists and nationalists loved to hate and whom most francophone federalists were unwilling to defend. He was the father of the Clarity Act that even Paul Martin dared not support. Because of his mousy face, La Presse cartoonist Serge Chapleau used to represent him as a rat, with small pointed ears, its mustachioed muzzle contracted in an arrogant sneer, and the tail emerging from beneath his suit.

Pour en savoir plus sur le “Clarity Act”, directement du gouv. Fédéral:

“Le Québec ne pourrait, malgré un résultat référendaire clair, invoquer un droit à l’autodétermination pour dicter aux autres parties à la fédération les conditions d’un projet de sécession. Le vote démocratique, quelle que soit l’ampleur de la majorité, n’aurait en soi aucun effet juridique et ne pourrait écarter les principes du fédéralisme et de la primauté du droit, les droits de la personne et des minorités, non plus que le fonctionnement de la démocratie dans les autres provinces ou dans l’ensemble du Canada.”

Paris tout en image

@Paris est le magazine vidéo interactif de la Ville de Paris. Reportages, rencontres, services vous informent sur les actions municipales, la vie citoyenne, l’actualité culturelle, etc. Et, toujours avec de nombreux liens complémentaires en ligne sur Paris.fr.

Vraiment bien! Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur le nouveau Tramway ou simplement sur les associations des associations ;)

Cock Blocking in Action

On sort Part 3 – http://tetesaclaques.tv/video.php?vid=35

On voit dans ce clip des Têtes à Claques… un exemple parfait d’une tentative de “Pure Cock Blocking”.

Some of you may recognise yourselves.

UC Berkley Courses Online

You can find Berkley’s FREE webcasts and podcast on : History of Information, Mechanical Engineering Design, General Psychology, Foundations of American Cyberculture and much more.

You can get even register for those via iTunes.

It’s never been easier to just “sit in” and listen to stuff you didn’t have time to study. VERY nice. I haven’t looked but I’m sure other universties do this also.

Can’t Sleep? Try OTR.

http://www.otr.net/

“The OTR.Network Library is a free resource for Old Time Radio (OTR) fans. We have over 12,000 OTR shows available for instant listening, with 100 more added each week.”

What is OTR?

From Wikipedia:

Old-Time Radio (OTR) and the Golden Age of Radio are phrases used to refer to radio programs (audio theater) mainly broadcast, in the USA, during the 1920s through the late 1950s.

By those who listened to the shows at the time, vintage radio is now most vividly remembered by its most vivid fragments: fanfares and show openings, running gags, trademark sounds and newsworthy events, such as the headlines generated by The War of the Worlds when it was dramatized on Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater on the Air. Some still recall the creaking-door sound effect on Inner Sanctum Mysteries, the Dragnet theme music, the “Hi-Yo, Silver!” call of the Lone Ranger or the cackle of The Shadow: “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.” 

I’m really hooked on this stuff. It’s very simple and naive. It has these very cool intense and DRAMATIC orchestral music  effects that can’t help but put a smile on your face.

My personal favorite is”The Saint” with Vincent Price.

Play Good Old Nintendo With Your Browser

http://vnes.thatsanderskid.com/index.html

Over 395 online Nintendo games. No need to download anything….

You may have played these with the 1st NES, Nintendo Entertainment System, you may not have had the chance to finish one of these… or to see the “final” movie. Here’s your chance. Includes:

Têtes à Claques à TVA

http://www.tetesaclaques.tv/

Hilarant!

Update de Youtube:

This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner TVA Group Inc. because its content was used without permission

CowboyGroove; Une toute dernière de John the Wolf

CowboyGroove_JeanLeclerc.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

WOW! Pick Normal House Lock in 30 sec.

For more details here.
Even though we all know this now…. will you change your home’s security ?

King Khan Wannabe.

Originally uploaded by Vincent Arsenault.

If you want to learn more about Mr. Shahrukh Khan; http://www.vluvshahrukh.com/ (notice the spelling of the URL… “www. we love Shahrukh.com” in Hinglish)

“I’m the sexiest actor alive without the use of any substances”

New Nintendo Console; Wii

If it works as well as it’s shown here….very cool. Here’s how it works.

Should We Trust Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/ A free content, multilingual encyclopedia written collaboratively by contributors around the world. The site is a Wiki – anybody can edit and add to an article. Offers quick understanding on controversial issues. Strong in current affairs.

Here’s what it says about Canada’s ex Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien:

Born in Shawinigan, Quebec, as the 18th of 19 children (a number of whom did not survive infancy) to Willie Chrétien and Marie Boisvert, Jean Chrétien studied law at Université Laval. Chrétien would later make light of his humble origins, calling himself “le petit gars de Shawinigan,” or the “little guy from Shawinigan.”

How about what it says about PET, another ex Canadian PM:

Trudeau was interested in Marxist ideas in the late 1940s. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he was a supporter of the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party — which became the New Democratic Party. During the 1950s, he was blacklisted by the United States and prevented from entering that country because of a visit to a conference in Moscow (where he was briefly arrested for throwing a snowball at a statue of Stalin) and because he subscribed to a number of leftist publications. Trudeau later appealed the ban, and it was rescinded.

So, If we listen to Colbert, we could all go and edit PET’s page on Wikipedia and say he was arrested in Moscow for pissing on a Stalin shaped snowman….. he had created in the middle of Red Square. I wonder how many edits we would need in order to get this up. Who moderates Wikipedia? Do they have an agenda? Seems like they often block users.
Here’s what it says about Normand l’Amour… soon to be deleted:

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Normand L’Amour is a french-canadian Folk singer who sings about all kinds of events about life. His subjetcs cross all kinds of stuff; from animals to cities, from love to hate, from clubbing to hiking, etc. He is reknowned for only one big hit up to date: L’Achigan (Do-Do-Du-De-Le Remix). Normand L’Amour lives in Drummondville in the french-speaking province of Quebec in Eastern Canada. He is also famous for appearing in a show called Babu by Montreal’s musical TV Channel Musique Plus. L’Amour can be easily seen from Highway 20 passing through Drummondville, launching near a Motel & a Gas Station where he sells copies of his 60 studio albums, recorded in only 8 years of work.Formore information, listen to Musique Plus or go on www.musiqueplus.com.

Yvon Potvin et son mega succès; St-Rémi-fa-sol-la-si-do!

Mélina l’Acadienne recoit…

Via le bêtisier.

Replace Star Trek with the new BSG

Battlestar Galactica is a dark, sexy, political Sci-Fi show. True! The actors are not the best. True! They don’t have enough budget for the HUGE, complex story they want to draw us in….. But it’s the best sci-fi out there. I haven’t been hooked on a series like this, since Six Feet Under. They are totally different series…yes!… but they both have a flawed human side to them that make one fall in love with the characters.

Visit the show's site here. You can see a whole episode (no need for any player like Real, QuickTime or Windows Media Player… it’s all in Flash and it makes it a whole lot smoother), actor interviews, director podcast, deleted scenes, blog….everything you need to get hooked. This is a fracking good show ;)

 

Merci Max! 

Selling Your Creations Online

These great watercolors are from Zu Ponca. You can buy them on eBay. Her best stuff is not even online yet ;)

I was reading a post on Seth Godin's blog and was surprised by how fast you can create something (clips, movies, paintings, ecolo handbags, podiobooks…) and find people that will be interested in buying, listening, watching and reading.

Isn't this a bit like being able to live again from "artisanat"? Away from the industrial machines…? Technology is making it possible to live in Pondichéry and sell your stuff in LA. Paypal makes it very easy for the money to be sent straight to your bank account.

I wish I had the creative side to be able to sell something. I'm sure we all have hobbies that could "sell".

Internet has had this promise for years now… but easy tools are now making it possible to actually take advantage of it.

GO and create!