April 2008
67 posts
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Film Review > Contre-Enquête
Malinowski, a l’habitude d’être confronté aux faits-divers les plus durs. Mais lorsque sa propre fille est assassinée, tout bascule. Bouleversés par sa détresse, ses collègues mènent l’enquête au pas de charge et un suspect est bientôt arrêté, puis condamné. Du fond de sa cellule, celui que tout semble accuser clame son innocence et décide d’écrire à Malinowski. Et...
March 2008
102 posts
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Film Review > I Am Legend
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
I still don’t understand how that movie get 7.2 on 10 at IMDB. This is just another bad zombie movie. If you want to see a good one, just go for 28 Days Later.
My Rating: 2.5/5
I Am Legend Official Site I Am Legend Trailer on...
Elephant Paints Self Portrait →
I will say like my friend Frank, I don’t know if this elephant painting is for real, Thailaid being the land of fake and corruption, but if it is, it’s really impressive. According to their site, the Maesa Elephant Camp has already won the Guiness Worl Record for its 2.40 metres wide and12 metres long painting entitled “Cold ...
reCAPTCHA - Digitizing Books One Capcha At A Time →
You alrady know that CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that’s not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than...
Full Screen Video Gallery →
BBC Motion Gallery. Impressive and beautiful clips from around the world. Very nice! Make sure you maximize the experience in full screen.
WatchTron Light Cycle Scene made out of papers! This is geeky to the extreme. Amazing! The art of recycling something you like with mostly nothing other than your imagination and some recycled items is called Sweding. It is been made popular in Michel Gondry’s film Be Kind Rewind. (via Wired)
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Film Review > Juno
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
This is certainly one of the best original screenplay, art direction and musical score for a movie in 2007. Ellen Page is the next Nicole Kidman.
Interesting fact from Wikipedia:
A financial success, Juno made back its budget of $6.5 million in only 20 days, 19 of which the film...
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Film Review > Rendition
A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US.
The film is flat lined as its description.
My Rating: 2.5/5
Rendition Official Site Rendition Trailer on YouTube
Webware 100 Awards 2008
CNet is hosting the 2008 Webware 100 Awards. You can vote for you favorite Web2.0 sites in ten categories from Audio to Utilities and Video. Here are my choices for 2008 in the different categories: Songza (Audio) Type in a song title, and Songza will play it. I wrote about Songza here and here already. Piclens (Browsing) A Web image viewer that takes normal images and lets you view them as...
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Film Review > The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher)
Based on The Devil’s Workshop, autobiographical account of Adolf Burger, this historical drama transports us to the workshop camp Sachsenhausen where typographers, printers and illustrators Jews were forced by the SS to participate in Operation Bernhard, which consisted to weaken the economies of allies by forging money, passports and stamps. Of these 140 were elected Salomon Smolianoff...
How to get some respect from your users
Simple: Take the time to respond individually to each of your user. I asked to the team of the - cannot live without - Firefox Add-ons Piclens that enables you to preview pictures on variety of sites (Flickr, Facebook, Picasa and others) as immersive slideshows, to be able to press back on the keyboard spacebar to return to the search function from the picture large-size view. They answered in a...
“40% to 50% of the code for Firefox is written by people who don’t work at...”
– Nice! I didn’t know that it was so high in proportion. (via Wired)
The Leica Compact Camera Experience
Leica Compact Camera Experience Pictures with twist. Well done!
Suit Supply - Official Supplier of Olympic Team
Here’s an amazing set of photos with an olympic flavor from Suit Supply, the Netherlands custom supplier of suits and jackets. I really like the full browser picture browsing H&M style. Great work.
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Film Review > El Pasado (The Past)
I went to see El Pasado tonight at the Montreal Latin Filmfest Festivalissimo.
It’s a good movie with a horrible story. Not in the sense that the scenario was bad, to the contrary. But you leave the theater with a bad taste in your mouth. It is the story of young couple who after 12 years of relationship, split-up and are haunted by their past until the end.
My rating: 3.5/5
El Pasado...
YouTube meets Google Maps - What you watch is... →
This is a demo of a YouTube video being synchronized with a google maps widget. AWESOME! It uses the YouTube Javascript player API, and the Google maps API. (via jacobd)
“Apple vs Google - Sometimes, evil works.”
– I’m inviting you to read this interesting article from Wired: How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong It’s a good review on the diverse business management theories for the past 100 years.
Face Recognition - No Where to Hide Anymore →
The new algorithm is 90-95 percent accuracy, even if the eyes, nose and mouth are obscured. Current feature-based systems have accuracy that tops out at 65 percent when some form of occlusion is introduced. They also require relatively high-resolution images, and can easily be fooled by changing small details such as adding a mustache, donning a hood or changing one’s expression....
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Adobe Flash is coming to the iPhone →
“We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone,” he said during the call. “We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.” (via Wired)
“It’s like “Band of Brothers” in space, with Jedi”
– Only Lucas himself cans get out something like that. LOL ;) George Lucas talking about his new Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a computer-animated movie due in theaters Aug. 15. It will be followed by a TV series of the same name, to air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall. via Los Angeles Times
Top 20 Most Admired Companies →
Guest who’s number 1? Apple of Course! Google is number 4, Starbucks 6 and Microsoft 16. And read the article that makes it golden to the eyes of everyone (ok say many). (via Etienne who has shown me the cover of Fortune yesterday)
Information Overload - Are user interfaces... →
Very interesent round up of the different user interface technologies to compensate for the next (or already existing) information overload. It goes from the multitouch Minority Report wall to new ways of interacting with our desktop. I had the chance to view BumpTop in action at BarCamp Montreal. It’s very promising.
Durs à cuire - L'amour de la cuisine de produit
Ce soir, j’ai eu la chance de revoir Durs à cuire au Canal D, le film-documentaire de Guillaume Sylvestre sur les chefs Normand Laprise du Toqué! et Martin Picard du restaurant Au Pied de Cochon. Amoureux de cuisine je m’étais précipité voir ce film au cinéma Beaubien lors de son ouverture. Ce fût encore un pur plaisir de revoir ce film où ces deux chefs, outrement passionnés, font...
Brands 2.0: Branded Utility →
“Brands could be creating things that are actually useful.” Dated from 2006, but still an excellent article by Jack Chen. (via André)
“Thinking outside of the browser will bring beautiful and elegant results in the...”
– Out of context, but still like the quote and the post. by my friend Jonathan - Hello, Architekt !
Video Coming To Flickr Soon. Really! →
Vimeo, a video sharing site by people for people, may soon have a competitor if Yahoo find a way to pull this off without simply copying the big guys (YouTube and the crumbs who own the other 30% market share). If iFilm was still alive and kicking it will be another contestant, but since their acquisition by MTV in 2005 (and rename Spike) it’s mostly dead.
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“People without passion are like ashes, there’s nothing more you can do with...”
– I like that quote. A lot!
(via a friend)
Install a Search in your Tumblr
Jacob DeHart has created the perfect search engine for your Tumbleblog. It makes use of the jQuery Javascript library and by some AJAX magic it displays the search result directly in the page without any need to reload it. You can try it now on this page by typing a query in the little box below the name of this tumbleblog: 6ix Passions. To install it on your own tumbleblog, just follow...
Google Sky - The Web version →
A whole new perspective on our Universe is now accessible online. After Google Moon and Google Mars, Google has just launch Google Sly for the Web. They launch it for Google Earth few months ago.
Footer Sitemap as Interaction Design Pattern →
Footer sitemap are very popular these days. You just have to look at most 2.0 web sites or even the new Apple web site. I find the one on Second-Life home page to be well done. Grey-out, it’s very suttle to make sure you focus your attention on the top main area. But soon as you move your mouse in one of the three sections, it’s highlight itself.