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Problem Solving Flow-sheet

2009-11-22T09:02:40Z

Author: chris
Posted on: 2009-11-22 14:52:29

SexLab : le podcast déjanté

2009-11-22T08:54:52Z

Nicolas Alary et Jordan Gray se sont lancés dans un podcast assez délirant (et déjanté) et qui s’inscrit plus ou moins bien dans la continuité du clip posté « tantôt ». Le podcast s’appelle…. SexLab et j’aime beaucoup le format / la qualité de réalisation :

Leur blog / tumblr se trouve ici / ils tournent apparemment avec un Canon 5D Mark II / Merci Daniel pour le lien!

et l’épisode deux, c’est cadeau de la maison :

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SexLab : le podcast déjanté

French technology at its best

2009-11-22T05:31:56Z

Author: barelyanything
Posted on: 2009-11-22 10:54:20

Plot your path to the top

2009-11-22T03:30:57Z

Author: bennybb
Posted on: 2009-11-21 21:44:11

Bearded Heroes

2009-11-21T18:59:37Z

Author: chris
Posted on: 2009-11-22 00:13:38

They're All The Rage: On/Off Head Switches

2009-11-20T21:30:14Z

Want to look like you're a cyborg or some shit? I couldn't imagine why (unless you want me to brain you with a crowbar), but if you do, just glue an on/off switch to the back of your head like Dominic Wilcox did. But, WARNING: your hats won't fit the same! Neat idea, Dominic, but this is exactly the kind of thing that'll get you killed if you roll with the crew that I do. THAT SAID, I JUST I JUST HOOKED MYSELF UP WITH A VOLUME KNOB. WHAT? OH SORRY -- SOMEBODY TURNED ME UP TO 11!! Hit the jump for a picture of the installation process.

Top 10 Ergonomic Upgrades for Your Workspace [Lifehacker Top 10]

2009-11-21T17:00:00Z

It's easy to forget about your body's needs when you're deep into your work or the net—until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customizable ergonomic workspace upgrades.

Photo by IMG_3771 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!.

10. Elevate your laptop to eye level

Your neck can't text you to explain how annoying it is to have to keep looking down at your laptop. Over time it will let you know, though, in a nagging, painful way. If your laptop is your day-to-day work machine, elevate it to eye level using any one of a number of clever solutions. Perhaps one among our Top 10 laptop stands will do the trick, or a built-to-fit DIY pipe stand. Any of them are better than imagining yourself as a hunched old man or woman, constantly warning the neighborhood kids to sit up straight and look ahead.

9. Mix up your positions with a standing desk

It's hard to slouch when you're not in a seat. To help your body benefit from your upright instinct, and give your lower body a break from sitting, work a standing desk into your workspace. You can go for it in a big way, like with this handcrafted setup, stick with something as simple as a $20 model or a surface on a storage rack. If you want to go really fancy, you could try a treadputer or something like this adjustable desk. It doesn't have to be your only desk, either—just a break room for your butt.

8. Get better sleep support

How your back, neck, and joints fare over eight hours of work can be influenced by how they spent eight hours in bed. Give your body a better night's sleep by catching up on Lifehack.org's pain and posture basics. According to the post, the standard, no-pain position to shoot for is "on your side, knees bent, pillow between the knees, and your head resting on a single pillow," or on your back with one pillow under your knees and one under your head. You might need to leave out an element or two from that ideal if you've got a hard-set sleeping habit, but it's worth considering a switch-up. Photo by james.thompson. (Original post).

7. Invest in a real mouse and keyboard

If you've stuck with your mouse and keyboard just because your desktop came with them, we feel for you. If you've been using a laptop at a desk without an external mouse or keyboard, we're in tears. Invest in the tools your hands spend thousands of hours on every year by perusing the best mouse recommendations from Lifehacker readers and their ultimate keyboard picks. All of them are designed with a good hand feel and better functionality in mind. Consider your hand comfort worth five cents an hour? You'll amortize these puppies in no time.

6. Align yourself properly with your computer

Adam's had his problems with hand, wrist, and back pain from repetitive stress and other conditions at his workspace, and a few years ago, he decided to set up a healthy, usable workspace to get back in shape. His post is a front-to-back assessment of what healthy working spaces should include, but his basic sitting setup involves keeping your elbows bent near 90 degrees, keeping a mouse comfortably within reach of a keyboard, avoiding slouching, and keeping a monitor at eye level, between 18-28 inches from your face.

5. Build your own ergonomic desk from scratch

You don't have to have Bob-Vila-level woodworking skills to craft your own workspace—after all, college students have been laying doors on cinder blocks for years. To make an actually ergonomic desk from medium-density fibreboard, you need two power tools (your neighbor has them if you don't), time enough to sketch and plan your cuts, and measurements to know how high you should set up the legs, so your monitor is at eye level and you've got just enough room for everything you're working with. When you're done, you can paint or stain it whatever color you'd like, and when your friends ask where you got that desk, well, you know the answer. (Original post)

4. Use exercises to ward off RSI

You can do a lot to prevent stress and pain in your hands working at a computer all day, but you'll almost inevitably have bad days full of overly long hours, and, over the long haul, risk sidling yourself with repetitive strain injury (RSI). Percussionist David Kuckhermann knows a thing or two about repetitive wrist and forearm strain, as does RSI expert Sherry Smith, and they both recommend and demonstrate a few simple exercises that can ward off and heal the effects of working your hands into knots. (Original post)

3. Fine-tune your desk spacing

Are you the type that busts out the tape measure whenever you're putting anything up on the wall? For setting up your workspace with proper distances and heights between yourself and your computer tools, ergonomic goods firm Ergotron offers a ergonomic workspace planner that, once you enter your height, gives up the details on suggested seat heights, monitor heights and distances, and keyboard shelves. If you're thinking about working in a standing desk, they've got measurements for that, too. (Original post)

2. Use software enforcers

It's great that you're dedicated to pushing out this project on time, but unless your deadline's right this hour and you need every second, you should be stepping back occasionally to give your wrists, eyes, and arms a rest—and maybe even read something off-screen, while you're at it. If mental reminders aren't enough, apps like AntiRSI and Timeout for Macs, and Workrave for Windows and Linux, force you, in differing levels of subtlety, to take a break and physically remove your hands from the keyboard every so often. (Original posts: AntiRSI, WorkRave, Time Out)

1. Go easy on your eyes

Eye strain is particularly bad news for those who write (code, copy, or anything else) or assemble things on a computer all day—it hits you right in what feels like your brain, and makes concentration terribly hard. Two simple solutions are to turn on ClearType and increase your monitor refresh rate in Windows systems, or install a serious protection scheme like EyeDefender. Reader's Digest suggests other easy eye fixes, like keeping your monitor slightly below eye level to bring less glare into your retinas. And simply using a darker desktop theme is often a nice first step toward reducing the amount of time you feel like you're staring into a flashlight with words written on it.

What improvements, big or small, have made the greatest difference in your workspace health? Pass on the knowledge in the comments.

Lawrence Lessig : couper l'accès Internet, "une idée terrible"

2009-11-21T16:20:01Z

À l'occasion du Forum d'Avignon qui s'est déroulé ces jours-ci, le célèbre juriste spécialisé dans le droit d'auteur s'est exprimé sur la loi Hadopi, récemment votée par le parlement français. Pour le professeur de droit, la riposte graduée - avec la coupure de l'accès Internet en dernier recours - est tout simplement "une idée terrible".

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Joana

2009-11-21T09:07:20Z

Shared by babozor
ouah le casque de la mort...

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Super Epic Rainbow Cake

2009-11-20T20:56:16Z

How fabulous is this Super Epic Rainbow Cake?

(thank you jessi)

Wipe your butt with Google [PIC]

2009-11-21T02:10:16Z

Google is not only the name of a major search engine (among lots of other things), but apparently, it’s also a brand of Vienamese toilet paper. According to Google translate, the text on the packaging says: “Very long, soft, smooth. Of high vacuum, because you always!”

Thanks Korben!

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Cross multi-tool

2009-11-20T16:58:51Z

Dutch designer Michiel Cornelissen sells these cruciform screwdrivers, which are laser-sintered stainless steel. There's a flat-blade, a Phillips head, and an IKEA-sized hex bit. [via Dude Craft]

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LEGO-sized hole punch by MUJI

2009-11-20T19:00:11Z

Paper craft meets LEGO with MUJI's quad hole punch and kits, available November 27th at MUJI Japan. [via CRAFT]

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Cardboard tube battle

2009-11-20T20:00:09Z

My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting. The Boston Globe covered the preparations:

The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party.

The weapons are cylindrical pieces of thick cardboard about 4 feet long. The appeal, explains young-adult librarian Ellen Snoeyenbos: "It's totally ridiculous.''

As word of mock combat with reliably harmless weaponry spread among the town's youthful warriors, Snoeyenbos and the Bookmarks seized on the fund-raiser as a chance to exploit their discovery of the fighting fad made popular by YouTube.

Saturday's event will feature one-on-one tournaments, guild-on-guild skirmishes (up to 10 fighters per team), "and an all-out battle for possession of the Royal Crown,'' according to the club.

They've gathered hundreds of tubes, and youth of all ages are uparmoring in a pulpy way.

More:
Cardboard Tube Fighting League

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Quote #10725

2009-11-20T19:01:58Z

Meovä: C'nul halloween :(
Meovä: Cet aprèm des gosses m'ont sorti : "des bonbons ou on vous jète un sort, et on a la grippe A"

Votez !

Geek Le Mag S01E04 en kiosque

2009-11-20T17:22:18Z

Voilà déjà la fin de Geek Le Magazine… enfin de la saison 1 ! Pour ce “grand finale” de l’année 2009, nous vous avons concocté un petit cadeau, ou plutôt des petits cadeaux, avec un supplément offert, spécial KDO. À retrouver dans tous les kiosques dès mardi 24 novembre.

Côté obscur
Du côté sombre de la force, nous sommes allés faire un tour. Notre psy-geek, Yannick Leroux s’autorise une réflexion sur la psychopathologie du geek, ou comment nous sommes capables de nous emprisonner dans nos passions. Pour en faire surgir l’exceptionnel. Parfois.

Suck my gore
Les auteurs de Suck my geek récidivent avec un documentaire tout aussi génial sur le cinéma français de genre, pour ne pas dire d’horreur. Pour ceux qui l’ont raté la semaine passée sur Canal+, voilà une session de rattrapage.

Métal Hurlant
Le magazine culte le plus chaotique de l’histoire de la presse geek revient sur le devant de la scène une nouvelle fois, à travers un projet de série TV 100 % made in France. Rencontre avec Guillaume Lubrano, réalisateur/producteur des ces Contes de la crypte à la française.

Geek sells
Tout comme le sexe fait vendre, le geek fait désormais fonctionner son « weird appeal » auprès des publicitaires. Analyse économico-foldingue de ce soudain charme des geeks dans la réclame .

Mais aussi au sommaire de ce numéro :
-Hack Kings, les rois du « back office »
-Brütal Legend, le jeu heavy metal
-Jeu de rôle, la table ronde
-Dragon Age, la dark fantasy réinventée
-Cinéma : The Box, Zombieland
-Le manga français, aberration ou miracle ?

Découvrez le sommaire intégral ici.

Toy truck craps out domino runs

2009-11-20T12:53:42Z

Brando's Auto Domino Building Truck is a battery-powered toy truck that shits bricks -- that is, it poops out dominos standing on end at the correct intervals to make a domino run. Or so the manufacturer says -- I haven't tried it yet. But I have a vision of setting this thing down at one end of an airport concourse and creating a mile-long run. I love that the dominos load in via a magazine that sticks out of the top like a banana-clip on an automatic rifle.

The Auto Domino Building Truck (via Red Ferret)

Envoyé Spécial sur Hadopi : le reportage

2009-11-20T09:42:08Z

Le reportage d'Envoyé Spécial sur la loi Hadopi est disponible sur Dailymotion, le voici en trois parties :

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BitTorrent After The Pirate Bay: Do You Still Need Trackers?

2009-11-20T05:00:20Z

The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site’s tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won’t impact downloading, site admins explained on a blog. Trackers are no longer needed to facilitate BitTorrent transfers, the blog entry explained, because decentralized extensions of the P2P protocol are mature enough to pick up the tab. “It’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date,” the blog proclaimed.

As always with announcements from the folks at The Pirate Bay, there’s a lot of self-serving smoke and mirrors, mixed with a good amount of hubris. However, the announcement does bring up an interesting question: Is BitTorrent really ready for a world without trackers? We talked to some of the major players to find out.

First, a quick primer so we all know what we’re talking about: When you download a file via BitTorrent today, you start off with a .torrent file that contains some meta data, including the address of at least one torrent tracker. These trackers facilitate your download by letting you know who else is sharing the file. The Pirate Bay’s tracker has been one of the biggest and, thus, most important of these facilitators, tracking by some estimates around 50 percent of the world’s BitTorrent traffic.

That’s a pretty impressive number, considering that the whole setup costs not much more than $3,000 per month, but it’s also an Achilles heel. After all, users solely relying on a tracker wouldn’t be able to exchange any files if the tracker became unavailable. That’s precisely why BitTorrent developers came up with a couple of decentralized approaches. Most BitTorrent clients now support a so-called Distributed Hash Table, or DHT.

A DHT is essentially a decentralized P2P network that stores all the information a tracker traditionally offers in the P2P cloud, making it possible to find users to download from even if the tracker server is offline. Most clients also support a feature called Peer Exchange (PEX) that’s meant to let peers talk to each other directly to take the load off a tracker server. The question is: Can DHT and PEX do all the heavy lifting and facilitate downloads for some 20 million simultaneous users without any tracker involved?

The first BitTorrent client that ever incorporated DHT was Vuze back in 2005 when it was still called Azureus, so I figured folks there might have an opinion on this. Vuze co-founder and CTO Olivier Chalouhi seemed bullish. “DHT works well as a technology, and is actually more scalable than tracker sites,” he told me. He cautioned, however, that very new files as well as rare files with few seeders would be served better by a tracker as opposed to a DHT-only environment.

Simon Morris from BitTorrent Inc. seemed a little more cautious. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some impact on performance,” he told me. “In theory DHT and PEX should be sufficient,” Morris explained, adding that the initial discovery of users to download from might be more reliable and robust if you can leverage a tracker server.

I also talked to an admin involved in running one of the big tracker servers that currently functions as the backbone of the BitTorrent universe. He sounded skeptical and said that he didn’t believe DHT to be scalable enough to completely take over.

To be honest, those are all just well-informed musings. We don’t really know what would happen if all of the world’s trackers were to be turned off tomorrow. What we do know is that BitTorrent wouldn’t work quite as seamlessly as it does now, if only for one reason: Bittorrent Inc. and Vuze actually use two different, incompatible DHT networks. This doesn’t matter as much when both clients are connected to the same tracker. However, in a tracker-less world, Vuze users wouldn’t be able to find users of BitTorrent’s client, and vice versa. Chalouhi told me that Vuze is currently working on integrating both DHTs to bridge those two worlds.

The good news is that trackers aren’t disappearing anytime soon. The Pirate Bay may have announced the retirement of its tracker this week, but the site’s tracker has actually been offline since early August, and other trackers have been more than capable of filling the void. In fact, tracker admins are working on new technology that would make their servers part of a federated network to prevent any interruption.

For end users, all of this means that little is changing. You’ll still use a BitTorrent site to search for content, and your client will most likely still connect to a tracker to download it. DHT has been around for years, and it may become more important over time. Some trackers may exchange data among themselves. The overall experience, however, will be pretty much the same. Maybe that’s what The Pirate Bay folks meant when they ended their sensationalistic announcement by proclaiming: “This is the future. And the present.” And the past, one might add.

French word for Cheat

2009-11-20T10:56:43Z

Author: pippin
Posted on: 2009-11-20 00:30:50