J’ai entendu parler d’un certain party de Noël d’une boîte de production où du saumon fumé était servi sur les corps allongés, et dénudés, d’un couple de mannequins…
Apparemment, ils ont rien inventé: le « body sushi » est dans le vent.
« So they walk in, they may be surprised, but then they say, ‘Oh that’s cool.’ And it is. Of course, people in Missouri would probably have a heart attack. »
[via MeFi]
Eben Moglen of the Free Software Foundation answers SCO’s claim about the GPL’s invalidity.
I still think that if the GPL was to be invalid, especially on the ground SCO claims, it would take with it in it’s fall a sizeable portion of the other proprietary EULAs and software distribution licences. Free software might find some surprising allies if this ever goes near a courtroom.
[via Slashdot]
Si nos Zone:3, Productions J et autre maisons locales préférées cherchent un concept à acheter, il y a un nouveau plancher télévisuel à rejoindre.
Oui oui, pour tout chez qui croyaient que Mixmania, Phenomia, Star Academie et la maison Rona, c’était pas fort, voici LapDance Island.
Comme le nom du programme l’indique, on va tenter de donner une overdose de danses à 10$ à une gang de gars.
Le concept est un peu flou, et ca risque de désensibiliser les participants (et les auditeurs) assez vite, mais je dirais peut-être pas non à faire les auditions par contre!
De plus, apparemment, à en croire les touristes et les rumeurs, est-ce que Montréal n’est pas particulièrement réputé pour ce genre de choses là? Reste à trouver l’ïle tropicale…. Le parc Jean-Drapeau est libre pour juin prochain en tout cas…
[via MeFi]
Lemmings in DHTML claims this guy. Very cute and fun, but standing on fragile intellectual property grounds?
[via Toomuchsexy blog]
Paul Boutin in Wired. Why it makes more business sense to give WiFi away to consumers.
I guess it just costs more to charge for it, hence the salt and pepper analogy.
Are digital commodities different than material commodities in that respect?
Why does the music industry think it can preserve an obsolete business model?
Follow the links for a good read.
You wish you had a big nice dock like mine? Keep trying, still not nearly as lickable, plus you need big icons to be in the big boys club …
Oh, the same goes for the Genie effect.
The answer to life, the universe and everything
The Google calculator: learned about it from Aaron (or was it MeFi?) and got some useful (and less useful but very creative) ideas from Jason Kottke and Andrew Baio.
Martine vient de me faire penser à Communauto. Et puis il y a Fleecy qui évangélise ça depuis un an. Et mon excuse était que « y’a pas de stations près de chez nous ». J’avais tord.
Avoir su j’y aurais sérieusement réfléchi…
My Eco-Footprint: it requires 4.47 Earths to support each member of the present human population at your standard of living.
Hey, it’s still only only 64.57% of an average North American’s footprint
A friend sent me this Internet Week Opinion piece: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry . It is without contest the worst thing I’ve ever read regarding Linux and open source issues ever.
The point seems to be « Linux is not ready for the enterprise ». I’ll let you judge if it proves the point. Or any point.
Enters SMS agriculture says SPU newslog: farmers in Kenya will be able monitor prices for their products via their mobile and SMS. The hope is that this will avoid farmer’s exploitation by middlemen since previously, knowing commodity prices required travelling to markets.
Anil Dash on the flash mobs phenomenon I discussed earlier.
Those who are worried about the weblog fad flaming out, fear not. Mobs are truly the flagpole-sitting of the new millennium. As Joshua astutely observed, Flash Mobs are striking in that they are an affinity event for people who have no affinity group. A Meetup for people who like Meetups. How much more meta can it get? None. None more meta.
+1 for the Spinal Tap reference, and for the semi self-serving lament to the effect that flash mobs coverage in the media does not mention weblogs.
[via SmartMobs]
Keeping the Net neutral is the title of this Salon piece.
For those with a subscription, it explains why cable compagnies should be made common carriers, for me it’s just a teaser that I agree with.
Update: Frank has a nice exerpt.
[via Greplaw]