Thoughts
On life, politics, and the world as a whole...
Articles
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Blurred photos are not necessarily bad (16 January 2008)
There’s still a deep-rooted idea that blurred photos have to be thrown away. I beg to differ.
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France’s radical turn to the right (6 May 2007)
My take on France’s new President. Sunday, May 6th. A new era, a police state?
Blog entries
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The Ingenuity of Unintended Uses (22 January 2008)
No matter how hard we try to create designs for certain uses, people will always utilize them (...)
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Shift in discourse: the net is not geeky anymore (9 January 2008)
I heard two girls in the street, one of which was saying “I sent you a ‘happy new year’ message (...)
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Why Being Creative Is Good (7 January 2008)
To create is to potentially embarrass oneself in front of others. It is about the courage to be (...)
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Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com (17 December 2007)
Art without a frame: can people still know what they’re presented with? A very thorough and (...)
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Body Ritual among the Nacirema (9 May 2007)
I’ve searched for a long time for this text online. Yay! This is a sociological (...)
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Love is selfless caring (23 March 2007)
I found the following in Paul Auster’s Travels in the Scriptorium and hope he won’t mind me (...)
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DOS Shell script to rename multiple files in one line (15 March 2007)
I needed to prefix a long list of files with a number, so I looked around and did not find much (...)
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JPG Magazine! (23 February 2007)
I’ve just received issues 7 and 8 of JPG Magazine, and boy am I happy. Wow, oh wow, oh wow. I (...)
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iPhone: Not touchy feely (17 January 2007)
We’ve thought for so many years that tactile feedback was necessary. Very good point from (...)
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I know who the heir of Slytherin is (19 March 2006)
OK, let’s stop for a minute. You’ve all done your homework and read Harry Potter, right? In book (...)
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I almost bought Demon Days (8 March 2006)
Some brave soul lent me her Gorillaz: Demon Days CD. It’s good, very good. Although it took me (...)
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Coal combustion more harmless than the nuclear? (9 January 2006)
According to a seemingly serious article by Alex Gabbard, coal combustion produces more (...)
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Tori Amos in Paris in June and I’m not going. (27 April 2005)
Tori Amos will be in Paris in June. Oh yes, I should be pleased that the diva comes to France. (...)
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Computer age (and time) (17 August 2004)
I’ve just finished Marshall McLuhan’s Book of Probes and among many fascinating points, there was (...)
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Copy-controlled, my foot (5 July 2004)
Last week I bought Annie Lennox’s last CD, Bare, and it’s copy-controlled. How does it work, you (...)
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Hush! (24 August 2003)
Bobby McFerrin, I love you!