July25
“Paris, and France, are definitely having an identity crisis,” says Christophe Boicos, a gallery owner and art professor for several American universities. “They have been living off their 19th- and 20th-century heritage for a long time. At the opening of the 21st century, they need to redefine themselves.”
“Who could have believed that one day, only one living French artist would be visible at the MoMA [Museum of Modern Art] in New York _ Jacques Villegle, who is more than 80 years old today? And that only two would be on display in the most important contemporary art institution in London, the Tate Modern?”
“You can’t get a museum curator in France other than a French one. There would be an outcry if there was a foreigner running the Louvre,”
A must read
June27
So they did it (again?), our neighbors down south must be laughing at us, they thought AT&T was evil. It could be worst guys, look at us here in Canada, we just got the worst iPhone plan ever! I guess I’ll keep my unlocked iPhone for now…
June23
Photography has been on the web for a while now, but The Big Picture proves that there is always a better way to do things. It’s straightforward, it’s well designed without any “click here for full size” or annoying and useless flash interactivity, it is simply the best photoblog ever! I have honestly never seen anything like it before. The web is a rather new media, it should offer new ways to access information, The Big Picture is a perfect example of what can be done. This is a must read, and contemplate…
June5
As a software developer, you should never ask a user for their email credentials. It’s unethical. It’s irresponsible. It is wrong. If someone is asking you to code this, why? For what purpose?
As a user, you should never provide your email credentials to anyone except your email service. Sites that ask you for this information are to be regarded with extreme suspicion if not outright distrust.
via Coding Horror
May29
Voilà à quoi ressemblait Google en 1999, le 17 janvier 1999 pour être plus précis. Vous pouvez faire la même chose pour Yahoo!, Apple, à vrai dire n’importe quel site web, grâce à la Wayback Machine. 10 milliards de pages web archivées depuis 1996, 100 téraoctets d’informations, le tout en accès libre. Je viens par exemple de retrouver la page d’accueil de Caramail, le fournisseur de ma toute première adresse email en 1999.