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Shoutbox added

( General )

I added a shoutbox (at the bottom of the left sidebar), so you can now leave me messages
On the technical side, the shoutbox (wordspew) doesn’t seem to work well with WP-Cache. Thus, as a temporary workaround, I had to hack the code of WP-Cache to prevent it from caching the main page. I […]

Links of the Week 2

Ok, I’m late, it has been two weeks now. Here is the (lengthy) list:
News:

Obama Smeared As Former ‘Madrassa’ Student
CNN Debunks False Obama ‘Madrassa’ Smear
Police slash tents of homeless people

Educational:

Children see, Children do
List of full length documentaries
Frank Zappa debates about censorship
How Black Children View White Children
Why US Math education sucks
Black man trying to get a cab
Sniper […]

Links of the week 1

As Promissed here is a small list of interesting or funny links for this week:
Articles and News:

YouTube exposes torture in Egypt (direct link to videos: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8c1QfFiLDDI, http://youtube.com/watch?v=5QFSN8fyYHM, http://youtube.com/watch?v=r0-rQr6Np7A, and http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQom4edkHkw

Colorblind Test
HD-DVD Volume Unique Keys Discovered (although I really don’t see what is so extraordinary about it)
Upside-Down-Ternet (having fun when a neighbor is stealing […]

What a Wonderful World

( General and News and Politics and My Life )

I lost faith in humanity long time ago. And the truth is that I don’t really do anything to prevent from this mood. Quite the contrary in fact.
Below you’ll find two videos I recently watched, which are quite representative of the videos I watch all day long. A warning though: although I find them very […]

French Foreign Policy Debunked

( General and Politics and My Life )

When it comes to American people speaking about the French or French people speaking about Americans, it usually ends up being just caricatures or plain opinions said as facts. While some of them are remotely true, most are just stupid and insulting.
I don’t quite understand why the French-American relationship is always so passionate. Probably because […]

Hate Trailer Added

( Film-Making and Cinema and My Life )

Hey guys, check out the Videos and Films page. I added Hate Trailer and the videos are now on youtube, so it should work pretty much everywhere.
I noticed that Hate trailer is 16/9 vertically stretched though… We’ll need to reencode that.

nycmidnight screenwriter’s challenge 2006

( Film-Making and Cinema and My Life )

Congratulation to Vijay who made it to the final of the nycmidnight screenwriter’s challenge 2006!
You can check it out yourself: Group 13 results. The theme for this group was “Soldier(s) drama”, and he finished first in his group. Not bad!
The second round (and final) will be on September 22th 11:59PM EST. Let’s hope for the […]

It was a good day to die… But I missed! ;o)

( General and My Life )

So… It’s saturday afternoon, the weather is f*cking gorgeous (ok… that’s not so unusual in California…), no cloud in the sky, and this is the first weekend for a long time you don’t have anything you have to do. No film to shoot and no super-duper urgent thing to do at work. In other words […]

Self Portraits

Ok, I’m going to try to update this blog more often now.
So today’s topic is photography. As my photo gallery should show you, I kind of like doing photography… I’ve always been fascinated by people portraits, and especially female fine art (implied) nude. Yes I know how it sounds like… That’s the problem I had […]

The slow death

( General and My Life )

Should I? Who cares anyway.
Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon coeur ?
Ô bruit doux de la pluie
Par terre et sur les toits
Pour un cœur qui s’ennuie
Ô le chant de la pluie !
Il pleure sans raison
Dans ce coeur qui s’écœure.
Quoi! nulle trahison ?…
Ce deuil est sans […]