Google is a digital truth serum. People tell Google things that they don’t tell to possibly anybody else, things they might not tell to family members, friends, anonymous surveys, or doctors.
According to Everybody Lies (unafiliated A’zone link) author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Check
all his NYT articles (and BTW, his The Return of the D.I.Y. Abortion Fewer clinics, more Google searches for alternative methods is already 4 months old, Vox)!
(via Kottke)
Le 7 avril 2017, j’ai fait une demande de carte d’identité à la marie du 18e. Tous les papiers demandés pour la carte étaient légaux et authentiques, la demande a été acceptée et j’ai aujourd’hui ma nouvelle carte d’identité française.
La photo que j’ai soumise pour cette demande est un modèle 3D réalisé sur ordinateur, à l’aide de plusieurs logiciels différents et des techniques utilisées pour les effets spéciaux au cinéma et dans l’industrie du jeu vidéo. C’est une image numérique, où le corps est absent, le résultat de procédés artificiels.
L’image correspond aux demandes officielles de la carte : elle est ressemblant, elle est récente, et répond à tous les critères de cadrage, lumière, fond et contrastes à observer.
Raphaël Fabre | Cni (via Kottke)
Designed by Tagami Haruhiko and build by his company 木製キャンピングトレーラー タイニーハウス – タイニーハウス ジャパン tiny house japan (Instagram)
Tiny House Talk: Man in Japan Builds Micro DIY Tiny House on Wheels
Living Big In A Tiny House: Breathtakingly Beautiful Japanese Tiny House on Wheels
Instagram
See also 内藤千紗子 channel on YouTube.
Slightly related: Oregon Cottage Company – Tiny Tea House (via)
…is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek πέτρα petra, meaning “stone”, and ἰχώρ īchōr, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian CSIRO researchers, Isabel Joy Bear and Richard G. Thomas, for an article in the journal Nature.
Update: Eric Thouvenin, “Fondateur et unique personne qui travaille sur [le] projet” Openrunner, a fait marche arrière. En moins de 48 heures.
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Openrunner a changé son interface et l’accès au fonds de carto IGN (France) est devenu payant. Un des derniers sites grand public qui permettait le partage des traces gpx avec accès au fonds de carte IGN gratuit disparait. Openrunner fait d’ailleurs très fort dans sa montée en gamme vers un modèle premium: l’accès au fonds de carto Open Cycle Map, basé sur la carto collaborative opensource OpenStreetMap (Wikipedia – OSM Wiki) est devenu payant!
Qui sera le remplaçant? VisuGPX offre l’accès IGN pour 10€/an, c’est encore supportable mais il n’y a pas la carto belge, suisse, italienne, espagnole, catalane,…
Aujourd’hui l’offre disponible se partage entre :
via Randonner léger (L’Openrunner nouveau : moins bien mais plus cher!!)
I don’t often quote Jason Kottke. I do admire his way of postings things I like, but I more often point to those things rather than to JK’s views. But I do agree with him on Amazon’s data-driven bookstores:
Other bookstores have books arranged according to best-seller lists, store-specific best-sellers, and staff recommendations, but I’ve never seen any store layout so extensively informed by data and where they tell you so much about why you’re seeing each item. Grocery store item placement is very data driven, but they don’t tell you why you’re seeing a display of Coke at the end of the aisle or why the produce is typically right at the entrance. It’ll be interesting to see if Amazon’s approach works or if people will be turned off by shopping inside a product database, a dehumanizing feeling Frommer hints at with “a collection of books that feels blandly standard” when compared to human curated selections at smaller bookstores.
And some hindsight:
(…) Overall, the store feels less oriented towards its book-buying customers and more towards driving Prime memberships, Amazon app downloads, and Kindle & Echo sales (which might be Amazon’s objective).
Gives a different meaning to an old song.
(via)
la Citroënnette. See also le blog des jouets André Citroën.
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If you liked Bunnie Huang’s book “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen” (Crowd Supply), you will love Scotty’s adventure recycling/refurbishing an iPhone 6S in the used cell phone market just south of Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, China.
The most interesting is not the geeky stuff, but Scott’s comments on how the 2017 Shenzhen he navigated to get his 6S parts is…
…like visiting the future, this crazy, dystopian, Blade Runneresque future.
(quote from the video, @1’14)
The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.
(via HaD)
Word of caution… don’t worry.
…a parent saying “Send me a link” has become this generation’s version of “We’ll see.”
Wish all lawyers were this straight to the point!
Telegraph: Jack Daniel’s sends ‘world’s most polite cease and desist letter’ (via)
…beat rogue states. Anytime.
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