Scientific publications...

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

This site randomly generates scientific essays...

A few titles I got:
* The materialist paradigm of narrative in the works of Madonna
* The Genre of Society: Subconstructive discourse, capitalism and structuralist posttextual theory

It's great. XD

Yet, the paper includes references and seem argumented enough (it features enough gibberish to make you think someone knows what it's about)...
I'm told some of them were accepted as real ones...

I love this! :)

Don't shoot the puppy!!!

Games that have the simplest gameplay are often the most compelling.
This is no exception:
http://www.rrrrthats5rs.com/games/dont-shoot-the-puppy/

It's REALLY hard...
(and VERY cheecky)

Road kill carpet...

Sick or genius?

http://oooms.nl/road-kill-carpet/#more-48

As they say: "It’s a warm, soft, cuddly carpet that attracts you to take a nap on it. But at the same time it's a repulsive image of a car-flattened, bloody fox."
Nuff said... (^_^;

Thanks to Nawah for the link!

Une pensee...

Faut esperer que le Cremant ne change jamais de nom, parce que du coup ca deviendrait de l'ex-Cremant et qui acheterait une telle chose?

Footez-nous la paix...

Ce matin sur RTL, le debat c'etait: "ils ont sifflez la Marseillaise hier soir, ca vous fait quoi?". Encore une grande idee. Genre on veut pas jeter d'huile sur le feu.
Donc evidemment y a des bons "patriotes" qui ont exprime leur indignation, qu'ils se sont sentis insultes au plus profond d'eux-memes, etc etc blah blah blah.

Heureusement y en a quelques-uns qui ont dit aussi que c'etait ridicule, que ca s'est toujours fait, que c'est pas malin certes (mais bon on parle de supporters de foot quand meme la) et que bon c'est pas non plus la peine d'en faire un plat (d'ailleurs les autres pays font pas tant de manieres). Ca fait du bien d'entendre un peu de bon sens. En meme temps, bizarrement, les 2 auditeurs en question n'etaient pas francais (1 allemand, 1 tunisien)... Je sais pas trop quelle image ca donne...

Un autre truc auquel je pense c'est que bon on a gueule sur les musulmans qui se sont insurges contre les caricatures de Mahomet. Et la on fait exactement pareil !!
Mahomet, c'est quand meme un symbole de leur religion et de leur culture. On peut comprendre que ca soit important pour eux. Donc la dessus on leur demande de laisser couler, mais faut pas toucher aux hymnes? C'est pas un peu ridicule?

Du coup je sais meme pas quel resultat ca a fait, ce match.

Update: 2 liens tres interessants (le 2e est en lien dans le 1er):
* http://www.cahiersdufootball.net/article.php?id=2991

* http://www.lemonde.fr/sports/article/2008/10/15/le-stade-c-est-un-des-rares-endroits-ou-l-on-peut-encore-manifester-publiquement_1107329_3242.html

Hilton for president!

I cannot believe I'm saying that and it makes me almost feel dirty, but Paris Hilton IS genuinely funny:

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

Th next is even better, thanks to the outstanding support cast:

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

But that doesn't mean I'm going to start watching the Simple Life...

I originally found this at the Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/09/paris_for_president/
That's very good...

PG Porn

"For those who love everything about porn, except the sex".
With a concept like that, nothing can go wrong... :)

http://www.spike.com/video/pg-porn-pg-porn/3041858

Death Race

Well here is a movie that doesn't pretend to be more than it thinks it is, but not less as well!
It doesn't fall into the category of those remakes that get watered down so kiddies can go and see it.

Sure, the story itself is a cliche. But you get what you're here to see: crashes, explosion and mindless violence (and cute girls). No nonsense.
It's well shot, spectacular, brutal.
And it does feel good. :)

It's also great to see that Paul WS Anderson nailed this one (after missing the mark on Resident Evil and Alien vs Predator...).

Certainly not the film of the year, but still a good ride...

Cats.

Silly, but it made me laugh... (^_^)

Pineapple Express.

It was a long time since I got to see a "real" comedy.
I have never seen any of the "Apatow gang" stuff so I was walking into unknown territory. Anyway I had a very good time.

It's strange how this made me feel like it was using a formula that used to be somewhat over-used at some point, but that I hadn't seen in effect for a long time. Only I can't really remember any movie in that category... (^_^; It's the kind of "action-comedy" that finishes in a good old bloodbath. A bit like Lock Stock or Snatch but the American way.
Anyway as with any formula, if it's well done, it works. And it's well done here.

It's well funny and the action is actually plenty and quite good! Yet it keeps a sort of wacky / despaired feel. So it manages not to break from the comedy part and also not turn the main characters into silly action heroes. Well in a sense they do turn out that way, but it fits, in a ridiculous way (Hot Fuzz did that somehow a few years back).
It's also a "pot movie" and it makes good use of the fact that the characters are high all the time... :) In a sense it accounts for the action parts...

The actors are top notch, with special mention to James Franco, but Seth Rogen does shine as well. They manage to compose very likeable character and work very well as a duo which is key in such a movie.

So it's a movie that might get forgotten when building you "best movies of all times" list, but that is still a very good quality laugh and well worth watching...

Bring it down! (no don't! - or just a little)

C'est marrant, dans la psychose qui s'est installee, avec les news qui parlent a present non stop de la crise financiere et tout le monde (enfin tout le monde... Seulement les gens "normaux", car les vrais responsables sont bien au chaud...) qui panique pour leurs economies, je suis pris d'une envie de rire. Je devrais pas, apres tout moi aussi je suis concerne par la crise, je cotise pour ma retraite, si ca s'effondre, je perds comme tout le monde.

Mais tout le systeme est base sur du vent, finalement y a pas grand chose qui a change depuis avant la crise, le gros truc c'est que oui y a des banques qui ont plongees mais la cause c'est juste que les gens flippent. C'est plus une histoire de climat. Si a cette seconde ceux qui jouaient en bourse changeaient d'attitudes, genre si on les mettais tous sous anti depresseurs (encore qu'il doit pas y en avoir des masses qui n'en prennent pas deja), bah tout se reglerait, tout remonterait...
Donc on peut voir les politiques lancer des appels deseperes en disant "il n'y a pas de raison de s'inquieter, tout va bien". Et en meme temps les medias rabachent et rabachent que ca va pas, que c'est la pire crise de l'histoire de la finance, que c'est foutu, c'est la fin du monde demain (fallait bien que quelque chose reussisse la ou le LHC a echoue)...
PANIQUE!

C'est tellement ridicule de voir ce mecanisme qui s'auto-entretient dans cette spirale de la peur que je suis pris d'une espece de jubilation quasi-morbide.
Et par dessus le marche, voir les etats les plus conservateurs, ceux qui n'ont eu de cesse d'essayer de dereguler tout ce systeme depuis des annees, se mettre a proner les nationalisations et a encadrer les transactions... Ca tient du genie!
Je devrais avoir peur, je devrais etre furieux. Au fond, je le suis.
Mais cette envie de rire de tout ca est trop forte...

Apres je souhaite pas que tout se casse la tronche... Mais une petite frayeur de temps en temps, ca peut aussi faire aller les choses dans le bon sens...

Hidden letters

An exercice for the eyes brought by Fwdemails.com...

It took me a while to find the O...

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What people have to do to eat...

Totally by chance (althoug it was quite unfortunate), I came across the last minutes of Police Academy 4 on TV. And I was very surprised to see... Sharon Stone!!!
So surprised I waited the end to see on the credits that it WAS her, not some lookalike. It was.

Well I guess you have to start somewhere... (^_^;

Gali l'alligator...

Ca c'est du super concept de pub... Je suis fan!!! :)

Gali l'Alligator - 13ème RUE
by amilhi

Une petite pensee pour le gamin qui a chante ca... (^_^;

Which Palin?

A new input to the American elections...



I'd vote for him!

I know I'm not qualified to do so, but why not?

Wall-E

I almost missed this one.

It's strange, that I had somehow got bored with Pixar. You KNOW that each time they release a film, it's going to be excellent. Funny, witty, interesting for everyone, in the most noble sense of the term.
I have been blown away by so many of their movies. The last one was The Incredibles, which counts as one of the best superhero movie ever made (and that's not a small thing to say from me, especially looking at how many movies of the genere I have seen only this year... ;) ).
I heard Cars was great, but "nothing more" (!). So I let it pass. Too family friendly. I WANTED BLOOD! (^_^;
I did that for Ratatouille as well...
I was about to do the same for Wall-E. When someone would have eventually dragged me to see it, I would have kicked myself...

You have great movies. Those you can advise your friends to see.
And you have those movies that move you so much you know they'll be with you for the rest of your life. Some kind of milestone.
Wall-E is one of those.

Because of course it is everything a Pixar should be. But it is even more. On just a technical level, it takes (as usual...) the medium to new heights. But it's almost irrelevant compared to what it is.
It is funny & witty, very kid friendly, yet it manages to tackles themes that are very adult and to question our very way of life (at least in this part of the world). It also manages to find a way to depict humanity that is utterly cute yet completely horrible and scary.
And it becomes more than an "eco-fable", it is also on some sort of corporate slavery. How man could de-evolve... A bit like Brazil did. But in a cuter, lighter way. Yet the message stays...

Such ambition for most could see as a "kids movie" (I hate that conception that animation pictures should be for kids, then again it's more or less the case here) is mind blowing. Even if you're a Pixar fan.
So to see it succeed in such a way is just unbelievable.

And everything is so perfectly crafted, from the description of the derelict earth to the relationships between characters, all this almost without words (as the robots don't talk)!

To be able to resist this, not to even have your eyes water in some of the poetic scenes, you would have to be dead.

It's just cinematic heaven.

The end of the world... ??

Not quite. Not now anyway. :)

In the mean time, everything you need to know about the LHC in a glorious rap:



I had no idea the Beastie Boys had entries at the CERN!!

Citation du jour...

(au sujet des jeux videos)
Erwan Cario : Les achievements, j’ai jamais trop compris l’intérêt. Mais bon, si il y en a qui aiment...
...
vnz : Mouais, ça fait un peu comme si tu te baladais avec un badge « J’ai lu tout Stendhal ».

lol!

Source

The Cyborg Name Decoder

That's me:

Get Your Cyborg Name

(http://cyborg.namedecoder.com/)

Or as a monster:

Get Your Monster Name

But I like this one better:

Get Your Monster Name

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first Hellboy. It was an outstanding superhero movie, with great characters, great design. Director Guillermo Del Toro also managed to adapt the comic in a way that he made Hellboy his own while completely respecting the original material. So just a little lighter, but stil with the Chtuluesque monsters.
The only flaw is that it came after Spiderman and was treating a bit on its territory, so it didn't felt as fresh as it should have.
Anyway a movie coming amongst my favourite in this genre.

So hopes were high for this sequel, as Del Toro was back on.
Well he followed on with the usual sequel rules: bigger & better, with great effect!

The movie follows the characters were the 1st movie left them. So people who tought that the first one wasn't dark enough, this one won't have you more satisfied s the tone is more or less the same. In my opinion thought it's a spot on mix of humour action and darker moments.
The production design is astonishing: the sets are varied and epic and you get to see a huge gallery of varied monsters (maybe more impressive than Star Wars).

The whole enterprise drips cool and poses like any superhero movie should do. It's like Ironman but with monsters instead of young billionnaires.

The action also takes it up a notch from the previous installment with some great set pieces and choreographies.
Ron Perlman still inhabits its roel perfectly as Hellboy and Luke Goss (previously seen in Blade 2) is a worthy (and bad-ass) villain.
The 2ary characters (especially Abe Sapiens) gets a bit more development, which is great and you get some very interesting new ones (Joahnn Krauss is excellent).

So Del Toro did it again, with a film in all aspects better than the first one (like Spiderman 2 was to Spiderman 1).
Bring on the 3rd! :)