QuickBlog 13 IV

PECO & économie

J’ai toujours beaucoup apprécié les pays d’Europe centrale. Mes voyages en République tchèque, en Slovaquie, dans les Etats baltes et en ex-Yougoslavie m’ont fait découvrir une Europe de contrastes, qui renvoit à l’occidental une image de ce qu’a pu être la France entre 1920 et 1955.

Jeffrey blogs

Mr Z blogs on blogspot (via)
I love this sort of stories: Coudal & JewelCases.
…When I think back to the many bleeding-edge CSS, DHTML, and Flash presentations I’ve seen or participated in over the years, the motivation was inevitably, “How hard can I push Flash?â€? or “How many objects can I move on this page?â€? or “What else can I show you in Firefox that won’t work in IE?â€? It was never, “What would the user like?â€?… [x]

Teen web

… « I’m not too surprised this kind of issue [teenagers reportedly commited suicide after having announced it on their skyblog (article libé)] is coming up is that teens are left to explore the internet and blogging on their own, for the most part. Parents don’t know much about what is going on online, though they probably do know about e-mails and search engines. I remember an article (unavailable now, thanks to paying archives) which stated that many consumers of child porn are in fact teenagers… » [Tara]

QuickBlog 06.IV

  • La Constitution Apostolique: … »je déclare une fois encore que le Collège des électeurs du Souverain Pontife est constitué uniquement des Pères Cardinaux de la Sainte Église Romaine »… (via)
  • YaGoohoo!gle (via)
  • « It’s possible that the CIA is sending encryption keys to its spies this way, but it seems unlikely » [x]
  • « Decisions like this — which hold First Amendment values as superior to commercial claims that the law should shield them from effective critique — differ from the law that applies in the UK and on most of the European Continent (especially Germany and Belgium). But they’re our rules, and we have a right to them until our legislature changes them. » [« Sucks » Sites Don’t Violate US Trademark Law] (via)
  • « Boing Boing is profitable. Probably very profitable. It’s not many sites written “for my friends and my familyâ€? that need bookkeepers and reader surveys. [x] (via)