SVH : un Site dont Vous êtes le Héros !
Par le plus grand des hasards (appelé Flagelleurmental), je viens de tomber sur une nouvelle incarnation d’un phénomène littéraire et ludique qui a bercé une bonne partie de ma jeunesse, je veux parler des “Livres dont vous êtes les héros”, aussi connu comme le livre-jeu. Issus des jeux de donjons et dragons, alors encore des … Read more
Ph.D. front update #4: Vinyl DVD
As part of my dissertation, I’m now watching some animes which I didn’t know before and were recommended to me by people I’m in touch with for my fieldwork. One of these is the famous Cowboy Bebop series and I was very lucky to be lent the Dybex Deluxe limited edition box. When I opened … Read more
Social and technical aspects of the uses of technology
Twitter can indeed be a very useful source of information, as the following article entitled Why social search won’t topple Google (anytime soon) illustrates it. Actually, I found it following a citation in an article on the Slow Erosion of Google Search, which had been previously cited by one of my contact on Twitter. What … Read more
An idea to recycle a VHS player
Here is a very interesting way to recycle an 0ld technology like the VHS player, which has been displaced by the DVD players for several years now. Entitled How to make a VHS video toaster, it leads you step by step into the transformation of a VHS player into a toaster, which will imprint the … Read more
Blind pledge and women in technology
Ok, I just did something a bit stupid. I pledged on PledgeBank to do something I didn’t understand at first. And there seems to be no way for me to back-off. I followed the link on a Swiss-French blog (Climb to the Stars), which I regularly visit and thought that it was a funny new … Read more
