The decade according to 9-year-olds from allison louie-garcia on Vimeo.
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Forgetful Saturday
Il y a 15 heures
jeudi 31 décembre 2009
lundi 28 décembre 2009
un sport de redneck
un pit de bouette, une pelle mécanique, des skis... y a rien de mieux!
EMBED-Redneck Mudhole Water Skiing - Watch more free videos
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EMBED-Redneck Mudhole Water Skiing - Watch more free videos
(via gizmodo)
vendredi 25 décembre 2009
mardi 22 décembre 2009
lundi 21 décembre 2009
le dernier raekwon est excellent
un vieux wu-tang clan qui peut encore sortir un album avec plus que deux bonnes pièces? c'est possible! "ob4cl2" est tout bon, avec très peu de filling. j dilla, rza et le docteur dre ont fait une très bonne job et ghostface est amplement au rendez-vous!
mardi 15 décembre 2009
le vrai esprit des fêtes
(via boner party, mon tumblr préféré!)
UPDATE: ah, ben! elles sont populaires, il y a un article du nytimes sur leur drink le plus hip: le mcnuggetini!
(via jezebel)
dimanche 13 décembre 2009
mercredi 9 décembre 2009
mardi 8 décembre 2009
lundi 7 décembre 2009
dimanche 6 décembre 2009
mercredi 2 décembre 2009
des mystérieux jumeaux aryens!?
conspiration nazie ou extra-terrestres libidineux? national geographic enquête!
mercredi 25 novembre 2009
samedi 21 novembre 2009
dimanche 15 novembre 2009
avant les classiques
jeu: les pièces suivantes sont à l'origine d'échantillons pour quelques classiques du hip-hop; pouvez-vous indentifier de quel classiques il s'agit?
vendredi 13 novembre 2009
jeudi 12 novembre 2009
mardi 10 novembre 2009
vendredi 23 octobre 2009
mercredi 21 octobre 2009
lundi 19 octobre 2009
vendredi 16 octobre 2009
mercredi 14 octobre 2009
mardi 13 octobre 2009
jeudi 8 octobre 2009
dimanche 4 octobre 2009
jeudi 24 septembre 2009
lundi 21 septembre 2009
mardi 15 septembre 2009
jeudi 10 septembre 2009
lundi 7 septembre 2009
de la gestion des urinoirs
si vous êtes un homme (donc que vous utilisez à l'occasion un urinoir), alors vous vous demanderez comment vous faisiez pour vivre avant cette explication scientifique du «protocole international de choix d'urinoir». gracieuseté de xkcd.
dimanche 6 septembre 2009
samedi 5 septembre 2009
vendredi 4 septembre 2009
jeudi 3 septembre 2009
mardi 1 septembre 2009
lundi 24 août 2009
le party d'anniversaire dont on rêve tous
ce vidéo d'une chanson de jay reatard m'a fait beaucoup rire.
jeudi 13 août 2009
mercredi 12 août 2009
mardi 11 août 2009
dimanche 9 août 2009
jeudi 6 août 2009
mercredi 5 août 2009
samedi 25 juillet 2009
vendredi 24 juillet 2009
lundi 20 juillet 2009
samedi 18 juillet 2009
auto de police
dans son sens le plus littéral! ;)
cette auto de police est probablement conduite par le sérif! (ouch!)
cette auto de police est probablement conduite par le sérif! (ouch!)
lundi 6 juillet 2009
vendredi 3 juillet 2009
mercredi 1 juillet 2009
mardi 30 juin 2009
lundi 29 juin 2009
samedi 20 juin 2009
mercredi 17 juin 2009
vendredi 12 juin 2009
jeudi 11 juin 2009
lundi 1 juin 2009
au moins un débat enfin terminé!
dans le ny times d'aujourd'hui, la nouvelle qu'un grand débat du XXe siècle est finalement terminé (la nouvelle au complet est hilarante!):
The Lord Justice Hath Ruled: Pringles Are Potato Chips
Britain’s Supreme Court of Judicature has answered a question that has long puzzled late-night dorm-room snackers: What, exactly, is a Pringle? With citations ranging from Baroness Hale of Richmond to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lord Justice Robin Jacob concluded that, legally, it is a potato chip.
The decision is bad news for Procter & Gamble U.K., which now owes $160 million in taxes. It is good news for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs — and for fans of no-nonsense legal opinions. It is also a reminder, as conservatives begin attacking Judge Sonia Sotomayor for not being a “strict constructionist,” of the pointlessness of labels like that.
In Britain, most foods are exempt from the value-added tax, but potato chips — known as crisps — and “similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour,” are taxable. Procter & Gamble, in what could be considered a plea for strict construction, argued that Pringles — which are about 40 percent potato flour, but also contain corn, rice and wheat — should not be considered potato chips or “similar products.” Rather, they are “savory snacks.”
The VAT and Duties Tribunal disagreed, ruling that Pringles — which have been marketed in the United States as “potato chips” — are taxable. “There are other ingredients,” the tribunal said, but a Pringle is “made from potato flour in the sense that one cannot say that it is not made from potato flour, and the proportion of potato flour is significant being over 40 percent.”
An appeals court reversed, in a convoluted opinion that considered four interpretations of the law before ultimately rejecting three of them. In the end, it decided that Pringles are exempt from the tax, mainly because they have less potato content than a potato chip.
The Supreme Court of Judicature reversed again, in an eloquent decision. Lord Justice Jacob, in an apparent swipe at the midlevel court, insisted the question was “not one calling for or justifying overelaborate, almost mind-numbing legal analysis.”
The VAT and Duties Tribunal took an eminently practical approach, he said. It considered Pringles’ appearance, taste, ingredients, process of manufacture, marketing and packaging, and concluded that “while in many respects” they “are different from potato crisps and so they are near the borderline, they are sufficiently similar to satisfy that test.”
The tribunal was not obliged, he said, “to go on and spell out item by item how each was weighed as if it were using a real scientist’s balance.” It came down to “a matter of overall impression.”
The Supreme Court of Judicature had little patience with Procter & Gamble’s lawyerly attempts to break out of the potato chip category. The company argued that to be “made of potato” Pringles would have to be all potato, or nearly so. If so, Lord Justice Jacob noted, “a marmalade made using both oranges and grapefruit would be made of neither — a nonsense conclusion.”
He was even more dismissive of Procter & Gamble’s argument that to be taxable a product must contain enough potato to have the quality of “potatoness.” This “Aristotelian question” of whether a product has the “essence of potato,” he insisted, simply cannot be answered.
In the Pringles litigation, three levels of British courts engaged in a classic debate over line-drawing, a staple of first-year law school classes. At some point, a potato-chip-like item is so different from a potato chip that it can no longer be called one — but when? Lord Justice Jacob invoked the wisdom of Justice Holmes: “A tyro thinks to puzzle you by asking you where you are going to draw the line and an advocate of more experience will show the arbitrariness of the line proposed by putting cases very near it on one side or the other.”
In other words, sometimes you just have to call them as you see them.
Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like “free speech” or “due process” — or potato chip. Nor is either ideological camp wholly strict or wholly activist. Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like “the right to bear arms.”
In the end, as Lord Justice Jacob noted, a judge can only look at the relevant factors and draw an overall impression. His common-sense approach was a rebuke not only to Procter & Gamble, but to everyone out there who insists that the only way to read laws correctly is to read them strictly.
The Lord Justice Hath Ruled: Pringles Are Potato Chips
Britain’s Supreme Court of Judicature has answered a question that has long puzzled late-night dorm-room snackers: What, exactly, is a Pringle? With citations ranging from Baroness Hale of Richmond to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lord Justice Robin Jacob concluded that, legally, it is a potato chip.
The decision is bad news for Procter & Gamble U.K., which now owes $160 million in taxes. It is good news for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs — and for fans of no-nonsense legal opinions. It is also a reminder, as conservatives begin attacking Judge Sonia Sotomayor for not being a “strict constructionist,” of the pointlessness of labels like that.
In Britain, most foods are exempt from the value-added tax, but potato chips — known as crisps — and “similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour,” are taxable. Procter & Gamble, in what could be considered a plea for strict construction, argued that Pringles — which are about 40 percent potato flour, but also contain corn, rice and wheat — should not be considered potato chips or “similar products.” Rather, they are “savory snacks.”
The VAT and Duties Tribunal disagreed, ruling that Pringles — which have been marketed in the United States as “potato chips” — are taxable. “There are other ingredients,” the tribunal said, but a Pringle is “made from potato flour in the sense that one cannot say that it is not made from potato flour, and the proportion of potato flour is significant being over 40 percent.”
An appeals court reversed, in a convoluted opinion that considered four interpretations of the law before ultimately rejecting three of them. In the end, it decided that Pringles are exempt from the tax, mainly because they have less potato content than a potato chip.
The Supreme Court of Judicature reversed again, in an eloquent decision. Lord Justice Jacob, in an apparent swipe at the midlevel court, insisted the question was “not one calling for or justifying overelaborate, almost mind-numbing legal analysis.”
The VAT and Duties Tribunal took an eminently practical approach, he said. It considered Pringles’ appearance, taste, ingredients, process of manufacture, marketing and packaging, and concluded that “while in many respects” they “are different from potato crisps and so they are near the borderline, they are sufficiently similar to satisfy that test.”
The tribunal was not obliged, he said, “to go on and spell out item by item how each was weighed as if it were using a real scientist’s balance.” It came down to “a matter of overall impression.”
The Supreme Court of Judicature had little patience with Procter & Gamble’s lawyerly attempts to break out of the potato chip category. The company argued that to be “made of potato” Pringles would have to be all potato, or nearly so. If so, Lord Justice Jacob noted, “a marmalade made using both oranges and grapefruit would be made of neither — a nonsense conclusion.”
He was even more dismissive of Procter & Gamble’s argument that to be taxable a product must contain enough potato to have the quality of “potatoness.” This “Aristotelian question” of whether a product has the “essence of potato,” he insisted, simply cannot be answered.
In the Pringles litigation, three levels of British courts engaged in a classic debate over line-drawing, a staple of first-year law school classes. At some point, a potato-chip-like item is so different from a potato chip that it can no longer be called one — but when? Lord Justice Jacob invoked the wisdom of Justice Holmes: “A tyro thinks to puzzle you by asking you where you are going to draw the line and an advocate of more experience will show the arbitrariness of the line proposed by putting cases very near it on one side or the other.”
In other words, sometimes you just have to call them as you see them.
Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like “free speech” or “due process” — or potato chip. Nor is either ideological camp wholly strict or wholly activist. Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like “the right to bear arms.”
In the end, as Lord Justice Jacob noted, a judge can only look at the relevant factors and draw an overall impression. His common-sense approach was a rebuke not only to Procter & Gamble, but to everyone out there who insists that the only way to read laws correctly is to read them strictly.
vendredi 29 mai 2009
mardi 26 mai 2009
vendredi 15 mai 2009
jeudi 7 mai 2009
mercredi 6 mai 2009
mardi 5 mai 2009
une souris sadique et un chat pathétique
non, ce ne sont pas ceux auxquels vous pensez...
... mais plutôt une très belle animation crées à partir de l'excellente bande dessinée de chris ware. (et ça vaut la peine de le regarder en HD sur la page vimeo prévue à cet effet.)
... mais plutôt une très belle animation crées à partir de l'excellente bande dessinée de chris ware. (et ça vaut la peine de le regarder en HD sur la page vimeo prévue à cet effet.)
lundi 4 mai 2009
wu tang via blue note
la nouvelle meme «design»: refaire des couvertures de livres ou de disques dans un style donné. ici c'est nul autre que le wu tang clan, fort ingénieusement refait «à la blue note». dans flickr. via.
dimanche 3 mai 2009
vendredi 1 mai 2009
mercredi 29 avril 2009
samedi 25 avril 2009
vendredi 24 avril 2009
samedi 18 avril 2009
vendredi 17 avril 2009
mercredi 15 avril 2009
lundi 13 avril 2009
dimanche 12 avril 2009
vive les tweenbots!
oeuvre de kacie kinzer, les tweenbots sont des robots très rudimentaires qui nécessitent l'intervention des quidams pour survivre et traverser la jungle new-yorkaise!vendredi 3 avril 2009
mercredi 1 avril 2009
mardi 31 mars 2009
vendredi 27 mars 2009
samedi 21 mars 2009
vendredi 6 mars 2009
jeudi 5 mars 2009
mercredi 4 mars 2009
mardi 3 mars 2009
lundi 2 mars 2009
mardi 24 février 2009
99 problems?
allez visiter le florilège de greg rutter, list of the 99 things you should have already experienced on the internet unless you're a loser or old or something. plusieurs sont des classiques inévitables des dernières années youtube (pas encore chocolate rain ou le dramatic chipmunk! boring!) mais il y en a quelques uns qui vous ont probablement échappés alors (parfois avec raison) et qui valent encore leurs 30 secondes d'hilarité.
lundi 23 février 2009
de la watchpub partout...
il y a même un jeu video pseudo-80, de type street fighter en ligne!
aussi, les faux documents "révélés" sur the new frontiersman sont pas mal non plus. si le film est une merde, on ne pourra pas leur reprocher un manque d'effort. le blogue io9 ose poser la question: what happens if watchmen flops?
samedi 21 février 2009
le pousseur de carrés
un concert de squarepusher trouvé sur vimeo. il y a pas grand chose à voir (un drum, une basse, un laptop!), mais c'est un bon set!
lundi 16 février 2009
mardi 10 février 2009
agglo-pub
comme la campagne athéiste, vous aussi vous pouvez afficher sur les bus de londres grâce au bus slogan generator!
oh, les jolies usines!
le site bouncing red ball a des liens vers de très jolies collections de photographies d'usines japonaises:
[via gizmodo]
[via gizmodo]
vendredi 6 février 2009
jeudi 5 février 2009
vendredi 30 janvier 2009
mercredi 28 janvier 2009
mardi 27 janvier 2009
samedi 24 janvier 2009
petit mash-up du samedi
vous souvenez-vous de musti?
maintenant, écoutez simultanément cette pièce de pole et l'épisode suivant (la voix de la narratrice originale est dangereusement apaisante!)
maintenant, écoutez simultanément cette pièce de pole et l'épisode suivant (la voix de la narratrice originale est dangereusement apaisante!)
fold-ins
le new york times offre un petit florilège des classiques fold-ins, des images à double-sens dessinées par al jafee et qui sont depuis près de 40 ans en troisième de couverture du magazine MAD.
jeudi 15 janvier 2009
star wars, raconté comme jamais!
star wars, résumé par une fille qui n'en a jamais écouté un au complet, hilarant!
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
mercredi 14 janvier 2009
lundi 12 janvier 2009
vendredi 9 janvier 2009
c'est officiel: hulk hogan a toujours été un mauvais lutteur
le congrès américain se penche sur l'utilisation des stéroïdes dans la lutte professionnelle! (mais pourquoi!?!?)
devant le comité, la vice-présidente de la wwe, stephanie mcmahon, a affirmé en toute candeur:
[...] if you walk out and you make the people notice you, you can be a main-event guy. You really don't even have to be a good wrestler. hulk hogan was a terrible wrestler, and he still is.
Q: For the record, I am sure he would disagree with that.
A: I am sure he would disagree with that. I forget this is all public. But, you know, he was. He was a terrible wrestler.
[via gawker]
devant le comité, la vice-présidente de la wwe, stephanie mcmahon, a affirmé en toute candeur:
[...] if you walk out and you make the people notice you, you can be a main-event guy. You really don't even have to be a good wrestler. hulk hogan was a terrible wrestler, and he still is.
Q: For the record, I am sure he would disagree with that.
A: I am sure he would disagree with that. I forget this is all public. But, you know, he was. He was a terrible wrestler.
[via gawker]
mardi 6 janvier 2009
ce qu'il faut aux enfants...
les japonais ont compris il y a 40 ans ce qu'il faut aux enfants comme émission de télévision: kure kure takora!
[via buzzfeed]
[via buzzfeed]
erratum pour 2008
le toujours génial richard thompson fait amende honorable pour quelques articles de 2008 où il manquait quelques informations, hum, cruciales:
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