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It’s interesting…

Many magazines, newspapers and radios already do it : taking more and more of their stories from the web.

As Le Monde announces, a new French newspaper is claiming they will give you the best of the web, for 1,5 euros, but on paper.

It’s called Vendredi (Friday), it’s a weekly, it’s 1,5 euros, and it looks like this :

It’s a selection of posts from the francosphere. I like the concept, and since I hardly read French blogs, I thought I might buy it.

But no, I’ll read it on their site.

(The site is a collection of links to blogs with no comment feature. Oh, don’t click on the rssfeed  icon, it’s just part of the logo).

The Journal of Urban Typography (TJOUT)

TJOUT is dedicated to the documentation and study of signs,
word fragments, and typography created with utilitarian intent
in urban environments.

And it’s like poetry.

Japan kitch at Asian Drill pop.

Here : The Outbreak

A zombie movie where whatever you choose to do, you die.

Excellent.

Not here : Rush.
A commercial for Volvo. What, no Zombies ?

I played this game half of the evening.

Hit The Jackpot 2 Game - Games Freak

At least I won :

OK. I’m a freak. I have no life.

Why John McClane ?

Why Not? John McClane is a Badass. He’s an American. He doesn’t take shit from terrorists. He smokes. He crawls through air conditioning ducts. He’s a lover AND a fighter. So, shouldn’t we, The United States of America, have someone like John McClane in office?

Vote John McClane ‘08
More seriously, please have a look at the official McCain 08 website : it’s neat !

McCain 08

Eat more McCain ! Go for the Blue bag !

From Japan, a weird clock for your blog’s side bar (hover with your mouse and see what happens) :

Get it here at hoshitokinotoki.

Lol cats are really my favorite thing on the web.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? Nope.

Actuelly, yes. Long, long time ago :

To install Chrome I had to reboot my home computer : it only runs on Windows right now and I was on a Linux session.

I have partially switched to Linux (Ubuntu) since I have tested Vista at work. Vista sucks so much that it really convinced me to switch to Linux (I now have a dual boot on my home PC with XP and Ubuntu).

Yes Linux is great, and yes Chrome is great. Google announced a Linux and Mac version to be available soon.

Why am I talking about Operating Systems instead of the cool new features of Chrome, the future of Firefox…? Well because it might be the real issue ! (and there are probably thousands of pages presenting Chrome features).

As noted by several people, such as Walt Mossberg, Chrome allows you to run some web pages as applications. I have just tried with my zimbra webmail and it is like having outlook or thunderbird running. The “primary” OS (Mac, Linux, Windows) might well become the first necessary layer to run applications, but the real OS may become Google Chrome…

The quote from Walt Mossberg article :

“Google sees the Web as a platform for the software programs, or applications, that currently run directly on computer operating systems, notably Microsoft’s Windows. It says current browsers lack the underlying architecture to enable future, more powerful Web applications that will rely more heavily on a common Web programming language called JavaScript. Chrome was designed to be the world’s speediest browser at handling JavaScript.

That move might one day make Chrome a sort of online operating system that competes with Windows. “Think of Chrome as more than a simple Web browser,” Google declares. “It’s a platform for running Web applications.”

Posted By RD