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This is the fifth edition of Recently on the web, dedicated to cartoons. I would like to recommend you:

• a new Open-Source cartoon: Big Buck Bunny;
• a cartoon by students of French animation school Les Gobelins;
• Tintin’s cartoons in English version;
• a website with a lot of free documentary films;
• this speech of Dan Geer about security;
• Why we can’t stop playing solitaire?
• an article about a special experience I had: Bi-Digital O-Ring Test

For the fourth edition of Recently on the web, I found:

• an article proving that good handwriting is still a skill,
• an article presenting tips for self-editing,
• an article about how to organize a presentation: part 1 and part 2
• an article about Apple’s marketing strategy,
• an article from the 60’s about personal privacy,
• a science article: More data usually beats better algorithms,
• an article finding a correlation between computer languages and facial hair,
• a French article by Maître Éolas, Soyez plus compétents que le président de la République
• and a website about Kaj Stenvall, whose artwork resembles something we already know…

Enjoy!

Here is my third edition of Recently on the web, a bit shorter than usual.

• It is quite easy to find on the web articles showing the benefit of tea over coffee, but I finally found an article defending my coffee habit.
• Here is a nice animation by Adobe.
• Some tips for travelling as light as possible.
• And finally, a guide to Free Hugs…

I wrote some days ago a summary of what I could find interesting on the web. This is my second edition of Recently on the web.

I have found some articles about information overload. Everyday, by checking email, RSS feeds, browsing social networking, checking news, we waste a lot of time if we don’t do it correctly.

• Merlin Mann made a conference about how to keep an Inbox Zero.
• Monika Mundell published also about dealing with information overload, on email, TV, RSS, etc.
• I also found an article about how to get the most of social networking sites and
• found this family-oriented network helping you to draw a genealogy tree.
• About productivity, I found this article about Dvorak simplified keyboard. I already published some months ago an article about the French version of this layout, that I use daily.
• As I visited the 大阪人権博物館, the museum for Human Rights in Osaka, I read some articles about 部落民 (Burakumin), people in Japan who can be compared to Indian Untouchables. Wikipedia article and an essay.
• This article (in French) speaks about being White in France nowadays.
• And finally, an article (in French) about the Namdaemun in Seoul, that I saw when I visited last Christmas, and that was set on fire on February 11th.

These days, I have been reading through various pages. Some were funny, some were sad, some were just very interesting. I thought about writing regularly a post with articles and website I read recently, for sharing it with people who may read me.

• Doctors of depravity is about the activity of Japanese army in the Second World War. I found this article while I was browsing the article about Unit 731 on Wikipedia.
• Odyssey of State Capitols and State Suspicion relates the crazy story of a guy on a trip through the different states of the US, following a postcard and taking pictures of the State Capitols.
• Some cheats on the need to sleep.
• The four laws of simplicity.
• 10 simple ways to do only three things today.
• Zenhabits.net and Lifehack.org also compile some advice for putting order in daily life.

If you wonder how Google can store all your emails, all the content of the web, and never empty their cache, and keep your private information until the end of our life…

Un petit coup de cœur pour deux serveurs en ligne de jeux de société.

Le principe est simple : on crée un compte, et on propose des parties. Une fois la partie acceptée, à chaque connection, si l’adversaire a joué entre temps, on peut jouer un coup.

Certes la partie n’avance pas aussi vite qu’une partie réelle, ou une partie en ligne, mais ce principe présente deux avantages :

• les serveurs de partie en temps réel ont en général des difficultés à marcher à travers les proxy ;
• le fait de jouer des parties lentes donne le temps réfléchir lors de coups délicats, voire de faire des recherches sur les meilleurs coups à jouer. (On peut citer l’exemple des jôseki ou des tsumego au jeu de go par exemple…)

Les adresses des serveurs sont les suivantes :

1. Dragongoserver qui ne fonctionne que pour le jeu de go ;
2. It’s your turn! qui fonctionne pour le jeu de go, les échecs, les dames, le backgammon, etc.

À bientôt sur ces serveurs !