http://www.xoolive.org Ideas, references and your comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:20:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently found this Java applet on the net, which throws some words on a paper, with a size proportional to the number of occurrence of those words. I was curious to see the result after inputting some of my personal data: static pages of this site, content of my ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/06/24/wordle/ 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 ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/06/22/recently-on-the-web-5/ 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 ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/05/16/recently-on-the-web-4/ For anyone using LaTeX, it is sometimes appreciable to be able to change the font. Thus, some packages will change everything for you, like palatino package. If you add \usepackage{palatino} in your header, then the font will be changed. But personally, I like the original sans-serif font , and I ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/04/03/fonts-in-latex/ « If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else » David Campbell — Prenez un papier, et écrivez vos rêves, vos espoirs, ce que vous voulez faire de votre vie. Astronaute ? Plus simplement, qui n'a pas rêvé d'avoir un bon travail, de fonder une famille, de monter sa ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/04/01/dream-management/ 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 ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/03/24/recently-on-the-web-3/ 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 ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/02/19/recently-on-the-web-2/ 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 ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/01/31/recently-on-the-web/ Après mon expérience de kabuki, j'ai décidé de tenter l'expérience du bunraku. Le bunraku est un théâtre de marionnette, originaire du Kansai. J'ai donc réservé une place au 文楽国立劇場 (Théâtre national de bunraku) d'Osaka, pour voir la représentation de janvier. Il y a en effet 4 mois de représentation par ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/01/26/une-representation-de-bunraku-%e6%96%87%e6%a5%bd/ J'utilise depuis quelques temps déjà le layout dvorak-fr sur mon ordinateur personnel, et également sur mon lieu de travail. Depuis que je suis au Japon cependant, la présence de clavier japonais est inévitable. La forme du clavier étant différente : pas de touche "ç" (du clavier dvorak-fr), une touche en plus à côté ... http://www.xoolive.org/blog/2008/01/18/dvorak-fr-et-clavier-japonais/