15 petits degrés ce matin, une lumière particulière…

Comme chaque septembre, ces vers d’Armand Sylvestre me reviennent avec leur musique.

Automne au ciel brumeux, aux horizons navrants,
Aux rapides couchants, aux aurores pâlies,
Je regarde couler, avec l’eau des torrents,
Tes jours faits de mélancolies.

Sur l’aile du regret mes esprits emportés,
— Comme s’il se pouvait que notre âge renaisse ! —
Parcourent, en rêvant, les coteaux enchantés
Où jadis sourit ma jeunesse.

Je sens, au clair soleil du souvenir vainqueur
Refleurir en bouquet les roses déliées
Et monter à mes yeux des larmes, qu’en mon cœur,
Mes vingt ans avaient oubliées !

Armand Silvestre (1837-1901), Chanson d’automne, dans Les Ailes d’or, Paris, G. Charpentier, 1880.

Gabriel Fauré, Automne (op. 18, n^o 3), par Edmund Milly, baryton, accompagné par Melanie Cancade. Montréal, église Saint-Andrew et Saint-Paul, 2009.

[YouTube.]

  #la-vie  #musique

Calendrier des Dieux du Stade 2016.

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L’exercice de style est devenu bien répétitif (songez que le premier calendrier remonte déjà à 2001). Mais mes yeux ne se lassent jamais des belles choses… Si comme moi vous êtes esthète, vous ne penserez pas avoir perdu 2 min 42 de votre vie.

  #belles-choses  #sexe

L’OpenROV Trident est une caméra sous-marine télécommandée (ROV signifiant Remotely Operated Vehicle). Ce modèle est l’aboutissement d’un projet démarré en 2012 par David Lang et Eric Stackpole. Un premier sous-marin avait été alors lancé avec l’aide de KickStarter (OpenROV, The Open Source Underwater Robot).

Le Trident, plus petit et au design beaucoup plus abouti, a été aussi lancé sur KickStarter, lundi dernier, et a déjà obtenu 485 084 $ sur un objectif de 50 000 $.

L’outil peut certainement intéresser tout propriétaire de bateau souhaitant inspecter facilement ses œuvres vives. C’est aussi un merveilleux outil éducatif.

[David Lang et Eric Stackpole tenant le premier modèle d’OpenROV. Photographie Christopher Michel.]

Site web : www.openrov.com.

  #maritime  #open-source  #technologie

En France, un décret soumis au conseil d’État, et dont la publication serait imminente, précise les modalités de l’interdiction des sacs plastiques dans les commerces.

[…] Le vaste catalogue des politiques publiques moralisatrices fonctionne toujours de la même façon, en stigmatisant quelques méchants, et en rendant le monde élémentaire grâce à un artifice qui, ici, instaure une relation directe entre l’interdiction de ces sacs sur le territoire national et la sauvegarde de la faune marine, relation qui ne se conçoit que dans un univers magique. Dans ce registre, le décideur politique n’occupe d’autre fonction que celle du maître d’école, faisant la leçon, distribuant les punitions, montrant le bon exemple. Dans une de ses premières apparitions publiques, Ségolène Royal, déjà, au nom de la défense du jeune public, stigmatisait, et prohibait, en l’occurrence ces premiers anime tels Dragon Ball Z qui apparaissaient alors dans les programmes télévisés, quand bien même il n’était pourtant pas difficile de voir là la naissance d’une esthétique de première importance. Son rôle, son emploi pour filer la métaphore théâtrale, depuis, n’a absolument pas évolué.

Dirty Denys : “Plastique”.

  #pol-fr

I’ve been going over what was said at Wednesday’s Republican debate, and I’m terrified. You should be, too. After all, given the vagaries of elections, there’s a pretty good chance that one of these people will end up in the White House.

Why is that scary? I would argue that all of the G.O.P. candidates are calling for policies that would be deeply destructive at home, abroad, or both. But even if you like the broad thrust of modern Republican policies, it should worry you that the men and woman on that stage are clearly living in a world of fantasies and fictions. And some seem willing to advance their ambitions with outright lies.

Let’s start at the shallow end, with the fantasy economics of the establishment candidates.

You’re probably tired of hearing this, but modern G.O.P. economic discourse is completely dominated by an economic doctrine — the sovereign importance of low taxes on the rich — that has failed completely and utterly in practice over the past generation.

Think about it. Bill Clinton’s tax hike was followed by a huge economic boom, the George W. Bush tax cuts by a weak recovery that ended in financial collapse. The tax increase of 2013 and the coming of Obamacare in 2014 were associated with the best job growth since the 1990s. Jerry Brown’s tax-raising, environmentally conscious California is growing fast; Sam Brownback’s tax- and spending-slashing Kansas isn’t.

[…] Indeed, the only candidate who seemed remotely sensible on national security issues was Rand Paul, which is almost as disturbing as the spectacle of Mr. Trump being the only voice of economic reason.

[…] Now we have presidential candidates who make Mr. Bush look like Abe Lincoln. But who will tell the people?

The New York Times, Paul Krugman: “Fantasies and Fictions at G.O.P. Debate.”

  #pol-usa

[Photographie Tauno Tõhk, 2012. Via “The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts.”]

  #urbanisme

The announcement yesterday that Doritos will soon release rainbow-colored chips to support the It Gets Better Project, which works towards preventing anti-LGBT bullying, naturally drew the ire of conservative pundits like John Nolte of Breitbart, who said that Doritos is flying the “colors of anti-Christian hate and oppression.”

But Nolte’s protests pale in comparison to a column in the right-wing American Thinker by Ed Straker, which could be confused for parody.

Straker writes that the new chips are “the perfect gateway snack to introduce children to the joys of homosexuality,” lamenting that nowadays “it’s perceived to be cool to push a specific sexual orientation on children.”

Calling for a boycott of Doritos and all products from its parent company, Pepsi, Straker urges conservatives to “push other companies to launch pro-heterosexual campaigns” by, for example, persuading “a hot dog maker and a hot dog bun company to do a joint effort promoting man-woman relationships.”

Right Wing Watch: “Rainbow Doritos A Gay Gateway Drug.”

This started years ago, when Crayola first decided to market multi-coloured crayons (which, of course, made me gay). — Anonymous comment.

  #christianisme  #gay  #homophobie

“Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion,” Bruno Grossi, José Iriarte-Díaz, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez, PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 2, 2014, e88458.

Via “The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Winners.”

  #science

Manon, song by De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, film by Lernert & Sander.

[Vimeo.]

  #j’aime  #miaou  #musique

WASHINGTON — When Pope Francis delivers a history-making address to a joint session of Congress next week, Rep. Paul Gosar, a Prescott Republican, won’t be there.

Gosar, a Catholic, said it was a tough decision to make, but he has decided to stay away from the address because he is “ashamed” of the pope’s position on the “false science” of climate change and what Gosar sees as a failure to speak out against radical Islam and Planned Parenthood.

“I don’t need to be lectured by the pope in regards to science or false science,” Gosar said Thursday, calling the pope “hardly a scholar with regards to the climate.”

While some reports have suggested what the pope may include in his speech, Gosar said he is “mortified and ashamed” by what could be absent from the address.

“The foremost authority on religion — one of the recognized leaders in the world — is coming to one of the greatest stages in the world, and his comments aren’t going to be directed on religious tolerance and the sanctity of life,” Gosar said. “If there’s anybody that can call out the Islamic faith, it’s the pope.”

Arizona Daily Star, Charles McConnell : “Arizona Rep. Gosar to skip pope’s speech in protest.”

  #christianisme  #pol-usa

Rattle That Lock, by David Gilmour.

[YouTube.]

  #musique

Adam Purple and The Garden of Eden, by Harvey Wang and Amy Brost.

[Vimeo.]

In 1975, on the crime-ridden Lower East Side, Adam Purple started a garden behind his tenement home. By 1986, The Garden of Eden was world famous and had grown to 15,000 square feet. For Adam – a social activist, philosopher, artist, and revolutionary – the Garden was the medium of his political and artistic expression. It was razed by the city in 1986 after a protracted court battle.

Adam Purple died this Monday as he was bicycling over the Williamsburg Bridge. He was 84.

[Photo Harvey Wang.]

[Photo Harvey Wang.]

  #belles-choses  #jardin

Ces dernières 24 heures, mon mari parle beaucoup à une M^me Dissiri. Dois-je m’inquiéter ?

(Cela étant dit, à ce que j’ai compris, la dame semble l’agacer.)

  #la-vie

Selfie from Hell, by Erdal Ceylan.

[YouTube.]

  #cinéma

For starters, don’t think of BuzzFeed as a publisher of a single website that has great social media chops. It’s a “fully integrated social platform” whose Snapchat and Instagram channels are as important as — if not more important than — its natively hosted stuff. Want proof? Peretti read aloud BuzzFeed’s traffic proportions on the show:

• 23 percent: Direct to the site or apps
• 14 percent: YouTube views
• 2 percent: Google search to the site
• 6 percent: Facebook traffic to the site
• 27 percent: Facebook native video
• 4 percent: Images on Facebook
• 21 percent: Snapchat content views
• 3 percent: Other distributed platforms

Re/code, Noah Kulwin: “This Week on ‘Re/code Decode’: CEO Jonah Peretti Explains How BuzzFeed Won the Internet.”

  #web

Votre bloqueur de publicités a-t-il empêché l’affichage de l’image ci-dessus ? Je ne pense pas. Ce n’est pas la publicité sur Internet qui se meurt, c’est le modèle tout droit hérité des bannières 468 x 60 des années 1990 et la rémunération au clic qui vont mal. Les médias qui ont choisi l’esclavage Google-DoubleClick souffrent et culpabilisent leurs clients plutôt que reconsidérer leur stratégie.

La publicité sur Internet est loin d’être morte, elle vit juste une crise de croissance.

Quant à la mort du Web, faites-moi rire…

P.S. L’expérience de La Presse nous prouve aussi que l’avenir de la presse ne passe pas forcément par le support Web.

  #publicité