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  • Pump Up The Swing

    (video)

  • Bobby’s Blackbird

    Bobby McFerrin’s version of the Beatles song, Blackbird. Done with the only instrument we all carry. (video)

  • 15 sunsets and sunrises per day

    What is weighting 400 tons, measures 100m wide and flies at 27,000 km/hour just 400 km above our head? The 14 year old, 150 billion dollars, human build, habitable satellite we call International Space Station, or ISS, or call name: Alpha. Well, this spacecraft has fascinated me since its beginnings. I’m not sure I would…

  • Ring My Bell #CoverTuesday

    The number 1 fan of my cover Tuesdays rang my bell yesterday night, complaining that I didn’t publish anything this Tuesday, and the Tuesday before that and that I wasn’t really consistent anymore. And it’s true. I have a responsibility before you. I started this a year ago. And I never thought I’d run dry.…

  • Slides of the presentation @RecyclartBXL

    Presentation of the [loveMachine] is in a couple hours at Recyclart and I thought it would be great to use the Facebook itself as presentation tool. So the obvious choice was to create a set of pictures and upload them as an album. Once the first picture of the album is shown, I could even…

  • 100 views of summertime

    Is George Gershwin’s “Summertime” the Mount Fuji of music covers? Looking for a cover I heard on the radio this morning, I stumbled on this blog that lists a hundred versions of the song. Apart from Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson or Ray Charles, I didn’t expect to find the Doors, R.E.M. or Morcheeba…

  • Presentation de la [loveMachine] @RecyclartBXL

    Ce jeudi 17 avril 2014, courte présentation de la [loveMachine] lors d’une soirée #LOOP organisée chez Recyclart. Les #LOOP, c’est une série de présentations ultracourtes sur des projets expérimentaux développés dans l’atelier ‘Variable‘ à Schaerbeek. Variable est un atelier collectif à Schaerbeek qui héberge Open Source Publishing, Open Hardware Lab, Libre Video Lab et Open…

  • Finally Facebook implements the “dislike”… but it’s complicated

    Since all my likes are handled by the [loveMachine], I found myself looking for other things to do on Facebook. That’s when I stumbled on the (hidden) “dislike” function. Since it’s a long awaited feature, I must warn you that it’s not as easy as the “like”. It requires at least 3 clicks, works only…

  • No alarms & no surprises

    Bring down the government They don’t, they don’t speak for us Cover of Radiohead by Regina Spektor.

  • Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 from social media

    In Leipzig for a couple of days, attending the Libre Graphics Meeting. It’s a yearly gathering of coders, users, developpers and designers of free software, all revolving around graphic design and other visually related free culture projects. For those attending or not, I’ve created a page that collects all (or most of) the tweets, pics,…

  • Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine

    A lot more great stuff like this on Richard Cheese’s soundcloud.

  • J’ai augmenté ma pression sociale de 1 dunbar

    Depuis que j’ai lancé le projet [loveMachine], j’ai reçu 148 demandes d’amis sur Facebook. En moyenne, donc, 3 demandes par jour. Toutes acceptées sans conditions. 148, c’est justement le nombre maximum d’amis avec lesquels une personne peut entretenir une relation stable à un moment donné de sa vie. Quantité définie par Robin Dunbar, un anthropologue…