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  • La belle époque

    Le regard désabusé de Thierry Pelletier : Il est revenu le temps des cadors en costard croisé.

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  • Mon « NON » est personne

    M. nous rappelle, que nous n’avons aucune raison de nous inquiéter : [Personne|http://mlemaudit.blogs.com/melismes/2007/04/dmentis.html|fr], et surtout pas S.a.r.k.o.z.y., notre candidat préféré à l’élection présidentielle, n’a exercé de pressions sur personne.

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  • AdBusters

    How cool is that : IllegalSigns.ca is tracking Toronto’s outdoor advertising industry, fighting illegal billboards to reclaim the public space. According to the website, « half the billboards in Toronto are illegal ». [Via Insulaires].

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  • Neon Bible

    The Arcade Fire is really different from any other band I know. Look at this incredibly moving Take Away Show from la Blogothèque, shot in Paris, France. This is how music should always be. Via Kottke.

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  • Séro-criminel

    Mon ami Coco, qui est un happy morning freak assumé m’a envoyé au réveil ce lien vers un article de Libération, Quand la contamination devient crime : «Plus de 36 pays en Europe ont modifié leur législation pour criminaliser la transmission du VIH à un partenaire.» Inquiétant et contre-productif pour les associations et l’Onusida. Ne…

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  • Political Blogging

    Still on [the famous linguistics blog|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Log|en] [Language Log|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/|en], two interesting pieces about [French political blogs|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/004352.html|en] and more specificly [the differences between France and the US|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004396.html#more|en]. Regarding that second piece, it’s funny to see how easy it is for American people, even for somebody like Mark Liberman, to underestimate the power of US culture over the…

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  • Bad Writing

    I agree,  »The Da Vinci Code » sucks : >We don’t need to know it’s a masterpiece (it’s a Caravaggio hanging in the Louvre, that should be enough in the way of credentials, for heaven’s sake). [The Dan Brown code|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/000844.html|en]. \[Via [Kottke|http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/04/13212.html|en].\] I’m just happy somebody took the time to write this down (the article is…

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  • I don’t feel a connection between us

    That’s exactly what I thought when I came here in 2005 and discover the Torontonian internet coverage : Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access. Even for home access, I was expecting cheap high-speed internet, I just found slow high-price providers. The fastest I could find here was 6…

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  • Fag FM

    Finally one good reason for me to buy a radio : [Proud FM|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIRR-FM|en], a [commercial radio station for the LGBT community|http://www.proudfm.com/|en] is to launch on April 16 at 103.9 FM in Toronto, after, of course, a [little bit of drama|http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070409.wxproud09/BNStory/Entertainment/|en]. It’s already testing its signal.

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  • Double minorité

    ætre pauvre à Paris, c’est être pauvre deux fois.  » Émile Zola, La curée.

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