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2015

2015 : je la veux élégante, spirituelle, rigoureuse, ambitieuse, poétique, sportive, amicale, audacieuse, curieuse, artistique, aventurière et bienveillante.

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Without commercial interruptions, Hastings argues, the viewing experience has become more immersive and sustained. When Netflix released “House of Cards,” it made the entire first season of episodes available at once, and viewers binged. Cindy Holland, Netflix’s vice-president of original content, told me that the average Netflix viewer watches two and a half episodes in one sitting. The creative experience is different, too, she said; making “House of Cards” was akin to making “a thirteen-hour movie.” There was no need to recap previous episodes or to insert cliffhangers. Increasingly, show creators can work without executives’ notes, focus groups, concerns about ratings, and anxieties about whether advertisers will resist having their products slotted after a nude scene or one laced with obscenity. “There’s a reason why people now talk about this as the golden age of scripted drama,” Michael Lynton, the C.E.O. of Sony Entertainment, told me. “You can write a character that grows over the course of thirteen hours of television. That’s more attractive than a two-hour movie.” The opportunities have enticed strong writers, directors, and actors. “What’s happened as a result of this is a flourishing of an entirely new kind of television.”

Outside the box : Netflix and the future of television" par Ken Auletta dans le New Yorker (February 3rd, 2014)

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L'histoire de Derrick Coleman, premier sourd à intégrer la NFL, racontée par Duracell dans la meilleure pub de l'année : "They told me it was over, that I should quit. But I've been deaf since I was three... So I didn't listen."

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Une langue vivante, c'est une langue qui peut tout dire

Michel Serres, cité dans "Michel Serres veut que les Français fassent 'la grève contre l'invasion de l'anglais'" sur Slate.fr (October 23rd, 2013)

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J’adorerais être de gauche, c’est un souhait. Mais je trouve que c’est tellement élevé comme vertu que j’y ai renoncé [...]. C’est un gros boulot, c’est un dépassement de soi. C’est une attitude, une présence à l’autre... Faut être exceptionnel, quand t’es de gauche ! Quand t’es pas de gauche, tu peux être moyen. Quand t’es de gauche, c’est l’excellence : le génie moral, le génie de l’entraide... C’est trop de boulot ! [...] Moi, mon fonds de commerce, ça a plutôt été de voir ce qui est petit, moyen, minable chez les êtres humains. Vous savez la phrase de Céline, qu’un jour je vais reprendre, Céline il dit : “Madame Bérange, elle visait bas, elle visait juste”. Alors c’est le contraire d’un homme de gauche. Un homme de gauche, tout est merveilleux dans la nature de l’homme, et moi je n’ai pas de sensation-là.

Invité du journal de 20 heures de David Pujadas sur France 2, jeudi 17 octobre 2013, pour parler de sa pièce « Une heure de tranquillité », Fabrice Luchini a commenté l’indignation de Josiane Balasko au sujet de l’expulsion de la collégienne Leonarda.

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I have three career rules. Work with smart people so you learn from each other. Work at a company that makes a product you can't live without. Work at a place that makes you proud of what you do.

"Katie Stanton: Twitter's ambassador" par Patricia Sellers sur Fortune (October 10th, 2013)

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Google's next Android OS is called KitKat... after the candy

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In his report, Mr. Hamby wrote that the growing role of so-called embeds, or television reporters attached to the campaign, had infuriated the Romney staff. Previously restricted to support roles for broadcast and cable news networks, the young journalists were suddenly weaponized by Twitter, their own blogs and video posts. In his report, Mr. Hamby calls the embeds “anthropomorphic satellite trucks.”

"Campaign Journalism in the Age of Twitter" par David Carr sur NYTimes.com (September 1st, 2013)

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Adding to the colour mix, in London you can wear purple. You can even dye your hair purple, and then jog down your local high street. To the Paris-trained eye, half the London population looks like punks or bag ladies. The codes of etiquette that constrain all human action in Paris don’t seem to exist here. I quickly adapted. Only my very Parisian seven-year-old daughter maintained standards. One morning, as I was about to take her out, she scanned me critically and said: “You’re not dressed.” She was wrong. In fact I looked adorable in my sneakers, shorts and Barcelona football shirt.

"Paris: the affordable London suburb" par Simon Kuper sur FT.com (August 30th, 2013)

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La Légion d'honneur, on me l'a donnée, on me l'a reprise, on me l'a rendue…

Hélie de Saint Marc cité dans "Mort d'Hélie de Saint Marc, homme de refus et de réconciliation" par Etienne De Montety sur Le Figaro (August 26th, 2013)

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The Innovation of Loneliness (par Shimi Cohen)

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Pick your shots carefully and hit them.

"Focus" par Fred Wilson sur A VC (August 5th, 2013)  

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Just received my perks from the first Indiegogo campaign I contributed to. And guess what, it’s called Shine and it’s yet another quantified self gadget! The thank you note feels like an early adopter certificate. Well played, Misfit!

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Dans une étude réalisée en 2008 dans une salle de fitness parisienne, la dépendance à l'exercice physique s'est souvent retrouvée associée... aux achats compulsifs. Une addiction peut en cacher une autre.

"Les toxicos du cardio" par Lisa Vignoli sur Le Monde.fr (July 26th, 2013)

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A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6." A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?" He replied, "They had eggs." Nothing better than an if / else joke! Send more jokes to us at [email protected]. They make our day!

You Down With OOP? | Codecademy

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What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?

"Game Dev Tycoon forces those who pirate the game to unwittingly fail from piracy" sur Eurogamer (April 29th, 2013)

Trolling the trolls with their own trolling : this is the internet ultimate move. Period.

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Despite all the new bells and whistles, sometimes the most basic of the modern services is what counts the most. Guests’ No. 1 choice of a hotel amenity is free Wi-Fi, according to a 2012 Hotels.com survey. Holly Isdale, a financial consultant for high-net-worth families, based in Bryn Mawr, Pa., wrote in an e-mail: “I won’t pay for Wi-Fi and won’t stay at a hotel twice if it charges for Wi-Fi. Given the prices of business hotels, it seems ridiculous to charge for Wi-Fi.”

"The ‘Smart’ Trend in Hotels" par Julie Weed sur NYTimes.com (April 22nd, 2013)