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Here is Apple’s statement to CNN earlier today:

“Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography. The developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed, and after the developer had subsequently been asked to remove some offensive content. This was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program. The application is no longer available on the App Store.”

Oh, fuuuuck. They really are ruling the App Store by reacting to whatever catches the blogs’ attention. A lot of morons called it porn because it had female nipples, so — poof! — the app is gone.

It’d be one thing if Apple didn’t have a rating that accounts for sexual content, but it does. So clearly it expects some apps to have “”Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity” in the store. But according to its statement, it won’t allow for them. […]

The App Store approval process has basically been a joke for much of the past year. I was hopeful it would get better now that parental controls are a part of the iPhone 3.0 software. Apparently, I was wrong — it looks like it’s getting worse.

Ditto. And I just reuploaded the Web is Pink application yesterday, after recompiling it to be 3.0-only (since 3.0 introduced parental controls). Now it looks like, even if I somehow finally got the app approved, it might just be pulled if it ever became too popular. That’s just awesome.

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— La question c’est plutôt pourquoi l’iPod et l’iPhone ont réussi à trouver le succès alors que les gens semblent toujours préférer les solutions les plus merdiques.

— Oui, je me demandais pareil. Peut-être c’est une question de seuil.

— Noon ! Je viens de comprendre !
C’est parce qu’iTunes sous Windows est une daube !

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But it didn’t take so long to get back into its rhythm; Christopher Egan is still disarmingly cute (and almost naked!), the hospital apparition was fun, and the flashbacks were actually very good story. It got cancelled just before it started to make a point.

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Ah, ben, dans ce cas… qui veut un iPhone 3G désimlocké pour 550 euros ?

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Huh. Cette fois je suis sûr que ce n’est pas une de mes machines virtuelles Parallels.

P.S. Tiens, je suis con, j’ai changé la configuration de mon wifi avant de penser à regarder si j’avais accès à quelque chose sur son ordinateur.

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Reçu hier soir pour m’accueillir de retour de Normandie, un deuxième mail :

Your application, Web is Pink, is requiring unexpected additional time for review. We apologize for the delay, and will update you with further status as soon as we are able.

Ce qui est intéressant, c’est que ce mail a été envoyé en-dehors du processus normal de validation — je sais par le site qu’ils ont testé l’application la semaine dernière, pas hier — mais le lendemain de l’annonce officielle des contrôles parentaux sur l’iPhone.

Je me remets donc à rêver qu’elle soit enfin validée au moment où l’OS 3.0 amènera ces contrôles parentaux dans l’App Store mobile. Rendez-vous ici dans dix jours pour voir mes espérances anéanties.

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J’espère bien qu’elle ne restera pas gratuite à terme, parce que ça serait vraiment la fin de Snap Filters. En tout cas, vous devez absolument charger Mill Colour tout de suite, avant que les développeurs changent d’avis.

La seule chose qui manque est une vue des filtres sous forme de vignettes plutôt que devoir passer d’un filtre à l’autre séquentiellement, mais les effets sont superbes (n’oubliez pas d’aller dans l’application Réglages si vous voulez enregistrer vos photos en pleine taille).

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Well, that’s the second time Apple schedules a keynote just as I’m in Smallville celebrating a birthday in the family, and… once again, I wasn’t missing much.

MacBooks

Nothing much to say here, except that the laptop range finally makes sense again; also, I want one of each. Damn, the MacBook Air is available for 1,400 euros.

MacBidouille has an interesting theory that they’re adding the ‘Pro’ label to save face while putting Firewire back, and they’re keeping the plastic MacBook alive because of the economic crisis — but I think I have a simpler version of events: Apple engineered the aluminum 13-incher, and were very happy with it, but they never managed to lower the costs enough to reach the $999 price point, so they kept the white model alive and either didn’t think to name the aluminum one ‘Pro’ because that wasn’t the original plan, or didn’t want to because they thought it would be temporary; and either they still couldn’t get it down to $999 now, or they realized a bit late that there was nothing wrong and everything right with having both a MacBook and a MacBook Pro at this end of the line.

As for Firewire, I think it could just as well be completely unrelated. Apple has learned to fix mistakes these past two years; they’ve done that several times on the iPhone. (And they just did with Safari.) Besides, regardless of strategy or pettiness or whatever, it’s just great news that Apple has heard the complaints and will now leave Firewire alone for a little while. Let’s just celebrate.

Snow Leopard

We already knew almost all of it, and I’m not going to get very excited anyway because I’m not eligible (unless I gut both my iMac G5 and Intel mini and make a single FrankenIntel out of them).

I like that Exposé is finally more structured; funny that, for all of the (classless) digging at Windows in the keynote, the Exposé-from-the-Dock feature is just about lifted from Seven (or is it Vista).

The price is a tad lower than it could have been, which is nice, but I’m a little sad that Apple now starts selling OS X upgrades that check what system was previously installed. Welcome to Microsoft’s world, where you have to install the previous OS again if you’re going to reinstall from scratch on a new hard drive. Sure, it’s not as horrible when it’s OS X’s almost one-click install, but as a matter of principle it’s just the end of an era. And who’s going to buy the Tiger-to-Snow upgrade anyway?

Safari 4

Who woulda thunk that Apple was equipped to listen and react to the complaints of beta testers? Personally, I’d rather they hadn’t, because I didn’t mind the tabs at the top and, more importantly, the slightly redesigned tab bar is just fugly (the bottom of the active tab looks like it’s been chopped off), but the public had spoken loudly and clearly.

The new loading spinner is pretty — I’m choosing to assume that Apple had some kind of a reason for going from a progress bar to an undeterminate spinner, and couldn’t or wouldn’t undo that — but I’m not sure about the way it changes colors to become more subdued once most of the page is displayed; isn’t it just as important at this point to know that there’s still something loading? In fact, it mostly depends on what Safari means exactly when the Loading bar turns gray; page loading is too fast for me to investigate what the criteria are, and what might still be loading at that point, but, if the Loading goes from blue to gray as scripts are still loading — or if it does before the <body onload> is triggered, and that’s likely — then I’d consider it a mistake, because on some pages that’s when you’re most going to need to know that loading isn’t quite finished.

iPhone 3.0

Once again, we knew almost all about it; and the reason I’m most impatient to see it released is that I want to see if my gay chat app is finally approved once parental controls are live.

I find it hilarious that tethering and MMS will not be available right away on AT&T; I’m not sure whether it’s been rumored or announced, but everybody’s talking about a 30-euro “unlimited” data plan for France, and that doesn’t seem half-bad — another thing that makes me pine for an Air. I like that it can work either over Bluetooth or USB; I don’t like so much that it’s going through iTunes, but I’ve come to accept that the iTunes department of Apple is a metastized tumor eating all of the company from the inside and you’ll soon — oh, wait, I just realized that Snow Leopard lets you edit and upload video in QuickTime X rather than in iTunes. Amazing.

iPhone 3G S

I cannot imagine that Steve Jobs signed off on that name. Sure, they had painted themselves into a corner when they called the previous generation “3G” but… “3G S”? That’s the most cumbersome product denomination Apple has had since Jobs came back — and it just happens to be introduced while he’s away?

“Pro” could have been the opposite of “Home” or “Fun” or whatever; but would you mind telling me what “iPhone Speed” is the opposite of, and how on earth is Apple okay with calling last-year’s model utterly non-speedy while still selling it as an entry model? How was “iPhone Video” not a better choice?

On the flip side, that leaves “iPhone Pro” available for an upcoming device with a physical keyboard. It certainly doesn’t imply that they do intend to launch one, but I’d say it does mean they are working on prototypes, and haven’t yet decided to completely shut that option down.

Stupid name aside, I want this thing (obviously). I’m really curious to see how Apple is going to manage having one App Store serving too devices with vastly different performance (poorly, probably), and I like the implication that the existence of “oleophobic screens” has on the possibility of touch-screen Mac laptops and desktops.

I can’t wait to try the camera and see how well that autofocus works; from where I’m standing, it sounds absurd that, according to what I read, your selected focus point is also used to determine white balance and exposure. Unless Apple assumes that you’ll always focus on people’s faces, it seems much worse to me than just using the whole frame. I also want to see the video capture and editing app for myself; and I can’t really believe that they couldn’t have added voice command on OS 3.0 for all phones. With autofocus photo and video capture, it seems to me Apple didn’t need to pad out the 3G S’s appeal by restricting voice command to the new model, but I’m not the one paying their bills.

Speaking of, it’s funny how many people seemed to expect that Apple and carriers would forever offer unmissable bargains for iPhone users to upgrade their phone each year. Guess it didn’t stick in people’s minds that last year was an exception, and network providers had great incentive to subsidize the new devices, because it let them get out of the original contract that gave Apple a share of the subscription revenue; Orange hasn’t announced its plans yet, but I don’t expect to be able to afford a 3G S very soon, as much as I’d want to. (And kinda need to, actually, because I need to make sure my applications work with it. Ooh, that’s a nice excuse.)

The worst part is that France has broken the exclusivity deal with Orange, so that I can’t even sell my old 3G unlocked to someone who’s stuck with another carrier — or at least not at any price that would make it painless for me to upgrade.

I knew that would happen; many people chose to hope against reason. Welcome to the world of smartphones.

One More Thing

Well, now… how about that rumor that Apple was saving a major announcement for Steve Jobs to announce in a keynote when he returns? This week, Apple certainly did announce everything that was expected of them, and nothing more; they sure could have saved something big for the end of the month.

Or, you know, maybe we just had another one in a growing number of unventful Apple keynotes.

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A l’origine, j’avais l’intention de lancer Snap Filters gratuitement pendant quelques semaines, puis changer le prix, mais Apple m’en a empêché. Maintenant que je suis autorisé à publier des applications gratuites, et puisque j’ai eu du mal à obtenir que les sites de test d’applications iPhone s’intéressent à la mienne (parce qu’il y a déjà tellement d’applications de ce type), il est temps de revenir au plan de départ, et rendre l’application gratuite pendant quinze jours — pour fêter le beau temps (si vous êtes dans l’hémisphère nord).

L’intérêt de Snap Filters est qu’il produit des images intéressantes à partir de l’appareil photo merdique de l’iPhone, et qu’il a une interface simple et assez rapide qui vous permet de passer les filtres en revue et choisir ceux qui mettront le mieux vos images en valeur — je trouve qu’il est plutôt plus pratique et plus stable que beaucoup de ses concurrents, mais d’une façon subtile qui est difficile à mettre en évidence sans pouvoir tester l’application par soi-même.

C’est pourquoi vous devriez charger Snap Filters tout de suite sur l’App Store, parce que l’application est gratuite jusqu’au solstice d’été. (Si elle apparaît payante, réessayez dans quelques heures.)

Et n’oubliez pas de lui mettre un classement sur l’App Store.

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Presumably concluding this blog’s coverage of E3…

• Mass Effect 2: I’ll judge the graphics upgrade when I see it running on my own screen, but the interesting point is that it looks like they could be keeping their promises that the sequel would be more realistically playable like a shooter. (If you want. And I do.)

• Castlevania Lords of Shadow: Nice graphics, nice cast. (Damn, I ought to buy it just for Natasha McElhone!) But I know now that God of War 3 is gonna be too good for any clone-ish game to be relevant.

• The Agency: Not showing anything very new, but it just feels like it could be fun (if you forget the pretense that it’s an MMO). As for any game of this type, though, success won’t depend on graphics, or ping, or whatever, but on how well it enforces cooperation among a group of assholes.

• Aliens vs. Predators: I like the multiple view modes and the way you select where to jump, but it looks like your Predator uncloaks automatically every time you use a weapon, or even your blades; I understand the necessity for balancing, but it looks like you have to re-cloak manually each time and that’s idiotic.

• Split Second: It’s quite pretty (the on-car HUD is a nice gimmick… that might not be so usable) and might even be fun, but I’ll forever despise the absurd conceit.

• PixelJunk Shooter: I was very much seduced by the videos of Eden, but this time I just don’t get the point. Probably hard to judge that way.

• “Crysis 2 pushes PS3 to limits”: I don’t know how realistic it is that a relative newcomer to the platform could assess how efficiently they tap the hardware, but I’m more interested in the fact they don’t mention the Xbox. The PS3 is supposed to be so much more powerful than the 360; if it’s maxed out, what does the same game look like on the other platform? (And why aren’t I paid by a magazine to roam the E3 floors if I’m the only one thinking to ask?)

• Invizimals: I love everything having to do with augmented reality, but that’s a particularly smart implementation (even though I have no interest at all in a Pokémon-like game).

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It’s so much more fun when you watch the keynote streamed live on the internet and you can make fun of the bullshit that comes out of their little corporate mouths. (The disadvantage is that you can’t fast-forward.) So this one is in mostly chronological order — sort of a delayed liveblog.

It seems like videos are a long time coming, so I guess I’ll update with links tomorrow (because everybody cares).

• Super Mario Bros. Wii: Apparently, Miyamoto just invented the fourth dimension of multiplayer, or something. I’m surprised that it’s just a regular 2D platformer, but I don’t even understand Mario culture, so I’m sure that’s a good thing.

• Wii Sports Resort: It does look like it may be more skill-oriented (which I’m not sure is such a good thing for Wii Sports). I still do not believe that they actually needed MotionPlus for most of that, unless the original wiimote really had awful tech.

• Uncharted 2: That was a good video, but I’m still confused why they felt the need to bring the Uncharted franchise to environments so reminiscent of that other PS3 exclusive, Metal Gear Solid 4. Aren’t there more than enough games in urban settings already? (This trailer is a much better sell, though.)

• Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker: The graphics look very nice for the PSP, but more importantly I’m impressed by how deliberately Kojima fucked Microsoft with his smirking emphasis on “this is a real sequel and the story’s really mine.” Now I wish I’d watched yesterday’s keynote to compare with what he actually said then.

• Agent: A Rockstar North exclusive? Sony must have put serious dough on the table… for something that doesn’t even have the GTA moniker. But 1970s espionage does sound like fun. More fun than gangsters, even (for me at least).

• Assassin’s Creed 2: That looks very pretty, and the new mechanics are rather interesting, but I’m not going to have irrational hopes about the gameplay until I see it in person.

• Final Fantasy XIII: Once again, it feels like Microsoft got played yesterday, showing stuff that had mostly been seen before while Square Enix saved the real trailer for Sony.

• Final Fantasy XIV Online: Sony has finally realized the value of exclusivity, and been liberal with the checkbook. I thought they had a chance of winning E3 by introducing good games, but they went for the jugular and quite thoroughly screwed Microsoft over.

• Sony motion control: I don’t know what to think about this, other than I’m pretty much convinced they didn’t originally intend to introduce it this year. I’m not sure it has anything over the wiimote (or at least MotionPlus), but their demo was orders of magnitude cooler than Nintendo’s ever was. The augmented reality aspect was nice, but this is probably going to turn into a gimmick extending the PS Eye, whereas I feel Microsoft’s Natal is somehow more versatile and could bring more significant advancements to gaming.

• ModNation Racers: Nice design and good tech (the track editor is just amazing); it’s too bad I’m not a Mario Kart kind of guy.

• The Last Guardian: Uh, I expected it to look more… different. I don’t know about you, but I’m wishing very hard I hadn’t seen the leaked video before; the final trailer would have had much more of an impact — and I’m afraid liked the beast’s design (and, possibly, its sound, I’m not sure) better in the preliminary render.

• Gran Turismo 5: Ah, they’re not dead yet, and they haven’t been twiddling their thumbs all this time, either. The game looks even more gorgeous than Prologue, and it includes Nascar (yuk) and rally cars. Considering that they’ve got Blu-Ray and I’m under the impression they’re known for making meaty games (so it shouldn’t be just a couple token rally races) I think I might need a PS3. I remembered earlier today that the PlayStation also has so much better wheel controllers than the 360 (or does it).

• God of War 3: Oh… my… God. I wasn’t convinced by anything that had been shown before, because it looked too staged and cinematic; turns out that GoW 3 just happens to be the most cinematic game ever. Amazing, and such a perfectly fitting evolution to the very first game’s fixed cameras. (And I love how it looks like the start menu integrates with your current checkpoint.)

• I need need need a PS3.

Away from the press conferences…

• Avatar: I appreciate Cameron’s commitment to making sure the licensed game isn’t a drag, and accept that Ubisoft is capable of releasing good games. But what’s worrying me — and not just regarding the game — is that I don’t see anything interesting about the universe as it is described (beyond the colorful animals) that would justify how much time he devoted to the production of this movie.

• Tony Hawk: Ride: When I saw pictures of the board controller I thought it was a completely stupid gimmick, but I didn’t realize you could actually spin it around — that makes it potentially quite cool (for people interested in those games). You can thank EA for giving Activision incentive to innovate.

• Red Steel 2: The MotionPlus gameplay could work, and it’s hard too tell with the video compression but the visual style seems to be be well realized as well. The Wii is definitely made for cel-shading.

And coming back to…

• Project Natal: having watched a live gameplay video, I think it has potential to, if not revolutionize videogaming, at least replace the Wii as the obligatory party-game console that you fire up to make your friends look stupid in front of the TV. Implemented correctly, the technology is certainly capable of being more immersive than the Wii. And more dangerous, too (to your muscles, your TV and your friends around you).

• Milo: it strikes me that this game addresses Molyneux’s very personal drive to raise a virtual child, and the game would be much less creepy, and more approachable, if you had a choice to make the character a fluffy white bunny or a fierce dragon. Or an EyePet.

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• Crackdown 2: Waiting to see what the game looks like, but not so fond of the idea that it’s gonna be a zombie/monster game. Laughed out loud at the opening sound in the video, even though I’ll never forgive Crackdown for not crediting me with the last agility orb.

• Left 4 Dead 2: I didn’t believe that rumor, not expecting Valve to publish a sequel so soon. The locations sound fun, and I’m curious to see if the addition of melee weapons turns the game into a first-person Dead Rising.

• Forza 3: I’m still disappointed that the PGR team is gone doing Mario Kart, but the trailer (all CG, obviously) is actually pretty cool, and the emphasis on drifting might be a sign that the actual game is gonna be more fun.
  Oh, wait. The Forza guy in the press conference introduced that video as being made in-game, with the video editor, and so says the intro for another trailer. It might be embellished, or the game may push the visuals a bit when exporting (as the first one did with stills), but if gameplay really looks anything like that, Gran Turismo is dead and I’m damn happy I own a 360.
  I’ll bet Microsoft breathed very heavily down the developer’s neck until they achieved those graphics (and added cockpit view).

• Other games: No interest. Can’t even imagine how new Halo games — and prequels at that — can garner that much interest when it’s so profoundly more of the same and the story isn’t just predictable, but known.

• Project Natal: Jesus-Christ, Microsoft and names… Anyway, it doesn’t seem like there’s any video of actual gameplay, so I’ll reserve judgment. One of the videos starts with a guy doing real karate moves at the screen, and there’s no telling if games will actually be able to do that kind of thing — but the technology may indeed be precise enough.
  Although EyeToy and the wiimote both looked rather promising in their time.

• Milo: I don’t know how cool that… thing might or might not be, but on the screenshot it just looks creepy, like one of those horror or kiddie flicks where a little boy is swallowed and trapped by the TV. Uncanny valley for the win. (Interesting choice, making Molyneux a privileged developer to work with Natal in advance of everyone. Good fit.)

• Full games downloadable on 360: Someone had to bite the bullet and drive the final nail into the coffin of retailers; I guess XBLA games sell well enough that Microsoft thought they could just go forward and risk whatever retaliation Gamespot can organize before going bankrupt. Now I’m really gonna want a 120GB hard drive.

• Twitter integration: Oh please.

• Facebook integration: Oh pl… Wait, no, actually, this can be cool: iPhone games that publish your high scores to Facebook can become as addictive as Live achievements. I just hope they don’t try and force-spam your Facebook feed with every single achievement you get, in which case I’d probably end up unlinking the account.

In an ideal world, Sony could still win E3 if they introduced stunning surprises tomorrow (mostly because Microsoft couldn’t demonstrate any actual use of Natal). In the real world, they’re probably going to focus on the PSP Go with its lonely nub, so forget about it.

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This article just helped me formulate why I don’t like John Gruber as a person: lack of empathy. (Not that it’s rare among geeks, which is why nobody minds.)

I’m in the middle of my own battle with App Store reviewers — a battle not nearly as famous as those quoted in Gruber’s article — yet I’m able to realize that spending your days reviewing apps in ten minutes isn’t a fun job, nor necessarily a power trip; and organizing a whole department of people reviewing apps in ten minutes is an even worse job; and that it all stems quite inevitably from the original decision of having Apple approve apps for publication; and that this original decision wasn’t unequivocally wrong, either.

But it’s so much more fun equating reviewers to nazis (or Stasi officers, so that you remain one step removed from Godwin’s Law) and getting linked and retweeted all over the place.

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As for the story, I’m not sure what they’re actually aiming for, but so far it hits the right chords for me. Oh, wait, it’s from the creator of Nip/Tuck — so clearly it’s going to keep firing in all directions until the soapy developments become too outlandish for my taste. But then you can always watch for the music.

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And the animation went oddly from gorgeous to glitchy every so often.

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The technology is outdated, obviously (as is the premise of a nation trusting an artificial intelligence with all of its nuclear warheads, I’d hope), and the acting isn’t so great, but the writing is pretty awesome — especially the computer’s voice.

via notlp.com

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16h15, la moitié des chars en vue de la Tour Eiffel avec la musique éteinte alors qu'il y a un grand désert au milieu du défilé. C'est comme ça tous les ans ? D'habitude je me lève à peine à cette heure.

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arstechnica.com

Security researcher Charlie Miller has revealed that Apple is working on a patch for a security flaw he identified in the iPhone’s SMS implementation. The flaw can actually lead to arbitrary code execution, as he explained to Ars last month. […]

The iPhone can be instructed to execute SMS data as code instead of text, and when it executes the code it does so with root privileges and without any interaction from the user.

Wow. That’s completely unacceptable — unlike a browser vulnerability (where you can switch browsers or at least avoid shady websites), or even a port that’s open to probing on Windows (where you can hide behind a router), there is absolutely no workaround for that kind of thing, short of removing the SIM card and turning your iPhone into an iPod touch. How in hell does an iPhone end up running SMS data as root-level code?

(I’d rather the article had an official Apple quote, but I’ll assume a security researcher wouldn’t burn themselves by bragging about such a thing without grounds.)

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[Vidéos] Dante’s Inferno

Uh, yeah. It looks pretty but rather empty; it’s certainly not as impressive as God of War 3, but at least it’ll run on my 360. (If I keep it off all summer so it doesn’t fry.)

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kotaku.com

That’s the iPhone app EA needs to make: one that overlays Sims-like widgets onto photos.

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urbandictionary.com

The first definition is dated from 2003 — long before 30 Rock. Should the timestamp be trusted?

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whitezine.com

Je trouvais l’objet très beau (de nuit — visiblement, de jour, ça le fait moins) mais je suis déçu de voir que c’est pour une opération de comm aussi peu intéressante.

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appleinsider.com

Not a surprise, considering the price tag, but something to remember for developers. Or, you know… screw iPod owners.

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[Vidéos] Dean Cain promotes IE8

buzzfeed.com

I do not believe that those videos are actually commissionned by Microsoft. Because they’re funny.

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“iPhone 3GS Signal Strength Oddities”

daringfireball.net

Almost immediately after getting my new iPhone 3GS, I noticed that it spent more time connected to the EDGE network, rather than the faster 3G network, than did my prior iPhone 3G. […]

According to Apple, the software behind the status bar on an iPhone 3GS does a better job of showing when a switch from 3G to EDGE has occurred than does the comparable software on an iPhone 3G.

Translation: iPhone 3G was a lying bastard, and now Apple can’t be bothered anymore to pretend that AT&T’s coverage is better than it is. (I mean, there’s no way the 3G’s hardware has trouble knowing whether it’s on 3G or Edge, so it could have part of the software update.)

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Wow… no way?!

Via Kotaku’s screenshot gallery, which I couldn’t believe either.

If that’s the way the PSP version looks, it confirms I’m absolutely going to need to buy a PS3 by the time Gran Turismo 5 comes out.

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“Mark Sanford: A Very Strange Man”

gawker.com

I don’t give a fuck about adulterous American governors (hey, I’m French — and that’s meant to address the ‘adulterous’ part), but this… this:

Other sources claim that Sanford, who owned a hydraulic excavator at the time, digs holes on his property to unwind.

So cool. (If you don’t click through and find out that it’s a story about an eight-year-old girl dying. Which I don’t care about, but you might, because some of you have a heart. Wait, no. Only my fellow cynics still read this blog.)

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[Images] Asher Roth

(Photoshop fail, though — they must have color-corrected his skin, and it makes it look like he’s wearing lipstick.)

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“Porn Comes to the iTunes App Store”

wired.com

…and hundreds of other posts with similar titles.

THAT’S. NOT. PORN.

Damn puritans.

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techcrunch.com

…and the article culminates with a nice graphic showing that the 3GS is twelve times slower than the reference MacBook. “Approaches,” right. Damn, I hate journalists.

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“HTC Hero hands-on”

slashgear.com

I’m sure it’s great to have a smartphone with Flash (okay, no I don’t), but the only thing I really care to comment about is: why the hell did they give it a chin again? Is there a single person in the universe that thought it was cool on the G1? It’s even worse on this phone, since it’s thinner.

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[Images] “Bucky’s Nightmare”

designboom.com

Not sure I’d want to sit on it, but I like the idea.

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Ah, the Watchmen DVD is out. #

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According to thermodynamics an open bottle should stay cooler than a closed one. But would the difference be noticeable by a human mouth? #

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Conundrum: If I back up more often because heat makes me worried about my hard drives, it's gonna make some of them fail that much sooner. #

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I think I need a second giant fan. #

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Oh, shit, I used to have sunglasses. Wonder wherever they've ended up. #

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L'inconvénient de la gay pride un 27 juin, c'est qu'il n'y a qu'un week-end de transition entre Marais bondé et Paris déserté. #

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Install an app to the iPhone, sync, remove the app, sync, download it again on the iPhone to try again, sync — bam, iTunes removed it. #

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There isn't a single Twitter client that just works right, and when Tweetie still growls three-month-old mentions at launch… GAROO SMASH! #

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The heat. The nerves. It's hard to imagine how any country further south could NOT be perpetually at war. #

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