I was supposed to update...

... but I've just given my soul to Clark. One season down, eight to go - expect updates (hopefully not) in three months.

Emily?

Ha!, oui, j'ai continué, mais pas suffisamment pour justifier une nouvelle numérisation - travail, café, et puis le nouveau tome d'Ippo. Ippo est ma religion. Ippo est un manga de boxe - malgré mon dévouement monolithique affiché à tout ce qui est Amazones robotisées et autres armes, ma lecture la plus viscérale reste celle relatant la progression d'un jeune boxeur.

Citation de la semaine: "Mais bon, qui risque rien est un hostie de fag." - Edouard Hardcore

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Yes, the drawing of Emily has progressed, but not sufficiently to justify a new scan - work, coffee and then the new Fighting Spirit. Fighthing Spirit is my religion. Fighthing Spirit is a manga about boxing - even though I'm openly and monolithically dedicated to cyberAmazones and other weapons, my most visceral read remains the one relating the progression of a young boxer.

Quote of the week (freely translated): "Anyways, the one who doesn't risk anything is a fucking fag." - Edouard Hardcore

Emily (progression II)

Emily (progression)

I was not planning on showing the process, mainly because usually I end up not finishing the pieces I teased you with. I saw this trailer, for the game Resonance of Fate, and it prompted me to change my design. Hopefully you'll understand what I'm talking about in a few days.

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Words from this New Scientist article:

"One idea is that everything starts off as a quantum system, existing in a superposition of states. This would make an object capable of being, for example, in many places at once. But when this system interacts with its environment, it collapses into a single classical state - a phenomenon called quantum decoherence."

Remake/Remodel : Kardak the Mystic, et d'autres affaires

Vous trouverez la discussion ici; tranquille en début de semaine, elle semble s'être activée depuis un peu plus d'un jour. La version postée, puis une plus grande.

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Entre autres nouvelles :

- "World's leading protector of the oceans? President Bush". "...Bush is the first president to protect significant swaths of U.S. territorial waters."

- "New York Marathon Winner Tests Positive For Performance-Enhancing Horse". The Onion, c'est drôle, mais cet article-là particulièrement...

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Et aussi: Evlyn a quitté l'internet hier. Ses blogs ont été détruits; elle a laissé un message hier annonçant son retrait "public" et les raisons le motivant, que je ne résumerai pas parce que son histoire est suffisamment complexe pour que je n'en donne pas un bon rendu. Et, bon, ça ne me regarde pas - tout comme je suis conscient que les demandes de maintien d'une présence seront inutiles.

Mais bon, qu'Evlyn disparaisse, c'est poche. 

Remake/Remodel: Super Ann

La discussion est ici. Dans l'ordre: avec titres, sans, plus gros.

Timewarp

extrait de "Timewarp: how your brain crates the fourth dimension", chez New Scientist.

"Take the peculiar case of an individual known as BW. As BW drove his car one day, the trees and buildings by the road began to speed by, as if he were driving at 300 kilometres per hour. BW eased up on the accelerator, but the cityscape continued to whizz by. Unable to cope with the speed of the world around him, BW stopped his car by the roadside.

While BW perceived the world as having accelerated, in reality what had happened was that BW had slowed down. He walked and talked in slow motion: when his doctor asked him to count 60 seconds in his head, he took 280 seconds to do it. It turned out that he had a tumour in his brain's frontal cortex.

The case is not unique. Other people with damage in that area have reported similar symptoms. Though such drastically altered perception can clearly be debilitating, it might occasionally be advantageous to change the brain's internal clock. "Accelerating" the brain - the opposite of BW's experience - might help a footballer, say, or a soldier to view the world in slow motion when things get tight. The difficulty, however, is in finding a safe way to induce the phenomenon on demand."