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Medals in Architecture recognize outstanding achievement in recently built projects by Canadian architects.

"Du lever au coucher, nous sommes tous plus ou moins soumis" à "un double traçage", a-t-il résumé lors d'une conférence de presse : "un traçage dans l'espace", à travers le développement des systèmes de biométrie, de vidéosurveillance ou de géolocalisation, qui "met en cause la liberté d'aller et venir" ; et "un traçage dans le temps", permis par les moteurs de recherche ou les réseaux sociaux sur Internet, qui "met en cause la liberté de pensée et d'expression".

// Strip accents from a string. For example, "Sigur Rós" => "Sigur Ros". def strip_accents(string): import unicodedata return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(string)).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')

The dam is built to withstand earthquakes up to 7.0 on the richter scale, and the largest recent earthquakes have been below 6.0. However, filling the reservoir behind the dam creates seismic pressure which triggers earthquakes. In fact, earthquakes between 6.0 and 6.5 are expected once the reservoir is filled in 2009. One of the dams designed to hold back sedimentation farther up is subject to even worse seismic problems. “The Jinsha has bad geological conditions, and there is a more severe seismic area upriver from Xiangjiaba,” said a Chinese geologist in Sichuan. He added that near this site, dam projects “should not be encouraged.”

Three Gorges Dam "Not Affected" by Earthquake: Official 2008-05-12 17:17:23 Xinhua The Three Gorges Dam was not affected by Monday's major earthquake in Sichuan Province, which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, an official said. "There were no signs that the earthquake has affected the dam, and everything was going as usual," said Hu Xing'e, an executive with the China Three Gorges Project Corporation.

Lately, I've seen some people criticize Mozilla because a particular bug (often a request for a new feature) that they care a lot about hasn't been fixed, on the basis that the bug was filed some number of years ago (generally more than five). I think this line of criticism is undeserved and seriously misguided. People who make this argument are, effectively, criticizing us for our openness.

Un "Big One" à Tokyo (12 millions d'habitants), où la terre tremble régulièrement, ferait au moins 13 000 morts et 1 000 milliards de dollars en dégâts matériels, selon le Conseil de gestion des catastrophes naturelles, organisme gouvernemental.

Multimedia Semantics on the Web: Vocabularies

Multimedia Semantics: Overview of Relevant Tools and Resources

Barcodes, or UPC symbols, these ubiquitous emblems of our consumer civilisation, have received a radical makeover by a Japanese firm D-Barcode - and this time their ideas ended up on grocery products all over Japan.

review four leaner, lower-cost (or free) options from four high-powered indie Mac developers: DrawBerry, EazyDraw, Lineform, and VectorDesigner. Unlike Illustrator, all of these use Mac OS X's built-in Core Image foundation, which makes them very easy to compare to each other.

A massive sinkhole near Daisetta, Texas is seen Wednesday afternoon, May 7, 2008. A zigzagging hole believed to be as long as two football fields and up to 100 feet deep continued to widen late Wednesday, threatening to gobble up nearby tanks and other oilfield equipment.

An independent demonstration of SVG-based whiteboarding over XMPP is provided by a cross-platform client called Coccinella.

Open-Mashups is a Firefox extension based on technologies such as SVG, XBL, XSLT and XPCom. The author of the extension (Fabrice Desré, from Orange Labs - France Telecom) told me a future version of this tool will be based on XulRunner in order to provide a cross platform Desktop widget engine :)

The prototype uses FOAF and SIOC to model microbloggers, their properties, account and service information, and the microblog updates that users create. A multitude of publishing services can ping one or a set of aggregating servers as selected by each user, and it is important to note that users retain control of their own data through self hosting.

L'API n'est pas protégé par un login. Avec une addresse comme

東京都世田谷区北沢1-1

on reçoit en retour:

{"result_select":[[{"text":"東京都世田谷区北沢1-1","lat":"35.660823","weight":2,"type":"address","lng":"139.676925"}]]}

The Livedoor Blog Map finds geographical expressions from blog articles and add their latitude and longitude information to the articles. Accordingly, positions mentioned in blogs can be displayed in the "Livedoor" map, even though blog writers do not provide such information by themselves.

With Version 3.0, OpenOffice.org is now able to run on Mac OS X without the need for X11. Thus, OpenOffice.org behaves like any other Aqua application.

Opacity is a brand new program for drawing graphics for the screen. It's great for making resolution independent images and icons for applications and the web.