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And a very nice party for its first anniversary!

Last Saturday, I went to L’Autre Canal, a concert room that is also a recording studio,a documentation center and digital cultural place, in Nancy. The site is very nice! Brand new, well designed, well decorated, and the team over there was nice, they even gave me the code for the WiFi

The selection of artists was very eclectic but focused on electro music. Look at the webpage that presents the party. There even are videos! It seems they are working well. L’Autre Canal is subsidized. The half a pint of beer is at 2 €, + 1 € of deposit for the glasses made of plastic that are returnable (not kidding!).

Some photos:

The main corridor, toward the entrance:

Only a few people for Battant, they play electro punko rock. It was too early, too bad cause it’s very peppy:

The exotic room, with pineapples hanged on plams (sic! Everyone knows that pineapples don’t grow on a tree):

Tony Allen, an Afro Beat player coming from Niger, an excellent drummer, all in finesse! Very good! And also thumb up to the bass guitar player!

A crazy pair: CongoPunq. Cyril Atef alone for the music Mister Cong for the animation - it was awesome because performed live:

Mister Cong is cooking, some cassoulet:

Right after a release of balloons :

The pair greets the audience:

The party goes on with a DJ playing its own creations:

While the Tibetan folk is everyday more and more repressed, ignored and effaced by the Chinese government, I propose to all the athletes who will take part to the Olympic Games not to boycott them, but rather to clearly show a sign of recognition of the Tibet during the medal ceremonies, to show their solidarity with the Tibetan, a so peaceful folk, so unjustly hunted down by an imperialist, inquisitive, fascist and dictatorial government.

Sorry if the title sounds too much like a direct translation

I am sure that you that celebrities often let themselves be shot with a so called boy/girlfriend of the day, and the day after sue the tabloids that publish them along a soap opera story.

It seems that these celebrities have deciced to take the digital turn and now sue the websites, without any clue about what the web is. Thus, they now sue the news aggregators, like: Google News, Wikio, Fuzz, Digg etc… They do not sue the authors of a piece of news but the websites that track them, sometimes by quoting the source, sometimes just by quoting the title of the news. The objective: sue as much websites as possible, even if they have a very low audience, and gather the sum of damages.

You need examples? Go there, or there. Let us hope that the decision of the judges will stop this kind of pursuits that flood the tribunals but also scare the bloggers (and therefore reduce our freedom).

Mmmm… who sent me these 2 USB 1Go Flash keys in express shipping? I never ordered them, and the expeditor on the envelope does not remind me anything (Expéditeur Central, ZAC de Maisonneuve à Brétigny sur Orge…).
Is this a present or a con?

The number of journalists who can not work freely is increasing. In fact, this is not completely true. We do not know if this number is increasing. But at least in 2008, thanks to the Internet, it is now possible to track these journalists. Below are two very recent cases. Surprisingly, they involve elected representatives who come from the right wing.

The first example relates to a public meeting of Rachida Dati, candidates in the 7th district of Paris, where two journalists of an independent media called La Télé Libre (the Free TV) are disturbed and then pushed out of the room while they are just taping the debate. The video speaks for itself, no need to speak french to understand:

You are not dreaming, there still are some people in 2008 who do not hide while acting like in a dictatorship.

The second example takes place in Corbeilles Essone, during a public meeting organised by Serge Dassault. This time, some people in the audience prevent the journalist from askin a question, manu militari. Once again, no need to speak french to understand:

This is terrible! And you can be sure that the ones who act like this are the same who ask for the toughest punishment to the ones who act in the same way.

If I was the journalists, and with the help of the editorial team, I would not hesitate to sue them.

This man died when he was 34. This little lullaby is gloomy and very cute at the same time.

If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, then just browse this blog with it. Nice design isnt’it?

Thank you guys.

TGIF, but not Friday night yet. However, please find below some sound to wake you up

I like the 4th, 10th, 14th and 16th. Naming the songs by their track number reminds me when I was a youth…