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\bl—ɡ\, masculin (Anglicisme informatique) (Internet)(dĂ©suet) Site Web, ou partie de site Web, personnel dans lequel l’auteur note, au fur et Ă  mesure de sa rĂ©flexion sur un sujet qui lui importe, des avis, impressions, etc., pour les diffuser et susciter des rĂ©actions, commentaires et discussions. Les articles ou contributions individuels sont connus comme billets. Le mien existe, sous une forme ou une autre, depuis 2003.

  • 90MB

    I did a complete snapshot of ALL the Pirate Bay torrents, in case somebody wants to close it or something similarly crazy, he told TorrentFreak. Using this script, allisfine managed to copy the title, id, file size, seeds, leechers and magnet links of 1,643,194 torrents. Comments were not copied to keep the files as small

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  • L’usage excessif du droit criminel

    Fin 2004, alors que prenait fin une relation amoureuse de quatre ans, Diane, une rĂ©sidante de MontrĂ©al, dĂ©cidait courageusement de porter plainte Ă  la police pour violence conjugale aprĂšs qu’elle et son enfant eurent Ă©tĂ© battus par son ex-conjoint. L’aurait-elle fait si elle avait pu prĂ©dire la suite des Ă©vĂ©nements? Diane Ă©tait sĂ©ropositive et cela

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  • Le business des rubans roses

    Pink Ribbons, Inc. est un documentaire canadien. Des milliards de dollars ont Ă©tĂ© recueillis mais le taux de cancer du sein en AmĂ©rique du Nord a Ă©tĂ© multipliĂ© par 8, et le ruban est utilisĂ© par de grandes marques, alors mĂȘme que certains des composants de leurs produits sont cancĂ©rigĂšnes. Sans parler de la «cut-isation»

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  • Nothing to do with piracy

    But, once again, let’s look at what really happened here. The key reason why the sales fell over that time was because as most people shifted online, the studios fought as hard as possible to keep movies from being sold online. Instead, they focused on a ridiculous, years-long fight over which would be the new

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  • The Flip-Side

    Quand les femmes et les hommes Ă©changent leurs comportements dans un bar. PlutĂŽt drĂŽle, mĂȘme si on sent que, mĂȘme «pour de faux», les femmes n’arrivent pas Ă  ĂȘtre aussi pĂ©nibles que certains connards. Ou bien c’est un homme qui a Ă©crit le sketch, et on sait qu’on ne dĂ©truit pas la maison du maĂźtre

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  • The war on gay teens

    I ask for a show of hands: How many of you feel safe at school? Of the 19 kids assembled, two raise their hands. The feeling of insecurity continues to reverberate particularly through the Anoka-Hennepin middle schools these days, in the wake of the district’s ninth suicide. In May, Northdale Middle School’s Jordan Yenor, a

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  • Harry Potter and the sex-ed class

    The actor — who is straight — also used the interview to call for gay marriage, relationship education in schools that would cover both gay and straight relationships, and attacked some of the US Republican presidential candidates. Radcliffe said that he wished more educational establishments, especially in the US, were not in thrall to religion,

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  • Noirs de France, ni victimes, ni «potes»

    Je demande [aux hommes politiques] pourquoi ils ne sont pas capables de faire ce que les politiques ont fait il y a un siĂšcle : Ă©lire un vice-prĂ©sident de l’AssemblĂ©e nationale noir (Gerville RĂ©ache). Ils me rĂ©pondent : « Vous ĂȘtes sĂ»r ? » Ils parlent de laĂŻcitĂ©, mais le premier homme musulman Ă©lu au

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  • I am not the pain

    « It always felt like I couldn’t do enough drugs. I felt like I was on an operating table, like, ‘Hello! I’m still awake!’ I knew I needed something other than drugs to deflect the feelings that didn’t feel good, or pain. And that came in the form of consciousness. Of adding another element to the

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  • Les restaurations cachĂ©es d’Urban eXperiment

    UX is sort of like an artist’s collective, but far from being avant-garde—confronting audiences by pushing the boundaries of the new—its only audience is itself. More surprising still, its work is often radically conservative, intemperate in its devotion to the old. Through meticulous infiltration, UX members have carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation and

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