LEGO : 50 ans d’imagination

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Lego Space Shuttle

Aujourd’hui (28 janvier) c’était le 50e anniversaire des petites briques multicolores qui ont meublé mon enfance.

Gizmodo nous ressort une galerie photo de ce qui est, apparemment, les 229 meilleurs sets de l’histoire des LEGO. Il y en a la moitié environ qui sont des LEGO Star Wars (donc dans mon livre à moi ils comptent pas – mais ils sont quand même pas mal cool) mais c’est avec une grande émotion que je revois les explorateurs de l’espace, avec leurs petits casques blancs, leurs walkie-talkies, leurs fenêtres transparentes jaunes, leurs briques «écrans», les turbines grises qu’il suffisait de placer sur n’importe quel ensemble de briques pour en faire instantanément un vaisseau spatial, les pistolets laser qui jetaient …
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Something in the Air : New Apple products and Steve Jobs Keynote

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Macworld Keynote 

Come every january, on a certain tuesday in the middle of the month, you’ll find me frantically reloading a bunch of tabs in my browser while actively avoiding answering any email or phone call. On that day is the Macworld Keynote with Steve Jobs, and the whole webisphere is frantically speculating, rumoring, commenting the rumors, and generally freaking out about whatever Steve is going to present. The very strict secrecy aspect, as much as the jaw-dropping amazingness of the products he tends to announce has everybody paying attention. The iPhone, the iMac, theMac Mini, the PowerBook G4, etc. Most of the attention-getting designs are launched at these keynotes.

So what about this year? How was it?

Well, it sure wasn’t a disappointment. Most of the rumors turned out to be spot-on, the products are really cool, and the livebloggers are getting better and better – although I sure miss the days where it was a live video webcast. So read on to learn what I thought of all the shiny new Apple toys.

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You suck at Photoshop

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Here is one of the best Photoshop tutorials I’ve seen in a long time. Finally a real-world environment and actual practical uses for the software.

I only wish I had tought of it first.