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Stupid Bash Tricks

Under OS X, in Terminal.app, open Settings (CMD-, or “Terminal” menu -> “Preferences”), select the “Settings” t...

Lettre de Moscou

D’un ami proche. Gentlemen, I profoundly regret that I have to write this, but all in all I guess I must do it. It appears that there’...

Ossétie du Sud: suggestions de lecture

McCain utilise Wikipedia comme référence, mot pour mot. Crisis in Georgia

Lancement du Pressier - Libraire Web de Zines

Au www.lepressier.com, il est désormais possible de trouver et d’acheter une sélection de revues indépendantes, aussi connues sous le nom de ...

Quoi lire à propos du conflit en Ossétie du Sud

Prisoner of the Caucasus Analysis: Georgia’s decision to shell Tskhinvali could prove ‘reckless’ Analysis: why the Russia-Georgia...

Mise à jour Google Maps: Québec en haute résolution

Mise à jour: L’imagerie date de 2007 (et non de 2008) selon plusieurs indices; merci aux commentateurs! De l’imagerie fraîche et très h...

iPhone 3G: tether at 120kb/sec, disable AutoCorrection

Great news, a simple and elegant SOCKS proxy hack has surfaced, allowing you to bridge the iPhone’s 3G connection and your computer (should w...

Jailbroken iPhone 3G: back in the game!

Installing this iPhone Dev team tool (Mac OS X only) (released an hour ago, July 19th around 8pm Eastern, mirrored here) gives you access to Cydia,...

BAnQ: l’Internet aux Québécois

Tel que noté ici, l’accès sans-fil au réseau de la Grande Bibliothèque nécessite un abonnement à cette même bibliothèque. L’abonnement ...

Lancement de livre: Québec, ville dépressionniste

Plus d’infos: La Conspiration Dépressionniste. Lancement: Le samedi 12 juillet, Bar Le Sacrilège, 16h00 Québec a une histoire double. Peu de...

Lancement de livre: Québec, ville dépressionniste

Plus d’infos: La Conspiration Dépressionniste. Lancement: Le samedi 12 juillet, Bar Le Sacrilège, 16h00 Québec a une histoire double. Peu de...

Rogers iPhone pricing: bad, bad, bad, bad.

Expensive and sad. That’s all I can say after seeing taking a look at the official Rogers prices for the (legal) Canadian iPhone. A petition ...

Rogers iPhone pricing: bad, bad, bad, bad.

Expensive and sad. That’s all I can say after seeing taking a look at the official Rogers prices for the (legal) Canadian iPhone. A petition ...

AppEngine Code Leak… what’s “Google3??

By tinkering in Python (with the help of smart friends), some of Google AppEngine’s own code can be found. Download the found files here. Eve...

AppEngine Code Leak… what’s “Google3??

By tinkering in Python (with the help of smart friends), some of Google AppEngine’s own code can be found. Download the found files here. Eve...

“Boingo Hotspot” at Pearson YYZ: 1 hour of free wi-fi

While at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ), connecting to the Internet via wifi used to mean forking over 10$ to Bell. Not anymore - by s...

“Boingo Hotspot” at Pearson YYZ: 1 hour of free wi-fi

While at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ), connecting to the Internet via wifi used to mean forking over 10$ to Bell. Not anymore - by s...

C-61 et la province de Québec

Un sondage montre que 43% des Québécois seraient en faveur (et 31% contre) du projet de loi C-61, projet qui introduirait des changements dangereux...

C-61 et la province de Québec

Un sondage montre que 43% des Québécois seraient en faveur (et 31% contre) du projet de loi C-61, projet qui introduirait des changements dangereux...

The “death” of Alexa, Compete, Comscore, Quantcast?

WOW. Web stats will never be the same. Google Trends for Websites is fantastic. The “Also visited” and “Also search for” se...

The “death” of Alexa, Compete, Comscore, Quantcast?

WOW. Web stats will never be the same. Google Trends for Websites is fantastic. The “Also visited” and “Also search for” se...

Denny’s: Always a manager on duty

Looking at the Denny’s homepage, you’ll see a “EMPLOYEE LOGIN” form at the upper-right corner. The password is Dennys (yay!...

“Hi, do you know John Battelle?”

“We [ http://www.btquarterly.com/ ] are covering him in this quarter’s issue”. “Would you like to be part of the podcast an...

There’s a new Twitter service in town

The Poly9 guys, like the rest of the inter-web-technorati crowd, are Twitter-addicts. We all follow and read and consume the stuff day and night. S...

The George Hotz man crush continues…

While browsing for more things George Hotz (the brilliant original iPhone hacker, who won multiple awards for his participation at the Intel Intern...

Ubisoft: super workout urbain géant!

L’article est ici. Jeudi, les 210 employés du studio étaient invités à une séance publique pour un super workout urbain géant animé par le S...

QuickBooks “Online”

The publicly traded company Intuit offers an “Online”, Web-Based Accounting service that goes by the name of “QuickBooks Online&#...

Young Musicians @ St-John’s Gate

Copyright in Canada: not a good day

Today, the government is unveiling its copyright reform bill. Its dissection is unraveling and things are not looking good. As always, latest updat...

5 à 7 Poly9 ce jeudi

À l’Hotel Belley, 249 rue Saint-Paul, Québec. Plus d’infos ici

Google Firewall

By the Billboard Liberation Front. Press release

How often and how much can Steven Citron-Pousty be wrong?

Steven Citron-Pousty gave what I would consider a “very incoherent rant” at WhereCamp2008. His point: Google Maps is a monopoly that is...

Lancement de Noir Canada au Rendez-Vous 2008

Tel que noté sur le site du Rendez-Vous 2008, salon de livre indépendant qui aura lieu le samedi prochain, 24 mai, au sous-sol de l’église Sa...

Robert Scoble interview of Denis Laprise, Poly9 CTO

Interview with Denis Laprise, Poly9 CTO, at WhereCamp, with the help and workmanship of Robert Scoble. Partial video, liveblogged through Robert...

Interview with George Hotz, original iPhone hacker

Interview with George Hotz, original iPhone hacker, at WhereCamp, with the help and workmanship of Daniel Brusilovsky. Partial video, liveblogged t...

Does your “”"French-speaking”"” sales representative use Google Translate?

J’ai verifie votre login, ca marche pour moi. Essayez encore fois et donnez moi savoir si ca marche maintenant? Merci Yes / Oui!

Where 2.0 Launch: Google Maps API for Flash

Still unannounced on the official blogs, the Google Maps API for Flash has finally launched as part of the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference! As ...

“Liberté d’expression”?

La société aurifère Barrick Gold reproche aux auteurs de Noir Canada, Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique, d’avoir cité des rapport...

Chemistry hackers

Great news from O’Reilly, regarding the publication of “Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments” (”All Lab, No Lect...

Inutilité destructive

De “Quebecor World cutting 320 jobs in Toronto“: Duncan Brown, national director of CEP Graphical union, said the plant’s fate w...

Office for rent - Bureau à louer

Poly9 is moving, which makes our current office available for rent! Please see this micro-site in French. Poly9 déménage, ce qui veut dire que notr...

Porter: air flight done right

Having been on a short Quebec - Montreal flight on Air Canada during which the only served food was hard candy (no kidding), and taking into accoun...

Ministère du torchage économique, de l’Incompétence et de la Dilapidation

Certaines des preuves de l’incompétence du Ministère du développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation (MDEIE) son...

What to do while Twitter is down

1) Look at some pretty (and morbid) screenshots: 2) Read about Twitter’s architecture and think about that single MySQL server crying. 3) S...

Puppet interview

Madness!

live by the command-line

# history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head 55 ls 45 cd 8 nano 6 sudo 6 php 4 mkdir 3 zip 3 ...

Nice iPhone apps to have

ShowTime - Video Recording, no audio, 6 frames per second. It’s better than nothing and you can always overdub. Voice Notes - Audio Recording...

Le Manège Militaire, le lendemain

VIEUX-QUÉBEC: Ancien Manège Militaire, Une rareté! Emplacement stratégique. Grande superficie, vue unique sur les Plaines d’Abraham. SITE EXC...

Le Manège Militaire passe au feu

Live updates here (as a test): http://twitter.com/gregsadetsky News here: http://www.spiq.ca/v2/menu.html Update: It’s probably the endR...

Urbanicide

Yé, 400 ans! À lire cet article sur Québec Urbain et la version complète de l’histoire: Vieux-Québec – Faute de pouvoir transformer le local...

Do not watch this movie?

Go read this interesting post, “Ben Stein is not a Rebel, and Creationism is not Science“, then take a look at the documentation availa...

(retro) Longitude and Latitude Song & more retro science songs!

Found here! MP3 Do you know what longitude, latitude, means? wow… Update: More 1950s Science Songs here!

(retro) Longitude and Latitude Song & more retro science songs!

Found here! MP3 Do you know what longitude, latitude, means? wow… Update: More 1950s Science Songs here!

Sauvez la Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur

Reçu par courriel: Comme vous le savez peut-être, la ville de Montréal prévoit couper 250 000$ dans le budget de La chapelle historique du Bon Pas...

The weird and wonderful world of iPhone apps

I’m going gaga for 3rd party apps on the iPhone. The quality of some of these is outstanding, and you have to celebrate the fact that develop...

In case you really need to know…

This is a pretty useful website… 26

Friday Night Unwind (with wingman Rimsky-Korsakov)

Found an incredible collection of Peabody Symphony Orchestra Concert Recordings. Take 15 minutes, or an hour off. Blast your speakers.

Congratulations, Michael Geist.

Michael Geist is one of three winners of this year’s EFF 2008 Pioneer Awards. Read more on Michael’s blog. Congratulations for your out...

Ma Cuizine, suite

Nous continuons de commander chez Ma Cuizine, et tous les nourris semblent très heureux (Plus de productivité! Retour sur investissement! etc.) Pou...

“Devant des moules et du bon vin”

Meilleure chanson / intro Flash pour un site web de restaurant: Il existe, près des écluses Un restaurant vraiment marin…

T-shirts d’ici

Je voulais aussi passer le mot au sujet d’une entreprise de Québec avec qui j’ai eu la chance de travailler: Baltrakon, une maison de p...

Une Cuizine comme chez Google

Je parlais récemment à une connaissance qui disait ne pas savoir que la nourriture était gratuite chez Google. Et quelle nourriture! (En photos, et...

iPhone, Rogers, unlock, done.

If you haven’t heard the news, 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 iPhones (e.g. all iPhones that couldn’t run outside of AT&T’s network without...

Online Fun Machine

How fun is this thing? Very fun. The sound is cheesy – err, that’s the point!