Gathering of pieces of the labyrinth of humankind knowledge that I consider worthy of your time.
Those are mostly "offline" material since online material just get linked directly within my work. It is also mostly non-scientific or research work for the same reason. There is no absolute rule regarding the presence or not of something I put here, just material that I enjoyed and would discuss about with great pleasure. For a more analytical approach, refer to my Personal Information Stream.
On the menu
Streaming/WebTV
- Scientific
- Educational
- French
- Generalist English
- software
Note that several websites are mainly relaying TV.com content and are restricted to US audience thus not present here.
Anime
- Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows
- Aachi and Ssipak
- Barefoot Gen / Hadashi no Gen
- Toward the Terra
- Kaiba
- Genius Party
- Ergo Proxy
- Origin : Spirits of the Past
- Serial Experiment Lain
- Ghost in the Shell
- Evangelion
- The Grave of the Fireflies
- Akira
See Anime for more
Comics
Books
- L'argent, l'urgence, Louise Desbrusses, P.O.L. 2006
- L'Échiquier du mal (Original title : Carrion Comfort), Dan Simmons
- Le Meilleur des Mondes (Original title : Brave New World), Aldous Huxley
- Le Principe de Peter, Laurence J. Peter et Raymond Hull
- Le Merveilleux Voyage de Nils Holgersson à travers la Suède, Selma Lagerlöf
- ...
- my notes on some of the books I read
- Fabula, la recherche en littérature
Essays
- Discours de la servitude volontaire , Etienne de la Boetie, 1549
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, 1849
- Le droit à la paresse, Paul Lafargue, 1880
- In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell, 1932
- "When I suggest that working hours should be reduced to four, I am not meaning to imply that all the remaining time should necessarily be spent in pure frivolity."
- see also "Il faut choisir : se reposer ou être libre", Thucydide
- Politics and the English Language, George Orwell, 1946
- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes, 1959
- The Abolition of Work, Bob Black, 1985
- WhyWork.org CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery
- Industrial Society and Its Future, aka Unabomber Manifesto, by Theodore Kaczynski
- Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series 1841
- ArtificialScarcity.com
Movies
- Wittgenstein
by Derek Jarman, 1993
- Ressources Humaines
- The Trial
- Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré
- Synecdoche, New York
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Metropolis
- Gattaca
- Vanilla Sky
- The 13th Floor
- Matrix
- Mindwalk
- Office Space
- Brazil
- ... (impossible to find an old website where you could share your list o favorite movies)
Sources
Shorts
- Il Pasticcere , 2010
- Maitre Patisser by Alberto Antinori, Adolfo di Molfetta, Giulia Landi, Eugenio Laviola
- Love & Theft by Andreas Hykade, Studio FILM BILDER 2010
- La vieille dame qui ne souriait plus, 2010
- CashBack, Sean Ellis 2006
- Les ailes du papillon, Benjamin Gibeaux, 2005
- L'homme qui plantait des arbres, Jean Giono, 1987
- Estoria do gato e da Luna, Pedro Serrazina, 1995
Sources
Music
Nerd
To organize
To try
Make your own
moved to Music
Documentaries
Sources
Aphorisms
See my quote self for aphorisms I enjoyed and Surfacing wisdom for my owns.
Artwork from other media
Things that *you* my friend are actually suppose to give me back!
- Getting to YES (Agathe)
Petit cours d'autodefense intellectuel (Emilie)
- 2/3 read after ~ a year (requested to give it back)
The Code Book (Jonathan, end of August 2009)
- Scientific American November 2009 (phantom99, December 2009)
- The Code Book (Daniele, December 2009)
Le Pouvoir Des Mathematiques (Sylvain, early January 2010)
Internet : Revolution Culturelle (Jonathan, Marc 2010)
The Beggar King (Gwenael, early July 2009)
Le Maitre Ignorant (Gwenael, early July 2009)
- The Beggar King (Kenza, April 2010)
Petit cours d'autodefense intellectuel (Frank, back in early September 2010)
Petit cours d'autodefense intellectuel (Nicolas September 2010)
Sources I often use to get a broader horizon
Fabien Benetou's PIM
