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From kuildoosh.com

“Bionic Ear Blog
With apologies to Jamie Sommers. Adventures of a woman gaining a new and improved ear. ”

http://www.meryl.net/ci/

The diary of a woman having a cochlear implant to improve her deficient hearing.
Really moving.
The diary deals with a lot of issues and feelings: scientifical approach, day-to-day meditation, insights on the health care system, and the slow learning process to understand words without lipreading…

Just another link to a post where she explains the artificality of linking sounds and words

http://www.meryl.net/ci/archives/001268.html

A very nice piece of software. I almost wish i had one of those animals just to try it.

Filmnerd is a very nice blog about the Toronto film festival. The sad news is they promised “not to post anymore from public terminals that have non-standard keyboards when (they) only have 10 minutes worth of change” like they did in their best entry so far. Go and read them though.

DJ nurse dancing at the Felix Kubin concert in cité administrative, Brussels, august 2003.

Pas posté grand chose de neuf ici ces deux dernières semaines, que j’ai passées à flâner au Canada, malgré les avertissements.

It’s already old news so maybe you know about it, but it’s good news so if you missed it, go and read it there.

…when writing fan fiction

is to be found there

by Muriel Andrin

Before anything else, it is pleasure in its barest expression. Pure fun
watching Lara’s new tricks and adrenaline-driven scenes. Punching the shark,
riding on the Chinese Wall, free diving in Chinese skies, kicking the
villain’s ass… The confrontation with the shark is not innocent or
arbitrary. Just like one of Jan De Bont’s previous film, « Speed », « Tomb
Raider II – The Cradle of Life » works as one: it’s got to keep on moving –
threatening to die at the shortest suspension of movement, contrary to one
of the film’s key moments when Shadow-Guardians hunt & kill moving bodies
and absorb them into the stones. Movement is then the first key word; boats,
cars, trucks, bikes, planes, parachutes, walking, running, swimming or
fighting help finding the true pace of the film. In a nutshell: speed.
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After reading 3 short novels in a row by Robert Silverberg, i was amazed by the contemporaneity of the themes he developed in 1971 and 1972. Granted, the style and technology is typical of the seventies’s science fiction litterature, but otherwise, those 3 novels have something definitely pregnant, if you are interested in themes as the definition of the personality, of otherness, or in the construction of self through language’s performativity.
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