English:

• The Rise of Buffy Studies – an short article about the study of Buffy (and TV shows in general) in an academic context
• « Your English is pretty good! », they said – someone explaning about his learning of English and the various milestones he went through
• Job – a short story where Scalzi talks to the Devil about Job
• Pantone smoothies – colorful smoothie pictures and recipes
• Evolving the Google Identity – an article about the recent (well not so much anymore) evolution of the Google logo and associated graphical stuff
• Japanese Artist Places a Modern Spin on Centuries-Old Woodblock Prints Through Animated GIFs – what the title says, cool pictures
• Happy Birthday Monkey Island – Monkey Island is 25 years old. If you want to see the source code floppy disks, they’re in this blog post.
• Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code – And It’s All in One Place – an article about Google source repository, that kind of lacks technical content though
• The Motivation for a Monolithic Codebase – if you were frustrated by the lack of technical content in the previous article, this SCALE conference on that exact same topic is pretty cool
• The Other Side – The very ordinary daily life of Stormtroopers from Star Wars – a set of pictures with Stormtroopers in everyday life
• 13 Times Toby Ziegler From “The West Wing” Was You At Work – a Buzzfeed that made me laugh (but then I have a soft spot for Toby Ziegler)
• ‘Ingredients’: An Eye-Opening Look At The Additives In Our Food – an article/review about a book about food additives, looks interesting (and very pretty)
• More Indie Authors = More Junk – I’m a huge fan of the fact that publishing barriers are lower and lower nowadays. But as a reader, the landscape also gets more complicated. And that’s pretty much my thoughts on the subject – except Carla says it better.
• The Switch – Netflix tries to appeal to the makers with a fun little electronics project
• A New Angle – I accidentally nerd-sniped many people with that one this week, can I nerd-snipe more?
• A Magical Answer to an 80-Year-Old Puzzle – a very readable article about a recent result from Terry Tao about an 80-year-old conjecture by Erdős
• The Google DeepDream Makeup Tutorial That Nobody Asked For – the level of meta is high on this one, and it’s stuff of nightmares – you’ve been warned (but it’s very funny)
• The mysterious origins of punctuation – well that’s a descriptive title 🙂

Français:

• Pantone smoothies – des photos de smoothies Pantone – les recettes sont en anglais, mais les photos sont sympa
• Japanese Artist Places a Modern Spin on Centuries-Old Woodblock Prints Through Animated GIFs – des GIFs animés à partir d’impressions sur bois japonaises – meugnon
• Allemand hebdo – ChrisJ étend son vocabulaire allemand et nous en fait profiter
• The Other Side – The very ordinary daily life of Stormtroopers from Star Wars – des photos marrantes de Stormtroopers au quotidien
• A New Angle – j’ai visiblement réussi à faire faire de la trigo à plein de gens cette semaine avec ça, peut-être je peux améliorer mon score 🙂 (le problème est le suivant : au vu de la figure du lien, quelle est la mesure de l’angle CAD ?