A group of people are trying to put together a qu�b�cois version of the Burning Man gathering which takes place every year in Black Rock City in Nevada.

Find out more about the Eastern Townships version of Burning Man on this Bruleurs Web site and on Br�leurs Montreal Burners.

via Metroblogging.

The BlogHer conference has started in Santa Clara, California. Is it truly going to be different from any other blogging related conference? We’ll see what the participants have to say about it when they go back home.

There’s much live blogging during the sessions, live chat, as well as tons of photos being taken. (Check out this woman’s tank top. I want one.)

It started on a good foot with a session for speakers, giving them guidelines about their upcoming presentations and telling them about the kind of attendees they will be presenting to.

Yes, there are a few men attending the conference. We should have told CFD to hang in the area for a few more days so he could have reported for us.

“Death always comes and somehow it has to be designed.” (Designer Martin Ruiz de Azua)

Want to turn into a tree after you die? Check out this stylish white funerary urn. As the container biodegrades, a seed will sprout, recycling you back into the circle of life. (I love the little guy that keels over in the lower left part of this illustration!)

Not stylish enough for you? If you’re a true fashion victim, pick one of these thematic coffins instead. Now that’s one way to go: be carried away in a polished uterus! And I know which one I’m getting for Blork.

Je r�ve? C’est le retour du “push”? (Plus de d�tails ici.)

Je me rappelle de la couverture du Wired qui annon�ait victorieusement le triomphe de la “push technology”. Plus �a change…

via Geeking with Greg.

“C’est par les valeurs de libert�, de justice, d’�galit� des chances que nous briserons ce cercle vicieux de violence qui �trangle notre monde. C’est � ce niveau que nous, tout un chacun, pouvons et devons agir, pour que �a cesse, pour que nos enfants vivent enfin en paix.”

Houssein a fait le choix aujourd’hui de placer une banni�re sur son blogue, en r�action � la mont�e du terrorisme. Cette banni�re a �t� cr��e par un autre blogueur, Mustapha, qui la rend disponible � tous sur son site, The Beirut Spring. Elle dit:

“No to terrorism. Savage acts against innocents civilians do not serve any cause. Terrorism is an abhorent and unacceptable way to solve problems. Arabs and Moslems against terrorism.”

Il est tr�s int�ressant de lire les commentaires qui ont suivi cette initiative de Mustapha. Tous ne sont pas d’accord avec une telle banni�re. Quelqu’un dit: “A muslim anti-terrorism campaign is needed but should be targetted at the muslims in an educational way and not at the West “to show our opposition to terrorism”. Quelqu’un d’autre affirme: “Terrorism is certainly a despicable activity but masochistic self-incrimination isn’t much higher on the moral scale.”

Pas facile de s’exprimer sur le sujet, de prendre une position bien d�finie qui n’ait pas besoin de milliers de nuances. Mais quelle est l’alternative? Le silence?

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Avis aux journalistes: Si vous vous demandez toujours comment int�grer les blogues dans vos articles et �ditoriaux, ce Weblog Watch de la BBC est une tr�s bonne entr�e en mati�re.

I saw Me and you and everyone we know when it opened in Montreal on Friday and it made me feel better about movies.

Don’t get me wrong - it’s far from being a perfect movie. It’s a first film with a lot of the faults that first films always have. It’s not even the best first film I’ve seen in recent times but it still made me happy. It wasn’t tight and it didn’t obey the rules that make movies “better” movies, but that’s exactly why it made me happy. It was refreshing, even though it felt self-conscious at times. And it accomplished an amazing exploit: making ASCII art funny.

I need to know that audiences can still appreciate a different voice and tone, some looseness in structure and an awkward kind of charm. I need to believe that there can still be some spontaneity in movies, even though movie production is the least spontaneous process of all.

Of course, as I always do these days, I rewrote the film in my head as I watched it. The romance shouldn’t have been at the center of the movie. The strength of the filmmaker seemed to be in the direction of young actors and to me that’s where the heart of the story was. Things like that. It’s hard to stop the voices in my head even when the movie is really, really good…

Me and you and everyone we know won many awards, including a Cam�ra d’Or at Cannes and it’s currently touring around the world. The filmmaker has a blog where she sometimes lets one of the fantastic young actors express himself.

Now if only the Cin�ma du Parc could get better seats and a better layout! I love the programming at that cinema but I hate going there. It’s like watching movies in someone’s damp basement with every single tall person in the room sitting between me and a small tv screen with bad speakers.

Petit roadtrip improvis� en ce beau samedi ni trop chaud ni trop humide. Rien de mieux que de rouler sur les chemins de l’Estrie en �coutant le podcast de MC tout en �trennant son nouveau ipod!

�ric a vraiment bien captur� la beaut� d’un corps de plongeuse dans toute sa force et sa gloire.

I guess it’s worth waiting in line if you’re going to take such a great shot.

Mon neveu m’a bien eue.