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"A group of scientists at Dartmouth University hooked a few WoW players up to an MRI recently, and they found that when asked to describe themselves and their virtual avatars, the same areas of the brain activated -- areas normally suited to "self-reflection and judgement." - francois schnell

"Brain scans of avid players of the hugely popular online fantasy world World of Warcraft reveal that areas of the brain involved in self-reflection and judgement seem to behave similarly when someone is thinking about their virtual self as when they think about their real one. - francois schnell

bicycle technical info - francois schnell

OCR Terminal is an online OCR service that allows you to convert PDF to Word, JPEG to Word and scanned images into editable documents. - francois schnell

" This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better. - francois schnell

" Jim Groom recently coined the term "edupunk" to refer to a scrappy, DIY spirit in some sectors of educational technology. - francois schnell

" 15 Applications Twitter pour Tout Savoir sur un Twittos - francois schnell

" Les services de partage d’écran sont extrêmement utiles. Ils peuvent servir à livrer des formations, des présentations ou encore travailler en mode collaboratif à distance. Les coûts d’utilisation des systèmes de partage d’écran sont à la baisse. Certains d’entre eux offrent même des formules gratuites. - francois schnell

" The generation X version of roleplaying was Everquest: punishing, and abusive, and all about achievement, and beating the fixed challenges of the game. But EQ had inherited a social component from D&D, almost involuntarily: If you create the Matrix in the generation X style as objective reality against which players bang their head, the real-life fact that doing something together is usually easier than doing something alone invariably sneeks in. The more punishing and abusive you make the virtual world, the more players are forced to play together, to cooperate. But generation X is a generation of lone wolfs cherishing their independance, and so they called this feature "forced grouping" and hated it. - francois schnell

" Clint says that generation X "doesn't play nice with other people", but they prefer abusive, punishing, single-player games, or multiplayer games in which they dominate the other players. Generation Y is a lot more social oriented (not unlike baby boomers), cooperative, and prefer games that hand out rewards left and right, and are very forgiving. - francois schnell

"With this update, we've focused on making it as fast and easy as possible to add your tasks to Remember The Milk (that's the "smart" bit). We've also made a bunch of improvements to the web app to make it easier to manage your tasks once they're in there, and have sped up the app a little too. So, what exactly is new? - francois schnell

" The international project NIFLAR, Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research, has received a grant from the European Union. - francois schnell

iTunes Podcast Smart Playlists - francois schnell

" We’ve assembled a small list of 20 facebook apps here and are happy to have others add additional apps to the list that you’ve found helpful. - francois schnell

Présentation du parcours Franco-Allemand en L1 par Joern Puetz à l'Université de Strasbourg. - francois schnell

" Using the Google Gadgets platform, GlowDay can be used to create surveys and online polls which you can post to your home page and email to all your friends. - francois schnell

" A woman is reluctant to attend her sister’s wedding in Disney Land. Jessi Klein is a writer/performer whose credits include appearances on Comedy Central, VH1, CNN, and The Today Show. - francois schnell

" Four approaches to playing MUDs are identified and described. These approaches may arise from the inter-relationship of two dimensions of playing style: action versus interaction, and world-oriented versus player-oriented. An account of the dynamics of player populations is given in terms of these dimensions, with particular attention to how to promote balance or equilibrium. This analysis also offers an explanation for the labelling of MUDs as being either "social" or "gamelike". - francois schnell

dispositif de visio-conférence - francois schnell

Official Google Docs Blog: Picasa Web Albums integration, site feeds, and page templates in Google Sites - francois schnell

" This page scrapes the Recent Changes page of a Google Site. Use it to create an RSS feed, because for some reason Google Sites doesn't do that yet... The data must be public, as this pipe doesn't support authentication - francois schnell

3Di Viewer "Rei" is open source BSD-licensed viewer software for 3D virtual worlds and the 3D Internet. 3Di Viewer "Rei" allows you to view and interact with multi-user 3D virtual worlds using a web browser. 3Di Viewer "Rei" works with open source upstream OpenSim servers. It also works with commercial 3Di OpenSim Enterprise servers. - francois schnell

multi touch user inputs - francois schnell

"Le Collège de France est un grand établissement pluridisciplinaire de l'Enseignement supérieur. Ses missions sont : le développement et l’enseignement de la recherche, la formation de chercheurs. - francois schnell

"Le Collège de France est un grand établissement pluridisciplinaire de l'Enseignement supérieur. Ses missions sont : le développement et l’enseignement de la recherche, la formation de chercheurs. - francois schnell

Juice supports multiple media players - francois schnell

Juice supports multiple media players - francois schnell

" In the ending decades of the last century the machines and computers reached the grade of development that they can do practically all non-creative work. Million-tons/year product industrial companies are handled by half dozen men, who are mostly sleeping as their job is to intervene in the case of emergency. The normal operation is completely run by computers. With 4-500 horsepower tractors a single farmer can grow food for thousands of men. A crew of a dozen can lead the largest transport ships across the sea. This automatization shows no end. We can see room cleaning robots, combat robots, dog-walking robots on IT business conventions and they will be in our homes (and armies) in 10-20 years. They are already dominating the agriculture and heavy industry, pushing the vast majority of the population to the services area. - francois schnell

" The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products. - francois schnell

" we aim to push advances in miniature robotics and the design of compact high-energy power sources; spur innovations in ultra-low-power computing and electronic “smart” sensors; and refine coordination algorithms to manage multiple, independent machines. - francois schnell

" The recession had accelerated the migration of advertising spending to digital technology - from more traditional media such as print, radio and television advertising to online, according to the report. - francois schnell

In keeping with its commitment not to trap user data, Google on Thursday plans to introduce a new application programming interface (API) that will provide access to Google Sites, the company's service for creating and hosting collaborative content and Web sites. - francois schnell