I am writing this entry from the confort of my couch via the wiimote, my tv, the wii and the opera browser available from today. It's pretty painful and slow at first. Let's hope it will get easier with time, but pointing at a virtual keyboard one letter at a time is much slower than using a real keyboard.

December 8 it is and the Wii just came out here. I got mine at lunch time (I had reserved it) with redsteel and Zelda. Let the Wiikend begin!

Yuki the cat cut her paw this weekend. She left blood stains all over the house. I took her to the vet and she got three stitches. But worst of all she has to wear a silly plastic cone around her head. That is a real nightmare for the poor cat as she cannot clean herself and she bangs her head against the furniture. And she must keep this cone for 10 days. An unhappy cat, indeed.

[update: 2006 dec 05]: Yuki is now 'unconed' and incredibly happy to be able to run amok outside.

All Grand Theft Auto games have a healthy dose of humour. I took the photo on the right illustrating this strange humour. It's an Italian restaurant whose name is Ecoli.

A photo of a sunflower taken at a botanical garden this summer 2006 (clickable).

Watching the French-German channel Arte yesterday, I saw an interview with Mazen Kerbaj mentionning his Kerblog. Mazen is a lebanese artist living in Beirut. It is worth taking a look at his work and take a minute to meditate about people suffering in Lebanon and elsewhere.

I'll post some more insect and plant photos soon, but before that I have found this page in Russian of beautiful insect photos. Whao! I wish I could do that!

The title says it all. In a recent book by the left wing American Jeremy Rifkin, entitled The European Dream, the author proposes that one of the main differences between the europeans and the americans is the level of religiosity. Surveys have shown that for 82% of americans, god is an essential part of their life. When half of the USA population goes to church at least once a week, about 10% in most northern countries in Europe go to church at least once every three months and the numbers are similar in southern Europe. This is not specifically European, since similar numbers can be found in most of the developed world. No, the exception here is the USA. This god-thing explains a lot of the behaviour of the americans (stem cell research or abortion laws for instance), but it sometimes get weird. Atheists are the least trusted group in the USA. They are less trusted than homosexuals or muslims (who are not the sweethearts of American fundies!). The linked article has got this beautiful quote:
Cole Ries, the president of the Maranatha Christian Fellowship said, "I don't believe that anybody is really an atheist. I believe that deep down everyone knows there is a god."
Dream on Ries, dream on. I would say "I don't believe that anybody is really religious. I believe that deep down everyone knows that it's all fairy tales". That's better!

My Nerd score is 84, which is not bad considering I am trying to have a life!

I saw a comment on a blog about Creationism vs. Evolution where someone joked that Jesus, the prince of peace should be called the prince of the undead since he rose from the grave.

Jesus is a zombie!

I never thought of that! George Romero is just another Mel Gibson.