Incapables d’accéder aux tablettes de la quasi-totalité des grandes chaines d’alimentation, plusieurs microbrasseurs québécois ­craignent pour leur survie si des mesures législatives ne sont pas revues.

En optant pour la SAQ, soulignons que les microbrasseurs se voient empêchés de vendre leurs produits dans les détaillants en alimentation et dans leur propre microbrasserie.

Incroyable! Ridicule! Stupide! Dire que c’est une societe d’etat. On aime vraiment ca se tirer dans le pied les quebecois.

Le porte-parole de la SAQ, Renaud Dugas, n’a pas donné de réponse très précise. « Ce sont les règles », a-t-il expliqué.

« Mais quel est l’esprit de ces règles? », a demandé le Journal. « Vous voulez vraiment que je vous retrouve l’esprit de ces règles? C’est ce qui a été décidé. Je ne sais pas vraiment ce que l’on peut dire », nous a-t-on répondu.

Sigh….

Caroline Leclerc animera, dès le 28 avril, une émission consa­crée aux micro-brasseries du Québec. Ça va brasser!

La première de la saison a été tournée à la micro-brasserie Dieu du Ciel de Montréal. L’équipe de Ça va brasser! fera le tour de la province, au fil des semaines, avec des arrêts à Rimouski, Sherbrooke, Shawinigan, Gatineau, Montréal et dans la région de Québec avec la Micro-Brasserie de l’île d’Orléans, La Barberie et MicroBrasserie Charlevoix.

Ça va brasser! sera diffusée le samedi, à 17 h 30, à partir du 28 avril, sur les ondes de V.

CBC Marketplace: DirectBuy: deal or no deal?

1 morceau de saumon = 40 yogourts Danino
1 morceau de saumon = 214 tranches de Wonder Bread Headstart
1 morceau de saumon = 161 verres de laits Beatrice Smart Growth
1 morceau de saumon = 22 oeufs Nature Egg Omega 3 White Eggs

Via: likecool.com: world’s smallest chameleon – Brookesia micra

Researchers have recently discovered four new chameleon species, which rank among the world’s tiniest reptiles. Adults of the smallest species are just over an inch from snout to tail.

No person or entity shall manufacture or knowingly sell food or any other product intended for human consumption which contains aborted human fetuses in the ingredients or which used aborted human fetuses in the research or development of any of the ingredients.

Qu’est-ce qui les a pousse a ecrire un tel reglement?!?!?! J’ose meme pas y penser. :-\

The Alps at night – Timelapse from Matthew Vandeputte on Vimeo.

Video en format mp4

“Astronaut Don Pettit, who is aboard the International Space Station right now, puts charged water droplets into wild orbits around a knitting needle in the microgravity environment of the ISS.

Via: slashdot.org: Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password

If she does not decrypt the drive by month’s end, as ordered, she could be held in contempt and jailed until she complies. If the case gets to that point, Judge Blackburn would have to make a judgement call and determine whether the woman had forgotten the code or was refusing to comply.

Dans la meme veine que SENSE OF FLYING. Si je n’etais pas chicken, que je n’avais pas de responsabilites et que j’ignorais le fait que je sais que je me plante au moins une fois dans tout ce que je fais, je le ferais demain matin

Need4Speed: Insight from Phoenix Fly on Vimeo.

3000$….. disons que lorsque ca brise (ou je suis tres pour briser des cles USB), ca fait un petit pincement au coeur.

The new result comes from what’s called microlensing.

This kind of event takes an extraordinarily precise alignment, so they’re extremely rare. To compensate, you need to look at a lot of stars. So astronomers did: a survey using two telescopes covered several million stars every night, looking for the tell-tale bump(s). Over the course of six years, they found three — yes, only three — planets orbiting other stars acting like wee distant lenses. But that number is actually pretty good: when combined with previous surveys, and also taking into account how many lenses they didn’t see (which is important, statistically), they can extrapolate with some confidence about the numbers and types of exoplanets out there.

Via: dvorak.org: Kopimism – The Swedish File Sharing Religion

For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament.

Hopefully, this is one step towards the day when we can live out our faith without fear of persecution, says Isak Gerson, spiritual leader of the Church of Kopimism.

LOL!!! Tout aussi ridicule que les autres religions

Les fabricants de pneus nous disent qu’ils conçoivent
déjà des pneus performants pour un gonflage à l’air.
Donc, nous ne nous sommes pas laissé dégonfler ! Au
lieu de remplir nos pneus à l’azote, en payant de 5 $ à
8 $ de plus par pneu (multiplié par quatre pneus d’été
et quatre pneus d’hiver, ça fait une somme rondelette),
nous avons préféré utiliser les économies réalisées
pour nous abonner au Québec sceptique.

A Proposal in Stop Motion from FIREPIT PICTURES on Vimeo.

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Projections from Obscura Digital on Vimeo.

slashdot.org: Lower Limit Found For Sudoku Puzzle Clues

An Irish mathematician has used a complex algorithm and millions of hours of supercomputing time to solve an important open problem in the mathematics of Sudoku, the game popularized in Japan that involves filling in a 9X9 grid of squares with the numbers 1–9 according to certain rules.

Gary McGuire of University College Dublin shows in a proof posted online on 1 January1 that the minimum number of clues — or starting digits — needed to complete a puzzle is 17; puzzles with 16 or fewer clues do not have a unique solution. Most newspaper puzzles have around 25 clues, with the difficulty of the puzzle decreasing as more clues are given.

“The approach is reasonable and it’s plausible. I’d say the attitude is one of cautious optimism,” says Jason Rosenhouse, a mathematician at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and the co-author of a newly released book on the maths of Sudoku.

Having spent two years testing the algorithm, McGuire and his team used about 700 million CPU hours at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing in Dublin, searching through possible grids with the hitting-set algorithm. “The only realistic way to do it was the brute force approach,” says Gordon Royle, a mathematician at the University of Western Australian in Perth who had been working on the problem of counting 17 clue puzzles using different algorithms.

Papier en format PDF

Via: Bad Astronomy: Colbert on Tyson

awesomelinux.blogspot.com: KMix Lockups, Freezes, and Performance

Regardless, I eventually figured a solution to the problem: Quit kmix. You may need to actually kill the program. Next move/delete/rename the folder ‘kmix’ in the folder ‘~/.kde/share/apps/. Restart kmix, and it will recreate a default ‘~/.kde/share/apps/kmix/’ folder with default settings.

Via: slashdot.org: Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives

“It’s absolutely astounding,” says Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC. “I did not think the comet’s icy core was big enough to survive plunging through the several million degree solar corona for close to an hour, but Comet Lovejoy is still with us.”

The most dramatic footage so far comes from SDO, which saw the comet go in (movie) and then come back out again (movie).

Comet Lovejoy was discovered on Dec. 2, 2011, by amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy of Australia. Researchers quickly realized that the new find was a member of the Kreutz family of sungrazing comets. Named after the German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who first studied them, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments of a single giant comet that broke apart back in the 12th century (probably the Great Comet of 1106). Kreutz sungrazers are typically small (~10 meters wide) and numerous. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory sees one falling into the sun every few days.

Full rotation of Jupiter from Jean-Luc Dauvergne on Vimeo.

La phrase sous le graphique est la meilleure description de Noel…. EVER!

Launched by the Wolfram Group, the CDF standard is a computation-powered knowledge container—as everyday as a document, but as interactive as an app.

Adopting CDF gives ideas a broad communication pipeline—accelerating research, education, technical development, and progress.

Le “viewer” demande 684MB d’espace! On est loin d’adobe flash quand meme, ce qui explique qu’il est plus gourmand. Le rendu 3D me semble un peu ordinaire, mais l’idee pourrait interesser les matheux qui veulent partager des documents.

Via: slashdot.org: Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law

Now, a committee of the Red Cross is debating if gamers might be violating the International Humanitarian Law as they slaughter each other online.

Hahahahaha. C’est tellement stupide que je me suis demande si on etait deja le premier avril.

SENSE OF FLYING from Goovinn on Vimeo.

Via: likecool.com: The Vertical Chess Set

Il est possible d’en trouver un moins cher sur d’autres sites.

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

Our fantasy is that on any given road trip, you will be able to find a nerd stop somewhere along your route, or perhaps even plot out a nerd odyssey across the UK.

Et il y a maintenant beaucoup de liens en dehors du Royaume Uni.