Un mouvement est en train de ser dessiner pour le non à la nouvelle constitution européenne.

Ca fait un moment que ça me tracasse. Mais je pense depuis longtemps qu'il vaut mieux essayer de construire une europe resserée mais vraiment solidaire et efficace qu'un grand machin mal fagoté.

Gardons l'europe des 25 pour ce qu'elle vaut, et construisons un "noyau dur"[1] qui aille de l'avant.

[1] Je n'aime pas cette expression.

Précipitez vous pour lire ces deux articles du Monde. Je n'ai pas trouvé l'URL de l'encadré "Les trente-quatre données fournies aux Américains" paru dans le même numéro du Monde daté du Mardi 22 Juin 2004.

Ces élections, des commentaires ?

"La Décroissance", une nouvelle publication écologiste, invite à changer de modèle économique.

[ Le Monde ]

Dépéchez-vous de le lire, les articles ne restent pas longtemps en accès libre.

Arundhati Roy est l'une des figures de proue du quatrième Forum Social Mondial qui se tient à Mumbay (le nom de Bombay depuis 1996) jusqu'au 21 janvier. Puisque certains semblent encore la méconnaître, arrêtons-nous rapidement sur son parcours.
[...] [Hemisphair]

Il y a aussi un bon article dans Le Monde 2, supplément du Monde de ce week end (18/01/2004).

The winners of Bush in 30 seconds have been announced. Do a major public service to the world at large, advertise them like crazy.

[padawan.info 2.0]

Kudos to Fawcette, one of the smartest people in the business. No I'm not attacking open source, and I participate in open source myself, more than most of the advocates. But I am also aware of the hypocrisy of venture capitalists and IBM execs, who take home millions of dollars a year in compensation, and expect programmers to work for love and no money. It pisses me off that they get away with such excessive greed, and that my fellow programmers sell out so cheap. Programmers have to have health insurance, send their kids to good schools, make mortgage payments, and retire someday. And these days they have to hire lawyers to defend themselves against the lawyers of the big companies. It's romantic to think of programmers working just for the approval of their peers. Sure it's nice to get approval. It's even nicer to get approval and get paid for your work. [Scripting News]

Dave is ready to change the US of A political and social system !

A few years ago Bill McKibben (better known for his pessimistic book The End of Nature and his anti-genetic-engineering book Enough) wrote a book called Maybe One, explaining his reasons for getting a vasectomy and deciding that one child in today's world is enough. [...]. And then he lays out his proposition in a single sentence, and asks us to think and talk carefully and frequently about it:

No decision any of us makes will have more effect on the world (and on our lives) than whether to bear another child.

That's it.
[How to Save the World]

It will be interesting to see how quickly the unelectable meme spreads, and how long it takes for it to impact the search results for unelectable.

(Thanks to George and Kieran for the heads-up on this.)

[mamamusings]

Une petite Google bombe ?...

Vous pouvez commencer à surveiller les résultats...

Michael Adams, author of Fire & Ice: The US, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values, is a pollster for Environics Research. Not surprisingly, the data that he uses to support his thesis is based on comprehensive and rigorous polling of Canadians and Americans about what is important to them, and how that is changing over time. His thesis, which got some headlines in the NYT yesterday, is the same one I laid out in my article Why Canadians Fear America: that, far from being Americans 'lite', Canadians have fundamentally different values and worldviews from Americans, and those differences are increasing. Canadians are now much closer to their European contemporaries than to Americans, closer to Europeans, in fact, than are the British. America is now largely isolated in its prevailing worldview from the rest of the developed world. Its values are closer to those of autocractic developing nations than to those of other nations that have made the transition to democracy and constitutional liberalism.
[...]
If you want to see where you sit in the continuum you can take the survey online. When you're done, you'll see your personal worldview on the same grid shown above.
[How to Save the World]

Ce genre d'études est toujours suspect. Mais intéressant pour permettre d'apréhender des tendances collectives. J'ai fait le test, mais je ne pense pas qu'il soit valide au niveau individuel...