Frogsmoke

Cheesipedia wants to be a catalog of all the world's cheeses.
That sounds like a wonderful idea, doesn't it? Unfortunately, they're off to a bad start. One can forgive the people behind the site for being incomplete at this stage (no cheeses from Holland, and only a fraction of what France produces) but the site [...]

Last month we had his daddy, now it's baby Sarko's turn:

Jean Sarkozy Totally Looks Like Shrek’s Prince Charming

No wonder with five followers!
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HT The Presurfer

Cybersquatter beats Cybercarla

Now that she's not an artist anymore, the prima donna needs a more serious website. It's supposed to open tomorrow (Monday). The name of the site is carlabrunisarkozy.org Just to make sure nobody hijacks the idea she also reserved carlabrunisarkozy.com and carlabrunisarkozy.fr.
Alas, she forgot to put carlabrunisarkozy.net in her name, so a [...]

The Impossible Cool is a photoblog featuring the, er, impossible cool. Many of them are French. Many of them smoke. Here are Gainsbourg, Birkin and Godard. Click for more impossible coolitude.

The body that controls .fr domain names reports their one-and-a-half-millionth allocation. The number of .fr domains has gone up by 25% between 2008 and 2009.
Still, even today, French companies prefer .com domains, which take up 47.2% of the market vs. 29.2% for .fr domains. Other domain types remain marginal: .net (7,7%), .eu (5,5%), .org [...]

A great idea: Historical Tweets.
Books have been ruining history. So many unnecessary words. Now, with Historical Tweets, history’s most amazing men and women can be fully understood, a mere 140 characters at a time.
Here's Marie Antoinette twittering away:

Monkey About is a bizarre photo blog, created and managed by a Parisian using the name numeromatthieu. All photos have one thing in common: they're weird — varying from dead animals to robots and undressed women to personalities. Here's a sampling:

HT Libération

Conclusion: Even the internet is not quite sure about the French.
What does the Internet think?

Spezify is a fun search site that displays the results as a huge graphic page.
This is what you get if you specify spezify Frogsmoke (but I'm sure you can find better search words):

Once the page is up, you can click any image to magnify it, and jump to its source.

Enjoy Space is a new French site dedicated to all things space. Among its many features are interviews with scientists and astronauts to provide insight into current space missions.
Here's one of them: French astronaut Léopold Eyharts who blasted off in 2008 to spend 49 days on the International Space Station. The video has English [...]

A blog that gets a lot of good press these days: Daily Routines — How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days.
In the Smokers category, here's an entry about French 19th century writer Gustave Flaubert (wiki):

Days were as unvaried as the notes of the cuckoo. Flaubert, a man of nocturnal habits, usually [...]

Each day in 2009, photographer Michel Edda offers a portrait on his site danslesyeuxdalaindelon.com (Through the eyes of Alain Delon). The site is a tribute to the French actor, who became famous with his range of glasses and sunglasses in the early 1980s. The portraits feature both anonymous people and celebrities who pose as ordinary [...]

It was about time to change the look of this blog a bit. Hope you like it!

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