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Free French Music Download

Fellow blogger Guuzbourg of Filles Sourires does it again. To celebrate the third birthday (bonne anniversaire!) of his blog he created a 45-minute compilation of French music, which you can download from here. (Warning - it's a big file: 61MB)
Tracklist:
Ici Paris - Miss Tatouée
Claude François - Hip Hip Hip Hurrah
Radiomatic - Douliou Douliou St. Tropez
Jacques […]

Posted: Wed 10-Sep-08 under Created in France, Web

Celebrating Sister Cities

"Daily Photo" bloggers across the world choose a common theme each first day of the month. Today, it's "Sister Cities". Nearly 150 bloggers participate today, and I picked this one from Evry Daily Photo.

Evry, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, [wiki] is twinned with the Nicaraguan town of Esteli. This fresco "Life and […]

Posted: Mon 01-Sep-08 under Country & Travel, Web

Dear Nicolas

This could become fun if it lasts:

Tante Zoë’s Words of Wisdom for a President with a Mission
Tante Zoë is the oldest and youngest blogger on her “little island in the warm sea” (as she calls it), because she’s the only one with an Internet connection. She is also the only one on the island with […]

Posted: Sun 31-Aug-08 under Web, Sarkozy & Co

PlaceSpotting: Where is this?

PlaceSpotting is a new addictive game for those who are (not) geographically challenged.

The game site shows two images: a location like the one shown above, and a Google map of the world. The objective is to drag and zoom the map, until both images are the same. In most cases, a few hints about […]

Posted: Tue 19-Aug-08 under Country & Travel, Web

Celebrity Apes

Celebrity Apes brings you a new ape every day. So far, two French celebrities have been aped:

Posted: Mon 09-Jun-08 under People, Web

French Search Engine War Is Over

Nine in ten French now search the web with Google.
For the first time, Google has scored a 90.01 share of the search market in France in April 2008, 1 point up from April 2007. Second best is Yahoo! (3.04%), followed by Microsoft Live Search (2.53%), AOL (1.59%), and Orange (1.39%). All remaining search engines share […]

Posted: Wed 21-May-08 under Web, Statistics

Têtes à cliques

This Belgian site lets you pick a politician and punch him in the face. Nick Sarkozy is one of the willing victims. Enjoy! (Warning: slow Flash) Via Growabrain

Posted: Mon 12-May-08 under Web, Sarkozy & Co

Pixel Porn –The French Version

PixelPorn is a site that shows celebrity body parts in such a way that they become safe for work. Unfortunately, due to their American bias, no French celebrities get the pixelporn treatment. So I made them myself:

Shown above is Carla Sarkozy's left buttock.
And to prove that this is an equal-opportunities blog: here's Gerard Depardieu's right […]

Posted: Mon 05-May-08 under People, Web

Life is Merde in France, Too

Minor tragedies, rejections in love, trouble at work: The Web site Vie de Merde is allowing the French to express their daily frustrations — and make each other laugh. These messages describe the big and small crises of everyday life, the beastliness of what can happen at work, the abysses of romantic relationships.

"I got […]

Posted: Thu 24-Apr-08 under Web, Oops

Rare French Beard

The Beard Community serves as a refuge and support site for long- and short-term cultivators of any form of beardedness. The site also claims to host the world's largest online collection of bearded images. Maybe. But I could only find one living French beard:

Antoine Duhamel, born July 30, 1925, is a French composer, orchestra conductor […]

Posted: Thu 24-Apr-08 under People, Web

Find Your Headless Ancestor

Families flock to look for the ancestors who lost their heads
It is the internet site that contains dark family secrets, unspeakable truths and appalling injustice. The French log on to it in trepidation and in private.
Les Guillotinés offers the most complete online list yet established of the French Revolution’s victims and invites users to discover […]

Posted: Sun 16-Mar-08 under History, Web

Frogsmoke is Your New Bicycle

http://frogsmoke.isyournewbicycle.com/

Posted: Fri 07-Mar-08 under Web

New French Birds Eye Cities in Virtual Earth

The latest monthly update of Microsoft's Virtual Earth maps is complete.
New this time is the addition of bird's eye views of the following French cities: Reims, Besancon, Chalon, Strasbourg, Belfort, Colmar, Metz, Mulhouse, Nancy, and Troyes. Shown above is a bird's eye view of Strasbourg.
Virtual Earth is still no match for Google Earth, but […]

Posted: Thu 06-Mar-08 under Country & Travel, Web

Spell with flickr

If you have a blog and you're looking for an easy way to generate a title graphic: spell with flickr

Posted: Sun 17-Feb-08 under Web

Boz is Back

In the run-up to the French presidential elections no blogger covered the events better than Joshua Boswell, aka Boz. Now he's back with a new blog: Sarkozy the American. In his own words:
As it's become impossible to resist commenting on the recent political happenings in France and the US, I've decided to start this new […]

Posted: Sat 09-Feb-08 under Politics, Web

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