Au sens premier, le mot passerelle désigne un pont habituellement de taille restreinte. Dans le domaine aéronautique, une passerelle est un couloir extérieur permettant au passager d'embarquer dans l'avion depuis la salle d'embarquement Dans le domaine maritime, une passerelle est le local (souvent en hauteur ) d'un navire d'où l'on dirige la navigation et les manœuvres. En informatique, une passerelle permet de relier deux réseaux, voir aussi pont et routeur. En architecture, une passerelle est un passage couvert, suspendu et ne touchant pas le sol entre deux bâtiments. Au sens figuré, une...

Blinkenlights is a hacker's neologism for diagnostic lights on old mainframe computers, minicomputers, many early microcomputers, and modern network hardware. == Etymology == The Jargon File provides the following etymology: Although the sign might initially appear to be in German and uses an approximation of German grammar, it is composed largely of words that are either near-homonyms of English words or (in the cases of the longer words) actual English words that are rendered in a faux-German spelling. As such, the sign is generally comprehensible by many English speakers regardless of whether...

My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film – which stars the voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi – tells the story of the two young daughters (Satsuko and Mei) of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988. The film was released on VHS and laserdisc in the United States by Tokuma Japan Communications' US...

After Life, known in Japan as Wonderful Life (ワンダフルライフ, Wandafuru Raifu), is a 1998 film by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda starring Arata, Oda Erika and Terajima Susumu. == Plot == Koreeda's After Life is set in a waystation where the souls of the recently deceased are processed before entering heaven. "Heaven," for the film, is a single happy memory from one's life, re-experienced for eternity. The movie is set in a building resembling a decrepit travel lodge or social services institution. Every Monday, a new group of recently deceased people check in, and the "social workers" in the lodge...

Das Wort Chuchichäschtli [ˈχʊχːiˌχæʃtli] (kleiner Küchenschrank, Hängeschrank) ist das traditionelle Schweizerdeutsche (eigentlich generell hochalemannische) Schibboleth. Dreimal kommt das ch in dichter Folge vor, das südlich der Kind/Chind-Grenze als stimmloser uvularer Frikativ gesprochen wird. Das Wort Chuchichäschtli ist bekannt dafür, dass es von Personen, die des Hochalemannischen nicht mächtig sind, nur schwer ausgesprochen werden kann. Es wird ihnen daher oft zur Belustigung zum Aussprechen empfohlen. Das Phonem „ch“ ist ein stimmloser uvularer Frikativ [χ]. Im Unterschied zum Standarddeutschen…