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It's crazy.

Telecom Italia Mobile just published the service plans (for voice, text, data) for the upcoming iPhone 3G.

The plans are insane expansive and without any unlimited data plan: even the totally-dumb iPhone Unlimited (last column) with a 200€ per month fee doesnt have unlimited data traffic trough UMTS.

Great video of Garr Reynolds, showing best practices for your presentations.

He's also the mind behind "Presentation Zen".

The presentation was performed during a "Authors @ Google" meeting: check out (and subscribe to the feed) their page on Youtube.

The next pal who tells you summer in Florence is good, please give me his address: I'll burn the building.

I'm sweating the shit out of me, cazzo.

This ghost town is not somewhere in Arizona, but it's actually Moscow.

Alexey Titarenko did it with a long exposure setting and his camera: Alexey Titarenko's City of Shadows.

The story has something amazing: a woman, missing since 1966, was found dead after 42 years in front of her TV, with the cup of tea she prepared herself 42 years ago.

She was in her home, but somehow no one had the idea to check there when she was declared missing.

In the last days we saw a smart move from Nokia: it bought the remaining shares of Symbian and decided to release the OS as open source software.

Here the talk by O'Reilly Radar.

Although Symbian is not so brand new as Google's Android, the move from Nokia seems like a direct attack to iPhone's platform and the upcoming Android.

As O'Reilly Radar points out, the license choosen by Nokia is not the standard Linux GNU Public License, but the Eclipse Public License; the main difference is that, thanks the EPL, Nokia will be free to include proprietary extensions (so without shipping the source code, as required by the GPL) in its Symbian release.

Da Repubblica:

In Olanda, dal primo luglio prossimo, scatta il divieto di fumo nei locali pubblici, come bar e ristoranti. Forse non è un caso che un Paese di solito all'avanguardia nelle leggi che tutelano i diritti civili sia stato uno degli ultimi a recepire la normativa Ue che bandisce l'uso delle sigarette nei locali: questo, infatti, vigerà anche nei famosi coffee-shop, dove però si potrà continuare a fumare estratti di cannabis. A patto che siano puri, cioè non mixati con il tabacco

Io l'ho sempre detto che i "purini" sono la cosa meglio...

Bruce Schneier talks about CCTV cameras and the (supposed) benefits.

Spoiler for our beloved british readers: they're almost useless and a waste of money.

UPDATE: oltre a quanto leggerete sotto, Simoncelli ha anche dato (sostanzialmente) del coglione a Nico Cereghini dicendo che non ha rispetto per i piloti di 125... graaaaande! :)

Non so se l'avete notato, ma Superpippo Simoncelli se ne e' uscito con un bestemmione durante l'intervista di Italia 1..

All'inizio dell'intervista all'arrivo, lamentandosi dell'irruenza di alcuni avversari, comincia l'intervista con un " *io boia", dove la wildcard sta per "D".

Incredibile... un'altra delle sue. :)

Instead of getting a doberman just to watch your backyard, why don't use a paintball sentry?

The video of the sentry in action after the jump.

After George Carlin (RIP) explained us why - the men - are we here and why we shouldn't care about saving the planet, it's quite funny to read on Popsci.com that Milan is in the top ten of the dirtiest city in the world.

[ "Ghiaccio sporco IIIII", CC-licensed picture by Kazze ]

Milan, Italy:

Ah, Milan, home to great shoes, high fashion and more pm10s—small pollution particles that can cause cancer and breathing problems—than any other city in Europe. In fact, according to a study by Italian environmental group Legambiente, Milan has more smog than any other city in Europe and the continent’s second-highest level of ozone. Most of the problem comes from the city’s love of driving, but that’s changing quickly: Congestion pricing in downtown Milan implemented in January has dropped traffic by 26 percent and, residents hope, will lead to drops in smog as well.

... "For the plastic, assholes!"

Great piece from George Carlin (passed away some days ago) about the Green Movement and the "save the planet" campaigns.

Save the fucking Planet?? by George Carlin

Audio in English (quite easy) and subs in Italian.

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Sergio (che ha commentato anche a questo post) illustra quali sarebbero le "altre vie" intraprese dalla Mosaico prima di quelle della denuncia. Sembra proprio, infatti, che quelli della Mosaico abbiano deciso "sin dall'inizio" di andarci duro; nel blog di Calzolari, infatti, Sergio scrive:

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Ricordate la storia di Sergio Sarnari e la Mosaico - Sistemi di Arredamento srl ?

Ho appreso qualche giorno fa, dal blog di Camisani Calzolari che scrisse una lettera alla Mosaico, che l'azienda ha risposto, sempre per "penna" di Andrea Rossetti, Amministratore della Mosaico.

Anticipo un estratto di quanto scrive Rossetti che mi ha colpito:

mi limito a precisare, nel merito, che la strada della giustizia non è stata la prima e l’unica percorsa dal sottoscritto, e non ritengo di aggiungere altro, in questa sede, in merito ai pregressi contatti intrattenuti con il titolare del Blog interessato nella vicenda.

Se riponiamo in Rossetti la stessa fiducia che abbiamo riposto in Sergio (nel credere a quanto ha scritto nel post e nel dare per scontato che non omettesse particolari), la parte in grassetto dovrebbe farci "fermare un attimo".

Quali sarebbero le "altre strade" (oltre a quella della giustizia) percorse dalla Mosaico?

Non è che Sergio sta omettendo qualcosa?

Ritengo che nel bene dell' "onesta' intellettuale" della discussione sarebbe cosa buona e giusta che una delle due parti (Sergio o Rossetti, meglio il primo che "sembra" aver omesso qualcosa, stando alle parole dell'amministratore dell'azienda) rivelasse questi particolari.

Potete leggere la sua risposta dopo il salto o direttamente sul blog di Camisani Calzolari.

I just came back from the wedding of my brother Vincenzo e Annalisa!

[ A Valentine for my Wife, CC-licensed picture from ella's dad ]

I wish you all the best!

The whole wedding-thing ran perfectly ( "da dieci" :), as we said in those days): great ceremony (I was one of the best men, along Alessandro), veeeery good reception (a lot of food, a lot of wine... we all love Southern-Italy-weddings :) ) and an amaaaaaazing after dinner party!

I just wait for the pictures (that I couldn't take), from the official photographer (Giordano - if I remember well - who also worked for National Geographic) and from our friends.

Just a note: the night before the wedding (sunday), your hero performed a great alcool-show in the old town in Matera (and in the hotel too)! I was completely drunk (thanks to my brother's friends): the best way to pay tribute to the wedding !

Via Gizmodo I found this interesting (leaked) email from Bill Gates to some Windows developers, sent in 2003.

He (Bill, founder of Microsoft, developer of Windows XP) just wanted to install Movie Maker on his Windows XP machine.

The memo is quite long (read after the jump) but I think it shows the commitment of Gates and his frustration, trying to work out his own product. Even if polite, he wrote as one who wouldn't tolerate any objections.

Please take note of the sentence

[after a crazy and system-mandatory Windows Update] [...] Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.