Super nerdy powers at xkcd
"Surgery"
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LOL
Some Videos
Here below some videos I liked lately. I will not embed videos here because I'm lazy and the you can just click on a link, don't you? :)
Monkey Island 2 in 3d, using the Cry Engine
If you are afraid of the Big Brother, now you have yet another reason: traffic live on Google Earth using surveillance cameras
On October 6th holy DVD John and his Doubletwist will free your iTunes and media devices
How Google Street View really works
Directly from Google Japan a nice video showing how Street View works.
Public water and public schools
Public water and public schools... mmmh, whaaat? What do public water and public schools have in common?
[ "Robinet cadenassé / Locked tap", CC licensed picture by nitot ]
According to doyle at "Science Teacher",
Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing.
Public water fountains are not dangerous (unless cooties are real). Tap water is safe, and the spigots are designed to prevent contamination.
The rise of bottled water here in the States shows how a public institution can be demonized and replaced by a much more expensive privatized solution.
[...] Charter schools are like bottled water--they're believed to be superior, and their standards are less stringent that their more public counterparts.
Public Water and Public Schools
I told you so... the Ass Bomber
[...] they (the policy makers) let the citizen face daily the fear of a very-rare [terrorist] attack and they manage to take your rights apart [because of that].
I ended with a
I just hope that no one will try to blow a plane with his underwear...
Oooops. I hope I will not be considered the mind behind the stupid ass who tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum.
Let's see if they will begin to search our asshole before boarding a plane just to be sure... this shit already happened, ya kno'
More on boingboing by Cory Doctorow and by Bruce Schneier.
Non lo meritiamo
Semplicemente non ci meritiamo, come Paese, che i nostri ragazzi combattano, e muoiano, per l'Italia.
Ora un altro motivo per spengere la televisione sarà quello di non sentire quei maiali scannarsi con polemiche strumentali alla loro lotta di cortile.
The cloud. again.
Why we should be worried about the cloud
It's not the first time I write about Cloud Computing; I began commenting the ridiculous Terms of Service of some web applications to edit and store online office documents, like Google Documents, Zoho, Acrobat. Then, some months later, after reading the angry as usual comment by Richard Stallman about storing your documents in the Cloud ( the ""It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign" rant :) ), I described my view:
Best thing to do would be to have a fast internet connection at home (with simmetric speeds too, upstream and downstream) and some nice opensource software for webmail and for some documents writing and sharing. Mix that with IPV6 and we're all connected with our cloud, powered by us.
The final ingredient could be some huge webservice where we could upload our nightly backup of our home server. And those backups should be encrypted too.
When it will be the time of some opensource gmail?
Now, Cory Doctorow writes about Cloud Computing again, more from a businness/money perspective for the user than from a technical or ethical point of view.
More after the jump.
Starred Pictures
Where "starred" refers to the google reader feature...
- After creating the stunning videos of the San Francisco Star Wars attack, Mike Horn created these amazing pictures. In his flickr set "Star Wars West Coast Defense" you can find very high resolution pictures, useful if you want print them out. Below my favorites. [via MAKE]
- Focus on the logo of this restaurant in Tokyo :)
After vacation post
mmmmh, almost one month passed after my last post.
What happened in the mean time? Well, I spent most of the time in Chicago with Jackie. It was molto nice, sì sì sì.
For the nerdy updates hit the jump.
del battesimo e della circoncisione
Cena dal Pano ieri. Abbiamo toccato livelli culturali mai immaginabili.
Ad un certo punto si parla di circoncisione; ci si sposta sul tema religioso. Pippo se ne esce con un "alla fine è un po' come il battesimo... è una violenza che comunque il bambino subisce senza poter realmente decidere"
E io: "beh, magari proprio uguale no. Da una parte ti tagliano un pezzo di cazzo e dall'altro ti bagnano la testa. vedi te".
Ah, beh.
The Little Ladybug: The Good Lord’s Beast
The Little Ladybug: The Good Lord’s Beast
Supinfocom short movie - Romain Carlier from Romain Carlier on Vimeo.
Swine Flu Party: let's hope in the natural selection
So this is the story. Some people around the world (I've read about US and UK) are organizing "Swine Flu Parties" to contract the virus.
Yeah, exactly. Their point is the virus is "pretty weak now" but it will be stronger next autumn. Obviously, because of their goal, people who contracted the virus are warmly welcomed and, possibly, will have free drinks.
Let's hope in the natural selection.
[ "Pooh Bear Swine Flu Cartoon", cartoon found by Dr J C Bullas ]
First Person Shooter Disease
I dont know any medic, is someone of you going to write a Wikipedia page about this disease?
LOL.
[ via boingboing ]
Foho... on board! [v2]
A slightly edited version of the same video.
Foho on a Ducati Hypermotard [v2] from orangeek on Vimeo.
Motorbike: Ducati Hypermotard 1100
Music: Rage Against the Machine, "Wake Up"
Camera: Oregon Scientific ATC2K
Location: uhm ;)
Cannon Fodder and the art of being nerd
Do you remember Cannon Fodder for Amiga?
Yesterday afternoon I had such a flash, an uncontrollable desire of listening to "War has never been so much fun".
I know you can understand.
After the jump some videos and music to remind us all how nerd we are.
foho... on board!
My first attempt with M$ moviemaker (the only powerful PC I have is kindly provided by my company... with Windows Vista too :( ). Quite simple.
Motorbike: Ducati Hypermotard 1100
Music: Rage Against the Machine, "Testify"
Camera: Oregon Scientific ATC2K
Location: uhm ;)
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