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Disturbia
Another good movie I watched.
A guy, after the loss of his father, has some problems at school and got house arrest. After a couple of tries to kill the spare time with videogames, music and gizmodos, he begins with a new hobby: observing his neighbours.
A good thriller!
A refreshing header ;)
Just to inform anyone is reading my blog through RSS (explanation, my feed RSS and Atom for the entries and the feed for the comments) that I've updated my header.
I put apart the prior header, inspired by our amazing Star Wars set on flickr and I used the logo that I designed (well, actually drawn by myself) years ago.
I must thank Darkman (as already did) who vectorialized my opera! :)
CVD
Come volevasi dimostrare.
["Culo", CC licensed picture by loungerie]
Dopo tutto il casino sollevato dall'arresto della moglie di Mastella, e dopo che il magistrato responsabile dell'atto ha dovuto passare l'indagine ai colleghi di Napoli per incompetenza territoriale, e dopo essere stato costretto a lasciare la Procura di Santa Maria Capua Vetere in quanto già da 8 anni lavorava lì (è una legge che impone il trasferimento dopo un certo periodo di tempo)[1], il magistrato (il PM aka Pubblico Ministero ergo quello che normalmente fa richiesta di ottenere gli arresti domiciliari per l'indagato) attualmente responsabile delle indagini chiede la revoca degli arresti domiciliari alla moglie di Mastella per "sopravvenuta mancanza delle esigenze cautelari".
Penso che nel codice di procedura penale non esista la revoca "perchè quello prima di me ha fatto una minchiata".
[1] giusto per far notare che l'arresto della moglie di Mastella è stato fatto a pochi giorni dalla già nota decisione di trasferimento... quando si dice "un'uscita in grande stile".
two movies are worth of
In the last days I watched two movies. I think the both are worth 2 hours for our highly-deserved spare time. :)
Loch Ness Monster in Tokyo
Via Gizmodo I found out tha tthe Loch Ness Monster isn't bullshit anymore. He exists and now he's swimming in the Tokyo Bay,
Check out the video after the jump.
The Bucket List: take a look!
Yesterday I watched "The Bucket List" ("Non è mai troppo tardi" in italian): it's the story of 2 elderly men (Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) with cancer and just six months of life remaining. They decide to take a world trip and do all the things they never did in their whole life.
Good movie and it's definitely worth 90 minutes of your spare time and even a ticket at the cinema! :)
Rappresaglia dopo il caso Papa UniversitÃ
Ne avevamo parlato con dasnake (a lungo!) qualche giorno fa. Mi riferisco al caso degli studenti e professori che hanno bloccato l'intervento del Papa alla Sapienza.
Ovviamente, come un in bel paese in cui la democrazia vige indisturbata, ora è scattata la rappresaglia.
["Chopping off my little finger", CC licensed picture by TimTak]
Use your spare time wisely
Don't waste your time with Suburban Girl (and next time remember me to check out the imdb page)
Instead, use your time to download and watch Damages, this great TV Show !
Who owns our data?
Who controls the data (our data) that daiily we create and upload to social networks?
Think at your account on flickr, youtube, twitter, jaiku, linkedin and so on.
Think at your pictures, videos, contacts, relationships, links.
It's not just a matter of wasted time: it's a problem of control.
We don't control our own data: every platform we use lock-in us in the same environment, raising the costs to come out and join another network.
A likely solution could be the DataPortability Project.
La Libreria del Congresso e la SIAE
Giusto per allacciarmi alla notizia di qualche tempo fa sulla legge pro SIAE che i benpensanti italiani hanno pensato di introdurre. Secondo questa, potranno essere pubblicate su internet solo foto o musiche coperte da copyright " a bassa qualita' " (bassa risoluzione per le immagini o downsamplate se musica).
Negli USA la Libreria del Congresso l'ha pensata diversamente.
Fallen Art
Great video on youtube.
Il vero scandalo dell'Affaire Mastella
Il vero disgusto dell'Affaire Mastella e di sua moglie non sono le dimissioni del ministro. E neanche l'arresto della moglie.
Il vero schifo è che il mondo ha saputo, a mezzo stampa, degli arresti domiciliari sei ore prima della diretta interessata.
Per quanto concerne il mio punto, e in questa sede, è indifferente se sia colpevole o meno.
Che tristezza... e la chiamate liberta'?
Sono lungi da apprezzare il Papa ma stasera sono triste incazzato dispiaciuto.
Sono triste dispiaciuto perche' qualcuno ha per l'ennesima volta bistrattato la liberta' dato un calcio in culo ai diritti altrui.
UPDATE 21.01.08: Dopo il ballaime nei commenti con dasnake, metto le nostre ultime considerazioni subito dopo il salto. Inserisco prima il mio dato che dasnake risponde ad alcuni dei miei punti.
Why I love Gizmodo
UPDATE 15 Jan 2008: The new answer (to life, the universe and everything) from Gizmodo. Read it here. Chapeau.
This is why I love Gizmodo.
During the last CES, a guy from Gizmodo (Brian Lam) used a TV-B-Gone to switch off ghostly televisions and monitors (even during the Motorola's show).
ops... Houston?
I know, I know: I'm always crying for a couple of links (as Andrea Beggi pointed out). :)But now, after the links and comments from the Very Important Bloggers (Andrea Beggi, Suzukimaruti and Samuele Silva).
They messed up the scale on my google analytics!
And you know what?
The real Bill Gates retirement video
Some days ago I posted the video Bill Gates showed us as his "retirement" (from Microsoft) video. Now Gizmodo points outh the one seems to be the REAL retirement video. :)
Star Wars, Reloaded
I know, this is not a news since I wrote about that months ago. But I want to point your attention one more time to this amazing photo set we did with the folks at Extraneo Studio.
Oh, the theme is Star Wars and the pictures I prefer are below the break. :)
Teen hacks tram system
A Polish teenager managed to use his TV remote to hack a tram system and control the switching mechanism, causing a crash with 12 injuries.
Damn it! [I'm here.... do you hear me???]
Damn it! I'm pretty sure I was the first in Italy to write about the Asus EEE PC, back on 6. November 2007, a laptop that I'd love.[1]
Now the italian bloggers woke up and they're writing about that piece of hardware... and...
NOBODY LINKS ME!!!! :/
WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, MAN??? :)
["Sour Tears", CC licensed picture by mattnjuzz]
They're linking other bloggers that wrote about the EEE PC two months later.
And you tell me about "blogger's democracy" ??? :)
[1] As you can see on this search on google [keyword: "asus eee"; sorted by date; last page of results], no one wrote about the EEE PC before me, in italian. Even if you want to consider all the results in any language, the first is on 27 October 2007 and is kinda asian, the second (always on 27 Oct 2007) is from notebookreview.com.
PS it's ironic, you know? Well, it's not.
UPDATE 12 Jan 2008: OMG! Thanks to my tears :), Andrea Beggi (aka "da italian blogger") recognized me as the first italian blogger that wrote about the shiny new Asus toy. And I blog it! linked my blog! How can I insert AdWords?! :)
I'm Legend
I'm Legend
Yesterday I saw this great movie with Will Smith.
The story starts in 2009 when a terrible disease will kill 90% of the world pupulation. Will Smith, as you could imagine! :), belongs to the 10% along with other nice friends of him: I don't want to write any spoiler so you'll see!
Great movie, really: suggested!
Mediacenter: consigli per gli acquisti
Suzukimaruti ha fatto un ottimo, lungo e particolareggiato post sui mediacenter e sulle varie possibilita'.
Attenzione: non va nel dettaglio delle funzionalita' di DVR - Digital Video Recorder.
Conclusioni: se avete un po' di dindi, la playstation 3 da 399 euri. Altrimenti avete un sacco di (altre) possibilita'.
Qui i miei post in tema.
MP3 Overload [keep your music library organized]
Since the beginning of P2P Era, I've to fight daily with the overload. As if the RSS overload isn't enough, another issue is related with music files, mp3s.
My personal strategy, that I just began a couple of months ago, is to separate music files between "Library" and "Favorites".
[ "Information Overload", CC licensed picture from monster ]
Trust me (said the voting machine)
Great article by the New York Times about voting machines: ten pages long (my english made me need hours to read it through :/ ) and great analyses about flaws, risks and vicious circles. Conclusions? No voting systems is flawless, but there are few that bring way too many risks. Strongly suggested.
[picture from ShutterCat7, CC licensed]
American Pie BetaHouse and American Gangster
Since I'm sick (I got temperature), these days I'm using most of my time watching movies... Below a couple I saw yesterday.
American Pie Beta House
Nothing special, actually. Well, it will make you laugh but I definitely prefer the first episodes of this american saga... This one, in my opinion, is the grossest. The worst thing is that we miss Stiffmaster played by Seann William Scott... you know what I mean. :)
American Gangster
I enjoyed a lot this movie. Really. The beginning isn't so fast, but then how the characters are designed and how the story develops itself will glue you on the couch. Great Denzel Washington (as usual, I've to say), a good Russel Crowe but, actually, the best of the movie are the story and the Denzel Washington's character. It's based on a true story and somehow is similar to another movie I liked, based on a true story about a drug dealer and his business: Blow with Johnny Depp.
Great Battle by Chili
As motorbike-addicted as I am, I check regularly motoblog. A great section of that blog is "Sfide epocali" (read: Greatest Battle of all time) with links to good videos about racing.
The last post I read is about Pierfrancesco Chili (english wikipedia, personal site).
Check this out!
Dumbass Prize of 2007?
I don't know if the dumbasses pictured here are racing for the Darwin Awards, but I'm sure they can hope for the podium! :)
[via gizmodo]
Sweet child of mine
Do you like Guns & Roses? Does this song sound familiar?
It's "Sweet child of mine" played by indian artists and with electric sitars as well!
Just for the records, the original version by Axl , performed in Tokyo in 1992, buuuut: since it seems Axl drank way too much No.7 before that performance (listen to the voice!), right after you'll find the music video as well.
Hayabusa 2008?
I don't think that this concept is going to be the 2008 Hayabusa... maybe we'll need a couple of decades :), but still: great concept from gstylezprodigy.
[found via motoblog]
Ice Racing!
Via motoblog I found two videos about motorbike racing on ice: everything you need is a cross motorbike, snow tires and... ice!
Check this out... it seems soooo funny!
Bill Gates clip
I've never been so a huge fan of Bill Gates (you know, I'm a Linux guy), but the clip that Bill showed us during the CES 2008 for his last year in Microsoft is quite funny. Well, ok, it's hilarious :)
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