"Sergei Larenkov has photoshopped together modern images of St Petersburg with photos taken during the brutal Siege of Leningrad during WWII (at least, I think these are Leningrad, from the translations -- can someone more familiar with the city and the language confirm?). "
Contemporary city photoshopped with war-scenes from history
[via BoingBoing]
I don't know if it's somewhat with the jacket, with its size or with his look.
But this is really nerd.
I'm just curious... what happened to you on January 21.?
I have seen the analytics report on my blog and I have found a great rise of visitors on this date.
Somehow it seems a lot of people (with regard of my normal flow of visitors, of course) found interesting this page about LSD, Alcohol and Trees. It sounds quite strange that the visitors arrived here directly and not from an external link or search engine.
Mmmh... mysteries of the web statistics.
Speaking of that: since I don't use any statistics tool for the RSS feed, I'm curious to know how many of you are following the useless things I write here via RSS feed. Do you mind leave a comment to let me know?
Sooo nice of you.
Britannica is going to allow viewers to edit articles, with changes to be editorial reviewed within 20 minutes.
Mmmmh, if I'm not wrong in 2006 Tom Panelas, Encyclopedia Britannica's Director of Corporate Communications, said:
Wikipedia allows anyone to write and edit articles, regardless of their
knowledge of the subjects on which they're writing, their ability to
write, or their commitment to truth. This policy has allowed Wikipedia
to grow large very fast, but it's come at a price.
The price is that many of its articles are inaccurate, poorly
written, long and bloated, or laden with bias and spin. Despite what
some people would like to believe about Wikipedia, that its system is
self-correcting, many inaccuracies remain for long periods of time, new
ones are added, and, judging from quite a few media reports, sound
information posted by people knowledgeable on a subject is often undone
by others who know nothing about it. This is a natural result of the
way Wikipedia is put together, its willingness to let anyone write and
edit and unwillingness to give precedence to people who know what
they're talking about. People who use Wikipedia should be aware of
these liabilities.
Curious on how many people do actually edit most of wikipedia's entries? Who writes Wikipedia?
How to suck at Information Security (here the PDF)
Since I'm an IT Auditor, I can't ignore the last point in "Security Policy and Complaince"
Hide from the auditors.
:)
The very killer app for the ipod touch. :)
ipod touch mounted on M110 sniper rifle
[ via /. ]
Two articles about how cool & scary the location awareness could be.
The cool part of having a GPS on your iphone. The scary part of having a GPS on your iphone. :)
How do they look, as seen from space, thousands of people hoping for a better future?
Pictures from the Obama's Inauguration Ceremony in Washington, taken by a satellite
[via Make Magazine]
Not so Young anymore
Originally uploaded by lyricsboy
Some minutes ago I was in a cafe', reading the newspaper and drinking an espresso.
In the frontpage: "The government proposes a new law: there will be no alcohol tolerance for young drivers"
I thought: damn! what about the weekends????
And then I realized... I will not be included in the "young driver category" any more.
:)
It's quite a long time I keep "starring" items on google reader: now it's time to share! :)
After the jump all the details.
I hope it's just a bad dream. Actually I really hope they're not going to air this commercial.
Microsoft Songsmith: relax, honey, it's just a bad dream.
The really immoral adapters: the double ended male adapters. BenedictXVI agrees.
Originally uploaded by orangeek
I'm not curious on how an adapter could be "immoral" but I'm asking me how many people should have ask for these before the shop prepared this sign...
Via Consumerist
Pleeeease, watch it. Please. Slumdog Millionaire. Here below the trailer.
wasted bullshits from the Vatican
Originally uploaded by orangeek
From Corriere.it (italian newspaper) [1]
The Vatican and the birth-control pill: it pollutes the world with wasted hormones.
What about the wasted bullshits you pollutes the world with?
what the... what does it mean???
Originally uploaded by orangeek
Could someone, di grazia, explain me what the hell does it mean?
Capodanno 2008 2009!
Originally uploaded by orangeek
Just to let my Apache's mod_rewrite go crazy with this post title... :)
I uploaded the pictures I took during the new year's party with my friends, here in Florence. The whole set "Capodanno 2008-2009" in, as usual, on flickr, here are my favorite picks and above just a sample (click on the image... there is a note!).
BTW, happy new year.
Catnip Hangover
Originally uploaded by centralsq
I need a new definition for the word "hangover".
Now.
PS Happy new year!
