Old style nerdy fetish

[ "Inside DMG", picture by drop1410 ]

I'll be in my bunk. :)

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

Remember when I was writing

[...] 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.

Sei parà italiani sono rimasti uccisi, e quattro feriti, in un attentato a Kabul, dove hanno perso la vita anche dieci civili.

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.

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]

• The Games Factory: how Mario, Tetris, Pong were made

• Focus on the logo of this restaurant in Tokyo :)

• Sergey Maximishin Pictures of Russia [via boingboing]

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.