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Se non avete banda per Netflix ma volete vedervi lo stesso un classico come Guerre Stellari
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nlDavid Bowie era un genio: aveva capito praticamente tutto di cosa sarebbe successo con Internet e i media (l’intervista è del 1999)
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1321753647147933697
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1321753647147933697
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Today is #InternetDay… To mark this auspicious occasion, here’s David Bowie speaking to Jeremy Paxman in 1999 about the "unimaginable" effects on society it was going to have.
Al prossimo che mi dice che il giornalismo tradizionale non è stato in grado di adattarsi alla rete, gli farei vedere questo: il secondo numero di Parametric Press
https://parametric.press/issue-02/
e in particolare quest'articolo
https://parametric.press/issue-02/corporations/
https://parametric.press/issue-02/
e in particolare quest'articolo
https://parametric.press/issue-02/corporations/
parametric.press
The Climate Issue
The Parametric Press returns
Gli articoli che parlano di diete "scientifiche" andrebbero tutti bruciati. Questo riesce ad essere ancora più agghiacciante, se possibile.
Money quote: "If this story has a silver lining, it’s that the dreadful state of the average American’s diet has helped clarify the central role of nutrition in human health. A poor diet like the one popular in the West is strongly associated with an elevated risk for conditions of the gut, organs, joints, brain, and mind — everything from Type 2 diabetes and cancer to rheumatoid arthritis and depression."
https://elemental.medium.com/science-might-have-identified-the-optimal-human-diet-ec618b2fb8f2
Money quote: "If this story has a silver lining, it’s that the dreadful state of the average American’s diet has helped clarify the central role of nutrition in human health. A poor diet like the one popular in the West is strongly associated with an elevated risk for conditions of the gut, organs, joints, brain, and mind — everything from Type 2 diabetes and cancer to rheumatoid arthritis and depression."
https://elemental.medium.com/science-might-have-identified-the-optimal-human-diet-ec618b2fb8f2
Medium
Science Might Have Identified the Optimal Human Diet
A combination of several popular approaches could yield the best long-term health benefits
X-com, vecchi classici!
Money quote: "X-COM seemed to come out of nowhere. Its release was not preceded by an enormous marketing campaign with an enormous amount of hype. It had no video demo playing in the front window of Babbages, it wasn’t advertised twelve months in advance on glossy foldout magazine inserts, it had no flashing point-of-purchase kiosks. It didn’t come in a box designed by origamists from the school of abstract expressionism. It featured no full-motion video starring the best TV actors of the 80s; it had no voice-overs. It offered neither Super VGA graphics, nor General MIDI support. It wasn’t Doom-like, Myst-like, or otherwise like a hit game from the previous season; it didn’t steal the best features from several other successful games. It wasn’t even on a CD-ROM!
In short, if you plugged X-COM’s variables into the “success formula” currently in use by the majority of large game companies, you’d come up with a big, fat goose egg. According to the prevailing wisdom, there’s no way X-COM could survive in today’s gaming marketplace. And yet it sold and sold, and gamers played on and on."
https://www.filfre.net/2020/09/x-com
Money quote: "X-COM seemed to come out of nowhere. Its release was not preceded by an enormous marketing campaign with an enormous amount of hype. It had no video demo playing in the front window of Babbages, it wasn’t advertised twelve months in advance on glossy foldout magazine inserts, it had no flashing point-of-purchase kiosks. It didn’t come in a box designed by origamists from the school of abstract expressionism. It featured no full-motion video starring the best TV actors of the 80s; it had no voice-overs. It offered neither Super VGA graphics, nor General MIDI support. It wasn’t Doom-like, Myst-like, or otherwise like a hit game from the previous season; it didn’t steal the best features from several other successful games. It wasn’t even on a CD-ROM!
In short, if you plugged X-COM’s variables into the “success formula” currently in use by the majority of large game companies, you’d come up with a big, fat goose egg. According to the prevailing wisdom, there’s no way X-COM could survive in today’s gaming marketplace. And yet it sold and sold, and gamers played on and on."
https://www.filfre.net/2020/09/x-com
Nietzsche:
“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
Essere un hacker: ha preso l'orologio a parete della nonna, l'ha smontato e poi l'ha ricostruito virtualmente con WebGL per spiegare come funziona un orologio: essenziale ma molto bello!
https://clock.leshenko.net
https://clock.leshenko.net
AAA programmatore cercasi
Oreste, lettore di Mostly, mi scrive che cerca un programmatore (è previsto ovviamente che venga pagato) per un lavoro da freelance: sistemare l'applicativo web per la sua associazione Uil Scuola. Ci sono le specifiche, le cose da fare, un certo periodo di manutenzione prevista dal contratto. Se volete cimentarvi, contattatelo su Telegram come: @oreste_uilcremona
Oreste, lettore di Mostly, mi scrive che cerca un programmatore (è previsto ovviamente che venga pagato) per un lavoro da freelance: sistemare l'applicativo web per la sua associazione Uil Scuola. Ci sono le specifiche, le cose da fare, un certo periodo di manutenzione prevista dal contratto. Se volete cimentarvi, contattatelo su Telegram come: @oreste_uilcremona
Molte aquile ho visto in volo - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/11/06/molte-aquile-ho-visto-in-volo/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/11/06/molte-aquile-ho-visto-in-volo/
Anobii Blog
Molte aquile ho visto in volo - Anobii Blog
Il libro di Filippo Nassetti racconta le storie di piloti di linea e molto più. Ecco le storie di chi lavora in cabina di pilotaggio, commuoventi e uniche, come gli uomini e le donne che le impersonano
Buon sabato a tutti. Sto preparando la newsletter Mostly Weekly. Mi capita di citare la versione "vimmificata" di Workflowy, il software per l'organizzazione testuale (è un outliner semplice e potente) che uso da anni per tutti i miei progetti. È freemium e se girate il link alle persone che si iscrivono per provarlo, abbiamo tutti più spazio gratuito (come i referral di Gmail, ricordate). Vivamente consigliato.
Money quote: "Give your friends free WorkFlowy space. They'll each get 250 free items. For each that joins, you'll also get 250 extra monthly items."
Il mio referral: https://workflowy.com/invite/28da0735.lnx
Money quote: "Give your friends free WorkFlowy space. They'll each get 250 free items. For each that joins, you'll also get 250 extra monthly items."
Il mio referral: https://workflowy.com/invite/28da0735.lnx
Workflowy
A simpler way to organize your work - Workflowy
If you have a crazy job or an ambitious project, we will be your trusty sidekick. Workflowy is a simpler way to stay organized.
Tra le cose strane che si possono vedere nelle strade di una grande città come, ad esempio, New York, c'è questo tipo che all'alba va a far pratica di lanci per la pesca con la mosca (in inglese "fly fishing").
Money quote: "I’ve been practicing this peculiar ritual for years. Some time ago, I was looking to shake off the rust and get my arm in shape to prepare for an upcoming fishing trip to Wyoming, but living where I do, I didn’t have a suitable place to do so. Or I thought I didn’t, anyway. But then it occurred to me that a city street — long, straight and, in my case, relatively free of traffic — is actually quite suitable. Pretty great, even. Peculiar is in the eye of the beholder.
This year, street-casting has taken on a new urgency. I typically fish 20 or so days a year, everywhere from the Catskills to the Bahamas, but because of Covid-19, I haven’t managed to get out on the water at all. And yet, like many of us these days, I’m desperate to find pockets of joy wherever I can. Some people bake bread; others do jigsaw puzzles. I cast a fly rod on West 12th Street. For now, it’s not a way for me to prepare for a trip — it is the trip."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/magazine/fly-casting-on-city-streets-is-weird-thats-why-i-love-it.html
Money quote: "I’ve been practicing this peculiar ritual for years. Some time ago, I was looking to shake off the rust and get my arm in shape to prepare for an upcoming fishing trip to Wyoming, but living where I do, I didn’t have a suitable place to do so. Or I thought I didn’t, anyway. But then it occurred to me that a city street — long, straight and, in my case, relatively free of traffic — is actually quite suitable. Pretty great, even. Peculiar is in the eye of the beholder.
This year, street-casting has taken on a new urgency. I typically fish 20 or so days a year, everywhere from the Catskills to the Bahamas, but because of Covid-19, I haven’t managed to get out on the water at all. And yet, like many of us these days, I’m desperate to find pockets of joy wherever I can. Some people bake bread; others do jigsaw puzzles. I cast a fly rod on West 12th Street. For now, it’s not a way for me to prepare for a trip — it is the trip."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/magazine/fly-casting-on-city-streets-is-weird-thats-why-i-love-it.html
NY Times
Fly Casting on City Streets Is Weird. That’s Why I Love It.
I’m desperate to find pockets of joy wherever I can. Some people bake bread. I started street-casting on West 12th.
La mia tastiera ideale è stata presentata cinque anni fa, l'ho comprata immediatamente (amore a prima vista) ma ancora non è pronta. Non sto a dirvi lo stillicidio: arriva, non arriva, arriva. Senza contare poi il forum, nel quale per anni si sono scatenate migliaia di persone. Perché la tastiera è una vera sensazione, o almeno: presunta tale.
Adesso, uno dei beta tester (TREG, nel lingo di Waytools) ha postato una cosa di un'ora e mezzo di recensione. Diciamo che lui non è uno veloce, ecco. Però, scorrendo, si vedono cose interessanti. Arriverà?
https://youtu.be/JTYDmGXxm_w
Adesso, uno dei beta tester (TREG, nel lingo di Waytools) ha postato una cosa di un'ora e mezzo di recensione. Diciamo che lui non è uno veloce, ecco. Però, scorrendo, si vedono cose interessanti. Arriverà?
https://youtu.be/JTYDmGXxm_w
YouTube
TextBlade by WayTools (Hands-On Demo with Q&A)
*** Correction: At the 21:18 mark, I incorrectly stated the finger spacing for A and F was 17mm when in fact it is 21mm (an increase). An incorrect measuring method was used for the presentation. ***
On May, 9, 2020, I held 3 separate two hour Zoom Webinars…
On May, 9, 2020, I held 3 separate two hour Zoom Webinars…
Il presupposto è che la figlia sia diventata una tossica del cellulare. Sul fatto che la madre le abbia preso uno smartphone a 11 anni e sostanzialmente le abbia liberato tutte le funzioni dice invece molto sul modello educativo prima ancora di quello che è successo. Ma soprattutto, sarà una storia vera?
Money quote: “Bill Gates knew best. We should have waited until she was older. Smartphones aren’t like TVs; they’re like crack. And little by little, our daughter has chipped away at our rules and resolve. Insidious apps have made things worse, as has sloppy parenting.”
https://medium.com/modern-parent/my-daughter-was-a-creative-genius-then-we-bought-her-an-iphone-bf617c0b6ca0
Money quote: “Bill Gates knew best. We should have waited until she was older. Smartphones aren’t like TVs; they’re like crack. And little by little, our daughter has chipped away at our rules and resolve. Insidious apps have made things worse, as has sloppy parenting.”
https://medium.com/modern-parent/my-daughter-was-a-creative-genius-then-we-bought-her-an-iphone-bf617c0b6ca0
Medium
My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
My daughter used to be an artist.
Ci sono molti modi per parlare di Giulio Cesare. Uno di questi è quello di usarlo come strumento cognitivo per capire la sessualità degli antichi romani. Che era profondamente diversa dalla nostra, ma non certamente quella rappresentata nei film e nelle serie televisive (Nerone, Caligola, Spartacus). Comunque, diversa. Speriamo non capiti l'argomento in mano ai nostri censori perché potrebbe partire una revisione storica che manda tutta la romanità (e la grecità vieppiù) a farsi benedire.
Money quote: "The flip side was that, as long as the man was doing the penetrating, he was (usually) living up to his masculine duties – and it didn’t matter whom exactly he was penetrating. A woman, another man, or even – most shockingly to a modern audience – a child were all considered to be potentially sexually attractive to an adult man, and any of them could be a legitimate object of his attentions. At least in terms of preserving his manliness, that is – various people were off-limits because of their status, such as married women and free citizen children, but enslaved people and noncitizens were legally unprotected against sexual assault. (That doesn’t mean everyone observed those limits, of course, but there were various laws put in place to try to enforce them.) To be what we would deem ‘heterosexual’ – interested only in women – was possible, but not the default, and was worthy of at least as much comment as being interested only in boys."
https://psyche.co/ideas/what-jibes-about-caesar-tell-us-about-sex-in-ancient-rome
Money quote: "The flip side was that, as long as the man was doing the penetrating, he was (usually) living up to his masculine duties – and it didn’t matter whom exactly he was penetrating. A woman, another man, or even – most shockingly to a modern audience – a child were all considered to be potentially sexually attractive to an adult man, and any of them could be a legitimate object of his attentions. At least in terms of preserving his manliness, that is – various people were off-limits because of their status, such as married women and free citizen children, but enslaved people and noncitizens were legally unprotected against sexual assault. (That doesn’t mean everyone observed those limits, of course, but there were various laws put in place to try to enforce them.) To be what we would deem ‘heterosexual’ – interested only in women – was possible, but not the default, and was worthy of at least as much comment as being interested only in boys."
https://psyche.co/ideas/what-jibes-about-caesar-tell-us-about-sex-in-ancient-rome
Psyche
What rude jibes about Caesar tell us about sex in ancient Rome
‘Every woman’s man and every man’s woman’ was a slur Julius Caesar’s political opponents levied. What did it mean?
Tex Willer, il migliore degli uomini possibili: intervista a Mauro Boselli - la mia lunga intervista per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/mauro-boselli-tex-intervista-bonelli/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/mauro-boselli-tex-intervista-bonelli/
Fumettologica
Tex Willer, il migliore degli uomini possibili: intervista a Mauro Boselli
Abbiamo chiacchierato per quasi due ore con Mauro Boselli, il curatore editoriale e principale sceneggiatore di Tex.
Il segreto per costruire un buon film, cioè un film che funziona? Storyboard come se non ci fosse un domani.
Money quote: "Certainly, not every animated film that came out during this period was a bastion of excellence — hello to Pocahontas, a deeply confused movie about early American race relations. But I get the sentiment; in comparison to the sloppy storytelling and non-existent themes in so many big-money blockbusters of the day, many animated kids’ films stood out for their narrative ambitions.
To this day, a surprisingly high number of animated kids’ films continue to adhere to good storytelling fundamentals. Their character arcs are clear. Their plots are carefully tuned. Their themes aren’t precisely subtle — at least one character usually states them outright — but they’re at least present, which is more than I can say for many similarly successful live-action blockbusters aimed at the whole family (or some approximation thereof)."
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/20/18099001/animated-films-storyboards-script-story-ralph-breaks-the-internet
Money quote: "Certainly, not every animated film that came out during this period was a bastion of excellence — hello to Pocahontas, a deeply confused movie about early American race relations. But I get the sentiment; in comparison to the sloppy storytelling and non-existent themes in so many big-money blockbusters of the day, many animated kids’ films stood out for their narrative ambitions.
To this day, a surprisingly high number of animated kids’ films continue to adhere to good storytelling fundamentals. Their character arcs are clear. Their plots are carefully tuned. Their themes aren’t precisely subtle — at least one character usually states them outright — but they’re at least present, which is more than I can say for many similarly successful live-action blockbusters aimed at the whole family (or some approximation thereof)."
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/20/18099001/animated-films-storyboards-script-story-ralph-breaks-the-internet
Vox
Why do so many animated films have great stories? One secret: storyboarding.
The new film Ralph Breaks the Internet went through 283,839 drawings — most of which were thrown out — to find its story.