Day 303/366 - Dead on her feet (by Great Beyond)
Oggi parlavo con amici delle campagne pubblicitarie per la sicurezza stradale, mettendo a confronto quelle italiane (personaggi dello spettacolo e dello sport che si ficcano in auto dicendo "oh andate piano pero' eh") e quelle inglesi (video crudo di ragazzina …
more ...Why the iPad is a potentially groundbreaking platform, despite the accusations of being 'only a large iPhone'.
Just read this old piece written in 2003 by a (very smart) tech blogger; it's about user interface defects as heritage of early computer hardware limitations, such as the …
more ...Beatiful photos here: http://nsmb.com/3326-dorado-tested/.
They convey an intense idea of action with those blurred backgrounds and the rider not quite in focus above the panned trails; I also like the tight shots and the washed-out colour palette.
And speaking about the 'look' of these images, I couldn't …
more ...Avevo da tempo in casa una versione di Alice in Wonderland annotata da Martin Gardner, famoso editor della colonna di giochi matematici di Scientific American.
Sono al capitolo VI ("Pig and Pepper"), dove Alice chiede al Cheshire Cat:
more ..."Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from …
Training with my fixie at the Idroscalo. In the foreground, my red San Marco Concor; back there, the mountains that you rarely see from this very polluted and hazy city -- the Grigne. Training was: 15 series of friggin' fast spins (around 100 rpm), 15" each, followed by 45" of slower …
more ..."This report relates the results of an advanced, quantitative seismic characterization of the Alpha field, through simultaneous elastic inversion, rock physics modelling and stochastic classification. In the absence of any reliable geophysical data, the opinions and interpretations presented in this report were invented. However, due to the uncertainty inherent in …
more ...Customer says, “Waiter, taste this soup.”
Waiter: "Is it cold?"
Customer: "Just taste the soup."
Waiter: “Didn’t you order the chicken noodle?”
Customer: “Taste . . . the soup!”
Waiter: “O.K., already. Where’s the spoon?”
Customer: “Aha!”
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-onlanguage-t.html)
more ...Il 29 agosto 2009 il New York Times pubblica un articolo di Amy Cortese, "Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants".
Il 31 agosto sul sito della Repubblica trovo un pezzo di Federico Rampini, "Le scarpe con le dita hanno conquistato l'America".
Lo leggo.
Sensazione di déjà vu.
Lo rileggo …
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Il gruppo è formato da me, Luca, Roberto (detto "il Presidente") e Stefano. Luca e Roberto fanno 102 anni messi assieme; e come ama ripetere Luca, il merito è tutto del Presidente. Stefano, tranquillo, rilassato e simpaticissimo, viene da Pisa, ed è quello che ha …
more ...This is the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/energy-environment/24geotherm.html
And this is one very nice and informed comment from a PhD student that puts things into the right perspective:
more ...1) The major difference between enhanced geothermal and standard oil and gas extraction is the …
Echidna e ornitorinco sono dei mammiferi ovipari appartenenti all'ordine Monotremata. Ecco dei brani tratti dall'articolo del New York Times che mi ha catturato:
more ...The long-beaked echidna is a genuine living link between reptiles and birds on one branch, and more familiar placental mammals like ourselves on the next.
Another avianlike …
A couple of quotes taken from a nice article by Philip Greenspun which does not deal with diets:
Diet #1
more ...In the 1980s Steve Ward, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, described a sure-fire dieting scheme. "All that you need for my diet is graph paper …
