Febbraio 2012
17 post
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If this, then that →
Let’s start talking about cool web stuff, from a non-programmer point of view.
My first stop, my jack of all trades, is surely If this, then that. What does it do?
If something interesting happen in one of your web2.0 app (e.g. that cool girl you like posts another pic of her in shibari bondage), then you can have something else happen (e.g. send you an email, so you know it’s time...
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GuardaSnowy, windy morning. I wish I could go to a sauna and wellness club instead of work and German course. Maybe it is time to sign up for the gym on the floor above the office. They have a sauna. I’d only wish they would not sound like Sturmtruppen preparing an assault every time they do powerstep above us.
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INTP
Best description of my personality type that I have found in a long time:
The problem is that INTP’s live in their heads. Reality to them is the models that exist in there, the outside world is the ghost. When you speak to one it is voice coming in from that ghost world, the message is processed according to the internal model and a response given. The INTP will not notice that dust on...
“I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It...”
– Scott Adams
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands...”
– Mark Twain
Gennaio 2012
5 post
2 massimo
“Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture...”
– Oscar Wilde
Dicembre 2011
12 post
3 massimo
On Pick-Up Artists' techne
I was checking out The Game book. It may be the expat loneliness, but a couple of expat friends came up independently singing the praise of that book and the whole pick-up artists / Venusian arts movement.
Doesn’t it strike obvious and sad how much of our culture is shaped by and built on technology? It has become our basic way of thinking. When we’re faced with a problem, we invent...
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The Big Lie →
Scritto da un ex-banchiere di Wall Street.
At the end of the day, the convulsion to come won’t really be about Wall Street’s derivatives malefactions, or its subprime fun and games, or rogue trading, or the folly of banks. It will be about this society’s final opportunity to rip away the paralyzing shackles of corruption or else dwell forever in a neofeudal social order. You might say that...
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant....”
– Albert Einstein
“[T]he stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupid one is, the...”
– Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
The Rise of Developeronomics →
Venkatesh Rao, forbes.com
There is a theory in evolutionary biology that reciprocal altruism and cooperation first appeared as a solution to the food storage problem. If you were an early hominid and you killed a large mammoth, you could not possibly e…
Interessante articolo su Forbes e il ruolo dell’informatica e degli sviluppatori sull’economia contemporanea.
Michael Hudson: Debt and Democracy – Has the Link... →
Un’interessante prospettiva storica sul complesso rapporto fra finanza e governo, democrazia e oligarchia. Raccomandato, anche se un po’ lungo.
Novembre 2011
11 post
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December 2011 →
Nice calendars for December 2011
“There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.”
– Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes
“Berlusconi, il Financial Times: «In nome di Dio, vattene!» Siamo all’esorcismo.”
– Lia Celi (via scarligamerluss). (via gravitazero)
LOL!
Ottobre 2011
23 post
“Un uomo muore e va in paradiso. A un certo punto S. Pietro gli dice ” Siccome da...”
– Daniel Pennac
“La politica è l’arte di impedire alla gente di impicciarsi di ciò che la...”
– (Paul Valéry, Tal quale)
PlacidiAppunti:
(via curiositasmundi)
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via asleepingforest)