Comunque, ci deve essere qualche italiano anche nello staff amministrativo del Congresso americano. Perché la mezza truffa delle bandiere a stelle e strisce che vengono vendute “dopo che sono state sventolate sulla capitale degli Stati Uniti” in realtà sembra frutto di qualche ingegno nostrano. C’è anche l’ascensore…
Money quote: “The reality of the flag program is a little less glamorous. The Flag Office is located in an underground office inside the Capitol’s terrace. This office connects to the surface by a special elevator that permits the bulk flying of flags with machine-like efficiency on a single small flagpole. The flag goes up, the flag goes down; it has now been flown over the Capitol. They fly for a few seconds on a small unceremonious pole in the corner of the terrace that is strategically positioned to conceal it from tourists. Staffers and interns can sit outside the Republican cloakroom and watch the elevator running up and down in the afternoon.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/capitol-flag-elevator
Money quote: “The reality of the flag program is a little less glamorous. The Flag Office is located in an underground office inside the Capitol’s terrace. This office connects to the surface by a special elevator that permits the bulk flying of flags with machine-like efficiency on a single small flagpole. The flag goes up, the flag goes down; it has now been flown over the Capitol. They fly for a few seconds on a small unceremonious pole in the corner of the terrace that is strategically positioned to conceal it from tourists. Staffers and interns can sit outside the Republican cloakroom and watch the elevator running up and down in the afternoon.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/capitol-flag-elevator
Atlas Obscura
The Capitol Flag Elevator Flies American Flags in Bulk "Over the U.S. Capitol"
America's Congressional Flag Program is a little less glamorous than it seems.
Il Cessna 172 è un aereo unico: in produzione da 60 anni circa, è uno dei più diffusi al mondo se non il più diffuso. Un vero miracolo di resilienza. Ma quali sono le origini della sua incredibile storia?
Moneny quote: “Light aircraft might not be updated as often as cars, but 60 years is still a very long time to produce a vehicle that has essentially been unchanged. The only time its production ceased for an extended time was in the late 1980s, when stricter US laws restricted the manufacture of all light aircraft. What is it about the 172 that has made it such a favourite for so long?”
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170302-the-plane-so-good-its-still-in-production-after-60-years
Moneny quote: “Light aircraft might not be updated as often as cars, but 60 years is still a very long time to produce a vehicle that has essentially been unchanged. The only time its production ceased for an extended time was in the late 1980s, when stricter US laws restricted the manufacture of all light aircraft. What is it about the 172 that has made it such a favourite for so long?”
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170302-the-plane-so-good-its-still-in-production-after-60-years
Bbc
The plane so good it’s still in production after 60 years
In 1956, Cessna started building the 172 training plane - and more than 60 years on, it’s still in production. Stephen Dowling looks at the reasons why it’s still so popular.
Sono senza parole
Money quote: "As part of an ad campaign for its original series The Man In The High Castle, Amazon recently launched Resistance Radio, a streaming station set, like the Philip K. Dick adaptation itself, in an alternate 1962 America run by fascists. The pre-recorded program features “bootleg songs” alongside interstitials where underground DJs talk about standing up to Nazis, urging listeners to keep the fight alive in a nation that’s been overrun by fear, oppression, and authoritarian rule. For whatever reason, some conservatives have interpreted this as being about Donald Trump. And faced with what appears to be such a strong anti-Nazi statement, and a call for people who still believe in American ideals to stand up against the country’s destruction, naturally these patriots have rushed to loudly denounce it."
http://www.avclub.com/amp/251886
Money quote: "As part of an ad campaign for its original series The Man In The High Castle, Amazon recently launched Resistance Radio, a streaming station set, like the Philip K. Dick adaptation itself, in an alternate 1962 America run by fascists. The pre-recorded program features “bootleg songs” alongside interstitials where underground DJs talk about standing up to Nazis, urging listeners to keep the fight alive in a nation that’s been overrun by fear, oppression, and authoritarian rule. For whatever reason, some conservatives have interpreted this as being about Donald Trump. And faced with what appears to be such a strong anti-Nazi statement, and a call for people who still believe in American ideals to stand up against the country’s destruction, naturally these patriots have rushed to loudly denounce it."
http://www.avclub.com/amp/251886
Avclub
Trump supporters protest The Man In The High Castle’s anti-Nazi radio station
As part of an ad campaign for its original series The Man In The High Castle, Amazon recently launched Resistance Radio, a streaming station set, like the Philip K. Dick adaptation itself, in an alternate 1962 America run by fascists. The pre-recorded program…
Abbandonare la Terra? Ma stiamo scherzando? E poi, anche se si potesse (e non si può), perché? Per portarci dietro i nostri problemi e comportamenti sbagliati facendo finta di niente?
Money quote: "What’s not explained is how we’re expected to avoid bringing the crop blight with us, or why agriculture would be more viable on a desert world than one that still has some harried remnants of life. Listen to these narratives for long enough and you start to think that the problem is our Earth itself, that there’s something evil buried deep below the soil, that it’s one giant haunted house to be fled. As if whatever ghosts swarm around this place were here before we created them. All these visions of humanity’s destiny in the stars, whether they’re brought on by curiosity or desperation, imagine that we could turn lifeless planets into gardens. But all that’s happened in living memory is the precise opposite"
https://www.theatlantic.com/article/518853/
Money quote: "What’s not explained is how we’re expected to avoid bringing the crop blight with us, or why agriculture would be more viable on a desert world than one that still has some harried remnants of life. Listen to these narratives for long enough and you start to think that the problem is our Earth itself, that there’s something evil buried deep below the soil, that it’s one giant haunted house to be fled. As if whatever ghosts swarm around this place were here before we created them. All these visions of humanity’s destiny in the stars, whether they’re brought on by curiosity or desperation, imagine that we could turn lifeless planets into gardens. But all that’s happened in living memory is the precise opposite"
https://www.theatlantic.com/article/518853/
The Atlantic
Stop Joking About Fleeing Earth for Newly Discovered Planets
Exploring the galaxy will only give our problems more room to expand.
Prima Austin caccia Uber, poi nascono nuove startup di trasporto e tutti sembrano felici. Poi arriva il mega festival (SXSW) con 70mila visitatori e collassa tutto. Storie dal futuro? Beh, no: è come Firenze durante Pitti o Milano durante il salone del mobile o della moda: il collasso dei servizi è ordinaria amministrazione, dalle nostre parti...
Money quote: "It has been only six years since Uber launched in San Francisco, and already, its absence is like a phantom limb making founders writhe in frustration"
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/03/13/lack_of_uber_produces_elite_meltdown_at_sxsw.html
Money quote: "It has been only six years since Uber launched in San Francisco, and already, its absence is like a phantom limb making founders writhe in frustration"
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/03/13/lack_of_uber_produces_elite_meltdown_at_sxsw.html
Slate Magazine
Silicon Valley Is Having a Meltdown Because It Can’t Use Uber and Lyft at SXSW
Silicon Valley has a sad.
In Texas c'è una legislazione anti-aborto tosta. Una parlamentare democratica ha proposto una legge che porta avanti la visione simmetrica del tema: una legge anti masturbazione maschile. Ci attendono tempi interessanti.
Money quote:
"It calls for a $100 fine for “emissions outside of a woman’s vagina, or created outside of a health or medical facility”, which “will be considered an act against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of life”.
It also requires the creation of a “masturbatory assistance registry” of not-for-profit organisations and hospitals able to provide “fully-abstinent encouragement counseling, supervising physicians for masturbatory emissions, and storage for the semen”."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/13/texas-masturbation-bill-abortion-jessica-farrar
Money quote:
"It calls for a $100 fine for “emissions outside of a woman’s vagina, or created outside of a health or medical facility”, which “will be considered an act against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of life”.
It also requires the creation of a “masturbatory assistance registry” of not-for-profit organisations and hospitals able to provide “fully-abstinent encouragement counseling, supervising physicians for masturbatory emissions, and storage for the semen”."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/13/texas-masturbation-bill-abortion-jessica-farrar
the Guardian
Texas lawmaker ridicules anti-abortion measures by filing anti-masturbation bill
Jessica Farrar’s satirical Man’s Right to Know Act would set $100 fine for ‘emissions outside a woman’s vagina’ and require unnecessary medical tests
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Hugh Jackman ha interpretato Wolverine in 9 film nel corso di 17 anni – il primo film degli X-Men risale al 2000, l’ultimo, Logan, è uscito a inizio marzo. Come per quasi ogni attore, l’avventura in questo ruolo è iniziata con un provino.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2014/06/il-primo-provino-di-hugh-jackman-per-il-ruolo-di-wolverine/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2014/06/il-primo-provino-di-hugh-jackman-per-il-ruolo-di-wolverine/
Fumettologica
Il primo provino di Hugh Jackman per il ruolo di Wolverine
Hugh Jackman ha interpretato Wolverine in 9 film nel corso di 17 anni – il primo film degli X-Men risale al 2000, l’ultimo, Logan, è uscito a inizio marzo. Come per quasi ogni attore, l’avventura in questo ruolo è iniziata con un provino. Su YouTube è possibile…
Professioni che scompaiono: il critico dei giornali. Si parla di quello di musica classica ma in realtà il discorso è generale. Stiamo smantellando lo stato attuale delle cose. Non è necessariamente un male, a meno che non siate incastrati in questo processo di trasformazione
Money quote: "And classical music is hardly alone in witnessing a dying-off of critics. Colleagues in other disciplines—dance, theatre, visual arts, books, even movies and pop music—report similar struggles. Over the past decade, dozens of arts critics have lost their jobs or been demoted to freelance status."
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-fate-of-the-critic-in-the-clickbait-age
Money quote: "And classical music is hardly alone in witnessing a dying-off of critics. Colleagues in other disciplines—dance, theatre, visual arts, books, even movies and pop music—report similar struggles. Over the past decade, dozens of arts critics have lost their jobs or been demoted to freelance status."
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-fate-of-the-critic-in-the-clickbait-age
The New Yorker
The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age
The profession may be destined to fade away, but others will have to take up the critic’s simple, irritating, somehow necessary job.
Byword 2, la macchina per scrivere del web - il mio articolo per Macity
Money quote: “Recensito Byword 2 l’app per macOS sempre più potente per il web. Niente più acquisti in app per pubblicare direttamente su Medium, WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger ed Evernote”
http://www.macitynet.it/byword-2-la-macchina-scrivere-del-web/
Money quote: “Recensito Byword 2 l’app per macOS sempre più potente per il web. Niente più acquisti in app per pubblicare direttamente su Medium, WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger ed Evernote”
http://www.macitynet.it/byword-2-la-macchina-scrivere-del-web/
Macitynet.it
Byword 2, la macchina per scrivere del web
Recensito Byword 2 l’app per macOS sempre più potente per il web. Niente più acquisti in app per pubblicare su Medium, WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger ed Evernote
Si chiama Moog e ha cambiato la musica moderna. Una storia per caso, perché doveva servire a molto meno. Qui la raccontano con qualche bella clip audio.
Money quote: "The perspective characterizes Moog’s influence on modern music since the late-sixties—as a non-musician outsider whose musical technology stands miles above the competition, its unmistakable sound sought after by nearly everyone in popular music since it debuted on a number of commercial recordings in 1967. A curious development indeed, since Moog never intended the synthesizer to be used as a standalone instrument but as a specialized piece of studio equipment."
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/how-the-moog-synthesizer-changed-the-sound-of-music.html
Money quote: "The perspective characterizes Moog’s influence on modern music since the late-sixties—as a non-musician outsider whose musical technology stands miles above the competition, its unmistakable sound sought after by nearly everyone in popular music since it debuted on a number of commercial recordings in 1967. A curious development indeed, since Moog never intended the synthesizer to be used as a standalone instrument but as a specialized piece of studio equipment."
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/how-the-moog-synthesizer-changed-the-sound-of-music.html
Open Culture
How the Moog Synthesizer Changed the Sound of Music
In my little corner of the world, we’re eagerly anticipating the arrival of Moogfest this May, just moved down the mountains from Asheville---where it has convened since 2004---to the scrappy town of Durham, NC.
Una riflessione a mio avviso piuttosto interessante sulla nostra società in prospettiva presa dal punto di vista del denaro. Anzi, dei denari: il contante e quello elettronico. Un doppio binario del quale spesso non capiamo le differenze ma che ha invece significati profondamente diversi. Poi, dove stiamo andando: verso una società senza contante. Ma questa è una scelta che porta con sé delle conseguenze (e dei vantaggi per alcuni soggetti). Una lettura molto interessante.
Money quote: “The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society – is often presented as an inevitability, an outcome of ‘natural progress’. This claim is either naïve or disingenuous. Any future cashless bank-payments society will be the outcome of a deliberate war on cash waged by an alliance of three elite groups with deep interests in seeing it emerge.”
https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is-good-will-be-lost
Money quote: “The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society – is often presented as an inevitability, an outcome of ‘natural progress’. This claim is either naïve or disingenuous. Any future cashless bank-payments society will be the outcome of a deliberate war on cash waged by an alliance of three elite groups with deep interests in seeing it emerge.”
https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is-good-will-be-lost
Aeon
In praise of cash
Cash might be grungy, unfashionable and corruptible, but it is still a great public good, important for rich and poor alike
L'altro giorno parlavamo della figura del critico che scompare: ne ragionava in New Yorker. Ci spostiamo di poco e - questa volta in italiano - c'è da ragionare ancora con la responsabile delle pagine di recensioni del New York Times
Money quote: "Pamela Paul, responsabile della prestigiosa "New York Times Review of Books" e della sezione libri del "New York Times", spiega in un'intervista a ilLibraio.it perché vale ancora la pena leggere le recensioni dei critici professionisti nell'era del passaparola sui social e parla, tra le altre cose, del maschilismo nel mondo della cultura, del successo di Elena Ferrante oltreoceano e dell'interesse negli Usa per gli autori italiani contemporanei (citando il nuovo libro di Domenico Starnone)"
http://www.illibraio.it/pamela-paul-intervista-452404/
Money quote: "Pamela Paul, responsabile della prestigiosa "New York Times Review of Books" e della sezione libri del "New York Times", spiega in un'intervista a ilLibraio.it perché vale ancora la pena leggere le recensioni dei critici professionisti nell'era del passaparola sui social e parla, tra le altre cose, del maschilismo nel mondo della cultura, del successo di Elena Ferrante oltreoceano e dell'interesse negli Usa per gli autori italiani contemporanei (citando il nuovo libro di Domenico Starnone)"
http://www.illibraio.it/pamela-paul-intervista-452404/
Il Libraio
Perché leggere le recensioni dei critici professionisti nell'era dei social? Intervista a Pamela Paul del "New York Times" - Il…
ilLibraio.it ha intervistato Pamela Paul, responsabile della prestigiosa "New York Times Review of Books" e della sezione libri del "New York Times"...
Dell D200 è l’adattatore definitivo per MacBook Pro USB-C? - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/dell-d200-ladattatore-definitivo-macbook-pro-usb-c/
http://www.macitynet.it/dell-d200-ladattatore-definitivo-macbook-pro-usb-c/
Macitynet.it
Dell D200 è l’adattatore definitivo per MacBook Pro USB-C?
Macitynet prova Dell D200, adattatore compatto con Ethernet, VGA, HDMI e USB: ideale per presentazioni con i nuovi portatili Apple, a patto di avere almeno due porte o una buona autonomia di batteria
Le comuni sono una cosa complicata, mai banale. Intendo dire: somno quei posti dove si mette tutto in comune e si vive in armonia, il Paradiso in Terra, quelle cose che ci fanno pensare agli anni Sessanta-Settanta. Ma che in realtà sono molto più antiche e articolate di così. C’è un sacco di pensiero dietro.
Ho letto alcune cose abbastanza interessanti sull’argomento nel corso del tempo, ma questo articolo è uno stimolo abbastanza interessante. E cita anche delle buone fonti. Insomma, forse non serve fare un kibbutz o andare a vivere con gli arancioni sulle colline del Chianti ma delle strade interessanti ci sono. La prospettiva è totalmente americana, chissà se ci sono altre cose simili in circolazione per quanto ci riguarda
Money quote: “Communitarian experiments such as Tamera are nothing new, although its longevity – almost 40 years – is unusual. Generally, intentional communities fail at a rate slightly higher than that of most start-ups. Only a handful of communities founded in the US during the 19th century’s ‘golden age of communities’ lasted beyond a century; most folded in a matter of months. This golden age birthed more than 100 experimental communities, with more than 100,000 members who, according to the historian Mark Holloway in Heavens on Earth (1951), sought to differentiate themselves from society by creating ‘ideal commonwealths’. The largest surge in communitarian ‘start-ups’ occurred during the 1840s and 1890s, coinciding with periods of economic depression. But it would be a mistake to see intentional communities merely as a knee-jerk response to hard times.”
https://aeon.co/essays/like-start-ups-most-intentional-communities-fail-why
Ho letto alcune cose abbastanza interessanti sull’argomento nel corso del tempo, ma questo articolo è uno stimolo abbastanza interessante. E cita anche delle buone fonti. Insomma, forse non serve fare un kibbutz o andare a vivere con gli arancioni sulle colline del Chianti ma delle strade interessanti ci sono. La prospettiva è totalmente americana, chissà se ci sono altre cose simili in circolazione per quanto ci riguarda
Money quote: “Communitarian experiments such as Tamera are nothing new, although its longevity – almost 40 years – is unusual. Generally, intentional communities fail at a rate slightly higher than that of most start-ups. Only a handful of communities founded in the US during the 19th century’s ‘golden age of communities’ lasted beyond a century; most folded in a matter of months. This golden age birthed more than 100 experimental communities, with more than 100,000 members who, according to the historian Mark Holloway in Heavens on Earth (1951), sought to differentiate themselves from society by creating ‘ideal commonwealths’. The largest surge in communitarian ‘start-ups’ occurred during the 1840s and 1890s, coinciding with periods of economic depression. But it would be a mistake to see intentional communities merely as a knee-jerk response to hard times.”
https://aeon.co/essays/like-start-ups-most-intentional-communities-fail-why
Tanti auguri Symbolics.com: il primo sito commerciale compie 32 anni - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/tanti-auguri-symbolics-com-primo-sito-commerciale-compie-32-anni/
http://www.macitynet.it/tanti-auguri-symbolics-com-primo-sito-commerciale-compie-32-anni/
Macitynet.it
Tanti auguri Symbolics.com: il primo sito commerciale compie 32 anni
Su 320 milioni di indirizzi internet attivi questo è il primo e il più vecchio, nato prima ancora del web
Se siete in cerca di vecchi classici, ecco la top 12 dei film sulla realtà virtuale degli anni 90.
C'è molto di più che il solo Matrix
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/virtual-reality/34409/the-top-12-virtual-reality-movies-of-the-1990s
C'è molto di più che il solo Matrix
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/virtual-reality/34409/the-top-12-virtual-reality-movies-of-the-1990s
Den of Geek!
The top 12 virtual reality movies of the 1990s
In the early 90s, we seemed to be standing on the cusp of a breakthrough in technology. Perhaps inspired by decades of science fiction, from Ray Bradbury to William Gibson, something called virtual reality promised to whisk us off to digital realms more colourful…
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
Tra ieri e stanotte tra le board 4chan, Anin-IB e le stanze di Volafile, ambienti che si prestano parecchio a questo tipo di attività, c'è stato un nuovo "fappening", il terzo: a decine di celebrità di Hollywood (solo donne) è stato violato il cellulare o l'account di posta elettronica e sono stati diffusi immagini e video privati e per la maggior parte osè. Tra le attrici colpite, Emma Watson, una delle prede più ambite a causa del suo impegno in favore del femminismo.