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.
“Kong: Skull Island” è spettacolare, ma la storia fa acqua - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/03/kong-skull-island-recensione-film/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/03/kong-skull-island-recensione-film/
Fumettologica
"Kong: Skull Island" è spettacolare, ma la storia fa acqua
Recensione di Kong Skull Island, un film decisamente spettacolare, ma con una sceneggiatura che fa acqua da tutte le parti.
Un piccolo errore nella gestione dei backup e gli hacker rendono pubblico tutto il loro piccolo tesoro di trucchi, strumenti e indirizzi
Money quote: “Vickery had discovered everything. From Hipchat logs and domain registration records, to accounting details, infrastructure planning and production notes, scripts, and business affiliations. In addition, Vickery uncovered 1.34 billion email accounts. These are the accounts that will receive spam, or what RCM calls offers. Some of these records also contained personal information, such as full names, physical addresses, and IP addresses.”
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3176433/security/spammers-expose-their-entire-operation-through-bad-backups.html
Money quote: “Vickery had discovered everything. From Hipchat logs and domain registration records, to accounting details, infrastructure planning and production notes, scripts, and business affiliations. In addition, Vickery uncovered 1.34 billion email accounts. These are the accounts that will receive spam, or what RCM calls offers. Some of these records also contained personal information, such as full names, physical addresses, and IP addresses.”
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3176433/security/spammers-expose-their-entire-operation-through-bad-backups.html
La crisi di Cathay Pacific è un indicatore della ben più profonda e sotterranea crisi di Hong Kong. È la conseguenza della crescita strepitosa e incontenibile della Cina
Money quote: ““Cathay and Hong Kong have been dwarfed, completely overwhelmed, by China’s growth,” said Shukor Yusof, founder of aviation consulting firm Endau Analytics in Malaysia. “China doesn’t need Hong Kong as a gateway. Its position has become a lot less important than 10 years ago.””
https://skift.com/2017/03/16/cathay-pacifics-fortune-is-inextricably-tied-to-popularity-of-hong-kong-tourism/
Money quote: ““Cathay and Hong Kong have been dwarfed, completely overwhelmed, by China’s growth,” said Shukor Yusof, founder of aviation consulting firm Endau Analytics in Malaysia. “China doesn’t need Hong Kong as a gateway. Its position has become a lot less important than 10 years ago.””
https://skift.com/2017/03/16/cathay-pacifics-fortune-is-inextricably-tied-to-popularity-of-hong-kong-tourism/
Skift
Cathay Pacific's Fortune Is Inextricably Tied to Popularity of Hong Kong Tourism
Being known as Hong Kong’s flagship carrier may best represent what’s wrong with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. The city of about 7.3 million people may no longer be capable of supporting a premium-service airline, especially when the 48 passenger-service operators…
Hackerati gli smartphone dei vip di Hollywood - il mio articolo per Macity
Money quote: “Online tutte le foto rubate delle star di Hollywood. Tra le vittime illustri, l’iPhone 6s dell’attrice britannica Emma Watson, celebre nel mondo per la saga Harry Potter”
http://www.macitynet.it/hackerati-gli-smartphone-dei-vip-hollywood/
Money quote: “Online tutte le foto rubate delle star di Hollywood. Tra le vittime illustri, l’iPhone 6s dell’attrice britannica Emma Watson, celebre nel mondo per la saga Harry Potter”
http://www.macitynet.it/hackerati-gli-smartphone-dei-vip-hollywood/
Macitynet.it
Hackerati gli smartphone dei vip di Hollywood
Online tutte le foto rubate delle star di Hollywood. Tra le vittime illustri, l’iPhone 6s dell’attrice britannica Emma Watson, celebre nel mondo per la saga Harry Potter
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
🙋🏻♂️ 👬 🏘 #InnovazioneSociale #Anziani
Tra poche settimane il quartiere Foce di Genova potrà contare su un portiere di comunità. Si chiamerà “Mani-man” (in dialetto “non sia mai”) e ricorda un po' l’esperienza parigina “Lulu dans ma rue”, di cui abbiamo parlato tempo fa. ”Mani-man” sarà un portiere sociale che aiuterà a risolvere quelle piccole incombenze quotidiane che spesso affliggono le persone più anziane (piccole spese, lavori di manutenzione, pagamenti di bollette, ecc.). Il suo ‘ufficio’ sarà nella piazza del mercato, in una vecchia edicola del quartiere. Il progetto è promosso dalla cooperativa Agorà, dal Comune, dall’associazione degli amministratori condominiali, con il sostegno della Compagnia di S. Paolo.
Tra poche settimane il quartiere Foce di Genova potrà contare su un portiere di comunità. Si chiamerà “Mani-man” (in dialetto “non sia mai”) e ricorda un po' l’esperienza parigina “Lulu dans ma rue”, di cui abbiamo parlato tempo fa. ”Mani-man” sarà un portiere sociale che aiuterà a risolvere quelle piccole incombenze quotidiane che spesso affliggono le persone più anziane (piccole spese, lavori di manutenzione, pagamenti di bollette, ecc.). Il suo ‘ufficio’ sarà nella piazza del mercato, in una vecchia edicola del quartiere. Il progetto è promosso dalla cooperativa Agorà, dal Comune, dall’associazione degli amministratori condominiali, con il sostegno della Compagnia di S. Paolo.
Vita
A Genova arriva mani-man, il portiere di quartiere
«È un incrocio tra un educatore, un custode sociale e un supereroe», spiega Manuel Sericano, direttore di Agorà, il consorzio di cooperative sociali che ha lanciato l’idea
La scandalosa vita sessuale dei pinguini e i loro moralisti osservatori umani.
Money quote: "his clip’s massive popularity and outsized response—according to Nat Geo News, hundreds of thousands of people watched it the day it was released—rides on the apparent ridiculousness of the pairing: all this blood-soaked drama from penguins? But if you look back at the history of human-penguin relations, this clip isn’t really an anomaly. Over and over, through centuries of shifting scientific standards and evolving social mores, humans have been scandalized by penguins"
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/penguin-sex-mating-habits
Money quote: "his clip’s massive popularity and outsized response—according to Nat Geo News, hundreds of thousands of people watched it the day it was released—rides on the apparent ridiculousness of the pairing: all this blood-soaked drama from penguins? But if you look back at the history of human-penguin relations, this clip isn’t really an anomaly. Over and over, through centuries of shifting scientific standards and evolving social mores, humans have been scandalized by penguins"
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/penguin-sex-mating-habits
Atlas Obscura
Why Are Penguins’ Sex Lives So Scandalous?
Since the early 1900s, these adorable birds have been too freaky for us to handle.
Mi hanno colto completamente di sorpresa ma, a pensarci bene, era abbastanza ovvio. Un font che cambia dinamicamente a seconda del contesto in cui viene usato.
Money quote: "Typing with Futuracha Pro, designed by graphic designer Odysseas Galinos Paparounis of Greek branding agency høly, is no static, predictable experience. That’s because the font responds to context, flipping between different letter designs depending on the makeup of a word. It’s chameleonic and mesmerizing to watch in action ― and the result can make anyone’s typing look like the work of a practiced designer."
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58bd7f65e4b0d2821b4f8d1d
Money quote: "Typing with Futuracha Pro, designed by graphic designer Odysseas Galinos Paparounis of Greek branding agency høly, is no static, predictable experience. That’s because the font responds to context, flipping between different letter designs depending on the makeup of a word. It’s chameleonic and mesmerizing to watch in action ― and the result can make anyone’s typing look like the work of a practiced designer."
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58bd7f65e4b0d2821b4f8d1d
HuffPost UK
This Crazy Gorgeous Font Evolves As You Type With It
Oh, and it's inspired by cockroaches.
Un vero e proprio tesoro che da martedì è in parte diventato pubblico. Centinaia di video della guerra fredda sugli esperimenti nucleari che sono stati declassificati, digitalizzati e messi in rete dal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Money quote: “The films, uploaded to the lab’s YouTube account, are part of a trove of some 10,000 that have been in storage since they were originally shot between 1945 and 1962, and had been held in secure vaults since then.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nuclear-physicist-bomb-videos
Money quote: “The films, uploaded to the lab’s YouTube account, are part of a trove of some 10,000 that have been in storage since they were originally shot between 1945 and 1962, and had been held in secure vaults since then.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nuclear-physicist-bomb-videos
Atlas Obscura
Dozens of Previously Hidden Nuclear Test Videos Declassified, Uploaded to YouTube
Mushroom clouds galore.
Le cose in Scozia si fanno interessanti, dicono. Dopo che il premier britannico ha detto che si opporrà a un nuovo referendum separatista, gli scozzesi hanno annunciato che faranno un nuovo Vallo di Adriano.
Tutto questo nei libri di storia ovviamente non ci finirà mai se non in modo incidentale. Questo è il privilegio di vivere oggi: essere sommersi da queste notizie.
Money quote: "“We never get the best of them coming across the border. No, it’s just the Tories and the other canvassing politicians – there are some good ones, too, I assume,” she told reporters.
“That’s why I’m going to build a wall, a great wall. It’s going to be so great.
“And best of all, England is going to pay for it. Yes, they are. They might say they’re not, but they will be. Yes they will.”"
http://newsthump.com/2017/03/16/nicola-sturgeon-announces-plans-to-rebuild-hadrians-wall-and-england-is-going-to-pay-for-it/
Tutto questo nei libri di storia ovviamente non ci finirà mai se non in modo incidentale. Questo è il privilegio di vivere oggi: essere sommersi da queste notizie.
Money quote: "“We never get the best of them coming across the border. No, it’s just the Tories and the other canvassing politicians – there are some good ones, too, I assume,” she told reporters.
“That’s why I’m going to build a wall, a great wall. It’s going to be so great.
“And best of all, England is going to pay for it. Yes, they are. They might say they’re not, but they will be. Yes they will.”"
http://newsthump.com/2017/03/16/nicola-sturgeon-announces-plans-to-rebuild-hadrians-wall-and-england-is-going-to-pay-for-it/
NewsThump
Nicola Sturgeon announces plans to rebuild Hadrian's Wall, and England is going to pay for it
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans to rebuild Hadrian's Wall and will make England pay for it.
Poi una volta tutta questa bellezza della scrittura e della tecnologia assieme, dovremmo prenderla di petto e rimetterla al centro, per capirla meglio. Prima che i pionieri siano morti tutti. Perché concetti come il “narrative movement” e il positional sound” sono troppo belli per non lasciare una traccia permanente nella nostra cosmogonia. Per adesso buona lettura nel fine settimana
Money quote: "A number of institutions have constructed CAVEs, which are primarily used for scientific research and visualization. Brown University’s Center for Computation and Development installed a CAVE in 1998, and in 2002 the Cave Writing workshop was initiated by Robert Coover, novelist, hypertext fiction writer and co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization. These workshops mark a significant and innovative use of an immersive virtual reality environment for interdisciplinary textual research and artistic experimentation. The Cave Writing workshop at Brown facilitates the collaboration of undergraduate and graduate students, writers and programmers, artists and scientists from a number of different fields. The initial objectives of the workshop included introducing text, positional sound, and narrative movement into what was predominantly a visual, silent, and spatial environment. The focus was to explore the word in an immersive, virtual context."
http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/research-project/research-clearinghouse-individual/research-reports/cavewriting-and-the-cave-simulator-3
http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/research-project/research-clearinghouse-individual/objects-for-study-individual/new-reading-interfaces-objects/noah-wardrip-fruin-et-al-screen
Money quote: "A number of institutions have constructed CAVEs, which are primarily used for scientific research and visualization. Brown University’s Center for Computation and Development installed a CAVE in 1998, and in 2002 the Cave Writing workshop was initiated by Robert Coover, novelist, hypertext fiction writer and co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization. These workshops mark a significant and innovative use of an immersive virtual reality environment for interdisciplinary textual research and artistic experimentation. The Cave Writing workshop at Brown facilitates the collaboration of undergraduate and graduate students, writers and programmers, artists and scientists from a number of different fields. The initial objectives of the workshop included introducing text, positional sound, and narrative movement into what was predominantly a visual, silent, and spatial environment. The focus was to explore the word in an immersive, virtual context."
http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/research-project/research-clearinghouse-individual/research-reports/cavewriting-and-the-cave-simulator-3
http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/research-project/research-clearinghouse-individual/objects-for-study-individual/new-reading-interfaces-objects/noah-wardrip-fruin-et-al-screen
Mai più senza memoria, con la chiavetta per iPhone che si collega alla Usb-C del Mac - la mi recensione per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/03/17/tecnologia/prove/mai-pi-senza-memoria-con-la-chiavetta-per-iphone-che-si-collega-alla-usbc-del-mac-kiUnuciK4auXZY73vkkLJP/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/03/17/tecnologia/prove/mai-pi-senza-memoria-con-la-chiavetta-per-iphone-che-si-collega-alla-usbc-del-mac-kiUnuciK4auXZY73vkkLJP/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Mai più senza memoria, con la chiavetta per iPhone che si collega alla Usb-C del Mac
Abbiamo provato per voi la iType-C di PhotoFast, una soluzione intelligente per liberare la memoria interna di iPhone e iPad e copiare i dati su un computer
Trello ci ha provato ma non ce l’ha fatta: la storia di come poteva diventare un unicorno, un’azienda da un miliardo e più di dollari, ma invece non c’è riuscita (e hanno venduto tutto ad Atlassian per 425 milioni). Lettura del fine settimana neanche troppo tecnica che dietro però spiega molto, molto bene il nodo delle startup. A questa è andata comunque bene, ma se stringete il punto di vista, vi ritrovate in un attimo nell’ordine di grandezza dei mille euro.
Money quote: “Trello was so focused on building its free customer base first and monetizing later; by the time it looked to its paid subscribers, it was too late—they’d already moved on. While that makes Trello a perfect complement to Atlassian’s suite of enterprise productivity tools, it hampered the company from growing further on its own.”
https://producthabits.com/why-trello-failed-to-build-a-1-billion-business/
Money quote: “Trello was so focused on building its free customer base first and monetizing later; by the time it looked to its paid subscribers, it was too late—they’d already moved on. While that makes Trello a perfect complement to Atlassian’s suite of enterprise productivity tools, it hampered the company from growing further on its own.”
https://producthabits.com/why-trello-failed-to-build-a-1-billion-business/
Ok, e adesso se volete deprimervi veramente veramente tanto, eccolo qui, il missile terra-terra. Astraete un attimo: pensate non al programmatore (se non siete programmatori) ma all’autore, al giornalista, al creativo, al designer, all’architetto, all’innovatore. E adesso ascoltate con mente aperta la sua rapida e triste storia
Money quote: “Well I've been trying to run before I could walk. I've been so utterly distracted by 'shiny things'; i.e new technologies, new frameworks, new languages, new approaches... I've effectively learnt how to start a new project in a thousand different ways. But I've never actually learnt how to finish what I've started.”
http://ewanvalentine.io/how-to-never-complete-anything/
Money quote: “Well I've been trying to run before I could walk. I've been so utterly distracted by 'shiny things'; i.e new technologies, new frameworks, new languages, new approaches... I've effectively learnt how to start a new project in a thousand different ways. But I've never actually learnt how to finish what I've started.”
http://ewanvalentine.io/how-to-never-complete-anything/
A Bodega Bay, nord di San Francisco, c’è uno spazio emozionante, una torre campanaria, che è nato per l’uccisione di un bambino americano in Italia
Money quote: “The Children’s Bell Tower, just off Highway 1, is dedicated to all children, but was erected as a memorial for one young boy, named Nicholas Green. During a visit to Italy in 1994, seven-year-old Nicholas was killed in a botched armed robbery, their family car mistaken for a jeweler’s. Nicholas’s parents donated his organs and corneas, and seven Italian patients (four of whom were only teenagers themselves) received the precious gift from Nicholas.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/childrens-bell-tower
Money quote: “The Children’s Bell Tower, just off Highway 1, is dedicated to all children, but was erected as a memorial for one young boy, named Nicholas Green. During a visit to Italy in 1994, seven-year-old Nicholas was killed in a botched armed robbery, their family car mistaken for a jeweler’s. Nicholas’s parents donated his organs and corneas, and seven Italian patients (four of whom were only teenagers themselves) received the precious gift from Nicholas.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/childrens-bell-tower
Atlas Obscura
Children's Bell Tower in Bodega Bay
The children's belltower honors the young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations.
Magari vi capita di prendere l’aereo. C’è Wallet di Apple per iPhone che è il contenitore naturale per i biglietti elettronici. Magari non è intuitivo arrivarci perché molte compagnie aree passano prima dalla propria app, ma si può fare praticamente con tutti o quasi. Eccolo qui, spiegato bene.
Lo metto nel mio canale perché, anche se non siete dei viaggiatori abituali sicuramente vi capiterà - magari nelle prossime settimane o questa estate - di viaggiare un po’ in aereo. E i cambiamenti sono notevoli, perché ormai si può fare tutto con il telefonino, dalla prenotazione al check-in fino al biglietto. Solo bisogna organizzarsi un po’ prima. Qui c’è praticamente tutto.
Money quote: “I’m sure many of you are nodding your heads in agreement, or wondering why I’m telling you all this. I’m no frequent flyer, so I’m sure that these improvements have been obvious to road warriors for a while. But I wanted to document how to do all this because I saw a lot of people still relying on paper boarding passes on that last trip. The experience of relying on an iPhone is so good, and so much better than dealing with paper, that if you’ve avoided it so far, I urge you to give it a try next time. But feel free to print a paper boarding pass as a backup until you’re comfortable with using your iPhone instead!”
http://tidbits.com/e/17103#comments
Lo metto nel mio canale perché, anche se non siete dei viaggiatori abituali sicuramente vi capiterà - magari nelle prossime settimane o questa estate - di viaggiare un po’ in aereo. E i cambiamenti sono notevoli, perché ormai si può fare tutto con il telefonino, dalla prenotazione al check-in fino al biglietto. Solo bisogna organizzarsi un po’ prima. Qui c’è praticamente tutto.
Money quote: “I’m sure many of you are nodding your heads in agreement, or wondering why I’m telling you all this. I’m no frequent flyer, so I’m sure that these improvements have been obvious to road warriors for a while. But I wanted to document how to do all this because I saw a lot of people still relying on paper boarding passes on that last trip. The experience of relying on an iPhone is so good, and so much better than dealing with paper, that if you’ve avoided it so far, I urge you to give it a try next time. But feel free to print a paper boarding pass as a backup until you’re comfortable with using your iPhone instead!”
http://tidbits.com/e/17103#comments
Tidbits
How to Set Up and Use Airline Boarding Passes in Wallet
If you’re still printing boarding passes on paper because you think that using your iPhone would be too hard, think again. Airline apps and Apple’s Wallet app have improved significantly over the years, and the process is now easier than fussing with printed…
Viviamo nell'Antropocene, iniziato sessant'anni fa e forse destinato a concludersi drammaticamente in pochi decenni
Money quote: "The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee. Hutton posited that geological features were shaped by cycles of sedimentation and erosion, a process of lifting up then grinding down rocks that required timescales much grander than those of prevailing Biblical narratives. This dizzying Copernican shift threw both God and man into question. ‘The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time,’ was how John Playfair, a scientist who accompanied Hutton on several crucial expeditions, described the effect of looking over the stratified promontory of Siccar Point in Scotland."
https://aeon.co/ideas/deep-time-s-uncanny-future-is-full-of-ghostly-human-traces
Money quote: "The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee. Hutton posited that geological features were shaped by cycles of sedimentation and erosion, a process of lifting up then grinding down rocks that required timescales much grander than those of prevailing Biblical narratives. This dizzying Copernican shift threw both God and man into question. ‘The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time,’ was how John Playfair, a scientist who accompanied Hutton on several crucial expeditions, described the effect of looking over the stratified promontory of Siccar Point in Scotland."
https://aeon.co/ideas/deep-time-s-uncanny-future-is-full-of-ghostly-human-traces
Aeon
Deep time’s uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces
Late one summer night in 1949, the British archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes went out into her small back garden in north London, and lay down. She sensed the bedrock covered by its thin layer of soil, and felt the hard ground pressing her flesh agai...
Se dovete rispondere a delle eamil in inglese e vi serve un template (magari per quelle mail in cui siete oltretutto in ritardo) questo è un ottimo punto di partenza
Money quote: “Sorry for the delayed response. I opened your e-mail on my phone while my date was in the bathroom, but then I saw that it required more than a “yes” or “no” reply, decided that was too much work, marked it as unread, and then forgot about it entirely until just now!”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/sorry-for-the-delayed-response
Money quote: “Sorry for the delayed response. I opened your e-mail on my phone while my date was in the bathroom, but then I saw that it required more than a “yes” or “no” reply, decided that was too much work, marked it as unread, and then forgot about it entirely until just now!”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/sorry-for-the-delayed-response
The New Yorker
Sorry for the Delayed Response
Sorry for the delay! I put off answering your e-mail until I had an even more tedious task that I wanted to avoid. Thanks!