Ho sempre pensato che gli indiani (dell'India) sono gente strana. Fino ad oggi però non sapevo come argomentare meglio questa idea. Adesso invece...
Money quote: "One of the most striking examples of this is the meditation on corpses presented in the Buddhist Satipatthana Sutta. In ancient India, corpses were left out in ‘charnel grounds’, and people would have had the opportunity to observe the various stages of decomposition. The text is nothing if not thorough, describing in some detail ‘a corpse thrown aside in a charnel ground – one, two or three days dead, bloated, livid, and oozing matter … being devoured by crows, hawks, vultures, dogs, jackals or various kinds of worms’, eventually turning into ‘bones rotten and crumbling to dust’. On observing this, the monk reminds himself that ‘This body too is of the same nature, it will be like that, it is not exempt from that fate.’"
https://aeon.co/ideas/is-meditating-on-death-like-putting-on-a-fur-coat-in-summer
Money quote: "One of the most striking examples of this is the meditation on corpses presented in the Buddhist Satipatthana Sutta. In ancient India, corpses were left out in ‘charnel grounds’, and people would have had the opportunity to observe the various stages of decomposition. The text is nothing if not thorough, describing in some detail ‘a corpse thrown aside in a charnel ground – one, two or three days dead, bloated, livid, and oozing matter … being devoured by crows, hawks, vultures, dogs, jackals or various kinds of worms’, eventually turning into ‘bones rotten and crumbling to dust’. On observing this, the monk reminds himself that ‘This body too is of the same nature, it will be like that, it is not exempt from that fate.’"
https://aeon.co/ideas/is-meditating-on-death-like-putting-on-a-fur-coat-in-summer
Aeon
Is meditating on death like putting on a fur coat in summer?
A daily dose of death: how meditating on the inevitable can put life in perspective and help us appreciate the present
La storia attraverso i documenti che registrano i prestiti della biblioteca pubblica di New York (che è un posto fantastico, altro che Ghostbusters: quando ho una mezza giornata vuota a Manhattan e fa freddo o piove, è la mia destinazione preferita)
Money quote: "The Society Library has survived in part because New York is a city of readers and writers who have been willing to pay the annual fee, like a gym-membership for the mind. While anyone can walk in and ask for something to read in the Reference Room, only members have borrowing privileges and access to the stacks, as well as electronic resources, access to reading and workrooms, and the children’s library. Past members on the roster include Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Henry James, Edward Steichen, Willa Cather, P.G. Wodehouse, W.H. Auden, Djuna Barnes, George Plimpton, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Lillian Hellman, John Cheever, Barbara Guest, Lewis Mumford, Helene Hanff, Roald Dahl, Leonard Bernstein, and Shirley Hazzard."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-york-society-library-borrowing-records
Money quote: "The Society Library has survived in part because New York is a city of readers and writers who have been willing to pay the annual fee, like a gym-membership for the mind. While anyone can walk in and ask for something to read in the Reference Room, only members have borrowing privileges and access to the stacks, as well as electronic resources, access to reading and workrooms, and the children’s library. Past members on the roster include Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Henry James, Edward Steichen, Willa Cather, P.G. Wodehouse, W.H. Auden, Djuna Barnes, George Plimpton, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Lillian Hellman, John Cheever, Barbara Guest, Lewis Mumford, Helene Hanff, Roald Dahl, Leonard Bernstein, and Shirley Hazzard."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-york-society-library-borrowing-records
Atlas Obscura
A Peek at Famous Readers’ Borrowing Records From a Private New York Library
Thanks to carefully maintained circulation info, we know when Alexander Hamilton checked out Goethe.
Viviamo in un mondo pornificato, in cui la sessualità è diventata non solo sempre più esplicita, messa in scena, ma anche una delle fonte di continua di rielaborazione del potere sociale. Ovviamente, come tutti sappiamo nella nostra cultura la sessualità maschile è al centro e il piacere femminile è un oggetto e non un soggetto del discorso. È anzi una funzione di quello maschile.
C’è un tema sul quale si potrebbe riflettere di più: la masturbazione femminile, che è misteriosa e a quanto pare non diffusa quanto (sempre a quanto pare) sia invece diffusa quella maschile. In questo articolo se ne parla in maniera interessante.
Money quote: “Numerous forums and websites address the question, sometimes from men, of why certain women don’t masturbate. They are often told that the woman probably just isn’t admitting it. But the reasons for not admitting it are coincidentally the same reasons some women say they don’t actually do it — shame, lack of interest, embarrassment, or not knowing how.
Still, we should continue to promote masturbation as good and healthy, and also take these women at their word. Some women do masturbate. Some women don’t. Women who really don’t, and really don’t want to, and “have enough sexual outlets,” or are otherwise satisfied with their sexual interest, don’t need to. They shouldn’t be ashamed of that, or feel as if they’ve missed the liberation boat that leads to only one place: Jerk-Off City.”
https://melmagazine.com/why-some-women-dont-masturbate-e2ceb6832b5f
C’è un tema sul quale si potrebbe riflettere di più: la masturbazione femminile, che è misteriosa e a quanto pare non diffusa quanto (sempre a quanto pare) sia invece diffusa quella maschile. In questo articolo se ne parla in maniera interessante.
Money quote: “Numerous forums and websites address the question, sometimes from men, of why certain women don’t masturbate. They are often told that the woman probably just isn’t admitting it. But the reasons for not admitting it are coincidentally the same reasons some women say they don’t actually do it — shame, lack of interest, embarrassment, or not knowing how.
Still, we should continue to promote masturbation as good and healthy, and also take these women at their word. Some women do masturbate. Some women don’t. Women who really don’t, and really don’t want to, and “have enough sexual outlets,” or are otherwise satisfied with their sexual interest, don’t need to. They shouldn’t be ashamed of that, or feel as if they’ve missed the liberation boat that leads to only one place: Jerk-Off City.”
https://melmagazine.com/why-some-women-dont-masturbate-e2ceb6832b5f
MEL Magazine
Why Some Women Don’t Masturbate
When it comes to beating it, some women can find themselves stuck between a sexually frustrated rock and a don’t-care hard place. For most…
Sono quasi 26mila le app che raccolgono dati sugli utenti attraverso Facebook - il mio articolo per la Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/20/tecnologia/sono-quasi-mila-le-app-che-raccolgono-dati-sugli-utenti-attraverso-facebook-UcR9mSvF6UE0M84BQmAnpO/premium.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/20/tecnologia/sono-quasi-mila-le-app-che-raccolgono-dati-sugli-utenti-attraverso-facebook-UcR9mSvF6UE0M84BQmAnpO/premium.html
LaStampa.it
Sono quasi 26mila le app che raccolgono dati sugli utenti attraverso Facebook
Ma, secondo gli esperti di Trustlook, oltre al social network, anche Twitter, LinkedIn e Google offrono agli sviluppatori strumenti per scaricare informazioni personali di chi le usa
Mettiamola così: i mercati grazie alla digitalizzazione cambiano profondamente. Ma questo cambiamento non è lineare e prevedibile. Ci sono fattori esterni e fattori congiunturali che possono dare forme molto particolari a quel che viene fuori.
Quartz in questo articolo mostra chiaramente che il digitale applicato all’industria editoriale non solo ha portato alla nascita di un nuovo e più fiorente mercato del self publishing (quello che prima era vanity publishing, cioè editoria a pagamento, e che ora probabilmente sta morendo) ma che in questo mercato il ruolo monopolistico e totalmente non collaborativo di Amazon altera notevolmente lo sviluppo nel futuro.
Money quote: “Amazon’s power over self-publishing, a shadow industry running outside the traditional publishing houses and imprints, is insidiously invisible. As a result, the publishing industry has a data problem, and it doesn’t look like Amazon will be loosening its grip any time soon.”
https://qz.com/1240924/are-ebooks-dying-or-thriving-the-answer-is-yes/
Quartz in questo articolo mostra chiaramente che il digitale applicato all’industria editoriale non solo ha portato alla nascita di un nuovo e più fiorente mercato del self publishing (quello che prima era vanity publishing, cioè editoria a pagamento, e che ora probabilmente sta morendo) ma che in questo mercato il ruolo monopolistico e totalmente non collaborativo di Amazon altera notevolmente lo sviluppo nel futuro.
Money quote: “Amazon’s power over self-publishing, a shadow industry running outside the traditional publishing houses and imprints, is insidiously invisible. As a result, the publishing industry has a data problem, and it doesn’t look like Amazon will be loosening its grip any time soon.”
https://qz.com/1240924/are-ebooks-dying-or-thriving-the-answer-is-yes/
Quartz
Are ebooks dying or thriving? The answer is yes
Self-publishing is a shadow industry that obscures any hope of understanding book publishing today.
Se avete il Mac (ma Arq c'è anche per Windows), un progettino veloce veloce: backup nel cloud fai-da-te. Non male.
Money quote: “Paid cloud services can readily fill this gap, such as Backblaze (a TidBITS sponsor), but you can also now roll your own cloud service at a reasonable price by combining Haystack Software’s Arq backup app for macOS with Backblaze’s B2 on-demand, usage-based cloud storage service. I reviewed Arq for Macworld in March 2017, and found it generally good, although it needs more refinement in its restore process; Arq added B2 support a year ago”
Non solo B2, però:
Money quote2: "Dropbox: Dropbox’s lowest-tier paid service includes 1 TB of cloud storage, and Arq can talk directly to Dropbox’s API. You can use Dropbox’s Selective Sync or Smart Sync to prevent those backups from being unnecessarily synced to a desktop computer"
https://tidbits.com/2018/05/18/roll-your-own-cloud-backups-with-arq-and-b2/
Money quote: “Paid cloud services can readily fill this gap, such as Backblaze (a TidBITS sponsor), but you can also now roll your own cloud service at a reasonable price by combining Haystack Software’s Arq backup app for macOS with Backblaze’s B2 on-demand, usage-based cloud storage service. I reviewed Arq for Macworld in March 2017, and found it generally good, although it needs more refinement in its restore process; Arq added B2 support a year ago”
Non solo B2, però:
Money quote2: "Dropbox: Dropbox’s lowest-tier paid service includes 1 TB of cloud storage, and Arq can talk directly to Dropbox’s API. You can use Dropbox’s Selective Sync or Smart Sync to prevent those backups from being unnecessarily synced to a desktop computer"
https://tidbits.com/2018/05/18/roll-your-own-cloud-backups-with-arq-and-b2/
TidBITS
Roll Your Own Cloud Backups with Arq and B2
Until now, Internet backups required subscribing to a cloud-based backup service and using proprietary software to handle archiving and retrieval. Now, there’s a DIY alternative: Arq backup software and Backblaze’s B2 cloud storage system.
Per programmare occorre essere bravi in matematica? È una domanda molto più ricorrente, e che spesso scuote nel profondo il programmatore, che si sente inadeguato. Perché, nonostante l'informatica nasca dalla logica-matematica, e possa essere intesa come una branca applicativa della matematica per molti versi, in realtà i programmatori non sono matematici e non hanno necessariamente bisogno di esserlo. Anche se fa comodo. Vedi di seguito.
Money quote: "Often times, I want to compute the worst-case or upper bound of, say, the size of some data set. The calculations can be nontrivial for many of these. Or, I may want to analyze some recurrence relation to see how it varies as I increase the recursion depth. To do that, I need, among other things, the Master Theorem and a good understanding of how to analyze series. Believe it or not, this sometimes means I need to evaluate an integral (though mostly of the Riemann variety). Or can I just solve the recurrence and get a closed-form solution? Do I have to resort to linear algebra? This gets into things like generating functions, Stirling numbers, matrix computations, etc. If you are curious what goes into “fundamental” mathematical concepts necessary to understand computer science, have a look at volume 1 of, The Art of Computer Programming, by Donald Knuth, or Concrete Mathematics, by Knuth, Ronald L. Graham and Oren Patashnik."
http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/10/mathematics_i_use
PS: se vi definite anche un po' come "programmatori" e arrivate in fondo all'articolo che vi ho appena segnalate ma non siete laureati in matematica (e laureati pure bene, peraltro), poi forse potreste cambiare la vostra definizione mentale.
Money quote: "Often times, I want to compute the worst-case or upper bound of, say, the size of some data set. The calculations can be nontrivial for many of these. Or, I may want to analyze some recurrence relation to see how it varies as I increase the recursion depth. To do that, I need, among other things, the Master Theorem and a good understanding of how to analyze series. Believe it or not, this sometimes means I need to evaluate an integral (though mostly of the Riemann variety). Or can I just solve the recurrence and get a closed-form solution? Do I have to resort to linear algebra? This gets into things like generating functions, Stirling numbers, matrix computations, etc. If you are curious what goes into “fundamental” mathematical concepts necessary to understand computer science, have a look at volume 1 of, The Art of Computer Programming, by Donald Knuth, or Concrete Mathematics, by Knuth, Ronald L. Graham and Oren Patashnik."
http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/10/mathematics_i_use
PS: se vi definite anche un po' come "programmatori" e arrivate in fondo all'articolo che vi ho appena segnalate ma non siete laureati in matematica (e laureati pure bene, peraltro), poi forse potreste cambiare la vostra definizione mentale.
pub.gajendra.net
Mathematics I Use
An explanation of the forms of mathematics I use on a daily basis as a working software engineer.
La notizia è di qualche giorno fa: c'è stata una rivoluzione nel management di Facebook. Una di quelle cose che occorrono settimane solo per decodificarla, mesi o anni per vederne le conseguenze
Money quote: "The moves, which were announced internally to employees today, are meant to improve executive communication and user privacy, but the changes also come as Facebook contends with the backlash from the U.S. presidential election, revelations of manipulation by the Russian government and the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal."
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/8/17330226/facebook-reorg-mark-zuckerberg-whatsapp-messenger-ceo-blockchain
Money quote: "The moves, which were announced internally to employees today, are meant to improve executive communication and user privacy, but the changes also come as Facebook contends with the backlash from the U.S. presidential election, revelations of manipulation by the Russian government and the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal."
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/8/17330226/facebook-reorg-mark-zuckerberg-whatsapp-messenger-ceo-blockchain
Vox
Facebook is making its biggest executive shuffle in company history
WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook’s core app are getting new leaders as part of a massive executive reorg.
Tom Wolfe è morto, viva Tom Wolfe. Ecco la sua epica intervista per la Paris Review. Lunga ma assolutamente necessaria. Soprattutto se scrivete.
Money quote: “For eight months I had sat at my typewriter every day, intending to start this novel and nothing had happened. I felt that the only way I was ever going to get going on it was to put myself under deadline pressure. I knew that if I had to, I could produce something under deadline pressure. I found the only marvelous maniac in all of journalism willing to let me do such a thing. That was Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone. This book would have never been written if Jann Wenner had not said, OK, let’s do it. Let’s see what happens.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2226/tom-wolfe-the-art-of-fiction-no-123-tom-wolfe
Money quote: “For eight months I had sat at my typewriter every day, intending to start this novel and nothing had happened. I felt that the only way I was ever going to get going on it was to put myself under deadline pressure. I knew that if I had to, I could produce something under deadline pressure. I found the only marvelous maniac in all of journalism willing to let me do such a thing. That was Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone. This book would have never been written if Jann Wenner had not said, OK, let’s do it. Let’s see what happens.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2226/tom-wolfe-the-art-of-fiction-no-123-tom-wolfe
The Paris Review
The Art of Fiction No. 123
One of Tom Wolfe’s favorite restaurants in New York City is the Isle of Capri on the East Side, specializing, as one might expect, in Italian cuisine; indeed, the menu does not condescend to non-Italian speaking customers: an extensive list of choices…
La televisione sta morendo ma, nel suo canto del cigno, produce le sue cose più belle: i telefilm. Sono il ritratto di una epoca, e producono una ulteriore spinta per quanto riguarda l’atomizzazione della nostra società. Al centro del cambiamento: la famiglia.
Money quote: “How might we understand new television’s invocation of the family? The first thing to note is that these invocations are not commitments to traditional ‘family values’, where what’s being affirmed is a nuclear family: the range of families for which characters act are quite broad and often not traditional. We are not dealing here with reproduction or property. Yet, we shouldn’t think that these invocations aren’t potentially regressive. Most new TV presents and responds to the increasing atomisation and the breakdown in our world by withdrawing into and idolising the institution most representative of it.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/our-golden-age-of-tv-amid-collapse-a-new-family-emerges
Money quote: “How might we understand new television’s invocation of the family? The first thing to note is that these invocations are not commitments to traditional ‘family values’, where what’s being affirmed is a nuclear family: the range of families for which characters act are quite broad and often not traditional. We are not dealing here with reproduction or property. Yet, we shouldn’t think that these invocations aren’t potentially regressive. Most new TV presents and responds to the increasing atomisation and the breakdown in our world by withdrawing into and idolising the institution most representative of it.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/our-golden-age-of-tv-amid-collapse-a-new-family-emerges
Aeon
Our golden age of TV: amid collapse, a new family emerges
The last site of normative authority: what the renaissance in television art tells us about the political present
Invitate gli amici a cena. Anziché cercare di emulare Vissani, perché non gli fate un bel piatto di tagliatelle fatte in casa?
Idea Smart, a parte mettere l’olio nell’acqua...
Money quote: “Eggs… and fucking Flour. Seriously.
Apart from a pinch of salt, that’s ALL THERE IS TO IT. You’ve already got all the ingredients for pasta and you didn’t even realise it.”
https://medium.com/@chazhutton/stop-buying-pasta-you-idiot-1f90bf761b60
Idea Smart, a parte mettere l’olio nell’acqua...
Money quote: “Eggs… and fucking Flour. Seriously.
Apart from a pinch of salt, that’s ALL THERE IS TO IT. You’ve already got all the ingredients for pasta and you didn’t even realise it.”
https://medium.com/@chazhutton/stop-buying-pasta-you-idiot-1f90bf761b60
Medium
Stop buying pasta you idiot.
It’s time to make your own.
Tornato ma già pronto per ripartire: oggi vado negli Stati Uniti. Questione sostanzialmente di fusi orari, tema intrigante. Trovo infatti i dibattiti sul tempo (e sugli orologi) affascinanti. Questo sull'ora legale è fantastico.
Money quote: "Studies link the lack of sleep at the start of DST to car accidents, workplace injuries, suicide, and miscarriages.
The early evening darkness after the end of the DST period is linked to depression.
The risk of suffering a heart attack is also increased when DST begins. However, the extra hour of sleep we get at the end of DST has in turn been linked to fewer heart attacks."
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html
Money quote: "Studies link the lack of sleep at the start of DST to car accidents, workplace injuries, suicide, and miscarriages.
The early evening darkness after the end of the DST period is linked to depression.
The risk of suffering a heart attack is also increased when DST begins. However, the extra hour of sleep we get at the end of DST has in turn been linked to fewer heart attacks."
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html
Timeanddate
The Pros and Cons of Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been used for more than 100 years. But do its pros really outweigh its cons?
Ripensare l'interfaccia del Kindle. Perché no?
Money quote: "My ideal Kindle interaction model isn’t too different than the current one. But the sanding away of small frictions pays huge dividends in interfaces. As a user performs the same actions hundreds or thousands of times they feel those marginal changes. And even if they don’t understand them, you must believe they appreciate them."
https://medium.com/@craigmod/reconsidering-the-hardware-kindle-interface-3c54088bed9e
Money quote: "My ideal Kindle interaction model isn’t too different than the current one. But the sanding away of small frictions pays huge dividends in interfaces. As a user performs the same actions hundreds or thousands of times they feel those marginal changes. And even if they don’t understand them, you must believe they appreciate them."
https://medium.com/@craigmod/reconsidering-the-hardware-kindle-interface-3c54088bed9e
Medium
Reconsidering the Hardware Kindle Interface
Small tweaks to incentivize engaging with a book’s content.
Di nuovo in partenza, questa volta per la Silicon Valley, ma non temete: Mostly, I Write prosegue imperterrito!
La morte, da un punto di vista fisiologico, è strana. Molto strana.
Money quote: "Not only do cells survive for a while after an organism dies, they may actually fight to live. The activity of some genes increases after death, as cells apparently sense that something has gone horribly wrong. It’s like an astronaut in deep space who suddenly gets silence on the radio and frantically beams signals home to Earth, unaware that a nuclear holocaust has wiped out everything she holds dear."
https://medium.com/neodotlife/gene-expression-lives-on-on-after-death-63b204727591
Money quote: "Not only do cells survive for a while after an organism dies, they may actually fight to live. The activity of some genes increases after death, as cells apparently sense that something has gone horribly wrong. It’s like an astronaut in deep space who suddenly gets silence on the radio and frantically beams signals home to Earth, unaware that a nuclear holocaust has wiped out everything she holds dear."
https://medium.com/neodotlife/gene-expression-lives-on-on-after-death-63b204727591
Medium
Death Is Weirder Than You Think
Why do some genes get more active when life ends?
Le ragioni per le quali il web deve morire, secondo questo signore
Money quote: "Web apps. What are they like, eh? I could list all kinds of problems with them but let’s pick just two.
Web development is slowly reinventing the 1990's.
Web apps are impossible to secure."
https://blog.plan99.net/its-time-to-kill-the-web-974a9fe80c89
Money quote: "Web apps. What are they like, eh? I could list all kinds of problems with them but let’s pick just two.
Web development is slowly reinventing the 1990's.
Web apps are impossible to secure."
https://blog.plan99.net/its-time-to-kill-the-web-974a9fe80c89
Medium
It’s time to kill the web
Something is going on. The people are unhappy. The spectre of civil unrest stalks our programming communities.
Un poster spettacolare, peccato costi così caro. Fotografie ai raggi X delle macchine fotografiche, per apprezzare la dimensione interiore dell'evoluzione della tecnica fotografica, intesa come macchine. Insomma, più "meta" di così...
Money quote: "“This work uses x-rays to explore the micro-evolution of cameras and is a metaphor about the limits of evolution,” Krugh writes. “While form and media may have changed, the camera is still a camera: a tool to create images by capturing photons of light.”"
https://petapixel.com/2018/05/02/x-ray-photos-reveal-the-evolution-of-cameras-through-history/
Qui il progetto originale
http://www.kentkrugh.com/home-page/speciation/
Money quote: "“This work uses x-rays to explore the micro-evolution of cameras and is a metaphor about the limits of evolution,” Krugh writes. “While form and media may have changed, the camera is still a camera: a tool to create images by capturing photons of light.”"
https://petapixel.com/2018/05/02/x-ray-photos-reveal-the-evolution-of-cameras-through-history/
Qui il progetto originale
http://www.kentkrugh.com/home-page/speciation/
Petapixel
X-Ray Photos Reveal the Evolution of Cameras
Photography and Camera News, Reviews, and Inspiration
L'ultimo tuttologo.
Money quote: "It hardly seems likely that the life of an obscure Anglican clergyman should recommend itself to the attention of a modern biographer; the shelves of second-hand bookshops are the sepulchers of many an Essex parson's dutifully compiled Life and Letters. But Sabine Baring-Gould happens to have been the last man who knew everything.
One really does mean everything. The Victorian parson's interests included but were not limited to philology, anthropology, folklore, children's stories, hymnology, hagiography, geology, topography, painting, optics, metallurgy, ancient and modern history, musical theory, biblical archeology, the plausibility of miracles, the minutiae of the English salt mining industry, and the theater. Among the 130 books he published were an anthology of Old Testament apocrypha; biographies of Napoleon I and the Caesars; histories of Germany, Iceland, North and South Wales, Cornwall, Dartmoor, the Rhine, and the Pyrenees; a guide to surnames; a 16-volume collection of saints' lives and a compilation of medieval superstitions beloved by H.P. Lovecraft among others; numerous volumes of sermons and dozens of novels; a theological treatise on the problem of evil; numerous works on ghosts; a surprisingly scholarly Book of Were-wolves. He also composed some 200 short stories and thousands of essays, prefaces, and magazine articles; he produced two collections of original verse and two memoirs and left behind a vast correspondence, thousands of pages of diaries, and a remarkable quantity of half-digested research."
http://theweek.com/articles/763465/last-man-who-knew-everything
Money quote: "It hardly seems likely that the life of an obscure Anglican clergyman should recommend itself to the attention of a modern biographer; the shelves of second-hand bookshops are the sepulchers of many an Essex parson's dutifully compiled Life and Letters. But Sabine Baring-Gould happens to have been the last man who knew everything.
One really does mean everything. The Victorian parson's interests included but were not limited to philology, anthropology, folklore, children's stories, hymnology, hagiography, geology, topography, painting, optics, metallurgy, ancient and modern history, musical theory, biblical archeology, the plausibility of miracles, the minutiae of the English salt mining industry, and the theater. Among the 130 books he published were an anthology of Old Testament apocrypha; biographies of Napoleon I and the Caesars; histories of Germany, Iceland, North and South Wales, Cornwall, Dartmoor, the Rhine, and the Pyrenees; a guide to surnames; a 16-volume collection of saints' lives and a compilation of medieval superstitions beloved by H.P. Lovecraft among others; numerous volumes of sermons and dozens of novels; a theological treatise on the problem of evil; numerous works on ghosts; a surprisingly scholarly Book of Were-wolves. He also composed some 200 short stories and thousands of essays, prefaces, and magazine articles; he produced two collections of original verse and two memoirs and left behind a vast correspondence, thousands of pages of diaries, and a remarkable quantity of half-digested research."
http://theweek.com/articles/763465/last-man-who-knew-everything
The Week UK
The last man who knew everything
It hardly seems likely that the life of an obscure Anglican clergyman should recommend itself to the attention of a modern biographer. But Sabine Baring-Gould happens to have been the last man who knew everything.
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Federico Viticci è l'italianissimo creatore di MacStories, uno dei più importanti siti al mondo dedicato al mondo Apple (in inglese, nientemeno) e nell'orecchio dello stesso Tim Cook. La storia di Viticci è notevole di per sé, ne parla lui stesso in questo articolo apparentemente dedicato al fitness ma in realtà molto rivelatorio della strategia di MacStories e di come si possa costruire un modello di informazione ibrida che funziona senza diventare un bazaar di tracker e pubblicità volgari.
Money quote: "Here's what I've learned about cancer as a survivor: even once you're past it, and despite doctors' reassurances that you should go back to your normal life, it never truly leaves you. It clings to the back of your mind and sits there, quietly. If you're lucky, it doesn't consume you, but it makes you more aware of your existence. The thought of it is like a fresh scar – a constant reminder of what happened. And even a simple sentence spoken with purposeful vagueness such as "We need to double check something" can cause that dreadful background presence to put your life on hold again."
https://www.macstories.net/stories/second-life/
Money quote: "Here's what I've learned about cancer as a survivor: even once you're past it, and despite doctors' reassurances that you should go back to your normal life, it never truly leaves you. It clings to the back of your mind and sits there, quietly. If you're lucky, it doesn't consume you, but it makes you more aware of your existence. The thought of it is like a fresh scar – a constant reminder of what happened. And even a simple sentence spoken with purposeful vagueness such as "We need to double check something" can cause that dreadful background presence to put your life on hold again."
https://www.macstories.net/stories/second-life/
www.macstories.net
Second Life: Rethinking Myself Through Exercise, Mindfulness, and Gratitude
"There's something in your latest scan that we need to double check."