Questa cosa è psichedelica. Folle. Meravigliosa. Pannocchie colorate!
Money quote: "Soon, their questions were answered. Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee farmer from Oklahoma, liked to experiment with ancestral corn varieties. After breeding several varieties together, the result was vibrantly-colored corn. The colored kernels ranged from vivid red to pale blue. Often, a single cob had a multitude of colors, each kernel the seed of a distinct plant. Through friends distributing the kernels and internet word-of-mouth, the lovely corn gained prominence on the seed scene. Though Barnes passed away in 2016, seed companies around the world still sell his jewel-like corn."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/glass-gem-corn
Money quote: "Soon, their questions were answered. Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee farmer from Oklahoma, liked to experiment with ancestral corn varieties. After breeding several varieties together, the result was vibrantly-colored corn. The colored kernels ranged from vivid red to pale blue. Often, a single cob had a multitude of colors, each kernel the seed of a distinct plant. Through friends distributing the kernels and internet word-of-mouth, the lovely corn gained prominence on the seed scene. Though Barnes passed away in 2016, seed companies around the world still sell his jewel-like corn."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/glass-gem-corn
Atlas Obscura
Glass Gem Corn
The gorgeous multicolored cob hails from Oklahoma.
E se mi volete in voce, eccomi ospite a Talos dove racconto la complessa storia dell'Eternauta
Achtung podcast!
https://rbe.it/2018/09/28/talos-la-complessa-storia-delleternauta/
Achtung podcast!
https://rbe.it/2018/09/28/talos-la-complessa-storia-delleternauta/
rbe.it
Talos – La complessa storia dell’Eternauta
L'Eternauta è uno dei fumetti più iconici del secolo scorso, in particolare per l'Argentina. Antonio Dini di Fumettologica ci racconta trama e contesto
La meravigliosa arte dell'hacking.
Money quote: "A few days ago on 25th April, while researching, I found that a lot of individuals and companies are putting their sensitive information on their public Trello boards. Information like unfixed bugs and security vulnerabilities, the credentials of their social media accounts, email accounts, server and admin dashboards — you name it, is available on their public Trello Boards which are being indexed by all the search engines and anyone can easily find them."
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/discovering-the-hidden-mine-of-credentials-and-sensitive-information-8e5ccfef2724
Money quote: "A few days ago on 25th April, while researching, I found that a lot of individuals and companies are putting their sensitive information on their public Trello boards. Information like unfixed bugs and security vulnerabilities, the credentials of their social media accounts, email accounts, server and admin dashboards — you name it, is available on their public Trello Boards which are being indexed by all the search engines and anyone can easily find them."
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/discovering-the-hidden-mine-of-credentials-and-sensitive-information-8e5ccfef2724
freeCodeCamp.org
How I used a simple Google query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards
by Kushagra Pathak How I used a simple Google query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards A few days ago on 25th April, while researching, I found that a lot of individuals and companies are putting their sensitive information on their public…
Long read: storia di uno degli uomini che hanno rivoluzionato la fotografia. Yoshihisa Maitani, al cuore della rivoluzione Olympus
Money quote: "In 1954, Maitani was a 21-year-old automotive engineering student at Waseda University and a passionate photographer who spent his days wandering Tokyo with a Leica IIIf. So enamored with cameras was he, that the young man created and patented his own camera design before he’d even left school. At this time, Olympus had been manufacturing cameras for just twenty years. The brand needed expertise and know-how to grow, and Olympus was actively hunting for talent in Japanese universities. When Eiichi Sakurai, the creator of the first Olympus camera, stumbled upon Maitani’s camera patent, he immediately insisted that the younger man work for Olympus. In a lecture, Maitani related the wrinkle in the story.
“In those days a student who refused to work for the first company to offer him a job was regarded as a disgrace to his university. I had received a job offer from an automobile manufacturer, but I pretended that I hadn’t and so went to work for Olympus instead.”
The young designer’s first assignment would find him designing nothing. Instead, he was sent to the Olympus factory for a period of “practical training” in which he was rotated to a different department every six months for two years. At the end of two years, he returned to the design department and was told, rather simply, to “Try designing something.” With this unusual degree of freedom, he set about designing a camera that would cost one quarter the price of the least expensive Olympus camera."
https://www.casualphotophile.com/2018/01/12/yoshihisa-maitani-the-man-who-made-olympus/
Money quote: "In 1954, Maitani was a 21-year-old automotive engineering student at Waseda University and a passionate photographer who spent his days wandering Tokyo with a Leica IIIf. So enamored with cameras was he, that the young man created and patented his own camera design before he’d even left school. At this time, Olympus had been manufacturing cameras for just twenty years. The brand needed expertise and know-how to grow, and Olympus was actively hunting for talent in Japanese universities. When Eiichi Sakurai, the creator of the first Olympus camera, stumbled upon Maitani’s camera patent, he immediately insisted that the younger man work for Olympus. In a lecture, Maitani related the wrinkle in the story.
“In those days a student who refused to work for the first company to offer him a job was regarded as a disgrace to his university. I had received a job offer from an automobile manufacturer, but I pretended that I hadn’t and so went to work for Olympus instead.”
The young designer’s first assignment would find him designing nothing. Instead, he was sent to the Olympus factory for a period of “practical training” in which he was rotated to a different department every six months for two years. At the end of two years, he returned to the design department and was told, rather simply, to “Try designing something.” With this unusual degree of freedom, he set about designing a camera that would cost one quarter the price of the least expensive Olympus camera."
https://www.casualphotophile.com/2018/01/12/yoshihisa-maitani-the-man-who-made-olympus/
Semplicemente spettacolare: una museo-mostra-evento di arte digitale imperdibile (se siete a Tokyo)
Money quote: "The building is located at the Odaiba in Tokyo bay and was co-founded by the urban developer MORI Building Co.,Ltd. and digital art collective teamLab, which is known for engaging museum-goers with colorful and mesmerizing exhibitions created with cutting-edge digital technology."
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514f794d544e78457a6333566d54/share_p.html
Money quote: "The building is located at the Odaiba in Tokyo bay and was co-founded by the urban developer MORI Building Co.,Ltd. and digital art collective teamLab, which is known for engaging museum-goers with colorful and mesmerizing exhibitions created with cutting-edge digital technology."
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514f794d544e78457a6333566d54/share_p.html
Soprattutto dall'Italia il successo di Jerry Seinfield è meno visibile. Ma è misterioso anche per il mondo della televisione americana e lo star system. Ha vinto tutto, di brutto, negli anni Novanta senza che nessuno capisse come ha fatto. E poi si è tirato da una parte, fa le poche cose che lo divertono veramente perché in sostanza ha guadagnato molto e non ha bisogno. Costruisce la sua leggenda, ma molto sottotraccia. Ma la lezione fondamentale è come ci sia arrivato.
Money quote: "Stop fiddling with your website and checking your Facebook page. Close the door and write."
https://writingcooperative.com/jerry-seinfelds-3-1-billion-dollar-writing-trick-b800385458db
Money quote: "Stop fiddling with your website and checking your Facebook page. Close the door and write."
https://writingcooperative.com/jerry-seinfelds-3-1-billion-dollar-writing-trick-b800385458db
The Writing Cooperative
Jerry Seinfeld’s 3.1 Billion Dollar Writing Trick
Jerry Seinfeld wrote and starred in the most famous and profitable sitcom of all time, Seinfeld.
Entro certi limiti penso che ci meritiamo l'estinzione di massa. Decisamente.
Money quote: " In February 2013, he wrote a blog post ennoscriptd ‘How I Stopped Eating Food’, in which he reported feeling like the ‘six-million-dollar man’ after just 30 days of replacing food with a ‘thick, odourless, beige liquid’ made up of ‘every substance the body needs to survive, plus a few extras shown to be beneficial’.
The response was overwhelming. Readers of Hacker News, a website popular with programmers and tech entrepreneurs, were the first to latch on to Rhinehart’s Soylent post, encouraging him to share the recipe online. When he did, it quickly spawned an animated Reddit thread in which DIY Soylent adopters reviewed recipes, discussed magnesium sourcing, and compared bowel movements. Within three months, Rhinehart decided that demand was sufficient for him to quit his tech start-up and form his own company in order to supply Soylent to the masses. By the time Soylent 1.0 started shipping in May 2014, the company had already accumulated a backlog of more than 20,000 pre-orders, adding up to more than $2 million dollars in sales and – at a conservative estimate – a collective saving of 2,875 years."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-many-of-us-would-opt-out-of-food-if-given-the-chance
Money quote: " In February 2013, he wrote a blog post ennoscriptd ‘How I Stopped Eating Food’, in which he reported feeling like the ‘six-million-dollar man’ after just 30 days of replacing food with a ‘thick, odourless, beige liquid’ made up of ‘every substance the body needs to survive, plus a few extras shown to be beneficial’.
The response was overwhelming. Readers of Hacker News, a website popular with programmers and tech entrepreneurs, were the first to latch on to Rhinehart’s Soylent post, encouraging him to share the recipe online. When he did, it quickly spawned an animated Reddit thread in which DIY Soylent adopters reviewed recipes, discussed magnesium sourcing, and compared bowel movements. Within three months, Rhinehart decided that demand was sufficient for him to quit his tech start-up and form his own company in order to supply Soylent to the masses. By the time Soylent 1.0 started shipping in May 2014, the company had already accumulated a backlog of more than 20,000 pre-orders, adding up to more than $2 million dollars in sales and – at a conservative estimate – a collective saving of 2,875 years."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-many-of-us-would-opt-out-of-food-if-given-the-chance
Aeon
Freedom from food
It takes time to plan a meal, to say nothing of cooking and eating it. What if we could opt out of food altogether?
Singapore vuole eliminare il Singlish, il dialetto nato a cavallo tra cinese, malese, tamil e inglese. A prescindere dai desideri dell'elite tecnocratica della città-stato, la valutazione sul significato i questa classe di dialetti e i sottostanti rapporti di forza che li generano, è necessaria e dobbiamo guardarla bene, vista la trasformazione multiculturale del nostro Paese avviata ormai da venti anni. Prima che se ne approprino e ne parlino solo Lega e m5s.
Money quote: "Singlish can broadly be categorized as a creole, which is a full language that arises suddenly, usually with one language as its base, but with unique grammatical features and many words from at least one other language. This kind of language comes about when people who don’t speak the same language are suddenly living in the same place. Many creoles came from the slave trade: one person speaks one language, another speaks a second language, and they’re both moved to a place where they have to work together and live together and communicate. The base language is usually the language of the ruling class or imperial power; it’s a language that those two slaves need to understand a little, but they bring elements of their own languages into it. At first, this kind of language is classified as a pidgin, which is sort of a shorthand that exists solely for necessary communication alongside other full languages. But in some cases, it evolves into a full language of its own, one that can handle all the tasks any other language handles, at which point it’s called a creole."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/singlish-singapore-government-campaign
Money quote: "Singlish can broadly be categorized as a creole, which is a full language that arises suddenly, usually with one language as its base, but with unique grammatical features and many words from at least one other language. This kind of language comes about when people who don’t speak the same language are suddenly living in the same place. Many creoles came from the slave trade: one person speaks one language, another speaks a second language, and they’re both moved to a place where they have to work together and live together and communicate. The base language is usually the language of the ruling class or imperial power; it’s a language that those two slaves need to understand a little, but they bring elements of their own languages into it. At first, this kind of language is classified as a pidgin, which is sort of a shorthand that exists solely for necessary communication alongside other full languages. But in some cases, it evolves into a full language of its own, one that can handle all the tasks any other language handles, at which point it’s called a creole."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/singlish-singapore-government-campaign
Atlas Obscura
The Government Campaign to Get Rid of Singapore's Unofficial Language
Singlish, a creole, is spoken all over the country, but politicians want citizens to "speak good English."
Il video più bello del mese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoH2AORcEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoH2AORcEQ
YouTube
Self Solving Rubik's Cube
Pesciolino: Steve Jobs, il padre che ami ma che non vorresti - il mio articolo per Macity.
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-pesciolino-libro-della-figlia-di-jobs/
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-pesciolino-libro-della-figlia-di-jobs/
Macitynet.it
Pesciolino: Steve Jobs, il padre che ami ma che non vorresti
recensione Pesciolino: la figlia di Steve Jobs racconta il rapporto con il padre, storia più ricca e complessa di quello che si immagina
Un piccolo capolavoro del genere noir di Juan Sasturain, autore settantatreenne argentino. È un tentativo di riconciliarsi con la figura paterna edipica ma anche una auto-biografia intellettuale in un paese latinoamericano negli anni Settanta, l'Argentina, devastato dalla violenza politica e dal capitalismo selvaggio applicato alle società coloniali. È lo scontro edipico con gli Stati Uniti dentro di lui, scritto con una lingua che esalta e significa questo confronto. Sasturain è un sopravvissuto, come definì lui stesso la rivista di fumetti "Fierro", che ha diretto: "Historietas para Sobrevivientes"
Money quote: "En su reciente novela "El último Hammett", Juan Sasturain recurre a una lengua neutra, de traducción, en la que resalta el tú, a la manera de las novelas negras que se leían en Argentina en los años 60 y 70. Pero aquí se conjetura que este gesto directo sobre el uso de la lengua va más allá del homenaje y se convierte en un experimento literario donde se juegan una visión y una ética."
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/145138-traducir-una-etica
Money quote: "En su reciente novela "El último Hammett", Juan Sasturain recurre a una lengua neutra, de traducción, en la que resalta el tú, a la manera de las novelas negras que se leían en Argentina en los años 60 y 70. Pero aquí se conjetura que este gesto directo sobre el uso de la lengua va más allá del homenaje y se convierte en un experimento literario donde se juegan una visión y una ética."
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/145138-traducir-una-etica
PAGINA12
EN FOCO. El último Hammett, la reciente novela de Juan Sasturain: Traducir una ética
En su reciente novela El último Hammett, Juan Sasturain recurre a una lengua neutra, de traducción, en la que resalta el tú, a la manera de las novelas negras que se leían en Argentina en los años 60 y 70. Pero aquí se conjetura que este gesto directo ...
La storia di Abalonia. Una nota a pie' di pagina di un libro di storia particolarmente lungo e dettagliato
Money quote: "IN 1966, CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS BEGAN reporting a startling story. A B-movie actor and several California businessmen were making plans to build their own island. The chosen locale was 100 miles off the California coast, on a massive, submerged island known as Cortes Bank. Ostensibly, the goal would be to mine a rich vein of seafood, especially abalone. Only an accident kept them from building their island nation. It was going to be called “Lemuria,” the name of a lost continent. But the media coined another, more compelling name: “Abalonia.”"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cortes-bank
Money quote: "IN 1966, CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS BEGAN reporting a startling story. A B-movie actor and several California businessmen were making plans to build their own island. The chosen locale was 100 miles off the California coast, on a massive, submerged island known as Cortes Bank. Ostensibly, the goal would be to mine a rich vein of seafood, especially abalone. Only an accident kept them from building their island nation. It was going to be called “Lemuria,” the name of a lost continent. But the media coined another, more compelling name: “Abalonia.”"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cortes-bank
Atlas Obscura
Abalonia: The Island Nation That Never Was
It was meant to be a seafood paradise.
iOS 12 ti amo, iOS 12 ti odio - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/ios-12-che-cosa-ci-piace-e-che-cosa-non-ci-piace/
https://www.macitynet.it/ios-12-che-cosa-ci-piace-e-che-cosa-non-ci-piace/
Macitynet.it
iOS 12 ti amo, iOS 12 ti odio - Macitynet.it
la nostra lista ios 12 cose belle e anche quelle che non ci piacciono dell'ultimo sistema operativo mobile di Apple per iPhone e iPad
Cara Apple, adesso muoviti e facci sognare (di nuovo) - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/cara-apple/
https://www.macitynet.it/cara-apple/
Macitynet.it
Cara Apple, adesso muoviti e facci sognare (di nuovo) - Macitynet.it
Una lettera alla casa di Cupertino: cosa pretendiamo da Apple prima della fine dell’anno
E se ancora non l'avevate trovato, ecco a voi il sistema facile-facile di autoaiuto del neurochirurgo. Che, in quanto tale (la versione moderna del rocket scientist) ne sa più di noi comuni mortali
Money quote: "If you feel like you're constantly playing catch-up with no time to achieve personal or professional fulfillment, it's possible to turn it all around by changing one thing about your day: your morning routine."
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-morning-routine-neurosurgeon-2018-6?IR=T
Money quote: "If you feel like you're constantly playing catch-up with no time to achieve personal or professional fulfillment, it's possible to turn it all around by changing one thing about your day: your morning routine."
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-morning-routine-neurosurgeon-2018-6?IR=T
Business Insider
I'm a neurosurgeon, and the best morning routine I've found only consists of 3 simple steps
Having a productive morning routine can set you up for a successful day. As a neurosurgeon, wrestling coach, author, speaker, and dad, my morning routine is the secret to my success. Here are three simple steps to creating a successful morning routine.
Scrittrici di fantascienza da leggere su Fumettologica, mio articolo. Ci tengo moltissimo, anche perché c'è un sacco di lavoro dietro. Un articolo così, con 22 scrittrici fantascienza che dovreste leggere richiede giorni di lavoro e una vita di libri per essere scritto. Ma mi sono divertito da matti!
Money quote: "Molti dei libri delle autrici segnalate non sono disponibili in italiano o non lo sono più. Ho cercato di privilegiare quelli che mi sono piaciuti di più e che si possano anche trovare in ebook, su Amazon o su eBay. Ovviamente, “your mileage may vary”."
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/10/libri-fantascienza-scrittrici-leggere/
Money quote: "Molti dei libri delle autrici segnalate non sono disponibili in italiano o non lo sono più. Ho cercato di privilegiare quelli che mi sono piaciuti di più e che si possano anche trovare in ebook, su Amazon o su eBay. Ovviamente, “your mileage may vary”."
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/10/libri-fantascienza-scrittrici-leggere/
Fumettologica
22 scrittrici di fantascienza che dovreste leggere
Una lista di scrittrici di fantascianza di tutte le generazioni, autrici di alcuni libri importanti, selezionati e consigliati per voi.
Se fossimo nati tanto tempo fa in America Latina, dove un tempo c'erano gli Aztechi, avremmo interiorizzato un'etica profondamente diversa da quella occidentale. In questo senso, secondo i costruttivisti (coloro i quali ritengono che la rappresentazione della realtà, e quindi il mondo in cui viviamo, sia il risultato dell'attività costruttrice delle nostre strutture cognitive, assumendo perciò una prospettiva spesso relativistica e soggettivista) saremmo persone intimamente diverse. Che poi - ed è un bel paradosso - un altro modo di vederla è quello che viene fuori pensando invece allo strutturalismo, il non-movimento che rifiuta il concetto di libertà e scelta umana e si concentra invece sul modo in cui l'esperienza e il comportamento umano sono determinati dalle varie strutture.
Comunque la si voglia vedere e pensare, rispetto a noi un azteco è un alieno.
Money quote: "While Plato and Aristotle were concerned with character-centred virtue ethics, the Aztec approach is perhaps better described as socially-centred virtue ethics. If the Aztecs were right, then ‘Western’ philosophers have been too focused on individuals, too reliant on assessments of character, and too optimistic about the individual’s ability to correct her own vices. Instead, according to the Aztecs, we should look around to our family and friends, as well as our ordinary rituals or routines, if we hope to lead a better, more worthwhile existence."
https://aeon.co/essays/aztec-moral-philosophy-didnt-expect-anyone-to-be-a-saint
Comunque la si voglia vedere e pensare, rispetto a noi un azteco è un alieno.
Money quote: "While Plato and Aristotle were concerned with character-centred virtue ethics, the Aztec approach is perhaps better described as socially-centred virtue ethics. If the Aztecs were right, then ‘Western’ philosophers have been too focused on individuals, too reliant on assessments of character, and too optimistic about the individual’s ability to correct her own vices. Instead, according to the Aztecs, we should look around to our family and friends, as well as our ordinary rituals or routines, if we hope to lead a better, more worthwhile existence."
https://aeon.co/essays/aztec-moral-philosophy-didnt-expect-anyone-to-be-a-saint
Aeon
Life on the slippery Earth
Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect
L’articolo più letto su GQ UK?
Money quote: “What should a man put as his Tinder picture?”
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/male-tinder-pictures-tips
Money quote: “What should a man put as his Tinder picture?”
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/male-tinder-pictures-tips
British GQ
How to take a good photo for dating apps
The art of dating profile photos isn’t hard to master, and yet so many people get it wrong. We speak to the professionals about how to make sure you sell yourself as best you can
È noioso come la Svizzera o i paesi scandinavi. Ma almeno non è tossico. Ecco perché dovremmo tutti lasciare Twitter e andare su Tumblr.
Money quote: “What made Tumblr so great? Again, I think about it in comparison with Twitter, and have pulled out a few reasons”
https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back
Money quote: “What made Tumblr so great? Again, I think about it in comparison with Twitter, and have pulled out a few reasons”
https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back
The Outline
Let’s all go back to Tumblr
A reconsideration of the last great blogging platform.