Novembre 2011
La Morte e il Comunista d'Unità Proletaria →
Se avessimo a disposizione soltanto dieci righe per descriver[e i radical chic], forse quelle righe le ha scritte Simonetta Fiori ieri, siringando molta, troppa, ironia (involontaria?) in un pezzo che era oggettivamente difficile da scrivere: il resoconto della morte di Lucio Magri, come lo hanno vissuto nella sua casa i suoi amici distanti. In teoria, una situazione agghiacciante. E invece...
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov (via Andrea Beggi)
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I really *hate* the fact there’s a marmite spill on the M1. Or do I love it?
Tue Nov 29 08:47:15 via web
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Is Paul Tobin The Most Widely Read Superhero... →
He writes the Marvel Adventures books for Marvel, their no. 1 subscription titles, that get republished all across Europe and South America on newsstands.
He wrote one of the Golden Grahams Justice League comics with a 3.5 million print run.
He writes stacks of Marvel custom comics sold with toys, and for commercial promotions that have million-string print runs, such as for recent Taco Bell...
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Cosplay Corner: Cosplayers SoDespair and La Vash bring MTV’s most sarcastic animated teenagers — Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane — to life in a straight-out-of-the-’90s photoshoot.
It’s as true now as it was then: there’s no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can’t be improved by pizza.
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Svetlana Iosifovna Allilueva (Lana Peters),...
The daughter of “a moral and spiritual monster”.
[Hat tip @GioiaGuerzoni]
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Ken Russell, 1927-2011
“Oliver Reed and Alan Bates wrestling nude”, non so se rende l’idea di chi fosse.
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Jabba The Huttcake of the Day: Star Wars’ most notorious Hutt crime lord Jabba has been transformed into a bite-sized dessert.
This creation was made by cupcake-topper specialist Marilee of Miss M’s Cupcakes.
Slave Leia cupcake charm sold separately.
[CupcakesTaketheCake]
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Tintin with a tauntaun. That is all. →
If we’re going to place Benjamin Rivers’ illustration of Hergé’s boy adventurer in canon, then the Himalayas must be chock full of bipedal creatures whose olfactory formidableness is perpetually underestimated. Additionally, you can find a print celebrating the lost Japanese robot classic Bucket Robot and Golden Man over at Rivers’ site. Click on the above image to...
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“Cari 170.000 followers, che seguite con impegno e passione Stefano Gabbana, del...”
– Linkiesta.it » Stasera tutti a mangiare da Dolce e Gabbana…
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European Union File Sharing Ruling of the Day: The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that courts in the European Union can’t order Internet service providers to filter out file sharing traffic from their networks.
The ruling was the end of a case between Belgian copyright group Sabam and an ISP called Scarlet, which started in 2004 when Sabam got a Belgian court to order Scarlet...
Weird experiment recreates the sounds our distant... →
Basically, the air sacs were like bass drums, which created low frequency resonance and, in turn, made the vowel sounds combine and become indistinguishable.
This means that Lucy [Australopithecus afarensis] and her people would have had tremendous difficulty distinguishing between even the most basic of words - something like “tin” and “ten” would sound essentially...
Where Does Your Favorite Alien Fit in io9's... →
Science fiction is overrun with Martians, from monstrous invaders to shapeshifting superheroes to Santa-kidnapping buffoons. To make sense of over a century’s worth of Martians, we present this grid ranking scifi Martians on their goodness and just how alien they are (click to expand).
We figure all Martians can be assessed on two basic rubrics: for their behavior, there’s the...
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La legge bavaglio in Sudafrica →
La legislazione precedente in materia era piuttosto repressiva e risaliva a quando nel paese era ancora valido il sistema di segregazione razziale noto come apartheid (abolito nel 1994) e la legge approvata oggi intende sostituirla. Era stata proposta per la prima volta dall’allora ministro dei Servizi Segreti Ronnie Kasrils, un importante esponente dell’African National Congress (il...
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Andrea True, 1943-2011
Born in Nashville, True — real name Andrea Marie Truden — moved to New York City as a teenager to pursue a career in acting. After getting small parts in films such as ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘40 Carats,’ True turned to pornography and became a leading lady in the industry, appearing in movies like ‘Deep Throat Part II’ and ‘Lady on the...
“«Avete quel libro che uno lo legge, e all’improvviso gli fa schifo fumarsi...”
– L’apprendista libraio » Quel libro
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It was 48 years ago today that Doctor Who taught so many of us to play.
Wed Nov 23 08:32:14 via web
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10 Reasons Coffee is Both the Best and the Worst... →
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The Boundary Effect: Entering a New Room Makes You... →
The University of Notre Dame recently conducted a study on this phenomenon, concluding that walking through doorways causes memory to lapse. As researcher Gabriel Radvansky explained, “Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away.”
That means that by the time you’re staring blankly at the kitchen ...
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periferiagalattica:
Fra quanti giorni è previsto che i giornali smettano di gridare “Ma quant’è normale il nuovo presidente del consiglio, eh?”.
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Can Pakistan Ban 'Jesus' and 1,600 Other 'Obscene'... →
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority told mobile carriers to begin blocking text messages Nov. 21 containing words from a list of more than 1,600 “obscene” terms.
Though companies were instructed to start enforcing the ban, Newsweek Pakistan reported Monday that mobile carriers had deferred it as they seek additional clarification from the government.
A Nov. 14 letter outlining the new...
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F for Fake (and Fear) →
[S]u Twitter […] da qualche tempo […] agiva un amabile fake dell’attuale premier, @palazzochigi. Che ha una lunga storia, ben riassunta da Jumpinshark, e che si era conquistato un ampio seguito con tweet di questo tenore: “Italia è ora di dormire. Domani iniziano i sacrifici.Dormire presto significa risparmiare energia e avere una vita rigorosa e austera”. Insomma, qualcosa di...
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Saviano parla agli indignados di Wall Street, che... →
Con l’arrivo di Roberto Saviano a New York, il movimento di Occupy Wall Street (Ows) ha parlato italiano. Almeno per un giorno. Ma ad assistere al discorso dell’autore del best seller Gomorra – conosciuto e tradotto anche negli Stati Uniti – c’erano circa solo 300 persone, come ha scritto in un twit l’ottimo corrispondente della Stampa Maurizio Molinari. Anche...
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A #Zuccotti_Park in attesa di #Saviano: giornalisti italiani 95, indignati 3, poliziotti 0
Sat Nov 19 16:18:00 via Twitter for iPhone
Andrea Marinelli
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“Anonymous è il nuovo film di Roland Emmerich, uno dei registi-simbolo del cinema...”
– Kekkoz su Friday Prejudice.
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Finally, the Lord Of The Rings/Muppet Crossover... →
Behold Fozzie Bear carrying Kermit up the Mountain of Mordor, witness the Animal/Gimly mashup, and watch as Sweetums stalks a pack of muppetized hobbits. It’s a glorious Jim Henson and J.R.R. Tolkien art mashup!
This “worlds collide” spectacle is brought to you by the excellent folks over at Draw2d2 (whose great art mashups we’ve featured before).
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“The setting is Seoul, in Japan-colonized Korea. Jun-shik, who lives and works in a large Japanese estate—which belongs to Tatsuo’s grandfather—and Tatsuo are rivals, both aiming to become competitors in the upcoming marathon. Jun-shik becomes elected to participate in the Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner, but war breaks out with the U.S.S.R. and he is forced to...
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