Giugno 2011
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Robert Morris, 1932-2011
Robert Morris, a computer science pioneer who contributed to the creation of the Unix operating system, passed away on Sunday at age 78.
Morris joined the Unix group at Bell Labs in 1970, and contributed to the operating system’s password security and encryption functions. He was hired by the National Security Agency in the ’80s, after writing a paper that exposed a German encryption device...
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Anti-Kim Graffiti Found in Pyongyang →
According to one Chinese-Korean trader working between the North Korean capital and Dandong, China, “Graffiti denouncing Kim Jong Il was found on the wall of Pyongyang Railroad College on the 24th; the inspections and regulations are phenomenal. Nobody can come or go from Pyongyang.”
The graffiti apparently stated, “Park Chung Hee and Kim Jong Il are both dictators; Park Chung Hee a dictator...
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Revelation 9 of the Day: Had John Lennon voted in the 1980 presidential elections, he would have pulled the lever for Ronald Reagan according to his personal assistant Fred Seaman.
Seaman, who was Lennon’s assistant from 1979 until his untimely death the following year, told Beatles Stories director Seth Swirsky that Lennon had taken a political turn to the right in his last years after...
“[L]’abilità narrativa e linguistica di Lansdale è ormai, da lungo tempo, un dato...”
– Luca Conti » La gioventù accerchiata
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Segretaria Pd gira film porno, si dimette →
Divideva la passione per la politica con quella per l’hard, così una giovane segretaria di un circolo Pd della provincia di Pisa ha deciso di girare un film porno. Nonostante la mascherina indossata durante le scene a luci rosse sarebbe stata riconosciuta confrontando le immagini con quelle del suo profilo su Facebook. Il passo inevitabile è stato quello delle dimissioni dal suo ruolo nel...
GuardaSkimpy Chainmail of the Day: CollegeHumor tries to put the “class” back in “armor class” with a pointed critique of popular female armor styles.
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Johann Hari denies accusations of plagiarism →
“A high profile interviewer and columnist with the Independent was at the centre of a plagiarism row and a Twitter storm on Tuesday after he said that he inserted quotes into interviews he had conducted that were taken from the subject’s writings and not from the original interview itself.
Johann Hari, who has written for the newspaper over the past decade, said in a blogpost...
“I’m talking with various publishers about digital right now — mostly in a...”
– Warren Ellis » A Collection Of Rambling On The Subject Of Digital Comics
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N Korean children begging, army starving →
Footage shot inside North Korea and obtained by the ABC has revealed the extent of chronic food shortages and malnutrition inside the secretive state.
The video is some of the most revealing footage ever smuggled out of the impoverished North Korean state.
Shot over several months by an undercover North Korean journalist, the harrowing footage shows images of filthy, homeless and orphaned ...
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Game of Thrones Muppets of the Day: You may think of some of the characters in Game of Thrones as political puppets, but artist Yehudi Mercado decided to take that literally. He drew the Starks, the Lannisters and the rest as Muppets characters in “Game of Thrones of Muppets.”
Kermit’s a little too skinny to play Eddard Stark, but the casting is mostly spot-on. Prince Joffrizzo? LOL.
More...
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5 Movie Fan Theories That Make More Sense Than the... →
At some point, we’ve all seen the finale of a TV show or movie and thought, “I could have written a better ending than that.” (We’re still bitter about 24 not ending with Jack Bauer exploding from all the accumulated urine in his body, like our write-in campaign suggested.) That’s why there is a thriving culture of fan theories that flood the Internet in...
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L’Italia migliore, dice →
“Nonostante la vittoria del Sì al secondo quesito dei referendum, in Puglia le tariffe dell’acqua non scenderanno. Nemmeno di quel 7 per cento di remunerazione del capitale investito che è stato abrogato. Il presidente Vendola ha spiegato che «è indispensabile fare i conti con la realtà per non precipitare nei burroni della demagogia» e quindi «non abbasseremo le tariffe». Perché? ...
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“Dean Wormer’s office, as it appears in the film, where the dead-horse scene...”
– Eugene: The cafeteria from Animal House, su The A.V. Club.
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“La questione è: ancora loro? Sono quasi vent’anni che i MCR suonano a ogni...”
– Giovanni Robertini » Meno lotta e più classe
“Ho visto sulla tv online della Gazzetta di Parma le proteste dei cittadini fuori...”
– Wittgenstein » Le sfiorite rose del Lungoparma
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“Unicorn tracks, obviously.”
[FAILblog]
Il cibo biologico è un'illusione ma agli italiani... →
“«Nonostante la crescente domanda di prodotti biologici, la loro qualità nutrizionale è carente». A confermare le indicazioni dell’Unione Europea secondo la quale scegliere questo tipo di alimenti fa bene all’ambiente ma non necessariamente alla salute, è l’American journal of Clinical Nutrition. Come spiega in una sua ricerca pubblicata lo scorso anno (sulla base di una...
“When You’re Strange è un documentario sui Doors diretto da Tom DiCillo. Ve...”
– Kekkoz su Friday Prejudice.
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#PosteEPICfail →
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Gene Colan, 1926-2011
1976: apro il mio primo numero del Dracula della Corno.
Bam. Hooked.
All’epoca dovevo avere per forza già scoperto anche il suo Daredevil, ma è il vampiro quello che è rimasto. Come per tantissimi fumettomani della mia generazione.
(Hat tip a Tito Faraci)
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“Doctors say the cocaine hitting the streets in New York and Los Angeles is now...”
– Philip Caulfield sul New York Daily News (via Warren Ellis).
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"Un tuffo nel passato" e i misteri della censura... →
Dolores Point Five: “[Negli USA], la R è il visto più comune per i prodotti che mirano a un pubblico di ventenni, e non condanna per forza all’insuccesso commerciale. Anche perché la si aggira con la presenza del cosiddetto ‘adulto responsabile’. Perciò, se avessi visto questo film ad Akron, Ohio, sarebbe stato a totale discrezione mia decidere per cosa era pronto il...
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“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as...”
– David Foster Wallace, da This is Water, 2005
(via Andrea Plazzi)
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“Quarto, il punto più importante: insopportabile doppia morale del giornale nei...”
– Anonima precaria, citata da loscarafaggio su Il Cannocchiale blog.
Reimemegination of the Day: By Rager FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUrgreaves.
[memebase.]
[The Daily What]
Mia figlia, che ha appena scoperto i Mr Men e le Little Miss-es, apprezzerà sicuramente.
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GuardaAaand it’s out at last: Everything is a Remix, Part 3.
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10 Interesting Facts Behind Popular Posters →
“Half way through the first round, Liston fell to the canvas, which many believe was not a legitimate knockdown. Ali then refused to go to a neutral corner. Instead, Ali stood over Liston, gesturing and yelling at him, «Get up and fight, sucker!» It was then when Liefer snapped the now iconic photo.”
“best greeting card I’ve seen in a long time” via reddit
[TDW Geeks]
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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In... →
“I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.”
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