"Quest'opera appartiene all'Impressionismo, perchè impressiona". Disse Stefloo

Primo test della tavoletta grafica pagata pochi euro. Pensavo fosse un pochino più semplice. In realtà il mio cervello si sta adattando ad una tecnologia un po' arretrata (difficile trovare di meglio a basso costo). Magari fra 14 anni riuscirò anche a farmi una T-shirt come quelle della Regina d'Italia. Che ancora mi deve dare il link. Le rimangono altri due giorni. Poi entra in azione il piano B. Quello che parla di alluci, cemento, teste di cavallo, bagagliaio, deserto e tanta allegria.

Amen

Ciiiiiiiccio..Ciiiiiiiiiiiiiccio

Se Franco Franchi è musulmano, allora mi converto anch'io. Anche se non ho le tette. Ed ho anche la barba.

“There’s only two kinds of music, Blues and Zip-a-dee-doo-dah.”

Townes Van Zandt

Gary the Business Man

Questo è il nuovo business. Il funky business. Si contratta a colpi d'anca ed a passi di "disco-music".

Voglio diventare come Gary da grande.

English Bulldog watching TV (Family Guy) sitting on a couch

Futurama Writer Created And Proved A Brand New Math Theorem Just For Last Night’s Episode

We all knew the writing staff of Futurama was brainy, but this is something else. To work out the ridiculous brain switching plot line from last night’s hilarious episode, writer Ken Keeler (who also just happens to have a PhD in mathematics) ended up writing and proving an entirely new theorem. This is probably the most impressive bit of side work from a TV writer since a writer of Desperate Housewives discovered a new species or the staff of Full House developed a vaccine for a specific strain of syphilis.

In the episode “The Prisoner of Benda,” the Professor and Amy use a new invention to switch bodies. Unfortunately, they discover that the same two brains can’t switch twice and have to come up with some equation to prove that, with enough people switching, eventually everyone will end up in their rightful form. This, of course, leads to much hijinks as well as the grossest sex scene the show has ever done (take that, Prof. Farnsworth and Mom!).

Of course, Keeler decided to go the hard route and come up with a suitable equation himself. It was first teased in an interview that head writer and executive producer David X. Cohen gave to the American Physical Society:

“In an APS News exclusive, Cohen reveals for the first time that in the 10th episode of the upcoming season, tentatively entitled “The Prisoner of Benda,” a theorem based on group theory was specifically written (and proven!) by staffer/PhD mathematician Ken Keeler to explain a plot twist. Cohen can’t help but chuckle at the irony: his television-writing rule is that entertainment trumps science, but in this special case, a mathematical theorem was penned for the sake of entertainment.”

Now that the episode has aired, we can check out the theorem in full. Well, I won’t. I suck at math. But the people over at the Futurama wiki The Infosphere have. If there’s anyone as smart as Futurama writers, it’s Futurama fans.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go continue to clean that sex scene out of my brain.

by Jon Bershad | 3:57 pm, August 20th, 2010

Non so se era la Madonna che mi annunciava la morte o il sonnambulo tedesco in ombra.

Vivo nel terrore. Dopo quella maledetta seconda notte..
Ogni volta che chiudo gli occhi spero non ricapiti. Svegliarsi all'improvviso perchè un tedesco in ombra urla frasi in TETESCO nel bel mezzo della notte non fa bene. No no..
Sarà che ero in fase REM, sarà che ho visto un attimo la Madonna per lo spavento, ma per un secondo, non appena mi sono trovato il crucco sonnambulo in piedi davanti a me, mi sono sentito un po'prigioniero di guerra ed un po' con un piede nella fossa.
Poi si è ripreso per fortuna. Ha detto che forse era meglio se andava al bagno.
Ed io che non ho più dormito in pace.

freaky soup guy

perchè? perchè omini della Lego accarezzano un tizio che si mangia zuppa piangendo?

Intelligence debate...Stephen Fry

The Intelligence² Debate - Stephen Fry (Unedited)
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Brainless slime mould makes decisions like humans

Posted by Abeo August 13, 2010 at 9:16 am

“A couple arrive at a fancy restaurant and they’re offered the wine list. This establishment only has two bottles on offer, one costing £5 and the other costing £25. The second bottle seems too expensive and the diners select the cheaper one. The next week, they return. Now, there’s a third bottle on the list but it’s a vintage, priced at a staggering £1,000. Suddenly, the £25 bottle doesn’t seem all that expensive, and this time, the diners choose it instead.

Businesses use this tactic all the time – an extremely expensive option is used to make mid-range ones suddenly seem like attractive buys. The strategy only works because humans like to compare our options, rather than paying attention to their absolute values. In the wine example, the existence of the third bottle shouldn’t matter – the £25 option costs the same amount either way, but in one scenario it looks like a rip-off and in another, it looks like a steal. The simple fact is that to us, a thing’s value depends on the things around it. Economists often refer to this as “irrational”.

But if that’s the case, we’re not alone in our folly. Other animals, from birds to bees, make choices in the same way. Now, Tanya Latty and Madeleine Beekman from the University of Sydney, have found the same style of decision-making in a creature that’s completely unlike any of these animals – the slime mould, Physarum polycephalum. It’s a single-celled, amoeba-like creature that doesn’t have a brain.

Physarum spends most of its life as a large mat called a ‘plasmodium’, which is a single cell that contains many nuclei. The plasmodium searches for food by moving along like an amoeba and sending out a network of tendrils. Its search patterns are very sophisticated for a brainless organism. A Japanese group found that if they placed the mould among food sources arranged like Tokyo’s urban centres, it created a network that closely resembled Tokyo’s actual railway system. The slimy network was optimised to transport nutrients to the main plasmodium.

Scientists have long since discovered that you can run simple decision-making experiments with Physarum by presenting it with several food sources and seeing how it behaves. Typically, the plasmodium touches all the potential meals and then either ‘decides’ to move towards one, or splits itself among many.”

Read more at Discover

Django Reinhardt - J'attendrai Swing 1939

Forse il più grande chitarrista di tutti i tempi, Django Reinhardt. Con sole due dita (le altre tre le aveva mezze perse in un incendio all'età di 18 anni) riusciva a creare un suono maestoso.

Che tempi...

LIGHTNING IN SLO-MO

“This fantastic footage of a lightning storm was filmed at 9,000 frames a second and then played back real slow.”

Posted by Abeo August 9, 2010 at 8:44 am