Archive for September, 2005
Fri 30 Sep 2005
Nessuno pretende di giudicare un film basandosi su un trailer, ma vedere The Shining conciato a mo’ di sottogenere della più zuccherosa commedia romantica americana di fine anni ’70 abbatte in un sol colpo ogni velleità residua e predispone mentalmente a quelle filosofie che situano la realtà lontano da ciò che è percepito dai sensi.
In una parola, divertentissimo.
(Quicktime, 9.36 Mb, 1:20, via Waxy)
UPDATE: grazie ai blog e al passaparola in rete qualche pezzo grosso di Hollywood si è ritrovato lo spoof trailer tra le mani e ha fatto il diavolo a quattro per scovarne l’autore, e così ora Robert Ryang, 25 anni, assistente al montaggio, è diventato all’improvviso un uomo da New York Times.
UPDATE 2: dallo stesso autore, il trailer di West Side Story, l’horror.
(Quicktime, 6.8 Mb, 1:17)
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Thu 29 Sep 2005
- Another Brick in the Wall.
(Mp3, 10.3 Mb, 4:30, in tedesco)
- Flow3.
- Come pubblicare il proprio sketchbook sul web senza possedere uno scanner.
- “Gmail was used internally for nearly 2 years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.”
(da An evening with Googles Marissa Mayer)
- Photoshop Clone Tool for Real Life.
(Quicktime, 9.3 Mb, 2:41, qui l’intera follia)
Wed 28 Sep 2005
- Satoogle Face (non fatevi domande).
- “A frame by frame analysis of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet“. Non vedo l’ora di arrivare alla scena dell’orecchio.
- Submachine.
- “Woogle creates image messages out of the words in the phrase you entered.”
Qui un esempio.
Update: leggete il primo commento.
- Google Recruiting Video, nel quale si scopre che il futuro del web è nelle mani di una società composta di 23-enni (del resto i bambini di oggi hanno tre cellulari).
- The PubSub LinkRanks 1000.
- Meanwhile.
- Desert Trip.
(Quicktime, 3 Mb, 0:30)
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Tue 27 Sep 2005
- La legge di Goodwin sostiene:
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
Ho fatto una prova veloce sul blog di Beppe Grillo, e sembra che “Hitler” compaia solo nei post con più di 1000 commenti.
- “I was a little surprised,” Professor Varian said. “I expected this to be accurate because there’s a lot of literature and experience with these systems. But this has been even better than I expected.”
(Google God?)
- “I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say, Holy fuck.”
- “Gates was eager for his programmers to add a fundamental change to Windows called WinFS that would let PC users search and organise information better. WinFS was so troublesome that engineers began talking about whether they could make the “pig fly”. Images of pigs with wings started appearing in presentations and offices.”
(Microsoft Windows Is Offically Broken)
- Best hyperlinks of the web.
- “A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.”
(Divine Proportions, il primo capitolo in PDF è qui)
- The collective consciousness is attempting to create a banana.
Mon 26 Sep 2005
- iiiiiiii.
- Conway’s proof of The Free Will Theorem.
- “Ohnosecond – That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error”.
(da New Office Slang)
- Hyper Frame.
- Britney Spears spelling correction.
- ComiX (un gioiellino).
- Sheepfilms.
- “Have fun listening to and tuning your audio equipment. Remember that following this guide probably is a lot cheaper (and more fun) than buying new, expensive equipment from the local hi-fi quack.”
- King of the Mountain, il nuovo singolo di Kate Bush.
- Toy Noise.
- Work in Progress, by Industrial Light & Magic.
(Quicktime, 47 Mb, 5:40, via DeK)
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Fri 23 Sep 2005
- The psychedelic superdubber machine from outer space.
- “I printed 50,000 speech bubble stickers. I place them on top of movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City. Passers are invited to fill them in. I go back and photograph the results“.
- Steal These Buttons.
- Spybotics.
- Tracking Rita with Google Maps.
Fri 30 Sep 2005
Nessuno pretende di giudicare un film basandosi su un trailer, ma vedere The Shining conciato a mo’ di sottogenere della più zuccherosa commedia romantica americana di fine anni ’70 abbatte in un sol colpo ogni velleità residua e predispone mentalmente a quelle filosofie che situano la realtà lontano da ciò che è percepito dai sensi.
In una parola, divertentissimo.
(Quicktime, 9.36 Mb, 1:20, via Waxy)
UPDATE: grazie ai blog e al passaparola in rete qualche pezzo grosso di Hollywood si è ritrovato lo spoof trailer tra le mani e ha fatto il diavolo a quattro per scovarne l’autore, e così ora Robert Ryang, 25 anni, assistente al montaggio, è diventato all’improvviso un uomo da New York Times.
UPDATE 2: dallo stesso autore, il trailer di West Side Story, l’horror.
(Quicktime, 6.8 Mb, 1:17)
Thu 29 Sep 2005
- Another Brick in the Wall.
(Mp3, 10.3 Mb, 4:30, in tedesco)
- Flow3.
- Come pubblicare il proprio sketchbook sul web senza possedere uno scanner.
- “Gmail was used internally for nearly 2 years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.”
(da An evening with Googles Marissa Mayer)
- Photoshop Clone Tool for Real Life.
(Quicktime, 9.3 Mb, 2:41, qui l’intera follia)
Wed 28 Sep 2005
- Satoogle Face (non fatevi domande).
- “A frame by frame analysis of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet“. Non vedo l’ora di arrivare alla scena dell’orecchio.
- Submachine.
- “Woogle creates image messages out of the words in the phrase you entered.”
Qui un esempio.
Update: leggete il primo commento.
- Google Recruiting Video, nel quale si scopre che il futuro del web è nelle mani di una società composta di 23-enni (del resto i bambini di oggi hanno tre cellulari).
- The PubSub LinkRanks 1000.
- Meanwhile.
- Desert Trip.
(Quicktime, 3 Mb, 0:30)
Tue 27 Sep 2005
- La legge di Goodwin sostiene:
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
Ho fatto una prova veloce sul blog di Beppe Grillo, e sembra che “Hitler” compaia solo nei post con più di 1000 commenti.
- “I was a little surprised,” Professor Varian said. “I expected this to be accurate because there’s a lot of literature and experience with these systems. But this has been even better than I expected.”
(Google God?)
- “I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say, Holy fuck.”
- “Gates was eager for his programmers to add a fundamental change to Windows called WinFS that would let PC users search and organise information better. WinFS was so troublesome that engineers began talking about whether they could make the “pig fly”. Images of pigs with wings started appearing in presentations and offices.”
(Microsoft Windows Is Offically Broken)
- Best hyperlinks of the web.
- “A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.”
(Divine Proportions, il primo capitolo in PDF è qui)
- The collective consciousness is attempting to create a banana.
Mon 26 Sep 2005
- iiiiiiii.
- Conway’s proof of The Free Will Theorem.
- “Ohnosecond – That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error”.
(da New Office Slang)
- Hyper Frame.
- Britney Spears spelling correction.
- ComiX (un gioiellino).
- Sheepfilms.
- “Have fun listening to and tuning your audio equipment. Remember that following this guide probably is a lot cheaper (and more fun) than buying new, expensive equipment from the local hi-fi quack.”
- King of the Mountain, il nuovo singolo di Kate Bush.
- Toy Noise.
- Work in Progress, by Industrial Light & Magic.
(Quicktime, 47 Mb, 5:40, via DeK)
Fri 23 Sep 2005
- The psychedelic superdubber machine from outer space.
- “I printed 50,000 speech bubble stickers. I place them on top of movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City. Passers are invited to fill them in. I go back and photograph the results“.
- Steal These Buttons.
- Spybotics.
- Tracking Rita with Google Maps.