In which I am totally hypnotized by the retro art from the illustrator of Monkey-Islandian memory and set on a mission to have it always close to my eyes. …
8-bit color cycling time-aware live wallpapers by Mark Ferrari
Tag: macro
Turn a ramen shop into a pasta bar
In which I go to Japan, fall in love with small ramen shops and think of adapting the model to Italian food. …
That is so Hollywood
[Citation not needed] Sandra Zober Sandra Zober was an actress. She was the first wife of actor Leonard Nimoy, with whom she had two children. […] She eventually joined a support group for women divorced from Hollywood stars that was initially called Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane (LADIES), but was soon renamed the Hollywood Dumpettes. …
Content Marketing Deluge
Some days ago this presentation got my attention: Crap. The Content Marketing Deluge. from Velocity Partners Download It felt daring because it was expressing something that a lot of us think, but very few Marketing Agencies have the guts of saying so bluntly. My friend Peçanha happened to be in town and he knows a thing …
Gelato Jilatu
I think it was my brother who first introduced me to the concept of Wiki-nationalism. This happens when an article on Wikipedia says very different things in different languages, reflecting the point of view of a given country or culture. I remember laughing while reading the article on Christopher Columbus in English, Spanish and Italian. The English …
Keep up with the times
The mechanism of Antikythera is an ancient Greek “Analogue computer” used to calculate astronomical positions. It’s a fascinating piece of technology that represents the earliest known mechanical clockwork: it is believed to have functioned as a set of at least 30 different bronze gears which several studies tried to reconstruct as digital or physical models. Its …
You are human, aren’t you?
I firmly believe that you want to believe that. Don’t know if Sam Vaknin is the real deal, but in the best tradition of the Turing test, if he fools the experts, he probably is. Either way, this is a chilly (but curious to watch) documentary. …
Working on a Music Playlist Generator of sorts
In which I dump metadata for 1.3 million artists and wonder what to do with it next. Spoiler alert: it’s a bipolar playlist generator. …
Alpheidae, the fireball-throwing shrimp
[Citation not needed] The snapping shrimp competes with much larger animals such as the sperm whale and beluga whale for the title of loudest animal in the sea. The animal snaps a specialized claw shut to create a cavitation bubble that generates acoustic pressures of up to 80 kPa at a distance of 4 …
Full Codex Magliabechiano PDF
Despite their goriness, I absolutely love the aesthetics of the Aztec Codices. I was going through the pages of the Codex Magliabechiano when I stumbled upon a line that caught my attention: En esta fiesta celebrauan otro demonio. q[ue] se dezia ometuchtli que es el dios de las borracheras. During this festivity [the Aztecs] …