Vedi la preparazione su: Isabelle Cooking
Presentata dal Vicesindaco Carmela Brunetti al Lido di casalecchio la guida al territorio di Casalecchio di Reno dopo una passeggiata con più di 30 escursionisti. La guida al territorio in forma cartacea e pubblicata in PDF sul sito del comune dove la si può scaricare a piacimento. Tutti gli itinerari si possono trovare anche sulla applicazione gratuita FuoriBologna per android ed apple. Nell' opuscolo cartaceo, molto ben fatto, in ogni itinerario esiste anche il codice QR-Code fotografabile con uno smartphone per poi avere informazioni sulla passeggiata che si vuole fare.
The Tronsmart MK908 is an Android TV stick with a Rockchip RK3188 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage. You can plug it into any TV with an HDMI port and hook it up to your WiFi network to stream internet video, play games, surf the web, or run other Android apps on your TV.
It sells for about $86, and it’s one of the fastest devices of its type that I’ve tested. Right now the MK908 ships with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean pre-loaded. But if you want to install Android 4.2, there’s an official software update. You can find download links and instructions at the Geekbuying blog.
Among other things, the new release resolves problems some users have had with audio and Netflix performance. The update should also let you use the RkRemoteControl app to turn your Android phone or tablet into a wireless remote control for the MK908.
If you want a little more control over your device, there’s also already a custom ROM based on the official Android 4.2 firmware.
Developer Finless from FreakTab has built Finless ROM 1.5 for the MK908. It comes pre-rooted, removes some of the pre-loaded apps to free up space, and includes a tweak so that even apps Google things aren’t compatible with the device will show up in the Play Store.
Tronsmart MK908 gets Android 4.2 firmware (and custom ROM) is a post from: Liliputing
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Domani, 5 aprile, inizieranno i primi lavori di sistemazione stradale, a cura di Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, in
di Amo la Pasta
Gli spaghetti al pomodoro crudo sono un primo piatto fresco e genuino, ideale per le giornate calda e non solo. Gli ingredienti per 4 persone sono:
After much debate, and simply for the need of yard space (so I can finish my mini houseboat, a tiny house on wheels, have more room for upcoming workshop activities, AND build a prototype transforming A-frame that David Stiles and I are working on) I’ve decided to list “The Gypsy Junker” for sale. $1200.00.
ALL proceeds will go straight into these new projects of mine, and toward filming them for my show “Tiny Yellow House” on youtube (almost EIGHTY episodes now!). Price is firm, as if it does not sell, I won’t be too heartbroken, as I REALLY like this little cabin, and its been a great visual took for the backyard workshops I’ve hosted.
A little info…This cabin, made with a slew of funky, fun, and weird recycled materials (which took eons to find, and a ton of work) is about 32 square feet. It has a sleep platform that also doubles as a desk, three windows, and a dutch style door. If I had to guess, I’d think it weighs around 800 lbs., and you’ll need a flat bed tow truck to move it. I initially built this as a micro office for blog work, and a camp shelter. It would also make for a great little garden shed, a really unique chicken coop, or a great kids fort. Its sturdy and has stood to two hurricanes now, many large snowstorms and a tree falling on it (no damage) last year. It was built three years ago.
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It was cover featured in the NY Times (Feb, 2011), and has been in The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Seattle Times, The UK Daily news, ABC, CBS, and SpaceTV, China Times, Bund Pictoral (China), The hoempage of Yahoo.com, Make magazine, and about 1000 other places.
Below is a video tour of the structure, and a clip from it being talked about on China’s largest TV News Network….
You can email me (serious inquiries only please!) at kidcedar at gmail.com Its also featured in my book “Humble Homes, Simple Shacks”….
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Nonostante l'omosessualità risulti sempre più socialmente accettata, capita spesso che alcuni giornali tentino di presentarla come un qualcosa di morboso pur di fare uno scoop. Ed è così che EJ, il figlio ventenne di Magic Johnson, non si è potuto permettere di camminare mano nella mano con il proprio ragazzo per le strade di Los Angeles senza che una troup televisiva lo riprendesse e tentasse di costruirci uno "scandalo". Ma a prendere immediatamente in mano la situazione ci hanno pensato la madre e il padre (oggi 53enne) che, senza alcun... [leggi tutto] |
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There sure are a lot of keyboard shortcuts to remember, especially in some of the bigger third-party apps. I’ve pretty much given up memorizing them all, and usually just look to the menus to find what I want. The problem is that always going to the menu, especially if I’m in an app that uses a lot of menu commands like an image editor, is that I’m being constantly pulled out of the workspace and away from what I’m actually doing.
MenuMate is a nifty little app that will sit in your menu bar or disappear altogether until its needed, but once triggered, it gives you all your application’s menu items to choose from, right where you’re working. We’ll try out MenuMate and see if it’s the timesaver it claims to be and really solves the shortcut problem … and then give you the chance to win a free copy of MenuMate!
MenuMate works great if you never want to take your hands off of your keyboard, and I know there are more than a few users out there who feel this way. If it can be done with a keyboard shortcut, that’s absolutely the way to go, right? I’m with you, but we all sometimes need to get into the options that are only available in the menu bar. At that point, you’ll have to drag your hand away from your precious keyboard and use your mouse to get at all those necessary commands.
Instead of relying on the menu bar, though, MenuMate puts your application’s menu bar items anywhere you want. With the application active, hit the Option+Z keyboard shortcut, and you’ll get the application’s menu bar options as a flyout wherever your mouse cursor is. You can then use your keyboard, including the arrow keys, to move around the menu. If you need to get rid of MenuMate, hit Esc, and you’re back to what you were doing before.
Those are a lot of options, right there in my workspace.
Maybe it’s not such an ordeal for you to use your mouse, though. It may actually take more effort to learn a new shortcut than to switch over to your mouse. In that case, you can set a mouse button as the trigger for your MenuMate flyout. Just remember you can’t use the left or right buttons, as that would just be silly and cause all sorts of problems.
If you don’t like the defaults for your keyboard shortcut or mouse button, you can edit either by clicking on the MenuMate icon in the menubar. Each will have to be edited separately, but that’s easy enough to do. It’s probably a good idea to check that your new shortcut isn’t already assigned elsewhere, though; try it out in the apps where MenuMate’s likely to get the most play before making the change (I learned this one the hard way).
Set a shortcut that’s easy to remember and won’t conflict with anything else.
MenuMate is likely going to find the most use in apps where you’ve got a lot of keyboard shortcuts but can’t seem to remember them all. There are just a ton in Photoshop, and while they can do a lot of good things and save a lot of time, I’m never going to remember them all. Everything I need to remember is up there in the menu, though, and I just have to take a trip up there to get to what I need.
But I don’t have to make the choice to either remember everything or pull myself out of what I’m doing and drag my mouse cursor to the top of my display. Instead, a quick keystroke or mouse click, and everything I need but always forget is right there where I’m working.
The menu changes based on which application you’re using.
The MenuMate flyout isn’t customizable like the shortcuts, but that’s okay, because it integrates well with OS X. I’m always worried that utility apps that have to assimilate into everything else I’m doing are going to stick out, but MenuMate fits in perfectly with pretty much all of my apps. It would be nice to bring it more inline with some of the third-party apps that make something like MenuMate so necessary to begin with, but the stark white menu against my various app workspaces doesn’t detract from what a great app MenuMate is.
If you want MenuMate to run invisibly, you can even hide its menu bar icon.
MenuMate is a great tool to have if you’re trying to get a lot done. Those of us who use our Macs for work often depend on applications that perform a lot of complicated functions in one place. Some of these bigger, feature-rich apps are almost entirely dependent on keyboard shortcuts or lots of options in the menu bar. MenuMate keeps you from having to leave what you’re doing to find it all.
A quick shortcut, and you have it all at hand. MenuMate is quick and unobtrusive, only popping into view when you need it. You can even turn the menu bar icon off, leaving MenuMate to wait quietly in the background until needed. It’s the sort of app that scratches an itch you didn’t know was there, and it does so elegantly and intuitively.
Oh wait: we did mention a giveaway, didn’t we?
Yup. We’ve got 10 copies of MenuMate to giveaway this week. Just comment below, letting us know what apps you’re most looking forward to using with MenuMate, and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. Share the post on Twitter, App.net, or Facebook, and share the link to your post in another comment here for an extra entry.
Hurry and get your entries in; we’re closing our giveaway on April 3rd.
Envato staff or those who have written more than two articles or tutorials for AppStorm are ineligible to enter.
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Hey, it’s Matthew, the editor here and on Web.AppStorm. Ever wondered which apps I use to get my work done each day?
For the past few weeks, we’ve been running a series of articles about the Apps We Use, letting you get a peek into the workflow of each of the writers on our team. I’m up this week, and here’s the apps that are most important to me — the apps I require to get work done, productively, on my Mac.
My MacBook Air, non-Retina Display and all
It may be the apps that really count, but it still takes an honest-to-goodness Mac to run all of those great Mac apps we write about. For me, that Mac is a mid-2012 13″ MacBook Air, with the default specs aside from a factory upgrade to 8Gb ram. It’s an awesome machine, getting 6-7 hours on battery easily, and the only problem is that my 128Gb internal SSD feels a bit too cramped. Cloud apps don’t help, but my USB3 500Gb external WD hard drive keeps me from going crazy. I run virtual machines off of it, which run great, and offload most of my movies and photos to it. I’ve also got a Nifty MiniDrive for extra storage, which has become my go-to place for downloads and other forgettable files.
Beyond that, I’ve got an AirPrint-enabled HP Photosmart 3-in-one printer, an iPhone 5 (black, if you must know), and an iPad 1 that my wife uses mainly these days. I’ve also got an awesome little Alcatel onetouch 3G USB dongle to keep me connected to the ‘net on the go. Oh, and a set of original Apple Earbuds and the newer EarPods; I still like the older ones better. That’s the entirety of my tech setup.
Then, there’s the apps I rely on, which make my Mac my Mac. I have tons of apps, but there’s really only a (largish) handful of apps that I really couldn’t live without. Those would be:
My #1 most used app, hands-down.
For me, the browser I open every day is Safari. Why? OS X integration. It feels the most integrated, with swipe-to-go-back and pinch-to-zoom that works as you’d expect: beautifully. Also, I can keep bookmarklets in the bookmarks bar, then tap CMD+number to use them without ever having to go to my mouse. I switched back to Safari from Chrome after Lion was released, and haven’t really looked back. It’s great. I do keep Chrome around, to run sites that use Flash so I can keep Safari Flash-free.
It’s still how I send 99.9% of my emails.
I know, I know: I need to switch to a new email app. Sparrow’s the only dated and essentially unsupported app in my workflow, and I really should have switched to Mail.app way back. But Sparrow just works the way I want, with quick in-line replies only an alt+r away, and great integration with archiving and Gmail tags. With 3 Google Apps based accounts to keep up with, and easily over 3-4 dozen emails per day, I need an email app that’s fast and efficient, and Sparrow still hits the spot for me. Here’s to hoping that the upcoming .Mail app can fix my Sparrow addiction.
Sorry iCloud. You still haven’t won my heart.
Dropbox is where all of my files live. No joke. Ever since I went pro, I’ve used Dropbox to store just about everything, and have come to rely on it for my notes, pictures, password sync, website backup, documents, and so much more. It’s awesome, consistently works great, and since you can selectively sync folders, I even use it to keep some larger folders off my Mac.
I’d be more than lost without 1Password. Seriously.
Let’s just say that I have nearly 350 passwords in 1Password, and I couldn’t tell you more than maybe a half-dozen of them. Instead, I use 1Password’s password creator to make all of my new passwords as random as they can be, and just remember my insanely-long master password for 1Password. It’s the only way I can get into most sites, including all of my work sites, and is easily most important apps I have. Best thing is, I can check my passwords online from Dropbox, from my phone with the amazing new iPhone app, and even from a Windows PC.
Soooooo much more than just search
Alfred 2 is one of those apps that you have to use daily to really appreciate — and you’d better have the powerpack when you’re trying it, too. At first I didn’t get the appeal of Alfred; Spotlight seemed to be plenty for my needs. Then, I finally tried it, complete with the powerpack, and fell in love. The latest version and its workflows are better than ever, and I use it daily for everything from searching my Mac and launching apps to custom-searching AppStorm sites, translating text, creating new plain-text notes, taking the formatting out of text while pasting, and so much more.
The place where almost every word I write gets typed
iA Writer was the first app I purchased on the Mac App Store — for $17.99, mind you — and it’s easily been one of my best purchases ever. It’s the writing app I use all day, every day, whether I’m writing on my Mac or iOS device. The beautiful Nitti Light font, clean interface, and lack of buttons makes it the perfect place to pen your thoughts, and its Markdown support makes taking your writing from idea to HTML as simple as it could be. I use it for writing everything from articles to my notes, now that I’ve switched from using Simplenote to using plain-text notes synced in Dropbox. A quick Alfred search, and I’m reading or editing my notes in iA Writer.
For coding, the incredibly popular Sublime Text 2 is my main app, and I’ve even switched to writing my Markdown/plain text stuff in it from time to time, but still come back to iA Writer every time. This past week, the new Textastic for Mac has become my main coding app, and it looks like I’ll be keeping it around. It’s really nice, too, for light coding.
Where everything I need to do lives. Really.
There’s tons of things I need to do each day, and OmniFocus is how I keep up with everything. It’s the best productivity app if you’re really wanting to keep up with a ton of stuff, complete with due dates, recurring tasks (that are easy to setup), notes, with all of that wrapped in an interface that’s not tons different than a text editor. I can’t wait to get my hands on OmniFocus 2, but even OmniFocus 1 still beats every other productivity app on the Mac, hands-down, for me. And yes, I’ve tried most of them.
There’s two other similar apps I use as well: Clear and Fantastical. Clear is where I put quick lists: the store list, movies I’d like to watch, and so on. Fantastical is how I keep up with appointments and other calendar events. All together, they work out to make a pretty nice productivity solution that’s not too overwhelming.
The best feature in OS X: Preview
Now here’s the most underrated feature in OS X: Preview. That little app is awesome, and if you’re not using it daily, you should. You might notice I have no screenshot apps listed; that’s because the built-in screenshot tools in OS X are all I need, at least 99.9% of the time. I then can quickly open images in Preview and resize them for our site here, or just save them in another format. It’s also how I convert .icns files to png icons for our articles here, as well as how I fill out PDF forms, sign documents with my MacBook’s camera, merge pages in PDFs, and more. It’s awesome
I do also have Photoshop CS6 on my Mac, and use it tons as well, even for screenshot work. Another handy tool for the same purpose is Automator, another underrated built-in Mac tool that’s great, say, for bulk-resizing photos.
My Fever feeds, in Fluid
I use tons of web apps, both in my work at Web.AppStorm and also just in the process of working online. I have separate Gmail and Google+ accounts for both AppStorm sites I edit, and signing in-and-out from Safari all day isn’t fun. That’s where Fluid comes in, giving me a way to turn each of those accounts into an app of sorts, so I can be logged into as many Google accounts as I need to be. Plus, it’s great for checking my feeds in Fever now that I’ve switched to it from Google Reader, since there’s no native Mac app for it yet.
The way I publish to my own blog
I’ve self-hosted my own blog, Techinch.com, for years, first using WordPress and now using the flat-file CMS Kirby. That means I need a simple way to publish files via FTP, since everything I write on my site is in a plain text file that has to be uploaded. And, of course, whenever I want to change my CSS or tweak something else on my server (or install something like Fever), the handy FTP app is needed again. For me, that app is Transmit. It’s fast, simple, and works great syncing folders. Best of all, it works great for Amazon S3 too, so I can keep my photo archive there on the cheap.
Yup, it’s Windows 8 on my Mac
There’s one thing I really love doing just for the fun of it: running other operating systems in virtual machines on my Mac. That’s where VMware Fusion comes in. I keep a library of almost every semi-modern version of Windows and Office installed, as well as Ubuntu and a testing OS X machine, along with whatever else I’m playing with that week. It’s a fun way to push your hardware to the limits, stay informed about the other side, and have fun. That is, if seeing how little ram Windows 8 can run — or learning more about Linux — with is your definition of fun.
That’s not all of the apps I use, but it’s the most important ones. There’s a handful more, though, that really should get a mention since I find them so handy. So here goes:
That’s about it for me. There’s a ton more apps I use from time to time, even weekly, but these are the main ones that get me through the day.
Any apps you think I should change out? I’d love to hear your thoughts below!
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Living in a diverse world comes with consequences. It’s great to see people who are not stereotypical and actually go above and beyond what others consider normal behavior, but when it comes to languages, you can’t learn them all. It’s estimated that there are nearly 7000 different spoken languages in the world.
Since there are many perusers of the Internet who know only their native tongue, reading a bit of international writing on the Web can become tedious. People that often find themselves browsing foreign websites typically use Google Chrome for its integrated translation functionality. But why doesn’t OS X have that built-in?
Apple cares about international support, just not in a connective way.
If you look through your the Language tab of Language & Text in System Preferences, you’ll find around 140 options. In the Regions tab you’ll find proof that you can be anywhere in the world and use your Mac happily. Even the Input Sources tab shows how well Macs will hold up globally. There are all kinds of different options for nearly any language used in the world today, yet still there’s no way to translate them without a third-party app.
A small number of additional languages are supported in Dictionary.
I’d like to see some integration with the current OS X Dictionary. It’s currently very simple, yet powerful. In the long run, though, it’s capable of so much more. There are only 12 languages in the current version of Dictionary and it doesn’t offer a connection between them. You can use the All tab to search through multiple languages, but if you can’t read French then how are you supposed to know what the definition means?
I use One World Dictionary to translate foreign words in Safari. Problem is, it’s not as simple as tapping a word with three fingers. And cool features cost.
Ascendo’s One World Dictionary is the ideal solution to a bilingual dictionary in OS X.
OS X should have a bilingual dictionary option available. There should be some way to connect your language with the one you want to translate to, rather than keeping them separate. Just imagine how much more useful the app would be to students and even teachers. Apple would be praised for such a wonderfully simple way to understand a different language. To the same degree, a person who hasn’t studied any foreign language can be introduced to one.
A simplified Chinese to English dictionary.
There are currently some great bilingual dictionaries available for the Mac’s Dictionary app, but they’re a big harder to find than they should be. Apple’s old downloads website was the place you could find extra dictionaries, but now you’ll have to resort to 3rd party websites to find, say, an English to Chinese dictionary, or the Thai to English dictionary our editor uses. There’s one very good thing: if you have a 3rd party dictionary that integrates with Dictionary, it does integrate very nicely, showing the extra language definitions in Dictionary or with a three-finger tap.
What the company needs to do is add a way for users to find these third-party Dictionary plugins. The Mac App Store won’t work because of its sandboxing limitations and submission guidelines. Instead, there should be a dedicated page, just like with Safari extensions, that guides users to what they’re looking for. Right now the only way to find something is Google, and still some of the results are found on the extinct Apple Downloads page, which is of no use.
Why can’t translating something be this easy? Or even the whole page?
The overall goal for a translation service in OS X would be universal application for the entire operating system. It should be something that’s available on the right-click menu for all text. Apple could even take it a step further and pull text from an image — using technology similar to that of Google’s in Goggles — to translate it for you. This could be something available on mobile devices as well with synchronization between the platforms and the ability to add favorite words.
So much can be done with a simple translator in OS X. The problem is that Apple doesn’t currently possess a service like Google Translate. Language support is growing with every release of the operating system, but the company would need to build a database in order to provide live translation (and hopefully — someday — and offline mode). With all its money, Apple could acquire an app like the aforementioned One World Dictionary and turn it into something great. Then again, it could nearly start from scratch like it did with Maps — let’s hope not.
Translation doesn’t seem like something on its main roadmap right now, but who knows: Apple may just think that further connecting the world is a good thing.
When in doubt, use Alfred, right? If you’ve got version 2 or later of the utility, grab the great little Google Translate extension for it off GitHub. It will simply translate the text you’ve selected to a language you specify (during the setup process) and then copy it to your clipboard. Not the most useful in all situations, but it’s better than nothing.
What do you think of the idea of translation built-into OS X, and if you like it, how do you envision it being implemented?
Dictionary icon by Susumu Yoshida
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La storia della medicina e dell’anatomia non è mai stata tutta rose e fiori, come avrete certamente scoperto se avete curiosato un po’ fra i nostri post. Nei secoli scorsi era in particolare la dissezione anatomica a sollevare le più furiose polemiche (paradossalmente spesso più di ordine morale che religioso, come abbiamo spiegato in questo articolo), perché la sua pratica interferiva con un’area sociale che gli antropologi definirebbero “tabù”, ossia il culto dei morti e del cadavere.
In Gran Bretagna, fin dal 1752, era in vigore una legge che consentiva la dissezione a fini medici unicamente sui cadaveri dei criminali condannati alla pena capitale. Ma il sapere scientifico all’epoca stava crescendo in fretta per importanza e scoperte, e velocemente si creavano le basi per quella che sarebbe divenuta la moderna medicina. Quindi, soltanto cinquant’anni dopo, la “scorta” di criminali giustiziati era troppo scarsa per riuscire a soddisfare la domanda di cadaveri delle Università e delle facoltà di anatomia.
Già nel 1810 venne creata in Inghilterra una società anatomica i cui membri avevano lo scopo di sollecitare presso il governo l’urgente modifica della legge; ma nel frattempo c’era chi aveva cominciato ad arrangiarsi in altro modo.
Alcuni delinquenti compresero subito che i professori avrebbero pagato piuttosto bene per un cadavere fresco su cui eseguire una dissezione durante le loro lezioni, di fronte a un sempre crescente numero di studenti; così, attratti dalla possibilità di un facile guadagno, cominciarono un macabro commercio di salme.
I body-snatchers (“ladri di corpi”) agivano di notte, dissotterrando morti sepolti di recente, e trasferendoli di nascosto nelle facoltà scientifiche; divennero presto una realtà diffusa soprattutto nella città di Edimburgo, dove aveva sede la più prestigiosa università di medicina, la Edinburgh Medical School. Sembra addirittura che alcuni cunicoli sotterranei collegassero i sobborghi più malfamati della Old Town con il Royal Mile, l’arteria principale dove aveva sede la scuola: in questo modo i body-snatchers, dopo aver sottratto i cadaveri dal cimitero, riuscivano a portarli indisturbati e nascosti fin sotto all’ingresso della Surgeon’s Hall.
In breve tempo la situazione sfuggì di mano, e si diffuse la paranoia nei confronti dei cosiddetti resurrection men (“resuscitatori”, un altro nome dei ladri di cadaveri). C’era chi faceva la ronda tutta la notte attorno alle tombe fresche, e chi poteva permetterselo costruiva pesanti sarcofaghi di pietra; i più poveri si accontentavano di seppellire rami e bastoni attorno alla bara, per rendere la riesumazione più complessa e lunga.
Intorno al 1816 vennero inventati i mortsafes, enormi gabbie di ferro o pietra, di forme differenti. Spesso si trattava di complicate strutture in metallo pesante con sbarre e placche, assemblate con bulloni o saldature. I mortsafes si piantavano attorno alla bara, e potevano essere aperti soltanto da due persone armate di chiavi per i lucchetti. Venivano lasciate in posizione per sei settimane; quando il cadavere era rimasto sepolto sufficientemente a lungo per non fare più gola, venivano rimosse e riutilizzate.
Ci si spinse oltre: la pistola cimiteriale veniva caricata e montata nei pressi di una tomba fresca. Il meccanismo le permetteva di girare su se stessa liberamente, e agli anelli venivano attaccati gli estremi di tre corde che venivano fatte passare attorno al luogo dell’inumazione; se un ladro, avvicinandosi nel buio, avesse inavvertitamente urtato una delle corde, la pistola si sarebbe girata nella sua direzione, facendo fuoco.
Questo tipo di mercato clandestino si stava facendo davvero pericoloso. Alcuni ladri di cadaveri mandavano, durante il giorno, delle donne vestite a lutto, spesso con bambini in braccio, a controllare se fossero state installate pistole o altre difese nei pressi delle tombe; i guardiani del cimitero, a loro volta, avevano imparato ad aspettare l’arrivo del buio per montare questo tipo di armi. Insomma, in retrospettiva, non stupisce che prima o poi a qualcuno venisse l’idea di “saltare” il passaggio più problematico, quello del cimitero appunto, e di procurarsi i cadaveri in modo più diretto.
Ad arrivarci per primi furono William Burke e William Hare che, con la complicità delle loro compagne, uccisero in meno di due anni 16 persone, rivendendo i loro corpi all’Università. Vennero scoperti e, una volta finito il processo nel 1829, Hare fu rilasciato, ma Burke finì impiccato; con esemplare contrappasso, il suo corpo venne dissezionato pubblicamente e ancora oggi potete ammirare presso il Museo del Surgeon’s Hall di Edimburgo il suo scheletro, la maschera mortuaria, e un libro rilegato con la sua pelle.
Lo scalpore suscitato da questa vicenda, e il disgusto pubblico per il traffico di cadaveri, ebbero un impatto fondamentale per la promulgazione, nel 1832, dell’Anatomy Act; una legge che diede più libertà ai dottori e agli insegnanti di anatomia, permettendo loro di utilizzare per le dissezioni didattiche anche i corpi non reclamati, e incentivando la donazione spontanea con determinate forme di retribuzione (a chi decideva di “prestare” le spoglie di un parente stretto sarebbero state pagate le spese del funerale).
L’Anatomy Act si rivelò efficace nel porre fine al fenomeno dei body-snatchers, e la pratica del traffico di cadaveri per studio medico scomparì quasi istantaneamente.
L'Europa è una dittatura, bisogna uscirne il prima possibile. Senza chiedersi cosa sarà della bolletta della luce o della rata del mutuo, perché non ci lasceranno né luce né casa. Siamo in mano a dei pazzi furiosi.Trovo questo bel post sul blog di Alberto Bagnai, ad opera di Alex, che così riflette:
L'unica cosa amaramente buona di questa crisi è che ho capito come nascono le dittature, che SI, è proprio vero, più che da una violenza dei padroni derivano dalla tentazione dei servi, dall'ignoranza dalla mediocrità e dall'ignavia della gente (...); e a cosa dovrebbe servire la cultura umanistica: ad insegnarti con chi hai a che fare affinché tu possa fare/ripetere meno errori possibili. Infatti è per questo che l'hanno piano piano distrutta.
Evidentemente stiamo riflettendo un po' tutti sulla stessa cosa: sta nascendo una dittatura, in Europa? A volte, mentre sento le notizie, ho dei flash di voci future "Ma noi non sapevamo, ma noi non volevamo!", chissà se è la sindrome di Cassandra, o soltanto memorie di un passato ancora recente.
Lo stesso concetto di dittatura non è antico: nessuno si sognava di chiamare "dittatori" il re Sole, il Papa o l'imperatore di turno. E' un concetto nuovo.
Fatto sta che l'abbiamo introiettato molto bene, al punto che vediamo dittatori dovunque, persino in leader democraticamente eletti (vedi Chavez o Ahmadinejad) o addirittura in comici col blog. Ma quando si tratta di noi, ehh: la dittatura è l'elefante nella stanza. Nessuno riesce ad accorgersene.
Forse perché si tratta di una declinazione di dittatura finora inedita. Nell'immaginario, il dittatore ha una faccia cattiva, impone le sue idee al popolo con gli eserciti, e sbatte i dissidenti in gabbia o alle torture. Ora sembra che non ce ne sia più alcun bisogno: il dittatore non ha un nome e cognome, anzi si nasconde in una massa amorfa di oscuri burocrati. L'esercito di cui si serve? Stampa, media e politici compiacenti o corrotti. L'arma principale? La shock economy, eventi che terrorizzano i cittadini e li rendono consenzienti a qualsiasi nefasto provvedimento passi per indispensabile. I dissidenti? Nessun problema: li si lascia a sbraitare nel recinto di Internet, che danno vuoi che facciano. Una dittatura il cui scopo è l'impoverimento generalizzato e il controllo da esso derivante, non ha bisogno di sparare un colpo: stiamo consegnando tutto senza fiatare.
Qualcuno obietterà che non è vero, che tanti si stanno accorgendo di ciò che accade. Ah si? Beh io non credo. Come scrive ancora Bagnai nel suo libro, quando i partigiani andarono in montagna non si preoccuparono dell'inflazione, della perdita di potere d'acquisto, del mutuo in euro. Quando c'è da combattere si combatte, costi quel che costi. Noi non siamo ancora pronti. Siamo ancora come quelle famiglie ebree che nel '36 consegnavano l'oro, consegnavano i pianoforti, pensando che presto sarebbe finita e peggio di così non poteva andare. E invece, si è visto com'è andata. (Su questo passaggio non mi trovo d'accordo - Elia)
Noi stiamo consegnando oro e pianoforti per paura dei finti mostri che ci hanno dipinto, e alla fine perderemo tutto senza avere più nulla per cui combattere. Vogliamo davvero ridurci così?
L'Europa è una dittatura, bisogna uscirne il prima possibile. Senza chiedersi cosa sarà della bolletta della luce o della rata del mutuo, perché non ci lasceranno né luce né casa. Siamo in mano a dei pazzi furiosi e l'unica è svignarsela, le difficoltà successive le affronteremo poi, ci penseremo dopo come si sono detti i partigiani scalando la montagna. Ora il pensiero è uno, e uno solo, e questo dobbiamo chiedere con forza a chi ci rappresenta:
FONTE: terrarealtime.blogspot.it - Tratto da: perchiunquehacompreso.blogspot.it
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Google announced today in a post on Google+ that the results from its #ifihadglass contest are in and the winners will be contacted with invitations to the Google Glass Explorer program over the next few days.
We could never have imagined such an enthusiastic response! There were so many creative, diverse, and (sometimes) crazy applications. We’ve certainly learned a lot through this whole process and it’s inspiring to hear how much passion there is for Glass.
Google didn’t mention availability for those who signed up for the $1,500 Explorer Edition at last year’s Google I/O, but we’ll likely hear more on availability for others with invitations going out to contest winners in the near future.
Google noted in today’s post that it currently isn’t offering the Explorer Program to businesses, but it will work “on connecting with businesses in other ways.” Those who received an invitation to the Explorer program will be able to pick up their Glass at one of several events planned for later this year in New York, San Fran, and L.A. Invitations will be announced through @projectglass on Twitter and +Project Glass on Google+.
In 1999, I wrote an article for the bOING bOING Digital site about the CONET Project, a multi-CD collection of mysterious "numbers stations" heard on shortwave. For decades, intelligence organizations have reportedly broadcast one-way messages to their agents in the field via shortwave, and the transmissions happen to sound weirder than any Stockhausen score or minimalist electronica you've ever heard -- a child's voice, or the obviously synthesized intonation on what's known as the "Lincolnshire Poacher" station, named for the folk song accompanying the numbers. Wilco's album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is named for, and samples, a numbers station. The CONET Project has been available for several years for free download from various places online, including Archive.org. Now, the original compilers, Irdial-Discs MMX, have re-released The Conet Project in a special CD edition that includes the four original discs plus a fifth CD containing recordings of very strange "noise stations."
"The CONET Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations / 1111"
"Spy vs. Spy: The Soundtrack" (bOING bOING Digital)
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Tempted as I am by the likes of the amazing Fujifilm X100s, I know that I’ll keep coming back to my iPhone 5 camera thanks to its combo of convenience, quality, connect-ability and apps. But the Sun & Cloud camera has just the right balance of price to quirky novelty to get me interested.
The main gimmick is that the Sun & Cloud doesn’t need a battery — it’s powered by hand-cranking it, uh, crank. Then, it does exactly what you’d expect: shoots pictures, records them on it’s 3MP sensor and then lets you apply one of ten Instagrammatical filters.
And that’s about it. Apart from the LED lamp, I guess. Or the ability to charge via USB is you’re feeling lazy.
I kind of like it, as I said, but I think it’s a pity that the maker didn’t put the LCD screen up on top for the true top-down experience of the original reflex cameras.
Source: AC Gears
Via: Uncrate
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