In which you too can Delaunize your picture with a simple editor and export it as vectors. …
Fun with Delaunay
Going like a bat
[Citation not needed]: During the Pascal-B nuclear test, a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) steel plate cap (a piece of armor plate) was blasted off the top of a test shaft at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 mi/s; 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph). Before the test, experimental designer Dr. Brownlee had estimated that the nuclear …
The most recurrent computer errors on the web
(Not a color blindness test) Error codes in computing are a curious heritage of a bygone era when paper was relevant and memory usage stripped to the bare minimum. In those days, it was normal for a programmer to stumble upon an error code, stand up, reach for a dusty manual on a shelf, look up the …
Dissection of a scam
Most internet-savvy people develop a kind of natural resistance against spam, obtrusive advertisement, and online scams. Stopping for a second to ponder the state of things reveals a wealth of information not only on the scammers themselves, but also sheds light on the people being scammed. A few days ago I noticed at the end of …
8-bit color cycling time-aware live wallpapers by Mark Ferrari
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. …
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 …