Conferencia de Jacob "@ioerror" Applebaum
La sala de estar de consolas virtuales
The Internet Archive Software Collection > The Console Living Room
Emulaciones ejecutables en navegador de las siguientes consolas con sus vídeojuegos:
Emulaciones ejecutables en navegador de las siguientes consolas con sus vídeojuegos:
- Atari 2600
- Atari 7800 ProSystem
- ColecoVision
- Magnavox Odyssey (es decir, la consola de Philips)
- Astrocade
Si los OSes fueran religiones…
Over-Extended Metaphor for the day, by Charlie Stross
"…In an attempt to control the schisms, the faithful formed learned congregations who at major conferences defined a common interoperating subset of the one true religion that all could agree on—the Nicene Creed of UNIX is probably POSIX, but let us not forget the congregation of the X/Open Portability Group and others. The bishops and cardinals of UNIX were fierce in the defense of their own particular schismatic sect, and formed alliances to develop credos that excluded their rivals while cunningly embracing their temporary peers: thus was the holy war prosecuted…"
Ha fallecido Germán Coppini (Siniestro total, Golpes bajos)
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Música
Fallece a los 52 años Germán Coppini, vocalista de Siniestro Total y fundador de Golpes Bajos
"…formó el grupo Golpes Bajos, uno de los grupos fundamentales del pop nacional de los años 80, Con él edita un 'maxisingle' en el que se incluye la canción 'Malos tiempos para la lírica' y 'No mires a los ojos de la gente'. No fue hasta 1987 cuando grabó su propio disco en solitario, titulado 'El ladrón de Bagdad', que incluyó el single 'Alien divino' y el maxisingle 'Por una caperuza' y 'Despierta, escuela'…"
Web sobre aprendizaje de efectos visuales en videojuegos
Y muchas muestras y cintas demo aquí: There Are Special Effects Artists In Video Games Too, You Know
Etc.
Colin Wilson ha fallecido (el mismo día que Mandela)
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Libros
El autor de "The Space Vampires" (en la que se basaría "Lifeforce"), la saga de "Spider World" y otras. Un tipo peculiar, aficionado a las pseudociencias.
Strange life: He skated over knowledge, it’s true, but Colin Wilson exhilarated a generation with the bold possibilities of life
Strange life: He skated over knowledge, it’s true, but Colin Wilson exhilarated a generation with the bold possibilities of life
Trascendencia
Me figuro cómo será. A ver si algún día tienen el valor de hacer una en que el resultado del frankensteinazo es un triunfo y no un desastre.
Ahí van estos intentando destrozar mi infancia
…Con una parodia de "Espacio:1999"
A Space 1999 spoof from the producers of Honey Boo Boo wants your money
A Space 1999 spoof from the producers of Honey Boo Boo wants your money
¿La mejor historia de OGLAF hasta la fecha?
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ComicBooks,
Humor
Vorpal Blade, de 8 páginas (para avanzar la historia, dadle a "Next Page" en vez de "Next Story")
La historia del felatócrata viene de aquí y después aquí.
La historia del felatócrata viene de aquí y después aquí.
Universos de superhéroes y la búsqueda de la pseudocoherencia cieciaficcionera
SCIENCING OUR SUPERHEROES
"…In 2005, Marvel relaunched The New Universe as newuniversal, by Warren Ellis. In this iteration, the universe was even more constrained. The unifying event of the timeline, “The White Event,” was caused by a higher level reality known as The Superflow—sort of like an Internet of all power, consciousness and possibility. Supercharacters in that world were all, in one way or another, tapped into the Superflow. This isn’t exactly scientific, but it’s kind of like a Theory of Everything for the comic book universe, bundling divergent storylines into one neat package.
The question is whether or not neat is better. Neatness is what Plato seemed to be after, as he hounded language in pursuit of idealized forms: the essence of a chair, of beauty, of blue. Yet there are no pure forms. That was Plato’s own effort to dream up a unifying philosophy for the world, just as Jim Shooter tried to create a Valiant Universe…"
Malware en tu tetera
Trust Me (I'm a kettle)
"…Reports coming out of Russia suggest that some Chinese domestic appliances, notably kettles, come kitted out with malware—in the shape of small embedded computers that leech off the mains power to the device. The covert computational passenger hunts for unsecured wifi networks, connects to them, and joins a spam and malware pushing botnet. The theory is that a home computer user might eventually twig if their PC is a zombie, but who looks inside the base of their electric kettle, or the casing of their toaster? We tend to forget that the Raspberry Pi is as powerful as an early 90s UNIX server or a late 90s desktop; it costs £25, is the size of a credit card, and runs off a 5 watt USB power source. And there are cheaper, less competent small computers out there. Building them into kettles is a stroke of genius for a budding crime lord looking to build a covert botnet.
But that's not what I'm here to talk about…"
A Stross la realidad le vuelve a chafar una trilogía
PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
Aun así, leed "Halting State": es una delicia.
"…Unfortunately the NSA have done it again:
To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something. The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of undercover Orcs.
Real-life agents have been deployed into virtual realms, from those Orc hordes in World of Warcraft to the human avatars of Second Life. There were attempts, too, to recruit potential informants from the games' tech-friendly users.
At this point, I'm clutching my head. "Halting State" wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter—what else are the NSA up to?)…"
Aun así, leed "Halting State": es una delicia.
CISS, sistema de suministro de tinta continua para impresoras
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MacPC
Por lo visto se está haciendo muy popular en Oriente.
Sistema continuo de tinta"…Un sistema continuo de tinta, en inglés Continuous Ink Supply System (CISS), también conocido con los nombres inyección de tinta a granel , o simplemente Bulk kit (en Inglés, "en lote").
Básicamente, el sistema de inyección es un conjunto de tanques externos, que conectados a los cartuchos de su impresora, por medio de mangueras suministran tinta continuamente a los mismo. Con ello usted logra un gran ahorro en dinero. Y simplicidad en recarga y sustitución de tinta y cartucho... Existen sistemas de 4,5,6, y 8 colores. con cartuchos autoreseteables, reseteables o sin cartuchos. Existen sistemas para impresoras Canon, Epson, HP Y Brother. Es un producto básicamente de origen chino…"
SteamOS, el Linux para videojuegos de Valve
…Con el que pretenden desligar su destino de Windows.
"…SteamOS is a fork (derivative) of Debian GNU/Linux. The first version (SteamOS 1.0) is called 'alchemist' and it is based on the Debian 'wheezy' (stable 7.1) distribution.
The major changes made in SteamOS are:
"…SteamOS is a fork (derivative) of Debian GNU/Linux. The first version (SteamOS 1.0) is called 'alchemist' and it is based on the Debian 'wheezy' (stable 7.1) distribution.
The major changes made in SteamOS are:
- Backported eglibc 2.17 from Debian testing
- Added various third-party drivers and updated graphics stack (Intel and AMD graphics support still being worked on)
- Updated kernel tracking the 3.10 longterm branch (currently 3.10.11)
- Custom graphics compositor designed to provide a seamless transition between Steam, its games and the SteamOS system overlay
- Configured to auto-update from the Valve SteamOS repositories…"
La fuerza vacía está vacía
Hilo épico en Hispagimnasios.com y todo.
(de Víctor y la energía del vacío casimiro)
"…Después de los ejemplos con Raúl han empezado una tanda de preguntas poniendo en duda la efectividad real en la calle de EFO. Jukka respondía que cuanta más agresividad o INTENCIÓN (palabra muy repetida en la clase) pusiera el atacante, más efectivo era EFO. En mi caso, me ha invitado a empujarle.
Primero, le he lanzado palmadas en plan jab, en snap, no empujones penetrantes, a un hombro y a otro, pero en seguida me ha dicho que le golpeara sólo en el hombro que él quería. Cuando se ha dado cuenta del efecto de este de golpe en snap, me ha pedido que fuera un empujón penetrante (bueno, caminar con la mano levantada hacia él) y le pusiera INTENCIÓN. Le he respondido que en la calle nadie ataca de esa manera, que lo más normal es recoger el ataque. Entonces él me ha dicho que en el golpe, sólo hay INTENCIÓN en el momento del impacto. Si golpeas en plan boxeo, recogiendo, se va la INTENCIÓN (porque sólo impactas durante menos de un segundo), y sin INTENCIÓN, EFO no funciona. He preguntado si entonces EFO es totalmente inútil contra ataques percutantes, o si sólo funciona cuando te hacen el golpe que tú quieres. Entonces un alumno suyo ha dicho si había venido a demostrar que EFO no funcionaba, y le he dicho que había venido a que me demostraran que funcionara, y no lo han hecho.
A partir de allí se ha juntado un gabinete de crisis con los finlandeses, debatiendo durante largos minutos (unos 10) entre ellos qué explicar a la gente. A partir de ese momento han cambiado su discurso, hablando de dar amor y ser más feliz en tu vida. EFO era para mejorar la vida de la gente, no para luchar, ni hacer daño. Un alumno suyo y su mujer han acabado diciendo que EFO no era un sistema de defensa personal, sólo un complemento (no sé de qué hablaban, y creo que ellos tampoco)…"
(de Víctor y la energía del vacío casimiro)
¡Firefly MMO!
Firefly Online
"…Firefly Online is a social role playing game (RPG) based on Firefly, Joss Whedon’s cult-hit television series. Firefly Online (FFO) is currently in development for iOS and Android, and may expand to include additional platforms.
In Firefly Online, players assume the role of a ship captain as they hire a crew and seek out adventures, all the while trading with and competing against the millions of other players to try to survive in the Verse: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.
FFO provides a variety of gameplay activities and systems so that players can fully experience life in the Verse.
Assume the role of a ship captain – create a crew and customize a ship
Aim to misbehave in space and planet-side adventures
Cross-platform player experience across devices (pick-up and play from anywhere)
Unique social features connecting Firefly fans
Create a shiny ship and explore the Verse…"
LOLcat vs. Doge y sus sutilezas lingüìstico-humorísticas
We who spoke LOLcat now speak Doge
"…On the other hand, LOLcat tends to not take compounds, be they compound nouns, adjective-noun pairs, or even non-compounded noun abstractions (i.e. in the LOLphilosophers meme, you would be more likely to see "im in ur base, challenging ur superstructure" than "im in ur episteme, exposin the prduction of scientifik knowlidg"). (Both dialects seem to eschew prepositional phrases equally so that's a draw.)
Basically—doge seems to have a simpler, or at least more regimented, grammatical structure than LOLcat, which in turn seems to allow it to explore more complex philosophical ideas…"
"…On the other hand, LOLcat tends to not take compounds, be they compound nouns, adjective-noun pairs, or even non-compounded noun abstractions (i.e. in the LOLphilosophers meme, you would be more likely to see "im in ur base, challenging ur superstructure" than "im in ur episteme, exposin the prduction of scientifik knowlidg"). (Both dialects seem to eschew prepositional phrases equally so that's a draw.)
Basically—doge seems to have a simpler, or at least more regimented, grammatical structure than LOLcat, which in turn seems to allow it to explore more complex philosophical ideas…"
"Edge of Tomorrow" con Tom Cruise, basada en "All You Need Is Kill" de Hiroshi Sakurazaka
…Una novela de ciencia-ficción que fue un éxito en Japón y publicada en Occidente.
"…Cruise plays a soldier stuck in a time loop, where he's forced — or given the opportunity? — to fight a deadly battle over and over again. Emily Blunt (Looper) and Bill Paxton (Aliens) join him for the ride, which will hit theaters next summer…"
Nueve meses después, en el Firefly-verso…
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CiFi,
CineTV,
ComicBooks
WHEDON SHEDS LIGHT ON "SERENITY'S" NEW DAY
"…Zack Whedon: It has been around nine months since the conclusion of "Serenity." A lot has changed and a lot has stayed the same. The discovery that Mal and his crew shared with the 'verse -- that the inhabitants of the planet Miranda were killed or driven mad by an Alliance experiment -- has opened some eyes and created some new allies, but it hasn't deterred any of their pursuers. If anything, it has made them more relentless. Serenity is hiding out in lesser-known corners of the 'verse, trying to keep a low profile. As you will see early on, that's easier said than done. Mal and his crew will be forced to face their enemies head on -- some familiar, some new…"
El motor Snowdrop del juego "Tom Clancy's The Division"
¡Vuelven los Wachowski!
Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.
No tan antrópico
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SciTech
Was the early universe a better environment for life to evolve?
"…In the redshift range 100<(1+z)<110, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) had a temperature of 273-300K (0-30 degrees Celsius), allowing early rocky planets (if any existed) to have liquid water chemistry on their surface and be habitable, irrespective of their distance from a star. In the standard LCDM cosmology, the first star-forming halos within our Hubble volume started collapsing at these redshifts, allowing the chemistry of life to possibly begin when the Universe was merely 15 million years old. The possibility of life starting when the average matter density was a million times bigger than it is today argues against the anthropic explanation for the low value of the cosmological constant…"
Los nuevos aristócratas
Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
"Neo-Reactionaries" drop all pretense: End democracy and bring back lords!
"…From Ayn Rand to Harry Potter to Star Wars to Orson Scott Card, how many mythologies have catered to that fantasy, in all its voluptuous, masturbatory solipsism? In contrast, can you count any mythic systems -- other than Star Trek -- that encouraged a different view? Recognition that "I am a member of a civilization"? One that made million miracles possible? Not by unleashing a few demigods, but by stimulating the collaborative and competitive efforts of whole scads of bright folks who are merely way-above-average?
Well, the pretense may be over, fellas and gals. Welcome to Nietzsche World.
Welcome to the Rapture of the Ingrates.
It is called the "Neo-Reactionary Movement" -- a quasi-new cult that yearns for the ancien régime of monarchy and feudal rule. One that rejects Adam Smith and Franklin and the entire Enlightenment. And above all -- democracy…"
Sanidad pretende equiparar la homeopatía a la farmacopea
Ya lo que nos faltaba por parte de este gobierno.
Sanidad regulará los productos homeopáticos para equipararlos a los medicamentos
Sanidad regulará los productos homeopáticos para equipararlos a los medicamentos
Pippi Calzaslargas, por Hayao Miyazaki
Pero no pudo ser. Aunque casi mejor que no: no creo que hubiera sido tan subversiva como la adaptación de imagen real que muchos disfrutamos como niños (anda que no la pusieron a caldo las mentes bienpensantes de la época).
Concept art from the Pippi Longstocking movie Hayao Miyazaki never madeLa colección en sí.
Concept art from the Pippi Longstocking movie Hayao Miyazaki never madeLa colección en sí.
Cruce de caminos matemático
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SciTech
To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic
"…The decades-long quest for a more complete axiomatic system, one that could settle the infinity question and plug many of the other holes in mathematics at the same time, has arrived at a crossroads. During a recent meeting at Harvard organized by Koellner, scholars largely agreed upon two main contenders for additions to ZFC: forcing axioms and the inner-model axiom “V=ultimate L.”
“If forcing axioms are right, then the continuum hypothesis is false,” Koellner said. “And if the inner-model axiom is right, then the continuum hypothesis is true. You go through a whole list of issues in other fields, and the forcing axioms will answer those questions one way, and ultimate L will answer them a different way…"
La parodia de "Dune" de los de "Desmadre a la americana" y otros
"National Lampoon", la publicación que produjo vienen películas como esa, también publicó una parodia de Dune.
National Lampoon's Doon
National Lampoon's Doon
"…Banished to the sugared wilderness, Pall (now head of House Agamemnides) and Lady Jazzica meet with and are eventually accepted by the planet's native population, the Freedmenmen, a process made easier by previous prophecy-seeding by the Missionaria Phonibalonica, via the Great Prophet Phyllis. Indeed, the natives are receptive to the fulfillment of the prophecies even after the revelation that Phyllis's decanonization resulted in her prophecies being discontinued sometime before. Pall, given the Freedmenmen name Assol and taking the secret name Mauve'Bib (after the purple napkin that all Freedmenmen wear about their necks) begins to ascend the power structure of the tribe (as well as the Freedmenmen girl Loni as his lover), realizing that he could use the Freedmenmen to return to a position of power, taking back not only Doon but the Imperium itself. He also realizes what the planet's Imperial Planetologist and liberal economist, Keynes, had puzzled out some time before: the rampaging Giant Pretzels (known as Schmai-gunug) actually produces the beer as a byproduct of its very life-cycle. The Lady Jazzica ascends to the status of Revved-Up Mother of Hootch Grabr, becoming known as Jazzica-of-the-Weirdness. During her ascension, while getting drunk on the beer, she realizes that she carries Lotto's daughter. Her intoxication opens her foetal daughter to the thousands of years of Boni Maroni culinary history; the result is Nailya-the-Truly-Weird, a toddler who spouts recipes as though she were an adult…"
"…This realization focused within him in a sudden sparkflash computation, and in the clear brilliance of that illumination, the boy Pall understood a profoundness. His life, hitherto a child's plaything, devoid of direction–seemingly! Or had there in fact always been a plan–a plan within a plan within a plan (whatever that meant (whatever that meant (whatever that meant)))?–was now encompassed by a terrible purpose. He knew the meaning of the word terrible, and he knew the meaning of the world purpose. And therefore he understood deeply the meaning of "terrible purpose" Unless he, in the solitude of his deeply brain-filled mind, misunderstood this revelation, and was in fact confronted with a "terrible papoose."
What could that mean?…"
Stross al estilo de "Los cuentos de la taberna del ciervo blanco"
A Bird in Hand
"…"Oh, all right. Kottleman and his fellow creationists aren't totally stupid. They run this bible museum with animatronic Ceratopsians, but they know it's not going to convince everybody that they're right. What they really want to do is to show real dinosaurs living cheek-by-jowl with human beings—and to bring their dinosaurs to life without any need for evolution. If, they reason, you can transform a bird into a dinosaur by epigenetic phenotypic modulation—by controlling which developmental genes are expressed and in what sequence, rather than by crudely hacking new genes into the thing—then they think they've got a disproof of Godless Darwinism to point to, as well as a really cool (hence profitable) museum exhibit." She paused…"
John Carmack deja Id Software para concentrarse en la Oculus Rift
Realmente lo de la realidad virtual de Oculus le ha entusiasmado.
id Software cofounder John Carmack leaves company: Move follows Carmack's earlier shift to CTO role at Oculus.
id Software cofounder John Carmack leaves company: Move follows Carmack's earlier shift to CTO role at Oculus.
Jumbo aterriza en pista demasiado corta para despegar
Es un Jumbo DreamLifter, una especie de Beluga a partir de un 747, que transporta piezas de aviones para la Boeing. El piloto se equivocó de aeropuerto y aterrizó en uno cuya pista no es lo bastante larga como para despegar.
Wayward Dreamlifter captivates the Air Capital
Bueno, al final lograron sacarlo de allí.
Wayward Dreamlifter captivates the Air Capital
Bueno, al final lograron sacarlo de allí.
Verne, Robur, Ovnis
That Time Jules Verne Caused a UFO Scare
"…Is it possible that the reports of mysterious airships in the news at the time influenced the writing of Robur? Or was it the other way around? The former idea is improbable since the genesis of Robur is well known and contemporary UFO reports do not enter into it. There are two parts to Robur that must be considered: its description of airship technology and its plot. Some points of the latter have already been described. The story behind the technology it describes goes back more than 20 years prior to the novel’s publication.
In France in 1862 a society was founded to promote the concept of heavier-than-air flight. Verne joined the society in 1863 as its recording secretary. He began writing Robur in early 1885 under the working title of The Conquest of the Air. He based the design of Robur’s Albatross on the work of the members of the society, principally that of Gabrielle de la Landelle, whose “steam air liner” was the prime model…"
"Lifeforce"… ¡la serie de TV!
Un estudio de TV va a adaptar "The Space Vampires" de Colin Wilson, la novela en que se basaba la película de Tobe Hooper (yo la leí. Asín que cualo, la verdad).
Lifeforce the TV series is a thing that is happening
Lifeforce the TV series is a thing that is happening
The Night of the Doctor
Precuela para "Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor"… con un Doctor muy especial: ¡Paul McGann!
Y el episodio canoniza a varios personajes de la serie de audiolibros que el Doctor de McGann ha protagonizado.
(de Víctor, la aspirina espacial)
Voy a pescar un gestor de contraseñas
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MacPC
Esta semana los de MacRumors revelaron que un hacker se había hecho con su lista de usuarios, direcciones de correos y contraseñas de sus foros. Si uno reutiliza contraseñas, con esos datos cualquier fistro podría entrar en cuentas de otros servicios. No estoy en MacRumors, pero a veces me he dado de alta en sitios similares, y la cosa me asustó un poco.
Así que creo que voy a pescarme un gestor de contraseñas, para:
1.- Generar contraseñas puñeteras de destripar.
2.- No reutilizar ninguna.
3.- Poder gestionarlas sin que sean un peñazo.
Lo cual va a suponer hacer un barrido de mi correo acumulado, ver en cuántos sitios me he dado de alta y cambiar sus contraseñas. Y, de paso, cambiar mis correos electrónicos asociados a algún gmail provisional, pues quiero dejar de depender de mis buzones de ONO para poder migrar a la fibra de Telefónica o parecido. Respecto a esto último, pienso que, en última instancia, daré de alta un dominio y hospedaje baratitos y alojaré en él mis propios buzones.
En Ars Technica han estado sacando varios artículos sobre estos temas. En éste muestran cómo funcionan estos programas:
The secret to online safety: Lies, random characters, and a password manager. Or, how to go from "123456" to "XBapfSDS3EJz4r42vDUt."
El más popular es 1Password, que es de compra y no subscripción. El siguiente en la lista suele ser LastPass. Hay software abierto, como KeePass. Aparte de cómo gestionen el cifrado de las claves y tal, el detalle importante es cómo se integran con tus OSes, navegadores y demás para que el rellenado de claves en formularios sea lo más automática e invisible posible, especialmente en los móviles y tabletas, donde la integración con otras aplicaciones suele ser más difícil.
Así que creo que voy a pescarme un gestor de contraseñas, para:
1.- Generar contraseñas puñeteras de destripar.
2.- No reutilizar ninguna.
3.- Poder gestionarlas sin que sean un peñazo.
Lo cual va a suponer hacer un barrido de mi correo acumulado, ver en cuántos sitios me he dado de alta y cambiar sus contraseñas. Y, de paso, cambiar mis correos electrónicos asociados a algún gmail provisional, pues quiero dejar de depender de mis buzones de ONO para poder migrar a la fibra de Telefónica o parecido. Respecto a esto último, pienso que, en última instancia, daré de alta un dominio y hospedaje baratitos y alojaré en él mis propios buzones.
En Ars Technica han estado sacando varios artículos sobre estos temas. En éste muestran cómo funcionan estos programas:
The secret to online safety: Lies, random characters, and a password manager. Or, how to go from "123456" to "XBapfSDS3EJz4r42vDUt."
El más popular es 1Password, que es de compra y no subscripción. El siguiente en la lista suele ser LastPass. Hay software abierto, como KeePass. Aparte de cómo gestionen el cifrado de las claves y tal, el detalle importante es cómo se integran con tus OSes, navegadores y demás para que el rellenado de claves en formularios sea lo más automática e invisible posible, especialmente en los móviles y tabletas, donde la integración con otras aplicaciones suele ser más difícil.
Cómo quitar G+ de una cuenta Gmail
Dado que Google hace casi imposible crear cuentas en sus servicios sin que vayan acompañadas de la creación de una cuenta G+, parece que, al menos, hay forma de destruir tu G+ a posteriori.
How to DELETE Your Google+ Profile
How to DELETE Your Google+ Profile
Tentacle Porn
The Octopus and The Geisha and the coder take us on an adventure in rigging.
(el vídeo está en el artículo)
(el vídeo está en el artículo)
The Wolverine ("Lobezno Inmortal")
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CiFi,
CineTV,
ComicBooks
Ya la he visto, y me ha sorprendido muy gratamente. Me gusta que apenas hayan tomado referencias del cómic de Frank Miller y hayan tirado por otras calles. La película se aturrulla un poco al final, pero sale bien parada. Es una de yakuzas y samurais moderna, con Lobezno en medio. Lo mejor es el tono, tenso pero contemplativo. Y Famke Jansen resulta tener una presencia más importante de lo que parecía (qué bien se lo tenía calladito la actriz cuando la entrevistaban).
Hugh Jackman ha casado por fin el físico de Lobezno. Y la película su psicología. La 20th Century Fox están tirando los tejos al actor y al director James Mangold para que hagan otra.
Tras los títulos de crédito tiene un preludio a "Días del pasado futuro".
Hugh Jackman ha casado por fin el físico de Lobezno. Y la película su psicología. La 20th Century Fox están tirando los tejos al actor y al director James Mangold para que hagan otra.
Tras los títulos de crédito tiene un preludio a "Días del pasado futuro".
Más sobre "Obduction" de Cyan
How Myst's developer is returning to its roots with Obduction
"…Obduction as a concept is more than 10 years old.
Obduction existed in various incarnations as Cyan continued to make Myst games. It would resurface from time to time, morph, and get placed on the back burner. About a year ago, when it came time to start seriously planning for a crowdfunding campaign, Obduction resurfaced. The version of the game that Cyan settled on mirrors a recent theme at Cyan of returning to roots…"
ESTA es la película que hemos estado esperando toda nuestra vida
The Visitor: un ataque de nostalgia cifitaliana setentera y gromenal.
"…In this unforgettable assault on reality—restored and presented uncut theatrically for thefirst time ever intheU.S.—legendary Hollywood director/actor John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) stars as an intergalactic warrior who joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl, and her pet hawk, whilethefate oftheuniverse hangs inthebalance. Multi-dimensional warfare, pre-adolescent profanity and brutal avian attacks combine to transporttheviewer to a state unlike anything they've experienced... somewhere between Hell,thedarkest reaches of outer space, and Atlanta, GA. The Visitor fearlessly fuses elements of TheOmen, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, The Birds, Rosemary's Baby, The Fury and even Star Wars creating the most ambitious of all '70s psychedelic mindwarps. Its baffling all-star cast includes Shelley Winters (Night Of The Hunter), Glenn Ford (Superman), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Franco Nero (Django) and Sam Peckinpah (director of The Wild Bunch)…"
THE VISITOR [Trailer] - Now In Theaters from Drafthouse Films on Vimeo.
Visitor Clip - I'm A Pretty Bird from Drafthouse Films on Vimeo.
Trailer de 3 minutos de "El cuento de la princesa Kaguya"
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Anim
…De Isao Takahata. La estrenan en Japón a fin de mes.
¡Dwarf Fortress in spaceee!
Spacebase DF-9 includes a very real threat of chest-bursting parasites
"…The trouble started with an infected immigrant, who brought the parasite on board with him. While he and his bunkmates slept, the creature burst out of his body and began slaughtering indiscriminately. It broke the base's only airlock, trapping two miners out in space. By the time LeBreton, the game's project lead, realized what was happening it was too late.
"I, as the developer of this game, genuinely don't know how to salvage this situation," LeBreton told Polygon…"
¡A Andrew Probert le gusta mi USS Roadrunner!
¡¡¡EL ANDREW PROBERT que diseñó la Enterprise de Star Trek: La Nueva Generación!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuUl5OvHys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuUl5OvHys
Andrew Probert Hace 20 horas:
VERY nice. I like where you're going with this. I would widen the whole design a bit (personal taste) but you've followed all the 'rules' of Starship Design and it looks great. I especially like your little service craft.
Let's now see some fly-bys.
Andrew-
Paracaidistas filman su propio choque entre aviones
Salieron todos vivos, pero…
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Primer trailer propiamente dicho del "Helix" de Ron D. "BSG" Moore
La serie la estrenarán el 10 de enero.
Cómo Lea Hernández se convirtió en la jefa de merchandising USA de Gainax
…En forma de cómic. Lea es una de las pioneras del mezclar el estilo manga en los cómics americanos.
1º episodio: Bani Garu: Problems from the start.
1º episodio: Bani Garu: Problems from the start.
Cisco costea la licencia de su H.264 para internet
Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264
Cisco ha decidido distribuir sus binarios del códec H.264 para todas las plataformas asumiendo ella los costes de la licencia de uso para internet durante 10 años. Claramente, lo ha hecho para desatascar el uso de este códec en estándares como WebRTC y otros.
El artículo es interesante, porque señala las condiciones de este apaño a corto plazo, que permite ganar tiempo para que no vuelvan a pillar a la web con los pantalones bajados la próxima vez.
Cisco ha decidido distribuir sus binarios del códec H.264 para todas las plataformas asumiendo ella los costes de la licencia de uso para internet durante 10 años. Claramente, lo ha hecho para desatascar el uso de este códec en estándares como WebRTC y otros.
El artículo es interesante, porque señala las condiciones de este apaño a corto plazo, que permite ganar tiempo para que no vuelvan a pillar a la web con los pantalones bajados la próxima vez.
"Open Grave" con Sharlto Copley
El protagonista de "District 9".
"…A man (Sharlto Copley, DISTRICT 9, ELYSIUM) wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Fleeing the scene, he breaks into a nearby house and is met at gunpoint by a group of terrified strangers, all suffering from memory loss. Suspicion gives way to violence as the group starts to piece together clues about their identities, but when they uncover a threat that's more vicious—and hungry—than each other, they are forced to figure out what brought them all together—before it's too late…"
Articulazo en Io9 sobre el trailer de "X-Men: Días del pasado futuro"
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CiFi,
CineTV,
ComicBooks
Treinta y cuatro años después de editarse en cómic, la adaptación de la historia llegará a las pantallas.
All the Most X-ceptional Things We Saw in the New X-Men Trailer!
Y el trailer:
Gravity
Ya la he visto. Fantástica. A pesar de algunos lugares comunes, es una delicia. La mejor "fotografía" de película espacial realista, y su estereoscopía es de lo mejorcito que he visto jamás.
Obligatorios articulazos y podcasts sobre los VFX:
Obligatorios articulazos y podcasts sobre los VFX:
Gravity: vfx that’s anything but down to earth
the vfx show #174: Gravity (podcast).
fxpodcast #263: Framestore’s Tim Webber on Gravity (podcast).
Estrellas de la historia del software, emulados en navegador
The Internet Archive Software Collection > Historical Software Collection
Muchos de los títulos mostrados (juegos, ofimática, etc.) pueden ser probados en emulaciones para navegador.
Muchos de los títulos mostrados (juegos, ofimática, etc.) pueden ser probados en emulaciones para navegador.
Los aliens perdidos de "2001"
En "The Lost Worlds of 2001" (un "making of" de la novela y la película, incluyendo bocetos descartados del texto), Arthur Clarke explicaba algunas de las ideas sobre cómo representar a los alienígenas, hasta que al final, siguiendo un consejo de Carl Sagan, se optó por algo menos directo y más ambiguo: el monolito.
En este artículo se abunda sobre el tema, mostrando algunas de esas ideas visualizadas por artistas y escultores, y algunos intentos de Douglas Trumbull en VFX para demostrarlas.
2001: The aliens that almost were
En este artículo se abunda sobre el tema, mostrando algunas de esas ideas visualizadas por artistas y escultores, y algunos intentos de Douglas Trumbull en VFX para demostrarlas.
2001: The aliens that almost were
Enchufe de Firefox para saber quién te está haciendo seguimiento
Mozilla’s Lightbeam add-on lets you see who is tracking you. And the results can be scary
"…Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the web," said Mozilla in its accompanying information. "It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers…"
Stross y su estrategia de salida a Linux
Charles Stross hace la prueba: ¿podría replicar su entorno de trabajo como escritor, ahora que Scrivener está en beta para Linux?
The regular holy war…
The regular holy war…
"…Anyway. Could I work on Linux again? I used to, but I more or less abandoned it as a desktop platform by 2002. The question festered. Then, a few days ago, I remembered: I had a two year old 11" Macbook Air with OSX 10.8.5 aboard, gathering dust in a corner of the office—the travel machine I superannuated this summer and haven't got around to selling yet. And Ubuntu 13.10 is just out. Why not ...?"
"El cuento de la Princesa Kaguya", dirigida por Isao Takahata
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Anim,
CineTV,
Libros,
PoliSocEconCult
Su nueva película tras catorce años de inactividad como director.
Studio Ghibli's newest movie is like nothing you've ever seen
Pi San, el triunfo de la animación china en Internet
Artículo sobre uno de los amimadores chinos que publica sus obras en la Red más conocidos y populares.
(de Carlos, Alas Sobre el Mundo)
Pi San, el triunfo de la animación china en Internet
(de Carlos, Alas Sobre el Mundo)
Las tomas falsas de "Pacific Rim"
The Pacific Rim Gag Reel Is Insanely Charming (es que es de una especie de Youtube chino)
Stellamara
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Música
Es un conjunto de "World Music" que nos ha mostrado un miembro turco del guild de SWTOR.
CHVRCHES
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Música
Vuelve Kai Krause
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MacPC
¿Os acordáis de Kai Krause, el autor de los Kai's Power Tools y otras aplicaciones gráficas de interfaz rompedor (a veces demasiado )? Pues vuelve a la palestra con Frax, una aplicación de iPad para explorar fractales.
www.fract.al
¿Y qué es de este hombre? El mismo nos da algunas respuestas aquí.
www.fract.al
¿Y qué es de este hombre? El mismo nos da algunas respuestas aquí.
Secuencia del Gatchaman en 3D que se canceló
Creo que era de Imagi, la misma productora que hizo la versión animada en 3D de Astroboy (Tetsuwan Atom. A mí me gustó mucho).
The awesome car chase scene from the CG Gatchaman movie that never was
The awesome car chase scene from the CG Gatchaman movie that never was
La cabecera de Guillermo Del Toro para el especial de terror de Los Simpson
Con ciento y la madre de referencias al género.
All the references in Del Toro's Simpsons intro with handy labels
All the references in Del Toro's Simpsons intro with handy labels
Pacific Rim
Ya la he visto, y me ha gustado mucho por lo que es: la perfecta película de palomitas, en el sentido de que, vale, es de palomitas, pero nunca insulta tu inteligencia, te intriga aquí y allá, y cumple sus promesas.
Algunos vínculos a artículos sobre sus efectos visuales:
Monster mayhem: Pacific Rimthe vfx show #171: Pacific Rim (podcast)
The path to Pacific Rim: fxphd postgrad Ryan Summers
Algunos vínculos a artículos sobre sus efectos visuales:
Monster mayhem: Pacific Rimthe vfx show #171: Pacific Rim (podcast)
The path to Pacific Rim: fxphd postgrad Ryan Summers
Pluto
The Flying Crowbar: The Insane Doomsday Weapon America Almost Built
"…a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs…)"
En el espacio todos pueden oír tu banda sonora
La catástrofe se basa en el Síndrome de Kessler: la idea de que, si la órbita baja está lo suficientemente llena de satélites y restos, los restos de una colisión podrían producir una cascada de colisiones secundarias, haciéndola cada vez más peligrosa. La gracieta de los chinos de destruir un satélite hace unos años ya aumentó la necesidad de mover la ISS de vez en cuando.
Por cierto, que "Gravedad" es en estereoscópico, y dicen que en ésta realmente merece la pena.
Por cierto, que "Gravedad" es en estereoscópico, y dicen que en ésta realmente merece la pena.
Doctor Who: minisodio de Neil Gaiman
Bastante tonto.
"…Over on his Tumblr, Gaiman explains that this started as a deleted sequence from the episode "The Doctor's Wife," and was then drawn by Mark Buckingham as a three-page comic. Gaiman then rewrote the scene as a minisode, titled "Rain Gods," featuring River and the Doctor for the Series 7 box set…"
Trastornos obsesivo-compulsivos y budismo
Learning to fall apart. My OCD had been creating vivid, painful rituals for years. So could Buddhist ritual give me a means to fight back?
"…Which brings us to religion. As in OCD, ritual plays a central role in all religious traditions. That’s not to say, of course, that ritual plays exactly the same role in OCD and religion. After all, religious ritual is an enormous arena of human activity, a means of expression for nearly every human want, need, and desire. It would be way beyond hubris for me — a 31-year-old whose experience of religious practice is largely limited to evangelical Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism — to pronounce on all of that.
But I’m struck by the fact that there is common ground between my private rituals, and the rituals that religions have invented. And from my own experience, growing up in evangelical Christianity, and now practising Tibetan Buddhist rituals, I have come to understand one thing. Some rituals are designed to help us ‘keep ourselves together’. Others are designed to help us fall apart. OCD rituals are the former, and so are many religious rituals. But Buddhist meditation offers a radical alternative…"
El Comisionado Gordon consigue su propia serie: "Gotham"
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CineTV,
ComicBooks
…Mostrando sus años mozos (es decir, sin Batman).
Commissioner Gordon is getting his own television series with 'Gotham'
Commissioner Gordon is getting his own television series with 'Gotham'
Bear McCreary gana un Emmy por su tema para "Da Vinci's Demons"
Por cierto, que le han encargado la música para "Agents of SHIELD".
El amplituedro. ¿Novedad genuina en física de partículas?
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SciTech
This physical breakthrough could change our understanding of spacetimeQuanta Magazine: A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
Si todo cuadra, huele a Premio Nobél.
Ya hay entrada en la frikipedia:
Amplituhedron - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
"…Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality…
…The revelation that particle interactions, the most basic events in nature, may be consequences of geometry significantly advances a decades-long effort to reformulate quantum field theory, the body of laws describing elementary particles and their interactions. Interactions that were previously calculated with mathematical formulas thousands of terms long can now be described by computing the volume of the corresponding jewel-like “amplituhedron,” which yields an equivalent one-term expression.
“The degree of efficiency is mind-boggling,” said Jacob Bourjaily, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University and one of the researchers who developed the new idea. “You can easily do, on paper, computations that were infeasible even with a computer before…”
Si todo cuadra, huele a Premio Nobél.
Ya hay entrada en la frikipedia:
Amplituhedron - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Machete Kills
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CineTV
Esto es algo así como el "Torrente 3" del Robert Rodríguez, seguramente igual de infumable y ni la mitad de divertido que se cree.
O no, vete a saber.
O no, vete a saber.
OpenSubdiv v.2
Pixar’s OpenSubdiv V2: A detailed look
"…The concern Pixar’s internal team had was that it just made too much sense to not have a standard, but as Pixar owned many of the key patents and the keys to RenderMan, it would be hard for anyone else to do as good a job, or deal with some of the complexity like facevarying, hierarchy or the important ‘creasing’. This meant that a less than optimal version could, de facto, become a standard if Pixar kept quiet and withheld support of their technology and patents. Pixar would then be faced with having a standard that was inferior to their internal model and all hopes of interoperability would be lost. Furthermore, for subdiv to work well Pixar wanted a great GPU implementation and any graphics card company would, for the same reasons, end up not supporting the possibly ‘secret’ superior Pixar version. By Pixar adopting the open source model it stands a great chance of companies like Autodesk, The Foundry, Smith Micro Software (Poser) and Nvidia completely and faithfully supporting the Pixar model, and that benefits everyone…"
Urbance
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Anim
Producción animada televisiva canadiense.
Urbance: angular, science fictional hip-hop-y animation from Canada
Urbance: angular, science fictional hip-hop-y animation from Canada
"Gravedad" de Cuarón promete ser algo especial
Alfonso Cuaron Returns to the Bigscreen After Seven Years With ‘Gravity’
"…Their conversations covered every detail of the script and Bullock’s character. “She was involved so closely in every single decision throughout the whole thing,” Cuaron says. “And it was a good thing, because once we started prepping for the shoot, it was almost more like a dance routine, where it was one-two-three left, left, four-five-six then on the right. She was amazing about the blocking and the rehearsal of that. So when we were shooting, everything was just about truthfulness and emotion.”
Cameron says Bullock’s work is more impressive than the technology that supported it. “She’s the one that had to take on this unbelievable challenge to perform it. (It was) probably no less demanding than a Cirque du Soleil performer, from what I can see.” And of the result, he says, “There’s an art to that, to creating moments that seem spontaneous but are very highly rehearsed and choreographed. Not too many people can do it. … I think it’s really important for people in Hollywood to understand what was accomplished here…"
Kim Newman, "El año de Drácula" y su última novela de la serie
En España, que yo sepa, sólo han publicado dos en tapa blanda: "El año de Drácula" y "El sangunario Barón Rojo".
Anno Dracula's Kim Newman explains why there's not just one Dracula
Incluye una entrevista y un extracto de la novela.
Anno Dracula's Kim Newman explains why there's not just one Dracula
Incluye una entrevista y un extracto de la novela.
"…The association of vampirism with capitalism goes back to a much-quoted passage Marx and is one of the threads of Dracula I pick up in Johnny Alucard, which addresses that wonderful moment in Stoker’s novel (unused in any of the films) when the Count is stabbed and bleeds gold coins from a hidden money-belt. When it was announced that Bain Capital, the controversial American venture capital firm once headed by former US presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was likely to take over the main blood plasma supplier to the UK National Health Service as part of the coalition government’s program of inviting private firms to run elements of the NHS for profit, I thanked the real world for consistently proving more ghoulishly awful than anything I could think up on my own. As long as this sort of thing keeps up, I’ll need to continue the series…"
Autodesk 123D Circuits
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SciTech
123D Circuits
"…123D Circuits is a revolutionary free tool for designing your electronic projects online. You can design in a familiar breadboard view and the app will guide you to make professional printed circuit boards with built in layout tools. When you’re done just click to have your boards professionally manufactured and shipped for free worldwide…"
"…123D Circuits is a revolutionary free tool for designing your electronic projects online. You can design in a familiar breadboard view and the app will guide you to make professional printed circuit boards with built in layout tools. When you’re done just click to have your boards professionally manufactured and shipped for free worldwide…"
Introducing 123D Circuits.io from circuits.io on Vimeo.
El regreso del dirigible rígido y la solución al problema del lastre
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SciTech
First rigid airship since the Hindenburg cleared for outdoor flight trials: Can brand new COSH tech finally revive the aerial leviathans of the 1930s?
"…The Aeroscraft, though, is different because it has COSH: we here on the Reg airship desk first reported on this technology a few years back. Essentially what COSH does is take some of the ship's helium and compress it to the point at which it is heavier than air, so removing lift. It seems likely that the gas isn't compressed to any very high pressure, meaning that the tanks in which it is put could be potentially large enough to do the job while remaining acceptably lightweight…"
Qué grande ser joven… y pakistaní
I’m no terrorist. Young Pakistanis have more opportunity than ever to change the country. But what will they do with their freedom?
"…The Pakistan Youth Alliance (PYA) was founded in 2007 to oppose General Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of emergency rule, and its banners can be seen at protests up and down the country. I met its founders, Ali Abbas Zaidi, 26, and Maryam Kanwer, 28, at a café in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market; they were hunched over a laptop at a table in the bustling square, looking over a project proposal. ‘The question of ideological inclinations in Pakistan is very difficult and confusing. Right- and left-wing are not that clear,’ said Zaidi. ‘All of us come from middle-class or upper-middle-class educated families. Say it softly, but we believe in a secular Pakistan.’ He laughed. ‘I say it softly because the word “secular” is misinterpreted by the mullahs in Pakistan. It is known as “godlessness” — but secularism has nothing to do with being godless. If you talk to anyone here, in any middle-class neighbourhood of Islamabad, he will be very secular and tolerant in his views. But people are confused, because the state machinery has been used to propagate a certain mindset to them: a hyper-nationalistic, religious version of “Pakistanism”…'
Emmerich quiere trilogizar "Stargate"
Siempre echó pestes de la serie de TV, y mantenía sus propias ideas sobre cómo proseguir la historia. Si logra luz verde para producir las secuelas, sería interesante ver el resultado.
Roland Emmerich plans to reboot 'Stargate' as a film trilogy
Roland Emmerich plans to reboot 'Stargate' as a film trilogy
Portal Ciencia y Ficcion
Una web con la que se ha topado Víctor, con revista semestral gratuita en PDF, que separa y arrejunta noticias de ciencia con noticias del mundo de la ciencia-ficción.
www.portalcienciayficcion.com
www.portalcienciayficcion.com
El enfoque original para la serie "Star Trek: Enterprise"
Did studio meddling cause all the problems with Star Trek: Enterprise?
"…Instead, Paramount and UPN insisted that Berman and Braga had to get the Enterprise crew out into space in the first episode, so the series could hew more to the traditional Star Trek format, the producers claim in a new roundtable interview segment on the Blu-rays, plus a featurette called "Uncharted Territory." Not only that, but it was the studio that insisted the producers had to include the Temporal Cold War, making the show both a prequel and sequel to the other Star Trek series — because the studio suits were nervous about making a pure prequel. (On one Blu-ray feature, Bakula says he constantly gets people asking him what happened to the Temporal Cold War. Braga says he found the Temporal Cold War "strangulating.")
Other horrifying/fascinating details (via AICN): One studio executive pitched the idea of having a different "boy band" board the Enterprise and perform every week…"
Toma fruta, pero no tomes zumo de fruta
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SciTech
…Porque pierdes la fibra y aumentas el índice glucémico al hacer zumo.
Fruit should be eaten, not drunk. Apples and blueberries stand out in a long-term study of diabetes risk
Fruit should be eaten, not drunk. Apples and blueberries stand out in a long-term study of diabetes risk
"Choice: Texas", videojuego sobre tu control reproductivo en EE.UU.
Choice: Texas brings abortion, controversy to gaming
"…One of the characters in Choice: Texas is a 19-year-old woman, a rape victim, who wants to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. In Texas, abortion clinics are few and far between, often requiring long and expensive journeys, fixed waiting periods between initial scan and final procedure and mandatory counseling sessions that are designed to discourage termination.
Another character is an excited mother-to-be, who must face the anguish of ending her pregnancy due to a life-threatening complication. As well as the practical considerations, she must negotiate emotional hurdles placed by political systems that are hostile to abortion…"
Stross sobre Siria y la regla del 70/25/5 %
On Syria
Interesante correspondencia posterior, como siempre.
"…Short version: proposals in the UK and USA to carry out bombing strikes against the Assad regime in Syria are not only criminal (in the absence of a firm UN Security Council ruling on the matter), they're stupid. One such imperial adventure might be an accident, two might be a coincidence, but embarking on a third one within a decade of the blood-spattered fiasco that was Iraq and the traumatic counter-insurgency occupation that was Afghanistan should be grounds for incarcerating any western politician proposing it in an institution for the criminally insane…"
"…The UK and France had a lot of experience of running colonial empires, and had devised a recipe for establishing puppet states. You carved up the blank areas on the map, deliberately cutting across tribal/national boundaries, to establish zones with a 70/25/5 percentage split. The 70% majority were to be ruled and policed by representatives drawn from the 25% minority, armed with clubs and possibly rifles, while the 5% of imperial merchants and administrators enforced colonial rule over the 25%ers with machine guns and gunboats…"
Interesante correspondencia posterior, como siempre.
Más detalles de "El juego de Ender"
Parece que va a ser impresionante.
All the Details that Prove Ender's Game is a Unique Space Adventure
All the Details that Prove Ender's Game is a Unique Space Adventure
¿Moralidad animal?
The kindness of beasts: Dogs rescue their friends and elephants care for injured kin – humans have no monopoly on moral behaviour
"…It might seem as if this is a purely scientific issue. Either an animal is motivated by a moral emotion — sympathy, kindness, malice, etc — or it is motivated by something else. However, philosophical assumptions, and confusions, can also intrude . First, the ‘aversive stimulus’ explanation does not necessarily rule out a moral explanation. Sometimes, the basis of aversion will be a feeling of sympathy. I find the cries of my children unpleasant — I have an aversion to those cries. But this is precisely an expression of my concern for them and not something separate. Consider, for example, a (probably apocryphal) tale concerning Abraham Lincoln. Seeing some young birds that had fallen from their nest and were in distress, Lincoln stopped to help them back into the nest and reunite them with their mother. On being praised for his charity, Lincoln replied: ‘I wouldn’t have been able to sleep tonight if I had been thinking of those poor birds…"
La Fundación HSA y las arquitecturas heterogéneas de memoria unificada
The 'third era' of app development will be fast, simple, and compact: Will Intel and Nvidia join the HSA party, or insist on going it alone?
"…At the annual Hot Chips symposium on high-performance chippery on Sunday, the assembled chipheads were led through a four-hour deep dive into the latest developments on marrying the power of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, DMA engines, codecs, and other accelerators through the development of an open source programming model.
As the HSA Foundation explains on its website, "We are looking to bring about applications that blend scalar processing on the CPU, parallel processing on the GPU, and optimized processing of DSP via high bandwidth shared memory access with greater application performance at low power consumption…"
Calatraveces
Una más para Calatrava: Concejal holandés pide actuar en su contra por el coste de tres puentes
"…Kuipers, que espera recibir una respuesta del consistorio en el plazo de una semana, asegura que cuando la localidad holandesa encargó los puentes al arquitecto valenciano en 1999 se presupuestó un coste de 16 millones de euros, que en el momento de su inauguración, en 2004, ya se había disparado hasta los 30 millones. Un año después de la inauguración por la entonces Reina Beatriz de Holanda, la construcción metálica empezó a oxidarse y desde entonces ha ocasionado unos gastos de mantenimiento de otros 20 millones de euros…"
"Soy un ateo y un cuáquero comprometido"
I contradict myself: I am an atheist and committed Quaker. Does it matter what I believe, when I recognise that religion is something I need?
La correspondencia posterior es interesante.
"…People need focus. There’s a reason why the American mythologist Joseph Campbell chose the hero’s journey as his fundamental myth: we don’t give out faith and loyalty to an idea nearly as readily as we give it to a hero, a person. And so a God whom we understand not as a vague notion or spirit, but as a living presence, with voice and face and will and command — this is what I think most people want in a visceral way. In some ways, it’s what we need.
And I do not believe such a God exists in our universe…"
La correspondencia posterior es interesante.
Zángano se la pega contra las gradas en los Sanfermines de Virginia
Error del teleoperador y cinco heridos leves. Hay vídeo del tortazo.
Drone crashes into spectators at Virginia bull run
Drone crashes into spectators at Virginia bull run
"13th Age", un juego de rol con énfasis en hacer una historia colaborativa
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Juegos
13th Age RPG delivers an incredible fantasy storytelling experience
"…The goal of 13th Age is to take that familiar D20 system and infuse it with the idea that each session or campaign should be a collaborative storytelling effort between the players and the GM. For instance, you don't select from a menu of skills. Instead, you create background elements for your character, and you derive skills from that background when each situation arises. So if you gave your character a background as a captain of a fishing boat, you could argue that you get a bonus on skill checks involving navigation, tying or untying knots, identifying aquatic species, and leading small groups…"
"…The fact that original Dungeons & Dragons role-playing came out of wargaming means that a small bit of the adversarial relationship between player and gamemaster sort of survived hidden in the subtext of the game. You will find tables that rely upon the rules to protect [players] from what they see as a predatory GM who will kill their character given the chance. And in those tables the idea that, "No, storytelling together is what this is about" isn't what's happening. You might say, "Oh my god, we managed to tell a great story," but it was all under the guise of a contest…"
Barras de navegador malware y demás: una odisea del despacio
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MacPC
Download me II—Removing the remnants of the Web’s most dangerous search terms: Who knew that "free" could lead to a PUP? (Sadly, not the cute and cuddly kind.)
"…According to McAfee’s 2008 The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms, “free” fell into the highest search term risk category. And my previous search for free stuff on the Internet ended ugly. What did I do? I searched for free things, clicked the top links, and initiated the first download on each page. This—no surprise—led me to download a bunch of adware and malware, what McAfee coined as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). For instance, a search for "free music downloads" (the worst search query from round one) left my desktop littered with them. From my download notes and desktop count, I went from three to 19 programs while adding six Firefox plugins and 12 extensions that made my browser a cluttered array of toolbars and icons. My computer was dogged with PUPs—point proven. Now this was my mess to clean up. Could I do anything to fix my computer, and was it even worth it?…"
Elon Musk es un culo inquieto
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CiFi,
CineTV,
ComicBooks,
SciTech
Elon Musk just started building a real 'Iron Man' laboratory: The SpaceX founder plans to unveil gesture-based system next week
"… Musk tweeted last night that he'd "figured out how to design rocket parts just w[ith] hand movements," and would post a video of the process "next week." Favreau tweeted at Musk asking: "Like in Iron Man?" And Musk responded in the affirmative…"
Entrevista reciente a Hayao Miyazaki sobre su última película
INTERVIEW/ Hayao Miyazaki: Newest Ghibli film humanizes designer of fabled Zero
(de Sofián. La woman del Hayao debe ser algo formidable)
"…Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air. I wanted to see a Zero flown by a Japanese aviator, not an American. My fantasy was to see it flown under high-voltage power transmission cables next to Studio Ghibli in western Tokyo. But my wife told me to stop being such an idiot, and that was that…"
(de Sofián. La woman del Hayao debe ser algo formidable)
Conciencia en tercera persona
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SciTech
How the light gets out: Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the mystery that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?
"…The philosopher David Chalmers has claimed that the first question, how a brain computes information about itself and the surrounding world, is the ‘easy’ problem of consciousness. The second question, how a brain becomes aware of all that computed stuff, is the ‘hard’ problem.
I believe that the easy and the hard problems have gotten switched around. The sheer scale and complexity of the brain’s vast computations makes the easy problem monumentally hard to figure out. How the brain attributes the property of awareness to itself is, by contrast, much easier. If nothing else, it would appear to be a more limited set of computations. In my laboratory at Princeton University, we are working on a specific theory of awareness and its basis in the brain. Our theory explains both the apparent awareness that we can attribute to Kevin and the direct, first-person perspective that we have on our own experience. And the easiest way to introduce it is to travel about half a billion years back in time…"
Más diseño de producción de "Iron Man 3"
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CiFi,
CineTV,
ComicBooks
…Incluyendo otro estilo de hacer el efecto de "Extremis", que hubiera sido más coherente con el cómic original.
Iron Man becomes a guided missile, in stunning new concept art
Iron Man becomes a guided missile, in stunning new concept art
Multifunción 3D
Escanea, imprime y "faxea" objetos 3D. Es otro kickstarter.
AIO Robotics Zeus: ¿la primera impresora 3D multifunción de la historia?
AIO Robotics Zeus: ¿la primera impresora 3D multifunción de la historia?
"Favorite Star", de Quadron
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Música
Aquí está su página de Youtube: Quadron.
Es un duo de Dinamarca: productor/músico y cantante.
Es un duo de Dinamarca: productor/músico y cantante.
"…An offshoot of the Denmark-based Boom Clap Bachelors massive collective, Quadron is an avant R&B (with an occasional nudge toward folk-soul) duo of multi-instrumentalist/producer Robin Braun (aka Robin Hannibal, also one-half of the duo Owusu & Hannibal) and vocalist Coco O. In 2009, Quadron began issuing their collaborations, led by the off-center mid-'60s soul throwback "Slippin," which was used in the film Se Min Kjole. A little later in the year, outside their homeland, BBC DJ Gilles Peterson was floored enough by the sparse, abstract "Day" to slot the song into the year-end All Winners special of his Worldwide program. Los Angeles' Plug Research label picked up their self-titled album for wide circulation and issued it in March 2010. Braun and Coco were subsequently sought out by numerous artists -- including Leon Ware, the Internet, and Tyler, The Creator -- for collaborations. Their cover of Michael Jackson's "Baby Be Mine" was included on the soundtrack to the 2012 film Think Like a Man. In 2013, Braun made an album with Mike Milosh as Rhye, while Coco was featured on the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. That June, they released their second album, Avalanche, on Sylvia Rhone's Epic-associated Vested in Culture label. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi…"
Nueva promo de "Dragon Age: Inquisition"
…Y además parece que Varric y Aveline, los dos personajes más sensatos y por eso atractivos de la historia, por fin serán enamorables :)
La industria estadounidense de los entierros
No sé cómo será la nuestra en comparación.
The gut-wrenching, organ-puréeing truth about the death care industry
The gut-wrenching, organ-puréeing truth about the death care industry
"…Oh, what’s that? I told you embalming is a legal requirement for public sanitation? That’s utter bullshit. If anything, it creates a sanitation problem if the cemetery you use is anywhere near a municipal water line, which most “commercial” cemeteries are.
In fact, in most states, the law only requires embalming if you are transporting a body across state lines or are not planning to inter for more than 72 hours and/or having a public viewing. It has not a single thing to do with public health. It’s a cash cow, plain and simple. It is barbaric, costly, and does not keep the body from deteriorating. But we’ll tell you just about anything you need to hear to get you to agree to it…"
Groklaw.net cierra: no soporta la falta de privacidad en internet
La autora de esta web ha hecho el seguimiento de los casos judiciales del mundo de la informática más interesantes, como el de Apple contra Samsung, Oracle contra Google o SCO contra IBM.
Esto es un desastre, porque las webs más parecidas que hay por ahí son muy sesgadas, y Groklaw era precisa y con un porcentaje de "aciertos" muy alto.
Groklaw: Forced Exposure
Esto es un desastre, porque las webs más parecidas que hay por ahí son muy sesgadas, y Groklaw era precisa y con un porcentaje de "aciertos" muy alto.
Groklaw: Forced Exposure
El GCHQ destruye los discos duros y The Guardian enarca una ceja
Porque, primero, existe una cosa llamada copias de seguridad guardadas en el exterior y, segundo, oficinas internacionales sujetas a jurisdicciones distintas de la británica.
Guardian lets UK spooks trash 'Snowden files' PCs to make them feel better: Editor tells of 'peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism' after hard drive destruction
Guardian lets UK spooks trash 'Snowden files' PCs to make them feel better: Editor tells of 'peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism' after hard drive destruction
"…I explained to the man from Whitehall about the nature of international collaborations and the way in which, these days, media organisations could take advantage of the most permissive legal environments. Bluntly, we did not have to do our reporting from London … The man was unmoved. And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred – with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.
The bespectacled editor said the destruction of his newspaper's kit, which he describes as a "peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism", satisfied Whitehall. He related the episode for the first time on Monday in a piece defiantly stating that the destruction of the computers will have a limited effect on the Guardian's reporting of NSA and GCHQ surveillance - in fact, just as much effect as the seizure of a laptop, phones, hard drives and camera from David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, over the weekend…"
Las agencias de espionaje tienen un problema serio
Y es que el capitalismo moderno se cargó el concepto de la lealtad de la empresa al trabajador, así que, ¿cómo convences a un Generación Y de que sea leal a la agencia?
Snowden leaks: the real take-home
Snowden leaks: the real take-home
"…We human beings are primates. We have a deeply ingrained set of cultural and interpersonal behavioural rules which we violate only at social cost. One of these rules, essential for a tribal organism, is bilaterality: loyalty is a two-way street. (Another is hierarchicality: yield to the boss.) Such rules are not iron-bound or immutable — we're not robots — but our new hive superorganism employers don't obey them instinctively, and apes and monkeys and hominids tend to revert to tit for tat quite easily when unsure of their relative status. Perceived slights result in retaliation, and blundering, human-blind organizations can slight or bruise an employee's ego without even noticing. And slighted or bruised employees who lack instinctive loyalty because the culture they come from has spent generations systematically destroying social hierarchies and undermining their sense of belonging are much more likely to start thinking the unthinkable.
Edward Snowden is 30: he was born in 1983. Generation Y started in 1980-82. I think he's a sign of things to come…"
Fitocracy
Un reportaje de The Verge sobre esta compañía que ha creado una red social y sistema de seguimiento de progreso deportivo bajo el enfoque de "la salud como un juego de rol".
El microtecladazo MIDI (velocidad… ¡postpulsación y más!)
QuNexus es otro de esos miniteclados ideales para tener a mano junto al del ordenador o el portátil. He visto que, si uno trabaja con un secuenciador, más importante que acertar la tecla correspondiente es el poder darle a la misma con la fuerza o suavidad que hace falta, porque es mucho más rápido luego mover el elemento a la nota que toca que retocar su parámetro de velocidad.
Mientras que la mayoría de teclados controladores proporcionan el dato de velocidad de pulsación, muy pocos proporcionan el de presión tras la pulsación (aquí se explican ambos), y encima polifónico. Pues éste lo hace.
Y no solo eso: cada tecla es un pequeño "bender", de forma que si aprietas hacia adelante o hacia atrás genera datos que puedes aprovechar para cambiar el tono, filtrado, etc. (de todas formas, no hubiera estado de más poner un "pitch bend" tradicional).
QuNexus
Mientras que la mayoría de teclados controladores proporcionan el dato de velocidad de pulsación, muy pocos proporcionan el de presión tras la pulsación (aquí se explican ambos), y encima polifónico. Pues éste lo hace.
Y no solo eso: cada tecla es un pequeño "bender", de forma que si aprietas hacia adelante o hacia atrás genera datos que puedes aprovechar para cambiar el tono, filtrado, etc. (de todas formas, no hubiera estado de más poner un "pitch bend" tradicional).
QuNexus
El mejor nombre de un videojuego
Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know! ("Hora de Aventuras: ¡Explora la mazmorra por que yo paso!" en España).
Microsoft financia "Los siete de Blake" para Xbox Live
Será una producción de la BBC. Veremos hasta qué punto son fieles al original, porque Roj Blake era casi un terrorista, por mucho que el gobierno de la Federación fuera una dictadura amoral.
Report: Microsoft remaking cult sci-fi series Blake's 7 for Xbox Live
Report: Microsoft remaking cult sci-fi series Blake's 7 for Xbox Live
Cómo montarte un servidor de correo seguro en un par de horas
NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours
"…You may be concerned that the NSA is reading your e-mail. Is there really anything you can do about it though? After all, you don’t really want to move off of GMail / Google Apps. And no place you would host is any better.
Except, you know, hosting it yourself. The way that e-mail was originally designed to work. We’ve all just forgotten because, you know, webapps-n-stuff. It’s a lot of work, mkay, and I’m a lazy software developer.
Today we kill your excuses…"
Primeros datos sobre la nueva de CF de Christopher Nolan
Here's the first synopsis for Chris Nolan's new flick Interstellar
"…The new script chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage…"
La escena final de "Iron Man 3" tras los títulos de crédito
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CiFi,
CineTV,
ComicBooks
…Y que da sentido al monólogo de la película, que no es un monólogo, pero que sí lo es.
Tony y Bruce.
Tony y Bruce.
MI5 y su petardo historial
BUGGER
…The recent revelations by the whistleblower Edward Snowden were fascinating. But they - and all the reactions to them - had one enormous assumption at their heart.
That the spies know what they are doing.
It is a belief that has been central to much of the journalism about spying and spies over the past fifty years. That the anonymous figures in the intelligence world have a dark omniscience. That they know what's going on in ways that we don't.
It doesn't matter whether you hate the spies and believe they are corroding democracy, or if you think they are the noble guardians of the state. In both cases the assumption is that the secret agents know more than we do.
But the strange fact is that often when you look into the history of spies what you discover is something very different.
It is not the story of men and women who have a better and deeper understanding of the world than we do. In fact in many cases it is the story of weirdos who have created a completely mad version of the world that they then impose on the rest of us…
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