September 17, 2005
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Very funny post: How I failed the Turing test. Actually, it raises a lot of metaphysical questions.
Some time around March, I started receiving a number of random instant messages from people I've never met before. Apparantly, my AIM alias had been added to at least two online lists and people all over the world were busy importing me as a buddy.
I say "at least two" because the people who contacted me fell into one of two camps: people who thought they were contacting a celebrity and people who thought they were contacting a robot. As I talked to more and more of these folks, I began to discover something really disturbing about myself:
I consistently fail to be perceived as human.
Since you are defined but what other people think of you, if the other people think you are not an human, what are you?
Read the entire post.
August 08, 2005
Via Bru, I found a photo of Kitta wearing a Technorati shirt (Ryan, who sent the present, jokes about this being his only contribution at Technorati people will remember). So I thought "what she has more than me?". Actually a non-fake Technorati T-shirt. See with your eyes this image or the one without head.
So here goes the plea: please Technorati send me a real Technorati shirt so that I could look as cool as Kitta. ![[winking face]](http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/images/smilies/wink.gif){kind=small}
Of course, I will do the same for Flickr (wearing their shirt) or anyone else. Looking for a testimonial model? Look no more, you've found it right here! Actually I think I could do everything for a free T-Shirt, just try me
July 21, 2005
[I usually don't post link to discussions in Italian, but this is too funny/sad. If you don't undestand Italian, you can skip this]
L'articolo su Repubblica.it Longhorn, il nuovo Windows su misura per l'era Internet e' totalmente non plausibile, inverosimile e inconsistente.
Leggete il post di Paolo Attivissimo Repubblica parla di Longhorn, parte il festival della castroneria per farvi una idea delle imprecisioni (e anche per farvi due risate).
Nel seguito l'email che ho scritto di getto (e magari con errori grammaticali) all'autore dell'articolo, Giuseppe Turani [ g.turani AT repubblica.it ] prima di leggere il chiaro post di Paolo Attivissimo. Se vi va di invitare Turani a scrivere un articolo chiarificatore (o almeno a capire che ha scritto inesattezze) potreste inviargli anche voi una email.
immagino stia ricevendo un po' di commenti sul suo articolo.
capisco che non sia un tecnico, ma quello che ha scritto e' (difficile trovare le parole ... ) totalmente non plausibile, inverosimile e inconsistente.
se le va, potrebbe cercare di capire il perche' la gente ha reagito
come ha reagito (forse a volte in maniera maleducata) e fare un nuovo articolo su repubblica.
lei e' economista (anche bravo da quello che mi ricordo).
immagini se su repubblica domani trovasse un articolo del tipo:
"Ethonomia, la nuova economia per il nuovo millennio"
BISOGNERA' aspettare fino al 2006, ma la nuova modellazione
dell'economia ideata da Paolo Massa arriverą. Arriverą e sarą una
rivoluzione davvero. Per ora si chiama Ethonomia, ma non si sa ancora se sara' il nome definitivo.
L'ethonomia sara' una rivoluzione, comprendera' concetti come "prezzo" per indicare il valore che le persone sono disposte a versare per acquisire la proprieta' di un oggetto.
Ci sara' anche inoltre il rivoluzionario concetto di "moneta", un
artefatto che le persone potranno usare per superare la fase attuale che e' quella del baratto......
Ma ora passiamo ad un altro articolo che ci spiega di una nuova grande invenzione sulla quale sta lavorando Paolo Massa, che pero' forse non sara' disponibile fino al 2008 perche' e' molto complicata. Ma sara'
una rivoluzione. L'invenzione si chiamera' "Ruota", ma puo' essere che si cambi nome...
Spero abbia capito che volevo essere scherzoso.
Il concetto (in due parole) e' "quello che Lei dipinge come grande
novita' esiste gia' da anni in MacOsX, il sistema operativo della
Apple e anche in GNU/Linux (seppure in maniera meno facile da
usare/installare, per ora)".
se vuole usare tutte le magie di cui ha parlato nell'articolo lo puo'
gia' fare adesso, si compri un ibook 12 pollici, un piccolo gioiellino, se ne accorgera'. e costa solo 999 euro e puo' comprarlo online da apple.it [io non lo uso, uso GNU/Linux su un portatile Compaq]
oppure contatti il Linux User Group (LUG) piu' vicino e chieda se
gentilmente le installano GNU/Linux sul suo computer attuale, magari offrendo di pagare chi fara' il lavoro.
se vuole scrivere un articolo interessante, anche con risvolti
economici non banali, si informi sul software libero (o oper source
anche se non sono la stessa cosa).
Il software libero fornisce liberta (http://fsf.org ) ed e' come viene
sviluppato GNU/Linux, ovvero in maniera collaborativa, ... proprio ad esempio come e' stata sviluppata la matematica durante la storia umana
[ovvero non c'era una societa' monopolista che controllava quali nuovi teoremi potevano essere introdotti e che bloccava l'innovazione spontanea di milioni di cervelli che volevano contribuire con nuove scoperte/dimostrazioni/teoremi...]
saro' lieto, se lo vorra', di discutere puntualmente tutte le imprecisioni dell'articolo o di rispondere alle sue domande. [by the
way, sto facendo il dottorato in Informatica e uso GNU/Linux]
fare il giornalista e' ogni giorno piu' difficile, ma e' per questo che e' un bel lavoro, c'e' la possibilita' di imparare ogni giorno
buon lavoro!
P.
[questa email e' rilasciata sotto creative commons Attribution 2.5
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
se vuole ripubblicarla lo puo' fare a patto che rispetti la licenza,
essenzialmente deve dire che l'email l'ho scritta io e basta]
June 25, 2005
Don't yawn game. Tell me if you yawned or not (via delicious/popular).
March 03, 2005
While M1cr0$oft 5uX, Google H4x0r.
February 27, 2005
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This is pure genius! News from Repubblica.it (in Italian).
Serpica Naro, young anglojapanese artist and fashion-maker, was supposed to close the Milano fashion week (Settimana Della Moda) today. BUT (suspence ...) Serpica Naro does not exist!
The organizers were fouled by the creative Italian collective Chainworkers. Serpica Naro is in fact an acronym of San Precario (depicted in picture), the newest of a long list of saints but this time with a reason.
San Precario is the protector of all the atypical workers (co.co.co., co.co.pro., and in general everyone that has a job with zero labour rights). [In the last 5 years, in Italy, most of the new workers have lost all the labour rights that were conquered by previous generations].
Chainworkers activists created an interesting 'look book' of Serpica Naro and a cool official website (with fake fashion magazines reporting about Serpica) and a bunch of other sites speaking about her, and an Italian press office and an English one and a Japanese one and a fake showroom in Tokyo and in London.
More clever is the fact that the same Chainworkers started attacking Serpica Naro accusing her to exploit anti-globalizations mottos just to sell fashion. And they also spread on some homosexual mailing lists news about the fact Serpica Naro had fouled in 2001 the japanese homosexual community just in order to use it for self-promotion.
Let me close with this. I don't know if what I wrote is true: it is totally possible that Serpica Naro does exist and I have been fouled. Just remember that nothing you read/listen anywhere is necessarily true (not here, not on newspapers, not on television). You have been warned....
Some info:
The official Serpica Naro site is http://www.serpicanaro.com/
And here the biography of Serpica Naro from the site of SettimanaDellaModa: http://www.settimanadellamoda.it/serpica.htm
Biography from http://www.serpicanaro.com/
Tokyo based anglojapanese Serpica Naro has built up a strong reputation as a young designer who has consistently pushed the boundaries of fashion design.
She graduated from Bunka Fashion College and is internationally known for innovative use of high tech fabrics and unusual cutting techniques. Her experimentation in areas removed from the mainstream have included the invention of disguise clothing as well as pioneering the use of reflective fabrics and bandages in fashion collections. Her diffusion collections have included the legendary NonConform range, the indispensable work wear of the late 90's, now revered by collectors.
Inspired by the fusion of cultures in urban Tokyo and London and its distinctively varied nightlife, Serpica's following within the alternative and fashion industry remains strong.
She has recently clothed Chloe Sevigny, Steffen Westmark from The Blue Van, Dot Alison and Lady Laditron amongst others, and has been featured in Lucire, I-D, The Face, Dazed and Confused Japan, Intersection, le Monde Initiatives and many others.
Serpica stages many fashion/alternative events all over the world and is a household name in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong - as much for her lifestyle collections, which include underwear, accessories, as for her contemporary cutting edge clothing.
Serpica was the first designer to market work uniforms under her own name, and continues to be involved in such diverse projects as customising an environmentally friendly diaper for kids, and more recently, to introduce a revolutionary anti drying skin system, the DropLife System, to be launched in Japan soon.
"we are not low class, we are not high class, we are the new class"
Why save the world if you can design it?
February 09, 2005
This funny flash animation can give you an idea of how Italy is different from Europe. I especially enjoyed the representation of how Italians form queues, and I can swear that it is totally true: queue is probably a too difficult concept for us. This humorous anthropologic study can be useful in case you are pondering about coming to live here (you know who you are).
January 20, 2005
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Too funny! Microsoft's AntiSpyware Tool removes Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser judging it as Spyware. Wouldn't it be better if it would remove the entire Windows? Maybe your occasion for changing it with Gnu/Linux? (via asa). [The linked story is satire: it is not true]
October 13, 2004
It seems Joi Ito is having some problems with Italian (giggling) translators. Ah, those Italians, always joking and laughing and giggling ...
[yes, I had to check the meaning of to giggle, that is "To laugh quietly in short bursts or in a nervous or silly way."]
September 11, 2004
The funniest thing I've heard in a while: Sunday Bloody Sunday (mp3) sung by George W Bush. I created a Webjay compilation with this song, the original one by U2 (for comparison) and the other songs by thepartyparty.com. I literally freezed when I started hearing "This is not a rebel song ..." by the well-known scary voice.
September 04, 2003
Google folks are genious!
http://www.google.com/search?q=answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything
