He’d be 94 today.
Archive for the ‘Fun stuff’ Category
This is cruel, but impossible to resist. The below is a screenshot from the official page of the Italian Ministry of Education and Research, spotted by my ferocious colleague Alessandro. Have a laugh until they take it down: I just don’t have the nerve to break to them what “Doggy Style” means. (Hint: no, it [...]
Sure, we know that a quark is small and a galaxy is big, but exactly how much “big” is bigger than “small”? This project, by Cary and Michael Huang, (check out their other funky works) can help you visualize from the smallest things in the known Universe all the way up to the whole Universe [...]
I’ll say it before the cynics jump in: I cannot believe that this was not staged, but if it wasn’t, then Obama has now replaced Steve McQueen as my King of Cool.
What’s a twoosh? According to the Urban Dictionary, it’s a perfect, 140 char tweet. Roberto, a friend who’s very active on Twitter, asked what I thought the rules would be to qualify for a Twoosh and, unlike the pretty lax rules set forth by Lance Ulanoff on PC Magazine a couple of years ago, I [...]
The one where you get asked crazy, unexpected, offbalancing questions like these (vote your favorite): Check out the answers on Glassdoor.com, good read!
Readers of this blog should not have much reason to doubt where my heart is, however, the fine (and otherwise pretty serious-looking) people at MastersinIT.org collected all the feature traits of those two sub-species in a compact infographic: I was doing OK until I got to the movies section, as I seem to like the [...]
