Few weeks ago I saw a nice shirt online I wanted to buy ... just black, with the following on the front:

NOT
ON
FACE-
BOOK

and yes, I'm not on facebook, but I found recently they've now released the source code of a lot of tools (some bigger others smaller) used for their infrastructure

some like hadoop were not written by them, but others like thrift or cassandra and scribe mostly seem to have been!

the last three specifically seem to have a big role in facebook.com itself so this make them quite interesting for me

I would investigate more on the license they're using but the work done could be worth for me a facebook account ... we will see

I won't say I'm one of the top listeners of Porcupine Tree, but I do have five of their albums because I do really like them. So what? Steven Wilson, founder of Porcupine Tree, had something to say about Coldplay and I wanted to share it here beacuse I totally agree with him and his style of saying it ... someone in fact captured a photo and put it on last.fm:


oh I imagine that was great :) there's too much glory for that shit nowdays, no? Go, Steven!!

this is the Charge graph of my ThinkPad X61 ... yes the battery goes from almost 70% to less than 7% in just one minute, how can this happen? :(


it is also quite new, it's less than one year old so it would be good to not forget it when you'll be buying your next laptop

yes at the moment I'm running at 0% and it will do so for 20minutes more :P

ahahaha ...

The Pirate Party captured 7.1 percent of votes in Sweden in the Europe-wide ballot, enough to give it a single seat. The party wants to deregulate copyright, abolish the patent system and reduce surveillance on the Internet.

Oops, I almost forgot the link read more ... :)

guys at TPB and Kopimi have got a great idea about the latest Biennale di Venezia, you'll find them in the context of the new Padiglione Internet

at the moment they just need hosting, but there is much more, so please give a look at the embassyofpiracy and hurry up in build your own ... you can get the "template" to print here, there are already of lot of photos in the gallery!!

oh and keep in mind that even if it sounds just funny, in reality they've already got some troubles

mi viene da pensare solo che, forse, Letizia Noemi otterrebbe *molta* piu' visibilita' e magari notorieta' parlando alla polizia di uno stupro, invece che continuando a fare pompini

senza contare poi tutti gli altri possibili benefici conseguenti ...

I've got a Super Mario Toads representative at home! Toads are my favourites :P What? What are Super Mario Toads? Oh there's an entire wikipedia page about it!


Let's report here the most important pieces of the page...

Toads, also known as Mushroom People, are the dominant species of the Mushroom Kingdom. Toads reside in many towns and cities throughout the entire kingdom, including the outlier Rogueport, but they are most prominent in the capitol of Toad Town. Most Toads are citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom, and many also work as loyal servants of the kingdom's ruler Princess Peach. Numerous members of the species serve Peach as castle attendants, guards or even as her Mushroom Retainers.

In Super Mario Galaxy they call themselves the Toad Brigade, and help Mario in his adventures across the universe.

I won't scare you, you surely heard of the swine flu, but apparently there is something strange going on because this is what the WHO says:

Antiviral drugs for seasonal influenza are available in some countries and effectively prevent and treat the illness. There are two classes of such medicines, 1) adamantanes (amantadine and remantadine), and 2) inhibitors of influenza neuraminidase (oseltamivir and zanamivir).
Most of the previously reported swine influenza cases recovered fully from the disease without requiring medical attention and without antiviral medicines.
Some influenza viruses develop resistance to the antiviral medicines, limiting the effectiveness of chemoprophylaxis and treatment. The viruses obtained from the recent human cases with swine influenza in the United States were sensitive to oselatmivir and zanamivir but resistant to amantadine and remantadine.

while this is what the doctors seem to be saying:

I'm a specialist doctor in respiratory diseases and intensive care at the Mexican National Institute of Health. There is a severe emergency over the swine flu here. More and more patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit. Despite the heroic efforts of all staff (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc) patients continue to inevitably die. The truth is that anti-viral treatments and vaccines are not expected to have any effect, even at high doses. It is a great fear among the staff. The infection risk is very high among the doctors and health staff.

There is a sense of chaos in the other hospitals and we do not know what to do. Staff are starting to leave and many are opting to retire or apply for holidays. The truth is that mortality is even higher than what is being reported by the authorities, at least in the hospital where I work it. It is killing three to four patients daily, and it has been going on for more than three weeks. It is a shame and there is great fear here. Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.

Antonio Chavez, Mexico City

Mexico City right? but back to the WHO's document:

Swine influenza is not notifiable to international animal health authorities (OIE, www.oie.int), therefore its international distribution in animals is not well known. The disease is considered endemic in the United States. Outbreaks in pigs are also known to have occurred in North America, South America, Europe (including the UK, Sweden, and Italy), Africa (Kenya), and in parts of eastern Asia including China and Japan.

UK, Sweden and Italy too apparently :+)
Let's hope this will at least lower the use of meat in your dishes for the future, if you're not veggie yet!

well, it happens to be browsing around when i found akoha, and what is it? let's see the website

Akoha is the world’s first social reality game where you can earn points by playing real-world missions with your friends.

ok I don't really understand immediately what a social reality game is, but what sounds nice is that I earn points playing real-world missions with friends; unfortunately the game is still in "beta"

oh but I have a question first, how can we "beta test" something which is supposed to happen during a real-world experience?

anyway I keep reading and finally end up to the store, where I could eventually buy my starter kit to avoid to wait for an invitation (I wouldn't buy anything anyway, but...) so here are the contents

cards, just cards but this doesn't look like a normal card game so I really want to go back and click on learn more and see how it works

there you are, you invite a friend for "a coffe", explain the story and leave him/her your card, which probably will move on and pass many more other persons if your friend will do the same thing you did

fine, my only tought is, maybe this game is a good thing but *do we really need akoha to do this*?

this looks interesting * http://libre.fm/ * I should post it on last.fm too, hoping to not get banned in the meanwhile :+)

quite short post, I know