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    I live in Molfetta BA, Italy.
    I study computer science at Bari.
    I have more friend and a beautiful girlfriend.
    I like play football and fight to kick boxing.
    I love my grandmother's lasagna.

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Archive for October, 2007

October 21, 2007

kernel 2.6.23-ARCH

just upgraded my kernel from the core repository!
[dax@feeder ~]$ uname -a
Linux feeder 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 19 08:48:54 UTC 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

October 18, 2007

uaz! omg mr. satan!

can you make girl rotate in both directions?

The visual system evolved to make certain assumptions that are almost always right (like, if something is smaller is it likely farther away). But these assumptions can be exploited to created a false visual construction, or an optical illusion.

The spinning girl is a form of the more general spinning silhouette illusion. The image is not objectively “spinning” in one direction or the other. It is a two-dimensional image that is simply shifting back and forth. But our brains did not evolve to interpret two-dimensional representations of the world but the actual three-dimensional world. So our visual processing assumes we are looking at a 3-D image and is uses clues to interpret it as such. Or, without adequate clues it may just arbitrarily decide a best fit - spinning clockwise or counterclockwise. And once this fit is chosen, the illusion is complete - we see a 3-D spinning image.

By looking around the image, focusing on the shadow or some other part, you may force your visual system to reconstruct the image and it may choose the opposite direction, and suddenly the image will spin in the opposite direction.

This news article, like many others, ignores the true source of this optical illusion and instead claims it is a quick test to see if you use more of your right brain or left brain. This is utter nonsense, but the “right-brain/left brain” thing is in the public consciousness and won’t be going away anytime soon. Sure, we have two hemispheres that operate fine independently and have different abilities, but they are massively interconnected and work together as a seamless whole (providing you have never had surgery to cut your corpus callosum).

We also do have hemispheric dominance, but that determines mostly your handedness and the probability of language being on the right or the left. There is also often asymmetry for memory, with some being right or left hemisphere dominant. But none of this means that your personality or abilities are more right brain or left brain. That much is nonsense.

finally

According to the Herald Sun, if you see her spinning clockwise, you use more of your right-brain than your left-brain, and vice-versa.

thankses to deadbeef :**
gj man!

October 13, 2007

noritaka

i’m not a manga lover but the funny idiot noritaka is great!
i have this pics into my hdd since more more time, and don’t know when/how/why i have this but it is so.

noritaka

located into my gallery the first 6 volumes, structured in chapter.
first is chapter 001 of volume1, last is chapter 049 of volume 6.
link to the gallery

good reading :)

October 10, 2007

otto verità su di me

prendo al volo l’invito del gufaccio

1. porto gli occhiali, sono storti talmente storti che nemmeno l’ottico è stato capace di raddrizzarli al punto da dire con ferma convinzione “ha ma è la tua faccia ad essere storta” -,-” ho cambiato ottico!
2. non ho ancora provato l’aereo
3. nella vita sono abbastanza socievole, tranne quando mi sento a disagio per qualcosa
4. non so cosa vuol dire essere idealista, credo in tutto ciò che è plausibile credere
5. porto il 45 di scarpe
6. non so quanto sono alto e nemmeno quanto peso. il mio peso varia a periodi, se mi alleno oppure no con distacchi anche di 5-10 kg a stagione
7. vorrei svegliarmi una mattina e vedere tutti i miei progetti a gonfie vele
8. non ho animali preferiti, e non sopporto bestioline per casa

passo l’invito a cagnulein whitenoise e il buon lellu` :P

October 7, 2007

ebe`

Ci ho pensato molto, e basandomi su come stanno ora le cose, sulle sue ampie competenze, sulle sue iniziative e volontà, vorrei passare la leadership ad Aaron Griffin, conosciuto anche come Phrakture su IRC e sui forum.

Agli sviluppatori e alla community: grazie davvero e molto. Voi avete aiutato a costruire qualcosa che ha cambiato la mia vita in molti modi e guardo al passato con affetto e ammirazione, ancora un po’ incredulo di tutto il talento che si è formato attorno ad Arch Linux. Abbiamo molto di cui essere orgogliosi.

Grazie a tutti voi per gli ultimi 6 anni, e auguri per un luminoso futuro tutti insieme.

parole di judd vinet.
non lo conosco, mai parlato ma mi dispiace davvero molto. fin’ora un impeccabile lavoro, anche certo che il successore scelto sarà altrettanto impeccabile.
d’altronde la fisica ci insegna “tutto si trasforma nulla si distrugge”.
sempre orgoglioso di essere utente archlinux, alla prossima.