Francesca Ciceri madamezou@identi.ca

I'm terrified of my new TV: Why I'm scared to turn this thing on - and you'd be, too

I just bought a new TV. The old one had a good run, but after the volume got stuck on 63, I decided it was time to replace it. I am now the owner of a new "smart" TV, which promises to deliver streaming multimedia content, games, apps, social media and Internet browsing. Oh, and TV too.

The only problem is that I’m now afraid to use it. You would be too — if you read through the 46-page privacy policy.

Watching shows on the laptop or netbook means dodging cat tails...

This is all getting out of hand.

Or, it maybe it has been out of hand for a long time, but now people are talking about it?

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

Movie buffs: Did you realize that TODAY is the date that Marty McFly jr travels back to in Back To The Future Part 4! #amazing #trivia

Interpreting the init system GR results

In other words, the way I choose to look at this GR is that the project as
a whole just voted to take away the sticks that we were using to beat each
other with.

New gpg subkey

The GPG subkey I keep for daily use was going to expire, and this time I decided to create a new one instead of changing the expiration date.

Doing so I've found out that gnupg does not support importing just a private subkey for a key it already has (on IRC I've heard that there may be more informations on it on the gpg-users mailing list), so I've written a few notes on what I had to do on my website, so that I can remember them next year.

The short version is:

* Create your subkey (in the full keyring, the one with the private master key)
* export every subkey (including the expired ones, if you want to keep them available), but not the master key
* (copy the exported key from the offline computer to the online one)
* delete your private key from your regular use keyring
* import back the private keys you have exported before.

Most of my life is spent trying to replicate the feeling of my first email from a supportive stranger.

This Trio Of Short Films Actually Makes The Zombie Apocalypse Look Fun

♲ Lauren Davis

Zombies, zombies everywhere.



Frequently, films set amidst the zombie apocalypse focus on the horror and desperation of the survivors' situation. But this series of gory short films takes a grindhouse-style approach, focusing on all the gruesome ways you can take those zombies out.

Read more at io9

link

#movies #zombies

Utenti cedono il primogenito in cambio del Wi-Fi: burla a fin di bene | Il Disinformatico

Ammettiamolo: praticamente nessuno di noi legge le condizioni di contratto dei servizi Internet. Europol ed F-Secure lo hanno dimostrato in maniera vivace e scherzosa creando in vari punti di Londra un accesso Wi-Fi pubblico le cui condizioni di fornitura prevedevano che l'utente doveva "dare il consenso ad assegnare il proprio figlio primogenito per la durata dell'eternità" ai gestori del servizio.

Wearing their sunday dress

#photos #fashion

A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom

♲ Ayun Halliday




Harlem’s undergoing another Renaissance of late. Crime’s down, real estate prices are up, and throngs of pale-faced hipsters are descending to check the area out.

Sure, something’s gained, but something’s lost, too.

For today’s

YouTube: HOLIDAY IN HARLEM by Chick Webb and his Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald 1937 (cdbpdx)
, we’re going to climb in the

YouTube: Peabody's Improbable History - Edgar Allen Poe (bullwinklecanada)
. Set the dial for 1932. Don’t forget your map. (Click the image above to view a larger version.)

This delirious artifact comes courtesy of Elmer Simms Campbell (1906-1971), an artist whose race proved an impediment to career advancement in his native Midwest. Not long after relocating to New York City, he had the good fortune to be befriended by the great

YouTube: Cab Calloway's Hi De Ho - 1934 (Tim Romano)
. Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho! Check the lower left corner of your map.

You may notice that the compass rose deviates rather drastically from established norms. As you’ve no doubt heard,

YouTube: New York, New York - On the Town (Jacob Wingfield)
, but not in this case. Were you to choose those trees in the upper left corner as your starting point, you’d be at the top of Central Park, basically equidistant from the east and west sides. (Take the 2 or the 3 to 110th St…)

But keep in mind that this map is not drawn to scale. I know it looks like the joints are jumping from the second you step off the curb, but in reality, you’ll need to hoof it 21 blocks from the top of Central Park to 131st street for things to start cookin’. Hopefully, this geographical liberty won’t get you too hot under the collar. And if it does, well, it may be Prohibition, but stress-relieving beverages await you in every location listed, as well as in some 500 speakeasies Campbell allowed to remain on the down low.

If that doesn’t do it for you, there’s a guy selling reefer across the street from

YouTube: Earl "Snake Hips" Tucker (juanibadass)
.

As you stagger back and forth between Seventh Avenue to Lenox (now referred to as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Malcolm X), bear in mind that Campbell was the first African-American cartoonist to be nationally published in the New Yorker, Playboy, and Esquire, whose bug-eyed, now retired mascot, Esky, was a Campbell creation.

In the end, he was an extremely successful illustrator, though few of his creations are reflective of his race.

The map above, which did double duty as endpapers for Calloway’s autobiography, Of Minnie the Moocher and Me, is far closer to home.

YouTube: CAB CALLOWAY jitterbug party 1935 Hotcha Razz Ma Tazz - cotton club, harlem (Ted LaRocca)


Right above, see Cab Calloway perform “Hotcha Razz Ma Tazz” at the famous Cotton Club, in Harlem, 1935.

via Big Think

#americana #newyorkcity #history #art

"Bash is a shell, or command prompt software, produced by the non-profit Free Software Foundation. Officials with that group could not be reached for comment. The Guardian

Really? Did you try emailing them? Maybe no one was near the phone to answer.

I have trouble imagining RMS not being willing to comment on software

I'm super excited for LibrePlanet Ontario. Met with Sergio and Rudolf on Monday night, and we've got a plan to get this thing moving!

http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario

If you know any software freedom lovers in Ontario, they should join the mailing list! (The three of us are based in Toronto, but we're hoping to get other teams in other cities running eventually if there's enough interest.)

Hace ya tiempo que se ha instalado en Ourense, concretamente en A Ponte, la peluquería más debianita de todas