Dahdah Dahdahdah Ditdahdit Dididit Dit, Dahditdahdit Dahdahdah Dahditdit dit…

…ist was du hörst. kurz-kurz-lang kurz-kurz mischen sich unter den beat. kurz-kurz-lang von links, lang-kurz-lang von rechts. der erste morse-rap-battle… morse-beats… djane dubbledot der star des abends…

Me tocó hacer un trabajo para la U sobre Beethoven y la quinta sinfonía.
Obviamente me interesé de inmediato en los datos “ñoños” que podian salir respecto a su música y como fue útilizada popularmente por otras personas. En eso me encontré con esto:

V de la victoria en código morse (V = • • • — ) es el famoso Ta ta ta tan

Se utilizó en la naranja mecanica

Canción que hicieron los Beatles que se llama

Versión disco, llamada A Fifth of Beethoven fue hecha por Walter Murphy del soundtrack de la película Saturday Night Fever

Versión en heavy metal fue creada por el guitarrista Yngwie Malmsteen

En los simpsons La Quinta Sinfonía de Beethoven es tocada en la noche inaugural de la sala de conciertos, pero después de las cuatro primeras notas el público se aburre y se retira. Link episodio completo

En otro episodio, Nelson como Beethoven adapta su risa

Episodio de Animaniacs, los warner visitan a Beethoven como deshollinadores que le murmuran las primeras cuatro notas constantemente, para entonces darle la idea para su obra.

El primer movimiento aparece en Fantasía 2000 de Disney

En la película V de Vendetta

Versión Reggaeton

Versión Cumbia

Entre otras cosas que se han hecho, pero estas son las que a mi más me gustaron.

www.ttdmrt.com

So, your an IM freak. Wasting day after day, month after month in front of your PC screen assuming: “yeah, surely I’m not a zombie, at least I’m communicating with other living things, right?”. Well, your wrong. You are a zombie and you will die alone. But we’ll discuss that subject some other time. Right now we are here to show you the best 5 ways to coolify your name i.e. your IM/social media display name. We’ll assume that you’ve already tried putting smileys or hearts or some other dumb bullshit in your display name, or if you’re really hardcore you’ve already tired the fishes (example: <º))))><.·´¯`·John Smith·´¯`·.¸><((((º>) or some other poorly creative ASCII combination thinking “that’s the one, now I’m unique”. Well, you’re wrong again, you’re not unique, and you probably never will be. But no worries, we’re here to help and give you that conversation starting nick, bringin’ lots of them “d00d, WTF is that?”. So lets start from the top saying a few words about what ASCII is. ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit representation of the English alphabet widely used in information technology and the world wide web until recently when it started to get replaced by the UTF-8 witch is an improved character encoding technique. We are saying this because when you try to convert a Chinese letter into something else and you get an error you won’t bitch about it. Instead you’ll know that most of the converters work only with the 128 ASCII characters and you’ll feel less dumb. But enough about character encoding techniques. Lets start the countdown. There are many converters, generators, translators, encoders and such out there, but very few of them are actually good and usable. So we’ve made this list to help you create that unique display name that you’ve always wanted without having to browse the web for days searching for the method that’s right for you.
*The crappy fish and other presumably cool looking ASCII combinations can be found here.

1. Binary code
-The binary code is a text representing system using only the digits “1″ and “0″. It can also represent processor instructions but we’re not interested in that. We’re only interested in what you can do with it in terms of encoding text. The answer is plenty. Like in the picture shown bellow you can encode your name into binary code making it readable for only a small number of people out there. So when your IM contacts see that long string of ones and zeroes sitting in the place of your dull name they are bound to ask “what the hell man?”. The best binary translators we could find out there are the following:
ASCII 2 binary #1 ASCII 2 binary #2
*Be careful not to leave spaces in the binary code or some translators will not work.
*The second translator works with spaces in the code, but the first one doesn’t so you’ll need to remove them before converting.

*For accurate conversion of numbers from decimal to binary use this converter and not the two mentioned above. Decimal 2 binary

2. Hex code
-If the binary code isn’t strong enough for you, you could try the hexadecimal one. Instead of only 2 symbols the motherfucker uses sixteen distinct symbols for representation. It uses the numbers from 0-9 and the letters from A-F to represent the values ten to fifteen. If you thought math was hard, try doing it in hex. A+C=WTF? Because hex code scares us a little bit we’re not going to say anything else about it, instead we’ll only give you the hex generators and leave you with a warning. DON’T TRY TO UNDERSTAND HEX OR YOU’LL DIE!!!
ASCII 2 hex #1 ASCII 2 hex #2

*For accurate conversion of numbers from decimal to hexadecimal use this converter and not the two mentioned above. Decimal to hex

3. Morse code
-If you wanna kick it old school we recommend the Morse code. All of us have heard about it, and we all know that it represents the characters with dots “.” and dashes “-”. The short and long elements can also be presented in a form of sound, light, etc. But since most of us have never been in the navy, we have no clue in understanding it or how to use it. Fortunately the internet is here to help, giving us the opportunity to create or decode Morse code. The first and third Morse generators give us the option to create and download not only the visual representation shown in dots an dashes but the audio one also. That’s pretty useless when you’re trying to change your display name, but it can be used as a pretty sweet ring tone or an alarm or something that will beep the fuck of your friends.
ASCII 2 Morse #1 ASCII 2 Morse #2 ASCII 2 Morse #3
*The Morse code doesn’t support lower case letters, so everything that you decode will be shown in upper case, regardless of the way it was originally encoded (lower or upper case).

4. Barcode
-This way of generating text or other stuff also is useless in terms with your display name because the end result of the generator will be a image and not a string of text that you could use as a nick. But it could make you a great avatar, or a cell phone background or such which will distinguish you from the rest. Just don’t tattoo the barcode on yourself because you’ll eventually regret it, and you’ll look like a douche. You’ve been warned.
ASCII 2 barcode #1 ASCII 2 barcode #2 ASCII 2 barcode #3
*We recommend the code 128 because it supports letters and digits, and because it’s the most barcody looking.

5. L33t
-This isn’t an actual language, so it doesn’t have strict rules in regards with it’s creating and it’s interpretation. There are many variants of leet so the translation from leet to plane English isn’t always correct. Also there are many forms of leetness starting from plain leet and going to advanced leet which like the binary code can be fully understood by very few people. These are the best leet translators and generators that we could find, but unlike the other translators mentioned earlier these three aren’t compatible with each other. In other words, something that has been translated into leet in one translator can’t be translated back into plain English in an other. That’s because leet isn’t an actual language, like we mentioned earlier. So if you’re a hardcore nerd you won’t need these three translators. And for the rest of you boys and girls out there… go nuts…
ASCII 2 leet #1 ASCII 2 leet #2 ASCII 2 leet #3

-There are probably a lot more useful ways of using the knowledge you’ve gained today but because we know that you won’t, at least get a nice display name out of it, or a badass avatar or a not-so-gangsta ring tone or whatever.

“010101000110100101101100011011000010000001101110011001010
111100001110100001000000111010001101001011011010
110010100101110001011100010111000100000″

Tahukah, teknologi informasi sesungguhnya beroperasi hanya berdasarkan prinsip kerja sakelar (switch)?

Sakelar (switch) yang untuk memadamkan dan menyalakan lampu itu? Benar, dan sakelar listrik ini hanya memiliki 2 keadaan, tutup (ada sinyal listrik, lampu menyala) atau buka (tidak ada sinyal listrik, lampu padam).

Dua-keadaan ini dinyatakan dengan notasi ‘0’ dan ‘1’, disebut bit, kependekan dari binary digit (binary = dua, digit = angka). Mana notasi untuk ‘ada sinyal listrik’ dan ‘tidak ada sinyal listrik’? Mana saja boleh.

Komputer canggih yang dibeli mahal itu, pada hakekatnya tak lain adalah kumpulan ratusan juta sakelar! Sekalar ini begitu istimewa karena dipakai merepresentasikan informasi dan kontrol/kendali informasi. Tentu saja jenis sakelar bukan jenis mekanik, tetapi elektronik. Ukurannya sedemikian kecil, jauh lebih kecil dari sel butir darah merah (6 mikron) bahkan bakteri (1 mikron)! Wah? Sungguh.

Tahukah, penyampaian informasi menggunakan sakelar bukan hal baru?

Teknologi sakelar untuk komunikasi sudah dikenal dan dipakai sejak 1890. Mungkin di antara kita pernah mendengar kode Morse, dit-dit-dit dah-dah-dah dit-dit-dit… yang kalau diterjemahkan ‘SOS’ (Save Our Souls, Save Our Ship), artinya ‘Help!’, ‘Tolong!’. Kode ini dipancarkan pada saat darurat, atau kejadian gawat, yang menentukan hidup-mati manusia (kapal tenggelam di samudera, tersesat di hutan, dsb.)

Sakelar Morse adalah mekanis, berupa tombol ketuk tunggal. Lihat gambar (di bawah). Dua-keadaan sakelar dibentuk oleh lama waktu sakelar menutup; lama berarti “garis” (‘dah’), sebentar berarti “titik” (‘dit’). Huruf demi huruf diketuk, ditutup dengan membuka sakelar, pertanda satu kata selesai. Begitu seterusnya hingga pesan selesai.

Kode Morse sifatnya universal dan difahami di seluruh dunia. Kode masih dipakai sampai sekarang untuk kondisi tertentu. (Dahulu menjadi persyaratan ketrampilan para amatir radio, entah sekarang.)

Manusia dan “mesin” berkomunikasi pakai “kamus”.

Komputer adalah “mesin” yang hanya mengenal bahasa dua-keadaan atau biner, ‘0’ dan ‘1’; Morse hanya menciptakan ‘dit’ dan ‘dah’. Lalu bagaimana manusia memahami bahasa mesin yang hanya mengenal abjad, angka, dan tanda baca? Sederhana, hadirkan saja penerjemah atau kamus. Beres.

Dalam dunia teknologi informasi, penerjemah atau kamus punya berbagai nama sendiri yang unik: enkoder-dekoder, enkripsi-dekripsi, LUT (look up table), DNS, MAC, NAT, mnemonik, dan lainnya. Jangan hiraukan dulu sekarang, nanti secara bertahap kita akan bertemu dengan kata-kata ini. Intinya sekarang kita tahu komputer itu isinya sakelar dan kamus melulu!

Di bawah diperlihatkan tombol ketuk Morse dan contoh kamus dalam bentuk tabel, dari Morse dan biner.

Proses pengubahan bahasa kita ke bahasa “mesin” disebut koding (encoding), dan kebalikannya dekoding (decoding).

Eksperimen.

Mari bereksperimen sejenak menghilangkan kejenuhan pikiran hari ini...

Eksperimen kode Morse: morsecode.scphillips.com

Eksperimen kode Biner: www.roubaixinteractive.com

Seeing is believing… selamat bereksperimen teknologi ‘1-0-1-0′.

Apparently our social networking habits at work are creating a bit of renewed interest.

Some new research suggests that this behaviour is creating strain on the productivity of companies who allow access via their work computers.  You see, when confronted with a PC at work, employees often want to do the stuff they do on their computers at home…

Now, we’re not going to be talking about the pros and cons of Twitter or Facebook here (what you wish to do in your own time is none of our business) but we are interested in where the balance lies between an employer wanting to be understanding of the basic human desire to socially network and the over use of social networking sites when at work?

Many advocates of social networking sites argue that allowing time networking at work actually improves productivity but I’ve not seen any data to back up this claim in respect of on-line sites.

On the other hand IT services group Morse, who commissioned this recent research, said that such online behaviour clearly had a “productivity strain” on firms.

The survey questioned 1,460 office workers.  Over half of those surveyed admitted using social networking sites during the working day for personal use. On average those people spent 40 minutes per week on these sites.

My question is ‘how much of this is time that people now no longer spend chatting with colleagues or is this actually incremental time?’  If they weren’t on the social networking sites would they be reading the hockey game reports?  Perhaps they might even be gazing out of the window to the office block opposite.

To really understand the impact, I guess we really need some context around the statistics…

It’s clearly up to each firm to decide the impact of allowing such activity and I’m not sure yet that policies and procedures around such use have kept pace with the explosion of sites like Facebook and Twitter.  Certainly there have been instances of bullying colleagues, sensitive company information discussed openly on these sites and even employees losing their jobs over posted content.

The issue is further confused by many large corporates who are now actually setting up and running their own social networking site pages to encourage collaboration and communication amongst their employees.

Perhaps the jury is still out.  Is it now an acceptable working practice as an aid to employee retention or should all non-work related PC activity be removed from the workplace?  If one extrapolates this Morse research out to the working population at large then the cost of this ‘inducement’ is significant but perhaps this is becoming just another cost of doing business.

Anyway here at Zeitgeist we enjoy networking with our readers and we’ll stay connected,  provided that we can think of something to say…

Just to add further fuel to the debate, take a look at this recent article from the BBC…

“Facebook has once again been targeted by cybercriminals.  Security firm Websense has reported thousands of fake messages, purporting to come from Facebook Support, with a malicious payload.

The fake message invites users to download a new password as part of ongoing security messages.   If users click on it will download a piece of software which could allow their machine to be taken over by malicious hackers.  In one day, Websense has seen 90,000 such messages”. From BBC today.

I guess that puts another spin on the risks of allowing social networking sites to be accessible at work?

• Watercooler conversations undermine UK plc
• Crosswords and Sudoko waste UK businesses £2bn a year
  

These are just made-up headline, of course, but I expect if you commissioned a survey into the time individuals spend not working, but chatting with their mates, reading personal emails, etc, etc, you would soon come up with some tasty headlines to support your cause. Instead…

• Twitter ‘costs businesses £1.4bn’ (BBC)
• Twittering workers cost business £1.4bn (FT)
• Twitter ‘costs British economy £1.38bn’ (Telegraph)

These were a few of the headlines shouting at me from my RSS feed-reader on Monday, and I also noticed the content of the articles provided convenient ammunition for more than one sceptical member of the audience at the RIBA in London (post – I spoke to one man from a well-known multi-disciplinary design consultancy who plainly didn’t believe that social media should be available in the workplace).

The news stories are based on a survey by yet another IT services group, this time Morse (see their news release), who surveyed 1460 office workers, of whom over half (57%) said that they used social networking sites during the working day for personal use. On average those people were spending 40 minutes on these sites each week (tellingly, none of the reports broke this down to eight minutes a weekday). Some reports (eg: the FT) went so far as to suggest that this equated to  ‘just under a full working week being “wasted” each year’, and most quoted Morse consultant Philip Wicks’ emotive talk of a “productivity black hole”.

The desired reaction is plainly to get more organisations restricting Twitter and Facebook in the workplace (see my recent post Why social media bans won’t work about the Portsmouth City Council example, and ‘Over half of US workplaces block social networks’) – and thereby, of course, create more demand for IT services companies like Morse.

IT companies feeding on corporate paranoia

This is an argument recently put forward by Michael Neubarth in an article Social Media in the Workplace: Boon or Bane?, where he takes a detailed look at several such surveys. Neubarth points out that “research studies in general should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism“, quoting analyst David Linthicum who suggests vendors who pay for research generally expect such surveys to “come up with the findings they are looking for“.

To be fair, the Morse survey does make some good points. For example, it says organisations need to provide more specific guidelines and usage policies regarding Twitter (agreed); “social networking can be a cause for good when it is used professionally” (Telegraph); and some reports pick up on Morse’s detailed observations regarding URL shorteners as a potential security hole.

However, I wonder if Morse (or its survey company TNS) asked questions about how and when people accessed these social networks. If they are accessing Twitter or Facebook in their own time (during their shrinking lunchtimes – as eConsultancy points out – during tea-breaks or – ahem – comfort breaks, etc) and using their own mobile devices, then where’s the problem? And the quoted examples of incidents at Curry’s, PC World, etc, will not be prevented by workplace bans – disaffected workers will simply wait until they get home before abusing customers (and perhaps also their ‘Big Brother’ managers and their evil partners in the IT department).

What about the other time sinks?

Is such a controlling approach recommended for other office worker habits? The Daily Telegraph report quoted Wicks:

“It is the sort of thing people constantly use which means that its not quite the same as doing a crossword, where you spend half an hour on it and it is finished.”

Sorry, so spending 30 minutes on a crossword is OK but eight minutes on Twitter isn’t?! Where are the demands to manage those answering personal emails or taking personal calls during company time? What about chatting with colleagues by the water cooler or coffee machine, or popping out for a cigarette?

Accentuate the positives

Thankfully, some publication offered some alternative perspectives. For those who ‘chill out’ by a quick dip into social media: “allowing people a few minutes of relaxing downtime might actually enhance their overall productivity” said the Guardian’s Media Monkey, while recruitment firm Office Angels MD David Chubb told the Telegraph:

“As younger generations join the workplace, I believe UK businesses will, inevitably, have to embrace social networks, recognising the benefits of providing staff with well deserved downtime, but also their potential for business networking.”

This point was also made at the end of Jacqui Bowser’s article in Brand Republic: “The study did not take into account the positive effects of social networking use for UK businesses”, and by Charles Arthur in today’s Guardian.

On this point, for example, even in the deeply conservative world of commercial architecture, anyone who saw Su Butcher present at RIBAforum09 on Tuesday must have realised that social networking can deliver some powerful business benefits:

• identifying business opportunities, sales leads
• getting the latest industry news
• crowdsourcing ideas
• getting early warning of what people are saying about you, your company, your project
• opening new relationships with other industry professionals
• driving traffic to your website
• etc

(Suw Charman-Anderson made very similar points too). Meanwhile, have a look at Su’s presentation:

Finally, I am lucky in that I work as a freelance consultant and so have none of the constraints that come from working within a larger organisation with ‘issues’ about social media availability. Being small and agile could well be to my advantage. And former BBC executive Euan Semple agrees:

On a daily basis I am reminded just how constrained people still working in corporate environments are compared to what is possible, and indeed easy and cheap, for me as a freelancer. This is not only in terms of technology but also in terms of use of time and productivity.

It is madness that we burden the clever people in our organisations in these ways and the bigger the organisation the worse it gets!

Voilà un film qui prend comme décor une petite ville très banale et très laide de Suède, à quelques kilomètres de Stockholm, la considère dans le creux des années 1970, une période qui a du mal à rendre très esthétique ses modes et ses moods, et qui en tire un paradoxal récit d’un romantisme poétique et totalement glacial, un mélange de tendresse et de cruauté, de banalité et de surnaturel, où la chaleur couve sous la neige, comme le froid dessine un instant l’empreinte chaude d’une paume sur un carreau.

Les acteurs sont particulièrement excellents, notamment Lina Leandersson qui joue Eli, créature qui a douze ans, plus ou moins, et vit de sang, et peut paraître avoir presque soixante ans dans certains plans et seulement dix dans le suivant. Film contemplatif, avec de longs plans silencieux et statiques, étouffés par la neige épaisse qui cerne l’immeuble où vit le héros, Oskar, comme les humains cernent Eli.

Mais la neige se renouvelle chaque nuit, et Eli est vivace, elle aussi.

Le rythme lent et hypnotique est celui de la vie, et les rares accès de violence prennent une dimension d’autant plus choquante qu’ils s’inscrivent dans un cadre effroyablement banal, ordinaire, normal. On y rencontre deux excellents amis à qui il va arriver quelque chose d’affreux, un père dévoué mais atrocement maladroit, une femme dont personne ne saura le courage, et un amoureux des chats qui va découvrir la face cachée de ses familiers.

Le film s’appelle  Låt den rätte komma in, soit en français Morse — un titre a priori un peu anecdotique, mais qui se justifiera pleinement avec la dernière scène — (ou Let the Right One In en anglais), et voilà longtemps qu’un film de vampire ne m’avait autant touché.

read in the London Lite 26.10.09

Work Twitterers cost us £325m

Firms including some City banks are banning employees from accessing Twitter.

It follows a survey by IT firm Morse, which found that the social networking website costs businesses in the capital almost £325m a year in lost productivity.

Les sites de réseaux sociaux comme Twitter et Facebook coûtent aux entreprises britanniques £ 1.38 milliards par an en pertes de temps, selon une enquête publiée par Morse plc.

Celle-ci révèle que plus de la moitié des employés de bureau utilisent des sites comme Twitter et Facebook à des fins personnelles au cours de la journée de travail.

Ce "tweet" coûte...?

57% des employés de bureau utilisent des sites comme Twitter et Facebook à des fins personnelles au cours de la journée de travail, et d’admettre de perdre en moyenne 40 minutes par semaine chacun.

Un tier des 1460 employés de bureau interrogés ont indiqué qu’ils avaient trouvé des informations confidentielles de leur entreprise publiées sur ces sites.

Cependant, 76% ont déclaré que leur employeur n’avait pas donné des directives précises en ce qui concerne l’utilisation de Twitter. Le rapport souligne que sans lignes directrices d’utilisation ces compagnies s’exposent à une réduction de productivité, de dommages potentiels à leur marque et à des risques de sécurité.

Liens:

Le Rapport: Twitter and social networks cost UK businesses

A l’origine un livre et l’idée originale de Bram stocker et son “dracula” sorti en 1897 .

“Les vampires romantiques me fatiguent. La tyrannie de la jeunesse et de la beauté est suffisamment ennuyeuse dans le monde réel pour que je n’aie pas envie de la retrouver dans des romans et j’ajouterai à cette phrase du réalisateur guillermo del toro ( hellboy, blade 2…) ET AUSSI DANS LES FILMS !!!

Au plus loin que je me souvienne, j’ai été un jeune spectateur. On évolue avec le temps et les films ne vous font plus le même effet à 10 ,25 ou 40 ans.Mais en les revoyant on redécouvre d’autres facettes et surtout on mesure le fossé qui existent avec des films, pardon des “produits” comme TWILIGHT ,caractéristiques de notre société et donc d’un CERTAIN cinéma d’aujourd’hui (je vais m’en expliquer) .
Le film de tod browning “dracula” “(sorti en 1930) joue sur la peur classique de l’homme devant l’inconnu. Chez Murnau ,qui adapte le livre de Bram Stocker sous le titre de “nosferatu” (sorti en 1922)le film est guidé par la peur de l’étranger et suggère par exemple dans une scène un rapprochement entre des immigrés de l’est et un troupeau de rats .Pour l’anecdote, la consigne avait été demandé avant et pendant le tournage de “nosferatu”, de faire croire que le comédien Max Schreck était véritablement un vampire .
( “L’Ombre du vampire ” sorti en 2000 avec john malkovich traite de cette rumeur et raconte le tournage du “nosferatu” de 1922 )
Malgré tout le film fonctionne ,sous son aspect “vieilli”, dans le registre de la terreur au point qu’il est régulièrement cité par de grands cinéastes comme une influence majeure . Ainsi on retrouve le comédien christopher walken qui incarne un personnage nommé Max Schreck dans “BATMAN le défi ” de Tim Burton (Sorti en 1991 ).De même un extrait de “nosferatu” passe dans “the king of new york” d’Abel Ferrara (sorti en 1990) et dans scream 2 ( juillet 1998) . Film d’horreur dont on sait qu’il est truffé de références .
Références (antisémites de surcroit) dont on été accablés les films de Browning et surtout de Murnau. C’est ce qui a peut être poussé certains réalisateurs a dépoussiérer le genre. Ainsi comment passer à coté du génial “bal des vampires” de Roman Polanski (1967). Celui ci disait en 1966 ” toute peur qui n’est pas accompagnée d’un véritable danger doit vous faire rire une fois passée“. En partant de ce postulat ,Polanski manie nos peurs et s’en moque tout en respectant les codes du film de vampire.

Je serai assez bref sur les deux films suivants qui derrière de grands réalisateurs (jordan et coppola) et des comédiens renommés n’ont pas été si audacieux que leur mise en scène nous le suggérait.
Je pense notamment à “entretien avec un vampire” tiré des romans d’Anne RICE qui aurait pu être excitant sans Brad Pitt et Tom Cruise. C’est d’ailleurs une future “star” Kirsten dunst qui tire son épingle du jeu et qui peut être a donné des idées aux réalisateurs récents de films de vampires (la jeunesse).

L’érotisme , le romantisme des vampires, apparaissent là et le fantasme de la vigueur sexuelle prend définitivement le pas sur une certaine terreur collective présente dans l’imaginaire des spectateurs .
Que retrouve t’on aujourd’hui , que ce soit dans” twilight 1″ et des séries comme “true blood“???.Il n’est même plus question de parler d’ail,” d’haleine fétide de teint blafard et de peau glaçée“! ( tiré de jean de marigny “la fascination des vampires”)
. Nous retrouvons une jeunesse éternelle, un désintérêt total pour la nourriture et un appétit sexuel sans limite (mais attention , protégé !!même si ce n’est pas précisé mais dans l’inconscient des spectateurs les plus jeunes)
La fascination collective est passée à la moulinette de scénarios aseptisés. Un seul mot d’ordre aujourd’hui: les vampires ça rapporte gros!!!! d’où une suite à twilight et un succès grandissant pour “true blood” (des millions d’américains regardent cette série tous les dimanche soirs sur HBO)

Le film “THIRST ceci est mon sang” par le réalisateur de “old boy” ( prix du jury ex aequo à cannes en 2009) que je qualifierai de délire mystique (et intéressant à voir) nous propose l’histoire d’un prêtre sud coréen catholique transformé en vampire suite à une expérience médicale. Le sang y est montré comme une véritable addiction voire comme une drogue et le meurtre d’autrui comme une véritable punition.
Ce thème se retrouve dans ce qui est surement un des films de vampires les plus intéressants de ces 20 dernières années “the addiction” ( 1995 tout est dans le titre!!) d’Abel Ferrara .
Je vous recommande enfin “MORSE” de Tomas Alfredson (2008) où la jeunesse n’est pas synonyme de vide culturel et culte de la beauté.Magnifique!! et on retrouve une tension et une terreur tout à fait particulière procurée par une extraordinaire actrice de 10 ans !un film de vampire!un vrai!

Allez pour la fin , la cerise sur le gâteau ou plutôt l’extrait d’une scène culte.Et où l’on rêve qu’elle ne se transforme jamais en bête assoiffée de sang… S’il te plait , continue à danser pour nous SALMA….

Everyone needs a pet that can kill you! Or, at the very least, it will eat all your oysters!

“Goo goo g’joob,” anyone?

How about saying let’s not keep giant pinnipeds as pets, especially those with long tusks that have very long lifespan?

Nah, that makes too much sense.

BTW, I happen to like the old name for the species– morse.

However, if I say “morse” no one knows what I’m talking about. “Morse code?”

But “The Morse and the Carpenter” doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?

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So do you really want a pet that will eat all your oysters?

But there is another reason why owning a walrus is a bad idea. We have this law that says you can’t catch marine animals to keep as pets.

Sorry, but you can’t have a pet walrus.

Eine alte Leidenschaft ist wieder aufgeflammt: nach etwa 15 Jahren Pause habe ich mich an CW versucht – Morsetelegrafie, einst notwendiges Übel um meine Prüfung für die B-Lizenz-Prüfung zu bestehen.Und was sagt man dazu? They’re right! Man verlernt es genau so wenig wie Fahrradfahren. Nach etwa 2 Stunden des Zuhörens konnte ich bereits etwa Tempo 40 mitlesen, mehrere Versuchs-QSOs ließen das Lampenfieber weichen, nun darf ich mich auf QSL-Karten in der ungewohnten Betriebsart A1A freuen.     ._._. …_ ._ . .

Ma contribution pour le poster tour de Keelhaul organisé par Tanxxx et en attendant la version sérigraphiée par Têtedemort

Il faut cliquer ici pour voir la version large.

Mercredi 25 novembre à 21H00 au Baloard (Montpellier)
Head Records : www.headrecords.com

Há dois posts recentes que lidam com assuntos muito interessantes… e que eu realmente gostaria de ter mais tempo pra comentar mais extensivamente… mas, por enquanto, os links vão ter que servir.

• Witten on Analytic Continuation of Chern-Simons Theory; &
• Seminar on Cobordism and Topological Field Theories at UCR.

Ambos os assuntos dos links acima estão interligados e de modo não-trivial, o que significa que ainda há muita Física escondida por aí.

A palestra do Witten tem como background um assunto muito interessante: Teoria de Morse nos complexos e em superfícies de dimensão infinita. Mais sobre isso pode ser lido nas seguintes referências,

• The Picard-Lefschetz theory of complexified Morse functions; &
• Witten’s complex and infinite-dimensional Morse theory.

De saidêra, eu deixo um artigo bem interessante: Applying Physics Concepts to Questions in Education.

Morse-Code-Collier - silberne Rollen mit eingravierten Morsezeichen

http://www.alfred-wittenauer.de/prod/moro.htm

Vor einhundert Jahren, es war im Jahr 1909, wurde der Morse-Code zum ersten Mal in der zivilen Schifffahrt als Notruf eingesetzt. Das lang-lang-lang-kurz-kurz-kurz-lang-lang-lang für SOS rettete Tausende von Menschenleben.

Zum runden Jubiläum gibt es als Hommage an Samuel Morse ein neues Schmuckstück, das Morse-Code-Collier. Silberne Rollen tragen eingraviert das Morse-Alphabet – jedes Teil einen Buchstaben. Von Punkt-Strich für ‘A’ bis Strich-Strich-Punkt-Punkt für ‘Z’. Die Trägerin kann seefraulich signalisieren ob ‘SOS’ angesagt, ihr Herz für ‘Sven’ oder ‘Patrick’ schlägt bzw. ‘Love’ die Stimmung ist. Der Fantasie für diese Botschaften sind keine Grenzen gesetzt.

Iată câteva citate ale unor oameni de ştiinţă şi descoperitori importanţi, care, studiind şi fiind zi de zi aproape de ştiinţă, au ştiut cui să dea slavă pentru tainele descoperite de ei. Putem spune că minţile lor mai deschise spre cunoaştere (acest lucru este dovedit de rezultatele studiilor lor), au realizat existenţa Cuiva mai inteligent, mai complex şi mai mare decat noi. Fiindcă cuvintele lor au mai mare greutate decat ceea ce pot spune eu, iată ce gănduri au lăsat în urmă:

Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630 )

Este autorul celor trei legi ale miscarii planetare.

Cred numai si numai in slujirea lui Hristos . Intentionam sa devin teolog , dar vad acum ca prin stradaniile mele Dumnezeu este slavit si in astronomie , intrucat “cerurile spun slava lui Dumnezeu”.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727 )

A fost unul dintre cei mai mari oameni de stiinta , descoperitor al legilor gravitatiei , miscarii si al calculului matematic, a studiat in amanunt Biblia si profetiile din Daniel si Apocalipsa.

Studiez zilnic Biblia . Acest sistem extraordinar al soarelui , planetelor si cometelor poate izvori doar din stapanirea unei Fiinte inteligente care guverneaza toate lucrurile … ca DOMN al tuturor .

Michael Faraday ( 1791 – 1867 )

Pionier al studiului electricitatii , inventatorul generatorului electric , al primului motor electric si al transformatorului electric , a fost un crestin cu viata impregnata de puterea lui Dumnezeu , a ramas un om smerit desi lua masa cu regina Victoria, a fost prezbiter in biserica sa si predica Evanghelia ori de cate ori i se ivea ocazia . Întrebat de un reporter despre viaţa de după moarte, a răspuns:

Stiu in Cine am crezut si sunt incredintat ca El are puterea sa pazeasca ce I-am incredintat pana in ziua aceea.

Samuel Morse (1791 – 1872)

Este inventatorul telegrafului si al codului Morse. Primele cuvinte transmise OFICIAL de el prin intermediul telegrafului au fost:

Ce lucruri mari a facut Dumnezeu – Numeri 23,23  … Este opera LUI … nu noua , ci Numelui Tau , Doamne , dam slava.

James Joule (1818 – 1889 )

Realizeaza legatura dintre caldura si miscarea mecanica , ofera bazele primei legi a termodinamicii , este unul dintre crestinii a caror credinta era binecunoscuta . Face parte dintre cei 717 oameni de stiinta care , la Londra , in 1864 , semneaza manifestul intitulat “ Declaratia studentilor in stiinte naturale si fizica “ , in care marturiseste :

Dupa cunoasterea si implinirea voii lui Dumnezeu , urmatorul meu tel este sa cunosc cat pot de mult despre atributele Sale – intelepciunea Sa , puterea si bunatatea Sa , asa cum sunt ele aratate de lucrarea mainilor Sale.

Louis Pasteur ( 1822 – 1895 )

A pus bazele microbiologiei si bacteriologiei , a inventat vaccinarea , imunizarea si pasteurizarea.

Cu cat studiez mai mult natura , cu atat sunt mai uimit de lucrarea Creatorului meu . Stiinta ar trebui sa-i apropie pe oameni de Dumnezeu , pentru ca pretutindeni in natura exista dovezi ale unui “proiect divin “.

William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ) 1824 – 1907

Descoperitorul scarii absolute , a patentat in timpul vietii sale 70 de inventii , este cunoscut si pentru puternica credinta pe care o avea in Dumnezeu .

Pretutindeni in jurul nostru se afla dovezi coplesitoare ale unui proiect divin si binevoitor . Conceptia ateista mi se pare atat de lipsita de sens incat nici nu o pot exprima in cuvinte .

Fleming – pionierul electronicii

Exista dovezi abundente ca Biblia , desi scrisa de oameni , nu este produsul mintii omenesti si trebuie venerata ca fiind cuvintele transmise noua de catre Creatorul Universului .

Monissa ulkomaisissa televisiosarjoissa soi hieno musiikki. Omiin suosikkeihini kuuluu Barrington Pheloungin säveltämä tunnusmelodia Ylikomisario Morse -sarjaan. Siinä on taitavasti hyödynnetty morsetusta, ja kokonaisuutena kappale on tavattoman kaunis. Olen kuullut sen kymmeniä kertoja, sillä John Thaw´n ja Kevin Whatelyn tähdittämä ITV:n rikossarja on yksi lemppareistani, samoin kuin Morsen jalanjälkiä seuraava Komisario Lewis.

Olen tänään Turun kirjamessuilla, enkä pysty kommentoimaan muiden Sunnuntaiklassikko-valintoja vasta kuin myöhään illalla. Siihen asti hilirimpsis!

სემიუელ ფინლი ბრიზ მორზე – 27 აპრილი, 1791, ჩარლსთაუნი, მასაჩუსეტსი ― † 2 აპრილი, 1872, ნიუ-იორკი) — ამერიკელი გამომგონებელი და მხატვარი. მის განსაკუთრებით ცნობილ გამოგონებას წარმოადგენს — ელექტრომაგნიტური მბეჭდავი ტელეგრაფი («მორზეს აპარატი», 1836) და მორზეს ანბანი.
1844 წ. 24 მაისს ქ. ვაშინგტონსა და ქ. ბალტიმორს შორის გაგზავნილია პირველი დეპეშა, რომელიც იყენებდა მორზეს მეთოდს.

ეს ნატოს სტანდარტების მორსეს კოდი ანუ ამერიკული მორსე. თAვისი სახელებით

ეს კიდევ ამერიკული მორსე განსხვავებაა მხოლოდ რამოდენიმე ასოში

საერთოდ თავდაპირველი მეტყველება ხომ მუსიკა იყო. და ეს შემორჩენილია ე.წ. “ტონურ” ენებში- ყვითელ რასაში (ჩინეთი, ვიეტნამი, იაპონია და ა.შ.)
ეს იმას ნიშნავს, რომ ერთი ბგერა სხვადასხვა სიმაღლეზე და სხვადასხვა ხანგრძლიობით განსხვავებული აზრის გამომხატველი იყო.
დამწერლობის გაჩენის შემდეგ ეს ფაქტი აისახა სემიტურ ენებში იმით, რომ ხმოვან ბგერებს გრაფემა არ გააჩნია (კითხვის შესწავლის მიზნით იყენებდნენ სწორედ წრტილ-ხაზოვან გრაფიკულ გამოსახულებებს. რითაც ისარგებლა მორზემ )
როდესაც პირველ კოლონიზატორებს აფრიკული ტომები გადმოჰყავდათ ამერიკაში მონათსავაჭროდ, მათ შეამჩნიეს ზანგების ძალიან თავისებური ცეკვა (საიდანაც აღმოცენდა მერე საყოველთაოდ ცნობილი სტეპი. აგრეთვე ფლამენკო. ), ფეხების უცნაური რიტმული ბაკუნით.
მოგვიანებით გაირკვა, რომ ისინი სტეპის მეშვეობით საუბრობდნენ ერთმანეთში და გაქცევის გეგმას ასეთნაირად აწყობდნენ და უზიარებდნენ ერთმანეთს.
აქედან გავრცელდა ტრადიცია ციხეებში -კაკუნის მეთოდის სახით.

მორზეს ტელეგრაფი.

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Ao longo do tempo empregáronse diferentes código para, deste xeito, podernos comunicar.

Imos escribir en código Morse, en código Baudot e en código Ascii o meu nome.

Manuel: _ _   . _    _ .    . . _    .    _ . .  Sendo este en Morse

Manuel: oo.o.  ..o..  oo.oo  ..o.o  …o.  oooo.   Sendo este en Baudot

Manuel:  4D  41 4E 55 45 4C   Sendo este o código Ascii