Alan Watts: Human (30 mins) EDITORIALUL EVZ. Vorbe inutile - Opinii EVZ EDITORIAL EVENIMENT AL LUI MIRCEA CÄ‚RTÄ‚RESCU. Vorbe inutile Autor: Mircea Cărtărescu | sâmbătă, 13 octombrie 2012 | 262 Comentarii | 7488 Vizualizari Primul-ministru Victor Ponta mă felicită pe blogul său pentru prezenÅ£a mea printre candidaÅ£ii la Premiul Nobel pentru literatură de anul acesta, â€Ã®n ciuda diferenÅ£elor noastre de opinieâ€. Indiferent cine e prim-ministru într-o Å£ară ÅŸi cine e scriitorul aflat în situaÅ£ia mea, aceasta e atitudinea corectă ÅŸi inteligentă pe care un oficial trebuie s-o aibă faţă de artiÅŸtii unei ţări care s-au remarcat internaÅ£ional. ArtiÅŸtii unei ţări nu sunt paraziÅ£ii ei decât pentru cei lipsiÅ£i de inteligenţă. S-ar fi băgat bani în mine cu nemiluita. Cariera mea internaÅ£ională nu se leagă de ICR-ul lui H. Cum se vede, nici măcar nu e nimic de demontat, sunt numai lucruri însăilate fără urmă de inteligenţă, cu singurul scop de a mă murdări cu orice preÅ£. Ce voi face dacă aceste campanii vor continua?
Enheduanna Regarded by literary and historical scholars as possibly the earliest known author and poet, Enheduanna served as the High Priestess during the third millennium BCE.[1] She was appointed to the role by her father, King Sargon of Akkad. Her mother was Queen Tashlultum.[7][8] Enheduanna has left behind a corpus of literary works, definitively ascribed to her, that include several personal devotions to the goddess Inanna and a collection of hymns known as the "Sumerian Temple Hymns," regarded as one of the first attempts at a systematic theology. In addition, scholars, such as Hallo and Van Dijk, suggest that certain texts not ascribed to her may also be her works.[9] Enheduanna was appointed to the role of High Priestess in what is considered to be a shrewd political move by Sargon to help cement power in the Sumerian south where the City of Ur was located.[10] She continued to hold office during the reign of Rimush, her brother. Archaeological and textual evidence[edit] See also[edit]
Voynich manuscript The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance.[1][2] The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912.[3] Some of the pages are missing, but about 240 remain. The text is written from left to right, and most of the pages have illustrations or diagrams. The Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II.[4] No one has yet succeeded in deciphering the text, and it has become a famous case in the history of cryptography. The Voynich manuscript was donated by Hans P. Description[edit] Codicology[edit] The binding and covers are not original to the book, but date to during its possession by the Collegio Romano.[8]
da(data)ta Eratosthenes Eratosthenes of Cyrene (Ancient Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης, IPA: [eratostʰénɛːs]; English /ɛrəˈtɒsθəniːz/; c. 276 BC[1] – c. 195/194 BC[2]) was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology used today.[3] Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology; he endeavored to revise the dates of the chief literary and political events from the conquest of Troy. In number theory, he introduced the sieve of Eratosthenes, an efficient method of identifying prime numbers. He was a figure of influence who declined to specialize in only one field. Seventeen hundred years after Eratosthenes' death, while Christopher Columbus studied what Eratosthenes had written about the size of the Earth, he chose to believe that the Earth's circumference was much smaller. Life[edit] Measurement of the Earth's circumference[edit] Works[edit]
Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American author and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been variously categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and "postcyberpunk." Other labels, such as "baroque," often appear. He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. Life[edit] Born on October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland,[1] Stephenson came from a family of engineers and hard scientists; his father is a professor of electrical engineering while his paternal grandfather was a physics professor. Literary career[edit] Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, which introduced many of today's real world technological discoveries. Non-fiction[edit]
50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About It's time to update the entries in your browser's links toolbar. But with recent estimates putting the size of the internet at well more than 100 million distinct websites, it's getting harder and harder to get a handle on all the great stuff that's out there. That's why we've compiled this list. You might have heard of some of these sites, but we'll bet you haven't heard of all them. Demoscene.tv See What Can Be Done with 4 Kilobytes If you’re any kind of nerd at all, you probably know about the demoscene, where talented programmers create complex videos rendered in real-time, stored in incredibly small files. But what if you just want to see what all the fuss is about without actually downloading and running an executable? lite.Facebook.com Clutter-Free Social Networking You can admit it. Letsplayarchive.com Let other people play games for you Soyouwanna.com What They Didn’t Teach You in School Google Building Maker Crowd Sourcing the 3D World Ikeahacker.blogspot.com
Petrarch Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo Original lyrics by Petrarch, found in 1985 in Erfurt Biography[edit] Youth and early career[edit] Petrarch was born in the Tuscan city of Arezzo in 1304. Petrarch spent his early childhood in the village of Incisa, near Florence. He traveled widely in Europe and served as an ambassador and has been called "the first tourist"[6] because he traveled just for pleasure,[7] which was the basic reason he climbed Mont Ventoux.[8] During his travels, he collected crumbling Latin manuscripts and was a prime mover in the recovery of knowledge from writers of Rome and Greece. Mount Ventoux[edit] Petrarch recounts that on April 26, 1336, with his brother and two servants, he climbed to the top of Mont Ventoux (1,912 meters (6,273 ft)), a feat which he undertook for recreation rather than necessity.[11] The exploit is described in a celebrated letter addressed to his friend and confessor, the monk Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, composed some time after the fact.