Hylton Warburton, Beware The Four Fingered Viking 2
Hylton Warburton, Beware The Four Fingered Viking
¡Atención! Nordic Quack. Sweden’s bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve. Es un artículo de Jeremy Stahl para Slate publicado el 22/12/9.
Tack så mycket, Alma!
Squall-Lowliet, Kefka Monument to Nonexistance
The final battle against Kefka draws strong symbolism from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, an epic poem in which Dante travels through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The first tier in the battle is represented by a demon, and in the Divine Comedy the first tier is Hell where Satan is entrapped up to his waist. The second tier of the battle contains beasts, people and machinery, which collectively represent Purgatory, the second tier in the Divine Comedy. The third tier is inspired by Michelangelo’s Pietà, a sculpture of Jesus’ body lying in Mary’s lap after he is crucified. This represents the third tier in the Divine Comedy, Heaven, with Rest and Lady in the positions of Jesus and Mary in the Pietà. The final tier in the Divine Comedy is when Dante comes face-to-face with God, who explains to him the meaning of life. This is reflected in Kefka, who has become the God of Magic and tells the Returners that life is meaningless.
Kefka himself appears to the Returners as a purple angel with four angelic wings and two dark demonic wings. This appearance draws parallels to Lucifer, the fallen angel that became Satan. One of Kefka’s attacks is “Fallen One”, which was later re-translated as “Heartless Angel”, both of which draw back to the idea of Kefka as a fallen angel. His signature attack is “Forsaken”, which again hearkens to Lucifer and his rebellion against God. Kefka’s six wings could be taken as a reference to the Seraph, the highest choir of angels with six wings. The background of the battle is a field of golden clouds with beams of light shining through them, symbolizing Heaven.Final Fantasy Wiki, Kefka Palazzo
La última batalla empieza no sin que Kefka, convertido en el dios de la magia, manifieste su deseo de erradicar no solo cualquier tipo de vida sino la existencia en si misma. Creo yo que la imaginería de La Divina Commedia de Dante se queda corta; es obvia la fuerza de Paradise Lost de John Milton.
Life…dreams…hope…Where do they come from? And where do they go? Such meaningless things…I’ll destroy them all!Kefka, durante la batalla final
Why do people insist on creating things that will inevitably be destroyed? Why do people cling to life knowing that they must someday die? Knowing that none of it will have meant anything once they do?Kefka, sobre la futilidad de la existencia
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Cécile Bortoletti para LURVE (issue 1 – fall/winter 2009), Outlandish. Daul Kim con los diseños de Romain Kremer.
La extravagante LURVE existe para paliar la aversión a la repulsiva METAL. Pero más triste es la muerte de Daul Kim (김다울).
Jennifer Cox, Little Girls Know All the Secrets. Fragmento en Vimeo del corto “Little Girls Know all the Secrets” (2005)
Jennifer Cox, Little girls know all the secrets. Otro fragmento en Vimeo del corto “Little girls know all the secrets” (2005)
Children always seem to know what is important in life, everything for them is black and white, full of passion, it is either want or not want, it is live life to the fullest, it is a complete new way of viewing things, much purer and full of enthusiasm: things in their eyes always have a much more mysterious and complicated explanation than for us adults, this is why I always make sure that I am surrounded by children.
I took all of these photographs as a way of preserving their childhood for them; I also took them as a thank you for accepting me as one of them without ever questioning my intentions and because they have given me so much without even knowing it.Jennifer Cox, Childhood
The researchers noticed that the animals were frequently using their approximately 6-inch-long (15-centimeter-long) tentacles to carry coconut shells bigger than their roughly 3-inch-wide (8-centimeter-wide) bodies.
An octopus would dig up the two halves of a coconut shell, then use them as protective shielding when stopping in exposed areas or when resting in sediment.
This, on its own, astonished the team. Then they noticed that the octopuses, after using the coconut shells, would arrange them neatly below the centers of their bodies and “walk” around with the shells—awkwardly. Matt Kaplan para National Geographic News, “Bizarre” Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters
Por favor, prestad mucha atención a este vídeo. También lo podéis ver en BBC News (Rebecca Morelle, Octopus snatches coconut and runs), RTVE.es (América Valenzuela, Descubren pulpos que usan cocos como escudos contra los depredadores). Aún hay más. En este vídeo (un fragmento de las aventuras de Otto C. Honegger) el muy bandido corretea no con una sino con dos cáscaras, en un plis-plas se transforma en bolita y rueda feliz por el fondo del mar. Por si fuera poco, otro pulpo que coge carrerilla.
La conducta tan divertida de este pulpo (Amphioctopus marginatus) la descubrió por casualidad el biólogo Julian Finn del Museo Victoria en Melbourne y del departamento de Zoología de la Universidad La Trobe en Bundoora. La revista Current Biology ha publicado su estudio.
The use of tools has become a benchmark for cognitive sophistication. Originally regarded as a defining feature of our species, tool-use behaviours have subsequently been revealed in other primates and a growing spectrum of mammals and birds [1]. Among invertebrates, however, the acquisition of items that are deployed later has not previously been reported. We repeatedly observed soft-sediment dwelling octopuses carrying around coconut shell halves, assembling them as a shelter only when needed. Whilst being carried, the shells offer no protection and place a requirement on the carrier to use a novel and cumbersome form of locomotion — ‘stilt-walking’.Defensive tool use in a coconut-carrying octopus, Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 23, R1069-R1070, 15 December 2009
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Presumir con capturas de pantalla es odioso pero es desde los primeros días de la línea de comandos un ritual demasiado frecuente muy bien implantado en el abierto carácter exhibicionista de los usuarios de GNU/Linux. Yo no voy a ser menos:
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CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01 (Lite Edition); Openbox 3.4 (1977 Openbox by Thayer Williams); Monospace 7; arora 0.10.1 (Andy Rementer, Desire (Techno Tuesday); moc 2.5.0 > HEALTH, GET COLOR (Lovepump United, 2009); VLC 0.9.9 > Telmo and Tula, Muesli con manzanas (Trademark & Copyright 2006: Anera Films, Motion Pictures); terminator 0.12 –command=cacafire (Package: caca-utils, libcaca); Thunar 1.0.0; Bluecurve Icon Theme; Lindsay Lohan Vanity Fair February 2006 (Photographed exclusively for V.F. by Mario Testino in Malibu, California, on September 21, 2005).
Good morning, Crono! (fondo de escritorio inspirado en Chrono Trigger por mí); Nitrogen 1.4 (Color name: #212121); tint2 0.7; fbxkb 0.6 (es,se).
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Mi vida se entrega al Bushido. Persigo el instante que decide la vida o la muerte sin importarme el resultado. Desde hace años, me aventuro en Sid y me exijo sobrevivir. Pero sin dejar de ser fiel al código, cada vez frecuento menos los repositorios inseguros. Ahora empuño mi boken y corto el aire mientras contemplo como las estaciones transforman mi jardín minimalista. CrunchBang Linux (Lite) en mi ThinkPad T400 (with graphics integrated) ha apagado el inestable y descontrolado fuego soplando un ligero y racional viento. #! es una distro basada en Ubuntu, y la grasienta y obesa Ubuntu es una distro basada en Debian; main significa pulcros paquetes (deb) estables cada 6 meses, y universe significa frescos paquetes (deb) inestables y del repositorio experimental. Todavía mantengo viejas costumbres porque aún no he perdido ni el honor ni la lealtad; con un lápiz STAEDTLER triplus anoto en mi libreta ClaireFontaine® (Doceur de l’écriture) mis aplicaciones, librerías y configuraciones favoritas. Es un placer compartirlo:
abiword efficient, featureful word processor with collaborationalsa-base ALSA driver configuration filesalsa-utils ALSA utilitiesamule client for the eD2k and Kad networks, like eMuleapt Advanced front-end for dpkgarora Arora is an open-source browser project that aims to build a cross-platformblender Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderercowsay A configurable talking cowdillo small and fast browserevince Document (postscript, pdf) viewerexfalso audio tag editor for GTK+fbxkb X11 keyboard indicator and switcherinkscape vector-based drawing programelinks advanced text-mode WWW browserg++ The GNU C++ compilergcc The GNU C compilergftp X/GTK+ FTP clientgimp The GNU Image Manipulation Programgrub GRand Unified Bootloaderhtop interactive processes viewerirsii terminal based IRC clientlanguage-support-writing-ca Writing aids metapackage for Catalan; Valencianlanguage-support-writing-en Writing aids metapackage for Englishlanguage-support-writing-es Writing aids metapackage for Spanish; Castilianlanguage-support-writing-sv Writing aids metapackage for Swedishleafpad GTK+ based simple text editorlibcaca colour ASCII art librarymoc ncurses based console audio playermplayer The Ultimate Movie Player For Linuxnitrogen wallpaper browser and changing utility for Xopenbox standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window managerpostr upload photos to Flickrpyroom distractionless fullscreen text editorpython An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)ruby An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Rubysane scanner graphical frontendssoundconverter GNOME application to convert audio files into other formatssox Swiss army knife of sound processingsynaptic Graphical package managerterminator Multiple GNOME terminals in one windowthunar File Manager for Xfcetint2 lightweight taskbartransmission lightweight BitTorrent clientttf-liberation Free fonts with the same metrics as Times, Arial and Couriervim Vi IMproved – enhanced vi editorvifm a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindingsvlc multimedia player and streamervolwheel System tray volume control applet.wamerican American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dictwbritish British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dictwcatalan Catalan dictionary words for /usr/share/dictwspanish The Spanish dictionary words for /usr/share/dictwswedish Swedish dictionary words for /usr/share/dictx11-xkb-utils X11 XKB utilities
xfonts-ay Audun Ytterdal’s ANSI-fonts with Scandinavian charactersSi os gusta Telmo y Tula tanto como a mí, os moriréis de hambre por saber la receta del Muesli con manzanas.
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