SUV - Stupid Useless Vehicle

Posted on February 3rd, 2008 in Brain, Ferrara by michele

A pickup truck may be the right car if you live in a farm, or up in the mountains. But in my part of Italy the highest “peak” we have is the embankment along the the Po river. Not really demanding.

All the same, every day we have more and more of those huge “cars” clogging the narrow streets of our beautiful, medieval city. And today I saw the top Stupid Useless Vehicle so far…

Hummer in Ferrara

Hey fella, do you need a bigger car to compensate for something else?

Another of human brain’s mysteries: how can so many people use so little of it?

Goodbye, Mr Fischer

Posted on January 18th, 2008 in Brain, History by michele

Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer, better known as Bobby Fischer, died today. He’s left a distinctive mark in chess history, also but not only for the famous Match of the Century against Boris Spassky.

Although I’ve been knowing chess rules since I was a child, I never really studied the game, and I don’t call myself a player. Nevertheless, this game always fascinated me as elegant and powerful, to say nothing of the brain skills it both develops and requires. And great players have always been fascinating.

Human Tetris performance - Wanna play ?

Posted on January 4th, 2008 in Art, Brain, Funny, Technology by michele

Early computer games didn’t have graphics, and the first ones to have it would feature a very poor screen resolution by today’ standard. Such a low resolution, so few pixels that a theatre could have enough seats to be a game “screen”. If this is the case, each pixel is a person.

And how would a Tetris game look like? Guillaume Reymond, with his GAME OVER Project, realized Tetris and several other games, here’s how it looks like:

Genius. Pure genius.