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severak 10.1.2025 17:16:21

Na začátku roku představila slovenská vláda novou podobu státní hymny. Její zastánci pějí chválu nad odvážným zařazením tradiční fujary, odpůrci se chytají za hlavu a křičí, že z bojovného chorálu vznikla rozplizlá přeprodukovaná kaše. V záplavě hádek a argumentů by ale neměl zapadnout jeden velmi důležitý detail. Totiž to, že slovenská hymna je nyní údajně laděná podle komorního A vibrujícího na božské frekvenci 432 Hz!

severak 10.1.2025 14:13:23

Generální tajemník služebního úřadu slovenského ministerstva kultury Lukáš Machala způsobil pozdvižení. Na svém telegramovém účtu sdílel video o hrozící mimozemské invazi, informoval web Konzervativný denník Postoj. Na téma přitom nepoukazoval poprvé. V rozhovoru s nynější slovenskou ministryní kultury Martinou Šimkovičovou prohlásil, že se lidé mohou stát „lehkou kořistí pro entity, které mají zájem ovládnout Zemi“.

severak 5.1.2025 00:54:47

„Dostanú aj ostatní autori, ktorí si povedia, že by to urobili ešte lepšie ako Oskar Rózsa, takú istú príležitosť a rovnaké podmienky ako on? Vytvoril sa totiž precedens,“ hovorí Gabriela Husková.

severak 3.1.2025 20:27:56

Fotoblog venovaný trase starej úzkorozchodnej železničnej trate Hronská Dúbrava – Banská Štiavnica.

severak 24.12.2024 14:36:08

Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal sci-fi, about a trio of travellers searching for wish fufilment by crossing into restricted territory, made a dystopian malady of life in the then Soviet Union. Forty years after the film’s release, Patrick Gamble heads to Estonia to track the Stalker, the Writer and the Professor in his own attempt to get into the Zone.

severak 17.12.2024 09:50:37

In 1843, Ada Lovelace published the first nontrivial program. How did it work?

severak 15.12.2024 22:59:33

Claire Evans searches for Susy Thunder.

severak 25.10.2024 17:36:07

‘Musk’s Twitter Buy Makes No Sense – Unless It’s Part of Something Bigger’

from https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/07/musks-twitter-buy-makes-no-sense-unless-its-part-of-something-bigger/

severak 25.10.2024 10:53:15

Tragédie sionismu. Proč Izrael neochránil Židy před antisemitismem

from https://denikalarm.cz/2024/10/tragedie-sionismu-proc-izrael-neochranil-zidy-pred-antisemitismem/

severak 24.10.2024 21:54:07

Medieval Myths Bingo

from https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/medieval-myths-bingo/

severak 4.9.2024 11:47:07

S politologem Jakubem Lyskem jsme hovořili o tom, co Fialova vláda neudělala pro strukturálně znevýhodněné regiony, jakou roli mohou regionální rozdíly hrát v krajských volbách či o vztahu mezi korupcí a periferií.

severak 2.9.2024 17:29:00

MadPlayer

from https://doctor-mad.com/madplayer/

severak 29.8.2024 13:24:31

The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reports a tragic consequence of the failure to localize cell phones.

severak 28.8.2024 15:46:27

A love letter to the Quantel Paintbox

severak 26.8.2024 10:05:28

Pavel Durov and the BlackBerry Ratchet

from https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2024/08/25/pavel-durov-and-the-blackberry-ratchet/

severak 16.8.2024 17:33:56

Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.

severak 12.8.2024 16:43:47

Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between "muscle and mind"

severak 9.8.2024 22:03:58

If you happened across the Olympic Air Pistol event for the first time, you might've been puzzled by the competitors' wearables: So those are mechanical irises. Shooting competitors fine-tune them to bring their gunsights into sharp focus. Here's an example of one by manufacturer Gehmann:

severak 29.7.2024 02:26:36

May 19 1956 marked the laying of the first stone of the A1 Milan-Naples: check the gallery Domus and discover the story of the Sun Motorway in Italy.

severak 27.7.2024 15:17:45

In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.

severak 22.7.2024 23:48:43

How a shy, queer Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet’s most toxic male communities.

severak 22.7.2024 13:07:54

Was BASIC that horrible or… better?

from https://retrofun.pl/2023/12/18/was-basic-that-horrible-or-better/

severak 17.7.2024 16:55:36

I’m tired of hearing about Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, and Ada Lovelace. Can’t we think of someone else for once? I went ahead and compiled a bunch of really important women according to some fairly arbitrary rules: There’s a specific thing you can point to and say “That. That’s their contribution.” This leaves out a lot of really qualified people who made lots of general contributions, but I wanted to keep this list fixed on soundbites.

severak 9.7.2024 15:51:10

Originally published in Estonian World on 11 April 2022. It’s a cold spring morning and I’m watching a tour guide in the Old Town of Tallinn. With her back to a park built on a city block destroyed in World War 2 and facing a set of mediæval buildings not far from the old town square, head in a warm beanie, she’s explaining Estonia to a group of cruise ship tourists.

severak 18.6.2024 10:37:21

Automation is often presented as an inexorably advancing force, whether it’s ushering in a threat to jobs or a promise of increased leisure or larger profits. We’re made to imagine the robots rising, increasingly mechanized systems of production, more streamlined modes of everyday living. But the truth is that…

severak 30.5.2024 16:07:45

New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty waypoint names that were changed over the years.