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severak 20.2.2020 09:37:22

ERP beyond your fridge - grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home. Open Source. Built with passion.

severak 19.2.2020 23:49:16

The Muppets made it famous, but where did the song come from? (Hint: a steamy Italian film...) Who performed it? And who is that fuzzy fella?

severak 19.2.2020 14:30:00

A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.

severak 19.2.2020 12:17:07

Na Staroměstském náměstí v Praze začala růst replika mariánského sloupu. Obnova barokního památníku oživila spor, který česká společnost vede už stovky let. Proč sloup vyvolává i dnes vyhrocené emoce?

severak 18.2.2020 12:35:48

When melody, harmony and rhythm interact in a meaningful way, it is powerful and magical. It can ignite emotion and provoke thought. When listening to current mainstream music however, it becomes very clear that the place of melody as one of music’s basic building blocks, is being reduced substantially, making space for other elements, such as texture and rhythm. Television composer Yuval Shrem, who is also the developer of Fable Sounds' "Broadway Big Band" library, examines this phenomenon at length, in historical context.

severak 17.2.2020 09:20:04

Peter Kwan developed ‘Teefax’ after original teletext service was shut down in 2012

severak 14.2.2020 16:57:23

Hipster jako slepá ulička západní civilizace

from https://deliandiver.org/2020/01/hipster-jako-slepa-ulicka-zapadni-civilizace.html

severak 14.2.2020 16:47:19

Zatímco světem otřásají obavy z nákazy koronavirem, v turistickém centru Prahy funguje restaurace, kterou majitel budovy odpojil od vody a elektřiny.

severak 14.2.2020 16:03:39

O stránce

from https://www.tajemstvihudby.cz/o-strance/

severak 14.2.2020 15:55:12

15 years on, Winamp "still lives"—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.

severak 14.2.2020 15:11:22

"Tanec je pro mnoho lidí nesrozumitelný žánr. Přitom pokud je člověk otevřený, stačí přijít, sednout, uvolnit se a nechat to na sebe působit," říká tanečnice a režisérka Miřenka Čechová v podcastu Petra Viziny.

severak 14.2.2020 11:00:26

The story of American artist Sarah Goodridge’s erotic self-portrait on a miniature ivory plate, given as a secret present to her lover, US Senator Daniel Webster.

severak 13.2.2020 16:49:43

V sobotu uplyne třicet let od zrušení Státní bezpečnosti. Bývalý disident Radek Schovánek, který léta pracoval v Ústavu pro studium totalitních režimů, tvrdí, že ve skutečnosti StB nikdy nezanikla. Více než polovina jejích pracovníků totiž ve službách státu zůstala i po revoluci. Schovánek Deníku N prozradil přesný počet zaměstnanců StB, kteří po roce 1989 zůstali…

severak 13.2.2020 14:55:04

Formed after a free punk concert in 1980, an influential collection of musicians, artists and film-makers including Pedro Almodavar exploded punk counterculture in Madrid – and changed their nation for ever

severak 13.2.2020 14:34:05

Podle doyena českých ekologů Bedřicha Moldana se domácí ekonomika do budoucna obejde jak bez uhlí, tak bez jaderné energie. Spalování uhlí podle něj zpochybňuje celý boj s klimatickou změnou a jaderná energie − jejímž je celoživotním odpůrcem − je příliš drahá. Budoucnost první...

severak 12.2.2020 15:25:05

A tool for editing version-control repositories and translating among different systems. Supports git, bzr, Subversion, darcs, and fossil directly, also hg, CVS, and RCS through plugins.

severak 12.2.2020 11:57:58

Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift?

severak 12.2.2020 11:48:08

Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis

from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtm0MoOgiU

severak 12.2.2020 00:42:55

The curious tale of a man called Christian, the Catholic church, David Schwimmer’s wife, a secret hotel and an Airbnb scam running riot on the streets of London

severak 10.2.2020 18:13:34

Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about podcasting, with some observations on how a media market that is far healthier than online publishing functions. But first, a quick update on

severak 10.2.2020 12:57:26

A year later. Getting by without a SIM card in my smartphone.

severak 7.2.2020 22:14:36

Here's an enormous library of thousands of old book illustrations, with searchable name, artist, source, date, which book it was

severak 7.2.2020 17:09:57

The Internet of Beefs

from https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/