Metallica gave us a new awesome version of their classic Blackened song playing from their homes! Blackened was the first track of the 1988 studio album …And Justice for All.
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In a NY Times interview, mathematician Adam Kucharski explained how a contagious disease like the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (aka COVID-19) is spread and which of the figures that keep popping up in coronavirus news we need to pay attention to.
This awesomely remastered video of Iron Maiden performing live in Germany from early 1981 is just amazing. Shows the roots of the band and justifies Paul Di’Anno saying it was a metal punk band. And most songs sound even better than the studio versions. A truly brilliant performance of four gifted musicians and a great singer. Clive Burr on drums just rocks. Just listen his take on Phantom of the Opera.
The Social Network Visualizer project happily released today a brand new version of our favorite social network analysis and visualization tool. SocNetV version 2.5, codenamed “maniac”, brings new features and improvements (i.e. custom node icons) and it is as usually available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Go to the project’s Downloads page and get it!
This article is a quick how-to create a Bootstrap subtheme for Drupal 7, as described here and here, to be able to work with the Sass CSS preprocessor. If you don’t know what Sass is and does, read this introductory guide.
The Social Network Visualizer project has released a brand new version of our favorite social network analysis and visualization software application. SocNetV version 2.4, released on Feb 28, is a major upgrade bringing lots of new features, such as Kamada-Kawai FDP layout. The new version is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux as usual. Linux user may download a very light AppImage — just click it to run the app!
See a brief discussion of the new features and changes in version 2.4 at:
http://socnetv.org/news/?post=socnetv-24-released
District 9 is one of these movies that tell you a lot of real-world stories using exotic, if not superficially irrelevant, metaphors. In this case, the metaphor is simple: aliens have come to our planet, but without a clear purpose (peaceful or not). Rather, an alien mother-ship appeared over a South African city one day in 1982 and stayed there until the humans decided to enter and investigate what’s in there. What they found was thousands of alien insect-like beings without a leader, without food, without something to do or go. They looked… stranded thus the human government decided to confine them initially in a camp, called District 9, just outside the city…
