All posts from November 14, 2008

Corporaciones ficticias que destruyen el mundo »

Y de paso, una pieza de información que he encontrado por ahí:

One of the things I enjoyed most about Alien was its subtle satirical content. Science fiction films offer golden opportunities to throw in little scraps of information that suggest enormous changes in the world. There’s a certain potency in those kinds of remarks. Weylan Yutani for instance is almost a joke, but not quite. I wanted to imply that poor old England is back on its feet and has united with the Japanese, who have taken over the building of spaceships the same way they have now with cars and supertankers. In coming up with a strange company name I thought of British Leyland and Toyota, but we couldn’t use “Leyland-Toyota” in the film. Changing one letter gave me “Weylan”, and “Yutani” was a Japanese neighbor of mine.”

— Ron Cobb, diseñador de la Nostromo en Alien.

Búnker sueco reconvertido en datacenter o sueño húmedo de un paranoico »

This must take the record for the trippiest data-center build anywhere, ever: It’s an old nuclear bunker 30 meters below central Sotckholm, and its new conversion for one of Sweden’s biggest ISPs has made it truly 007-worthy. Check it: it has simulated daylight, greenhouses and waterfalls, there’re German submarine engines rigged as emergency backup generators, plus there’s 1.5 megawatts of cooling for the servers. Oh, and it can survive a hydrogen bomb attack.

Añadido a los bookmarks del GPS en la carpeta “sitios donde hacer un raid en caso de guerra nuclear”. No dice nada de ametralladoras centinela guardando la entrada pero yo sé que están ahí. Nota al pie: llevar granadas de pulso.