Advanced ways of wasting time

 * Introduction

Wasting time in creative ways is a pleasant way of exploring technology.  It is
understood as a useless or insane activity by our society, which qualifies as
useful only that which require anxiety and hard boring labour; however, to be
genius tomorrow we need to be insane today.  And the best way to be insane is
to make it pleasant and funny.
  
 * Creative waste of time in history and literature

  Zeno from Elea and his paradoxes
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_of_Elea
  Martial
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial
  Catullus
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus
    http://www.manikomio.it/vademecum/Carmi36.htm
  The "Memoriali Bolognesi"
    http://www.intratext.com/X/ITA1671.HTM
  The "Dispute" between Dante and Forese Donati
    http://www.italianstudies.org/poetry/cn13.htm
    http://www.italianstudies.org/poetry/cn14.htm
    http://www.italianstudies.org/poetry/cn15.htm
  Cecco Angiolieri
    http://www.filosofico.net/poesiacecco8732135.htm
  Rustico Filippi
    http://www.scuolaonline.wide.it/Pagine/F2.html
  Chaucer
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer
  Boccaccio
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio
  Rabelais
    http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/rabelais/rab_garg.html#c12

  Dadaists
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadaist
    Dadaist poetry and dadadodo
  Pataphysics
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Pataphysics
    "The science which has a method but not a goal."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

 * Part 1: Commandline software

    Base
	sl
	an (as a mistake with man)
	tama
	vigor
	an, wordplay
	sysvbanner
	dpkg -L bsdgames | grep /usr/games
		bcd, ppt, morse
		countmail
		hangman
		number
		pig (man pig)
		pom
		quiz
		random
		wargames
	robotfindskitten
	fortune
    Advanced stuff
    	dpkg -L filters
	formail -I "" -s < .mail/debian-legal | dadadodo -
	polygen bloccotraffico | lynx -dump -stdin
	polygen uforobot | lynx -dump -stdin | grep -v '^$' | cowsay
	for i in *.cow; do echo $i | cowsay -f `basename $i .cow`; done | less
	polygen pythoniser | fmt | b1ff | cowsay -f eyes
	polygen -X 50 unieuro | dadadodo - | festival --tts --language italian
	polygen screensaver
	
		cssutil -b -r destra.css
		cssutil -b -r sinistra.css
		cssdiff spam.css nonspam.css

	randtype
	bogosort

	Bluetooth
		apt-get install bluez-utils
		hcitool scan
		hcitool info 00:11:22:33:44:55

 * Part 2: Graphical software

   Base
	cappuccino
	Clocks to count the time you waste
		sunclock, daliclock, xarclock -update 1
		xearth
		xplanet con gadgets
	xteddy
	kodo
	xdesktopwaves
	xlaby
	xlaby + kodo
   Advanced stuff
   	xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl, rss-glx
		/usr/lib/xscreensaver/noseguy -program "polygen unieuro"
		
		mkfifo pippo
		tail -f pippo | festival --tts --language italian
		/usr/lib/xscreensaver/noseguy -program "polygen unieuro|tee /home/enrico/pippo |fmt"
		
		ll /usr/lib/xscreensaver
		phosphor -program bash
		phosphor -program ’xscreensaver-text | tee /dev/stderr | festival --tts’
		(come si velocizza?)
		phosphor -program 'polygen -X 50 unieuro | dadadodo - | tee /dev/stderr | festival --tts --language italian'

		matrixview
	
 * Part 3: More serious stuff

	Almost serious
		debtags search game::toys
		xtartan -list
		gdesklets gkrellm
	Serious
		mappa caratteri + ctrl-shift
		guppi to organise a dinner out
		LDAP -- GEEZ!  Multisync can do LDAP synchronization!  I could
		  add a new user in my mobile phone and have a UNIX account
		  automatically created for it! :)
		graphviz


 * Conclusion:

  xfs_fsr

 * Other random ideas:

Bayesian horoscope
  Take some information sources
    repubblica.it
    meteo
    ...
  Use them as tokens for dbacl
  At beginning of day, use tokens to say if the day is good
  At end of the day, move tokens together with training data depending how good
    was the day