LittleCamels.com

Originally published sometimes back in 1999
Broken links have been updated

Nessuno di noi avrebbe scommesso sulla possibilità che uno scontro di questo tipo potesse mai avvenire, ma alla fine ce l’abbiamo fatta: il presente contro il passato, il futuro prossimo contro quello remoto, il trapassato contro il piuccheperfetto.

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I have seen really nice films this year at the Espoo Ciné Film Festival:

• The Secret Life of Words: A film about tortured people and the way they restart life after everything is over. You can also have a look at the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
• Chrigu: a documentary about a young Swiss guy, Christian (who is also the director of the film), during his final journey fighting against cancer. Christian died during the shooting
• The 11th hour: a documentary about global heating and how to change the world using renewable energies
• Le Lièvre de Vatanen (Vatanen’s Hare): an adaptation of the famous book by Arto Paasilinna, placed in nowadays world
• Den nya människan (The New Man): a film about the practice of forced sterilisation in Sweden during the 50ties
• La sconosciuta (The Unknown): an Italian film picturing the life of a troubled Ukranian woman

As I was talking about different ways of getting a hangover, I decided to have a look at the real consumption of alcohol in some European countries. Here are the results.

Alcohol consumption per capita
Units: Liters of pure alcohol per adult (15 years and older)

Source: Global Alcohol Database, World Health Organization (WHO).
Rationale for the statistics

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Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!

Tim Peters, “The Zen of Python”