Italian politics explained with flowcharts
Dario Franceschini, leader of the italian Democratic Party, proposed last week a one-off tax for incomes above €120,000. The money collected in this way would help pay a subsidy for the poorest. The...
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Social Notworking
The Urban Dictionary strikes againSocial Notworking The practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking websites, especially when one should be working. Joe - Hey, Mark is constantly updating...
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Yes, ajò!
While I am not a fan of Italian Obamism (i.e. making reference to the Obama victory as a motivational resource for politics in Italy), Liberazione published yesterday a report about the situation with...
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Friendfeed (amico dei mangimi)
Friendfeed added a bunch of translations (German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and simplified Chinese) to their interface, but left Italian out. Friendfeed is a sort of one-stop-shop social networking...
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Narrating our way out of the crisis
What have the Obama victory and the financial crisis to do with Marxism and narrative? A lot, according to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. It is unlikely that the financial meltdown of 2008 will...
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Prediction markets – US election
As the US election day draws closer, I am fascinated by prediction tools that are used and how they are evolving - in both substance and presentation. While richer interfaces are available and therefore...
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Born under a lucky star
Corriere della Sera: The new financial world order will be guided by Sarkozy and Brown La Stampa: Sarko swindled by online fraudsters ...
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My vote for this man
Henry Waxman, a Democratic congressman representing a Californian district, grilled the CEO of Lehman Brothers last Monday, during a session of the congressional committee on oversight and government reform...
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8 per 1000
According to an article on Corriere.it, Italians are decreasing their economical support for the Catholic Church, at least for what is concerned the donation of 0.8% of their income tax (amounting...
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Schoolbooks made to last
As a consequence of the new regulations about public schools promoted by the Education Ministry, adopted textbooks will have to remain valid for at least 5 years - this should enable used books exchanges...
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Gravehopping
Three years after winning the San Sebastian and the Torino Film Festival, Odgrobadogroba (english: "Gravehopping", Italian: "Di tomba in tomba") is at last distributed in Italy by...