Motorway signs
I hate when I find hundreds of cars stuck in a 3m-wide road in the centre of a small village (especially if it's my own) because their GPS navigator is acting so smart, telling them to get out of the motorway...
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Idea marketplace
The use of Information and Communication Technologies for energy efficiency is a key challenge to be responded to, and an idea market (with ideas treated as stocks, with their price influenced by people...
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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...
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Sing a Sad Song
A summer meme is travelling the Italian blogosphere these days. Ignited by Luca Sofri, its purpose is to write a post the personal choice for the saddest song ever. Mine is Tom Waits' Martha - it is not...
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English style, Italian manufacture
According to The Independent, British clothing labels are moving their manufacturing to Italy.Prompted by growing concern over sweatshops and exploitation of child labour, ethical consumers in the West...
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Just like Snow Crash
The narrative engine of Snow Crash, a novel published in 1992, is the homonymous new drug - which is a computer virus capable of moving from the computers to the brains of their human users, causing irreversible...
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Kresovanje (St. John’s Bonfire) 2008
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I say Bertolli, you say…
Beer. No, really! At least, that's what the Bertolli brand appears to suggest to the globalized users of Brand Tags, a simple but elegant collective experiment in brand perception. The basic idea behind...
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Language and atoms
Next time somebody tells me that Slovenia is such a small country and therefore Slovenian is a language not worth studying, I'll have an anecdote ready to be told - about how I first panicked when reading...
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Events without a location
I used to think that free-form virtual worlds, used as communication tools aimed at education, were not yet ready for primetime - at least, not until better integration tools with traditional elearning...
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DegradArte. Immaterial Paradox – workshop
Thursday 29th, 17:30 - ex Mattatoio - Roma the Degradarte laboratory on Novalab the official website www.degradarte.org "When, how and why a law about copyright gives birth to a provocative artistic...