Degrading conceptual art
According to Sol LeWitt,In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are...
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Eurovision 2008
I have just finished watching a few minutes of the 2008 Eurovision song contest, hosted by Serbia (having won the last edition with Marija Šerifović's Molitva). As the Museum of Broadcast Communication...
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A virtual world of your own
Perhaps at Linden Lab they did not expect this outcome, when they released the source code of the Second Life viewer last year... The OpenSimulator team has somewhat reverse-engineered the server part...
The week that was – IV
Last Tuesday, FIAT and Zastava (a Yugoslavian carmarker) have signed a collaboration memorandum. Rumors say that the factories in Kragujevac will be employed to build a remake of the Topolino. But, besides...
Earthquake
32 years ago I was sleeping in my parents' car, parked in my grandfather's backyard and well away from any tall buildings. A couple of hours before that, we had left our 4th floor flat because of an earthquake...
The week that was – III
Last week, Agenzia delle entrate (the italian tax authority) published on its website the list of all citizens who presented a declaration, along with their income. The information is not considered restricted...
Does Italy exist?
Limes - an Italian review of geopolitics - is going to issue a special number this autumn, dedicated to a controversial subject: does Italy exist? After the last election and the remarkable success obtained...
The week that was – II
The leaders of the left seem to have completely lost touch with "the base", the ones who faithfully voted and convinced those around them to vote for the leftist parties. New voices are collecting...
Keeping it simple
Explaining one's own country to foreigners can be a difficult task, so Gianni Riotta (editor of the RAI news program, TG1) has tried to paint a simplified picture for the Wall Street Journal, crafting...
Education and vBusiness
The vBusiness Expo is a large scale event about business in virtual worlds, and as far as I know it is the first to be actually held in a virtual world. Starting on April 24th, it will cover four key...
The week that was – I
During the last week I have been asked the same question again and again. Every single time I have spoken with people from abroad: "How can you...?" (you=Italians, not me) Words fail me, so I...