Perspective
The best minds of my generation had apparently more to say about the early demise of Steve Jobs, a brilliant entrepreneur, than they felt appropriate for Amy Winehouse. This is said without the least intention...
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Who said Insurance ain’t cool?
It is actually so cool that it was used in the '40s, by the U.S. Camera Publishing Company, in an attempt to make photography look attractive and interesting in the eyes of the young public. Jim...
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L’ultima del Tristano
Che senso ha parlare di Paese del Bel Canto, di tradizione e di patrimonio culturale se non si coltivano la conoscenza e la pratica della musica? Roberto Casati e Maurizio Giri propongono cinque misure...
Doodle power
I have never seen so many articles on Jorge Luis Borges' birthday as this year, when Google decided to honor the day by displaying a dedicated logo. Yet, made by Google - whose search text field could...
The Art of Podcasts
Podcasts are practical, but could their specificity be turned into opportunity for artistic expression? Everyday Moments: audio drama for private performance In collaboration with theatre producers Fuel,...
The Singularity is near
But not in the way Ray Kurzweil means it, in his foretelling of machines that become more intelligent than humans and therefore take the lead in all fields of human development. It is rather in a geographical...
All Roads Lead to Rome
I found a curious little game to be played on Wikipedia, on the alternate text of a recent xkcd.com comic. It is rather simple: choose a random page on Wikipedia, and click on the first link in the article...
Tutte le strade portano a Roma
Nella chiosa a una vignetta sull'utilizzo di Wikipedia, trovo su xkcd.com un curioso giochino da provare su Wikipedia. Lo svolgimento è molto semplice: scegliere una pagina a caso da wikipedia, e...
Double bass
Piran, 30.6.2011 Orchestra Suzuki - Trieste ...
Are you self-search-aware?
Is it possible to remain invisible to the web? Once upon a time, having an online profile was rather complex. The traces one could have left behind were some entries in the archives of a mailing list or...
Random beauty
It was so beautiful that I could not help fixing it in all its ephemeral quality, as a combination that could be washed away any minute by any of one thousand different factors. I'm not speaking about...