…improving the experience of… city users! In particular, of pedestrian underpasses.
Why do I blog this?: two reasons. The disclaimer here is that Ana, one of the Secret Path group members, is our new designer @ Headshift! So this is a sort of welcome :)
The other reason is that I found this installation quite entertaining and [...]
A savant centric steampunk adventure in alternate Victorian London
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The Difference Engine
★★★☆☆ By W. Gibson and B. Sterling (1990) The adventures of a few improbable heroes set in a Victorian London, where lord Byron is leading the country with the aid of steam powered computers. Not the best book I read [...]
Usually these days I don’t blog about new websites that much, but I wanted to drop in a note about the new kid on the block: sketchcast.
Yet another surrogate of blogging, you say. Oh-no just a mash-up of blogs, podcast and screencast, you say.
Well, yes… and no.
There is an interesting difference: if you ever tried [...]
No they’re not aliens. ‘cos we all know that aliens don’t exist, and that was just a fake. Been there, done that.
This time they are zombies! For real, lots of them!
They’ve been seen last month in soho, and today a new epidemy was predicted.
Don’t get fooled, they can look quite innocent, but are most certainly [...]
Idealistic Content Warning:this post contains considerations based on personal ideals and tenets.
This morning a couple of titles in Boing Boing caught my eye:
. London’s panopticon of CCTVs aren’t solving crimes
. DRM violates Canadian privacy law
Mixed feelings. On one side I’m happy to see an evidence that intrusion in people’s privacy is not helping to [...]
While helping out $prettybigUKnanopublisher in optimizing their visibility, I came across these odd guidelines for Google News:
Display a three-digit number. The URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits.
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If the only number in the article consists of an isolated four-digit number that resembles a year, such as http://www.google.com/news/article2006.html, [...]
…or how SL can help an architecture (r)evolution.
Hat tip: SecondLifeLab
Why do I blog this: architecture is an amazing discipline, that studies the way spaces interacts with people and influence interaction between them. Usually we’re used to think at spaces creating a context and people reacting to it. Reflexive Architecture flips the concept, presenting not just [...]
After the summer exile, here I am, walking my way back in the crazy London’s event vortex…
Last week has been emphasized by a random meeting, an unexpected dinner and a long expected evening.
Tuesday, on my way to the FOWA Road Trip, I literally stumbled upon my old couchsurfing fellow Lily and her aussie friends, on [...]
Oops… just found this draft that has been hanging in my wordpress limbo for a week or so. Time to shoot it out even if still a bit gross.
Last night (that is, last week) had a little chat with Feba, who kindly updated me on the RomagnaCamp, the latest Italian BarCamp.
She meticolously collected links to [...]