…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 [...]
A savant centric steampunk adventure in alternate Victorian London product 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 from either [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...] If the only number in the article consists of an isolated four-digit number that resembles a year, [...]
…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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]