Wandering around some Mac-aficionado forums in search of good repairing tips for my powerbook maybe-a-bit-old’n’dusty-thus-winding-way-too-slow-and-definitely-too-noisy internal fan, I found this amazing asynchronous, multi-user dispersed chat:
user A: I keep my powerbook on my desk when I work. When it goes to sleep, the LED on the front of the case starts doing its ‘breathing’ thing. I find this distracting, since I’m usually
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In a recent work about the future of printed literature, italian intellectual Umberto Eco describes the book as an eternal technology, something similar to a spoon or a bycicle: while time goes by and innovations pop up ceaselessly, some specifically well-designed objects tend to remain pretty stable. Moreover, he argues, the book-shape is determined by our own anatomy…
Most people think Twitter was “created” in 2006. These are the same people who think Richard Gere created Buddhism in the 1990′s, just before Madonna created yoga. Folks, like the sun, moon, and stars, Twitter has always been.
This is what you can read in the ‘about’ page of the ‘Historical Tweets’ website. The idea is simple but…
My wikipedia entry is about an italian cartoon called “L’Omino Bufo”, in loving memory of those bizarre and hilarious strips I used to read (and enjoy to the tears) as a child.
Since the available online information was very poor, I started to browse some comic lovers’ blogs and eventually managed to reach the author by telephone for a…
In the first systematic study about movie stardom and its heavy influence on early mass culture, Edgar Morin (1957) argues that during the golden studio-age Hollywood was able to dramatically change the ritual function of the mythical universe: by replacing traditional gods and heroes with god-like actors and stars, classical american cinema established a new emotional bridge between…
Starting from its very title (“The digital humanist”), all in this book is clearly rooted into a hybrid philosophy, a way of looking at things from an interdisciplinary point of view. The context is that of Digital Humanities or Humanities Computing, a study/research field where the impact of digital technology on traditional humanities’ disciplines is analyzed along with the parallel…
I’m desperately searching for a house. I was supposed to move into a quite small but cozy flat in the Jordaan, one of the most gezellig-driven district of Amsterdam, but in the end the lady who was offering me an year of sublet (due to some ceramic-related course to take abroad) suddenly changed her mind (about me or…