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Upon whom can we rely?

Abstract Nowadays, reliability of contents is extremely important in the web. We can mostly find any kind of information in Internet, but how much reliable is a source? How much accurate are the pieces of information provided? Several feed aggregators and site directories have defined various criteria to rate sites and blogs, but most of the [...]

[Satirical Amoebas] Despera...

Amoeba A: «Sarah Palin? A Bible-believing Christian who was unfaithful to her husband, raised drug addicted teens, and whose daughter might be pregnant at the wedding?» Amoeba B: «Well, if she wouldn't be elected, at least she can surely count on a leading role in the next season of “Desperate Housewives&rdq [...]

[Satirical Amoebas] If you ...

Amoeba A: «It looks like Barack Obama might be the First Muslim President of United States of America» Amoeba B: «Well, great strategy! If you can't beat them, join them!»

FaJo XP File Security Exten...

«L'Indipendente» Rating  Installation  Interface  Usefulness Note: advanced users only! Yesterday I got in trouble with few files I created by a graphics editing program on Windows XP Home. File had regularly been created but there was no way to do anything with them after closing the application: I could not [...]

Sustainable Web

The first time I connected my computer to a network, it was on May 1984. The computer was an Amiga 1000, the network was a BBS by MC-Link, and the device I used to connect was a 300bps modem. Downloading a 10K image required a lot of time and since that connection occurred on a traditional telephonic line, it was very expensive too. There [...]

Thought (18)

Enough of talking about politicians: let us talk about politics instead. Dario de Judicibus, Rome, September 6th, 2008 Translations Basta parlare di politici: parliamo di politica, piuttosto. Assez de parler de politiciens: laissez-nous parler de politique à la place.

God bless America

God bless America. In the latest few weeks I heard that wish to conclude most of the speeches of the candidates for the presidency and vice-chair of the United States, and I wondered "which God?" I mean, USA is the country of Freedom, the country of the Founding Fathers, the country of the Declaration of Independence. So the Fre [...]

First impressions on Google...

Today I downloaded Chrome, the new browser by Google, and I used it for the whole day. I stressed it a little bit, but of course it was not an exhaustive test: just a first impression, for the moment. So, it is possible that some drawback is not Chrome's fault but mine, that is, I have not yet worked with it for long. Anyway, here is it. [...]

A shameful final

After the scandal of the rigged ranking for the men's rings contest, where Andrea Coppolino and Matteo Morandi have been unfairly penalized to ensure the silver medal to the Chinese Yang Wei, another shameful verdict concerning the gymnastics rhythmic event. Italy ranked the 4th place in the group all-around final even if the Russia [...]

No lies, please!

The Interior Ministry of Afghanistan accused U.S.-led coalition forces of killing 76 Afghan civilians, 19 women, 7 men and the rest children under the age of 15, in the Herat province. According to what ministry said, the coalition forces bombarded the Azizabad area of Shindand district on Friday. However coalition forces denied killing a [...]

George Hussein Onyango Obama

Yesterday Vanity Fair Italia published an article about the poorest brother of Senator Barack Obama. George Hussein Onyango Obama is the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers — the father was a polygamist, as most of men in Kenya — and lives in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. [...]

Questionable rings

Andrea Coppolino Matteo Morandi In the Men's Rings final competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics I watched three perfect exercises: those ones of the Chinese Chen Yibing and of the two Italians, Matteo Morandi and Andrea Coppolino. The [...]

European Union at the Olymp...

On November 1st, 2004, I sent a proposal to all Olympic Committees of European Union. The proposal was very simple: to select, before the beginning of the games, no more than three athletes for each competition out of those ones participating for the various countries of European Union. Therefore, those athletes would compete for two flag [...]

Galaxy Zoo

Let us speak of "Web 2.0": which names would cross your minds, first? Probably Wikipedia, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flikr, Digg, del.icio.us, Technorati, or LinkedIn, just to mention fews. Coocun Nebula Courtesy of Galaxy Zoo and SDSS It is a very heterogeneous set, since those sites are used for many different purposes: Di [...]

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