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IdV: unica opposizione
via Antonio Di Pietro by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Pubblico il video ed il resoconto stenografico della dichiarazione di voto dell’Italia dei Valori per la fiducia al Governo, fiducia che non è stata data. Il mio discorso ha reso palese un fatto importante: esiste un’unica opposizione, quella dell’Italia dei Valori.Antonio Di Pietro: Vorrei dirle con il sorriso sulle labbra, signor Presidente del Consiglio, che mai avrei immaginato, di...
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Google.org announces investment in BrightSource Energy
via Official Google Blog by A Googler on May 14, 2008
... the research and development of enabling technologies to help the solar thermal industry achieve larger scale and lower costs. We believe that by supporting researchers and entrepreneurs taking different, ambitious approaches and risks to generate clean energy, we can help to accelerate progress and increase the collective economic value of these new clean energy industries.We are also loo...
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Future of Making map from Institute for the Future
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 05, 2008
I'm a research director at Institute for the Future, a 40-year-old non-profit thinktank that helps companies, governments, and foundations think about long-term future trends to make better decisions today. For the last six months, we've been researching the "future of making," exploring how the stuff of our world may be researched, invented, designed, manufactured, and distributed in the...
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Billboards measure decibel levels
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 07, 2008
AEG-Electrolux has installed billboards outfitted with sensors to measure noise levels. So far, they've deployed them in London, Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, and Milan. The billboards are part of a "noise awareness" campaign that's actually a marketing effort for a new "silent" washing machine. The data is also viewable online. Link to AEG Noise Awareness Blog, Link to AEG Noise Awareness...
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Harvard Law School goes open access!
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2008
Harvard Law School just became the first law school to commit to open access (free publication with copy/share friendly licenses) in all its journals:The faculty of Harvard Law School has unanimously approved a motion for open access: articles will be made freely available in an online repository. With the success of this motion, Harvard Law becomes the first law school to make an institutional...
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Scusate il disturbo
via voglioscendere by (author unknown) on May 02, 2008
Ora d'arial'Unità, 1 maggio 2008 Chiedendo scusa per il disturbo, senza voler guastare questo bel clima di riverenze bipartisan al neopresidente del Senato Renato Schifani, vorremmo allineare qualche nota biografica del noto statista palermitano che ora troneggia là dove sedettero De Nicola, Paratore, Merzagora, Fanfani, Malagodi e Spadolini. Il quale non è omonimo di colui che...
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Il mio intervento a Che tempo che fa
via voglioscendere by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
Per chi se lo fosse perso, da youtube il mio intervento di ieri da Fabio Fazio. mt
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Solidarieta' a Marco Travaglio
via Antonio Di Pietro by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
... il suo passato. Un giornalista che racconta, citando episodi specifici, non ha bisogno di alcun contraddittorio. Questo, semmai, deve essere fatto dai politici quando si confrontano tra di loro. Il cronista racconta come sono andati i fatti e paradossalmente vorrebbe dire che ogni qualvolta egli scrive o riporta la cronaca di una rapina, si dovrebbe ascoltare anche la versione del rapinatore.
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Why Dell will not bounce back
via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs by Steve on May 11, 2008
I love Charles Cooper of CNET and I respect the fact that he's got to print so many column inches per week in order to earn his paycheck but I have to take issue with his latest effort (see here) where he tries to argue that while Dell looks like crap today, in fact Dell could bounce back just the way Apple did. Coop is light on details and specifics and just sticks to the argument that...
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All the water and air on earth gathered into spheres and compared to the Earth
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on March 11, 2008
Dan Phiffer found this image on a message board, and by his calculations, he says it's accurate.Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.Link(Via...
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