- ARCHIVE / September, 2010
- Mapping stereotypes
Sometimes a picture is more eloquent than a thousand words. Well, a map can be too, and the maps by Yanko Tsvetkov proved the point for me. Mapping stereotypes is a project in which he plots on a european map the way we (as British, French, Italians etc…) see the ‘others’. The funny bit is […]
- NoDictionaries.com :: innovative way to read latin classics
NoDictionaries is a web app that makes it very easy to look up the meaning of words while reading a latin text. It uses a freely available latin dictionary (Whitaker’s Words) and what it does is essentially to enrich each line of a latin text with the explanations of the words appearing in it. Nothing […]
- Raphael: js library for Scalar Vector Graphics
I don’t do much (web) front-end design usually, although often I find it vital to visualize my ideas using some sort of basic but functional UI-kit. Well, if you’re like me, you’ll probably be happy to know about Raphael. This is a javascript library that sits on top of the SVG specifications and provides a […]
- Musorg : tons of classical music for free
I found out about this via o’reilly radar’s blog.. Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music […]
- The Bad Plus – Iron Man
The Bad Plus – each time I listen to them I can’t avoid thinking they’re geniuses! Coming to London for the Jazz festival next november… UPDATE 22/11/10: I went to the London gig and it was awesome – here’s an excerpt:
- Ars Electronica 2010
I spent a couple of days in Linz, Austria, visiting for the first time the Ars Electronica centre and the related festival which is happening these days. It’s an impressive event, lots and lots of things to see, spanning from the latest technologies used in scientific research to the most visionary art installations. The city […]
- Little brilliant music player: Pico Play
The purpose of Pico Play is very simple: don’t get in the way. You want to listen to music without having to load any heavy application (iTunes included) – but still being able to use all the songs in your iTunes playlist… this is the piece of software you need. And it’s free!