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Fake Steve

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I came late to the phenomenon of Fake Steve (The Secret Diary of Steven Jobs). It seems everybody was reading it (including, so it seems, Bill Gates, and the very Steve). Thinking about it, I find it awesome how the … Continue reading →

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Cats

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

From apophenia. A lot of media reported a weird article published by the New England Journal of Medicine which tells the story of Oscar, a cat who lives in an elderly hospice and is used to sitting down at somebody’s … Continue reading →

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ted, again

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I wrote about the TED conference and the videos hosted at TED.com. Once, when entering TED.com, I mispelled the address, and typed ted.org. A weird message came out: Funciona Bien (It Works Well). Nothing else. I checked through who.is and … Continue reading →

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Abridged

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Irresistible: Book-A-Minute Classics contains very condensed versions of classic books, from The Canterbury Tales to Don Quixote. This is the ultra-condensed version (by Annie Berke) of The Confessions by Saint Augustine: St. Augustine I was a bad boy. Damn, was I … Continue reading →

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Ridiculous Pledge

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

This is really grotesque. Last year Blackboard was awarded a US patent on its purportedly original idea of course management systems. The fact that it was actually awarded the patent is in itself an absurd exercise, because with this patent … Continue reading →

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