Category Archives: News & miscellanous
Last stream for allothercountries.fm (including Italy)
Likely you scrobbler or even occasional Last.fm listener have already heard the bad news: on the 15th of January 2013 Last.fm stops streaming to a large number of countries, including mine – Italy. The announcement came to me first as an … Continue reading
ubicomp@Ikea (well, say TV@Ikea)
Full disclaimer: I am a very happy Ikea customer, and I have spent endless hours walking along their aisles in search of the perfect match for an usually limited budget and some Bauhaus-ish/Scandinavian piece of taste and practical use. Ok, … Continue reading
New design cards deck — Psychology wins this time
(note: this post has been in draft for ages but I want have to publish something quickly :) in reaction to a nice tweet from Alberto D’Ottavi, very good friend of mine; so guess what this is again design and … Continue reading
Is this blog a zombie?
After more than six months with not a single new line (except for shared links and the occasional publication update), one could well wonder… Too bad. Anyhow, by analogy, enjoy the taste of the original zombie cult, weird, funny and … Continue reading
In memoriam: William Mitchell
William Mitchell, MIT dean and professor, architect, urbanist and theorist, widely regarded as one of the most prominent thinker on “smart cities”, has passed away; see here the official MIT obituary. Photography from MIT obituary page Right now a Twitter … Continue reading


