It’s funny to see how people and organizations name their wireless networks: names of places, institutions, shops, hotels, people’s names, telephone numbers, router models, street names or area codes. I guess it won’t be long before we see commercial messages in the names of wireless networks. Think about how grateful would ...
ICANN approved the .cat first level domain. The news came in a pack of two: “The internet’s key oversight agency approved a domain name for the Catalan language Thursday while deferring final action on creating a red-light district on the internet through a .xxx suffix.” Funny to see that in the same ...
Some pictures I took in Paris. Check them at flickr.com
Two super heroes meet in Eurodisney in Paris!
Free WiFi hotspots in Paris? You check jiwire.com for free WiFi hotspots in Paris and you get a nice link to the Georges Pompidou center. It couldn’t be any other way. A modern art museum and library devoted to make culture available to everyone. Once you get there, you switch on your ...
As many as 120 tornadoes sweeped across Catalonia yesterday. Two of them hit Barcelona’s airport. No casualties, just some damage. Here’s some pictures I got by mail of which I don’t know the author. If you know her please leave a comment. Click on the picture below to see other pictures at ...
Here’s the first picture of a series entitled “Bongo-boy was there”. In it, my little “conguito” will travel around the world and along time being in places, meeting people, and enjoying being the plastic version of a chocolate-peanut candy. Here you have them (from left to right): the Tiger of Pontypridd, ...
Of the many sites providing information about the Katrina disaster, none is more up to date than scipionus.com, a visual wiki tracking the effects of the hurricane. Wiki open source technology, google maps and the power of users meet at scipionus.com a wiki launched on Wednesday by two computer engineers Jonathan ...
When Barcelona’s Contemporary Art festival turns 6. From November the 8th till December the 11th, art galleries, exhibition halls and artist workshops will open their doors for the 6th edition of Barcelona’s Contemporary Art festival (BAC), art that leaves no one indifferent. Just see it for yourself in Li Wei’s poster ...
You don’t like the audio guide in your favorite museum? No problem. Just create your own and podcast it. Art Mobs have produced unofficial audio guides for MoMa, and they’re available as podcasts for you to download. So instead of listening to the monotone voice of the official MoMa narrator, you could ...