Author Archives: Alejandro Giacometti

Mona Lisa Revealed

Mona Lisa Revealed Pascal Cotte uses multi spectral imaging to uncover details of the Mona Lisa’s eyebrows.

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La Larga Noche Socialista

Por Francisco Rosales Ramos Publicado en Hoy, Diciembre 21, 2009. A esta altura de la vida, sería ingenuo creer en la estulticia de los funcionarios. ¿No se habrá buscado la emergencia para “facilitar” las adquisiciones? En su articulo del diario Hoy, el Señor Rosales critica justamente a la falta de planificación del gobierno para prevenir los cortes […]

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Google Goggles

Google Goggles — Use pictures to search the web: Augmented reality for Android devices from Google.

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EtherPad Open Sourced

EtherPad Blog: EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced After being bought by Google, Appjet will opensource their great online collaborative editor AND the underlying javascript server technology.

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Pompeii

The ruins of the city of Pompeii were added to Google Street View

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Understanding Image-based Evidence

[ e-Science and Ancient Documents ] I am at the Oxford e-Research Centre attending a workshop called Understanding Image-based Evidence. Introduction Prof. Sir Michael Brady (Oxford) Prof. Brady gave an introduction describing the historical background of image interpretation in the Humanities. He also gave a brief introduction of the sessions that are going to be happening during […]

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Cuando me toque a mí

Por Pepe Laso R. Publicado en Hoy, Noviembre 15, 2009 Solo queda, en este país , en que se mezcla la absoluta indefensión con la más inmensa inflación de retórica ciudadana, el poder contar lo acontecido a algún vecino piadoso, quien para consolación compartida cuenta que le ha pasado lo mismo.

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20 Years of Collapse

How did we come to this? Deceived by 20th-century Communism and disillusioned with 21st-century capitalism, we can only hope for new Kravchenkos — and that they come to happier ends. On the search for justice, they will have to start from scratch. They will have to invent their own ideologies. They will be denounced as dangerous utopians, […]

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Government drug adviser David Nutt sacked | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Professor David Nutt asked to resign after his claims that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol Garside added: “I’m shocked and dismayed that the home secretary appears to believe that political calculation trumps honest and informed scientific opinion. The message is that when it comes to the Home Office’s relationship with the research […]

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Field

(Field) is a mac development environment for digital art. It features a python text editor, graphical elements embedded in the editor and the possibility to use many available libraries and technologies like opengl and processing libraries.

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