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The World Without Us
August 4, 2008 – 8:25 am
The World Without Us describes how Earth could react to our as hypothetical as istantaneous disappearance. It is clearly a pretext to write about some fundamental properties of this planet and, indirectly, about the temporary nature of our human adventure.
How could I have refrained myself from reading a book so close to the concept of [...]
A small Iconize based snippet
August 1, 2008 – 8:22 am
Iconize is a CSS file that uses… regular expressions (!) to improve links experience: for example, if a link points to a .pdf file, it shows a pdf icon after the link and so on.
It is so easy to modify it that even a CSS illiterate like me was able to give two new examples:
a[href [...]
Two elementary one-liners for K2
July 15, 2008 – 11:42 pm
this one liner (698) makes K2 able to show <span class="entry-tags"> only when it is necessary;
this one liner (699) makes K2 able to show the kind of gravatar selected on the back end.
dilw 0.4 is out
July 9, 2008 – 9:15 am
This release uses the new feedproxy.google.com feed (thanks to Casey).
dkdil 0.6 is out
July 9, 2008 – 9:12 am
This release uses the new feedproxy.google.com feed (thanks to Casey).
Darker Than the Deepest Sea
July 7, 2008 – 8:32 am
The average reader of Darker Than the Deepest Sea is not someone who bought it choosing at random in a bookshop, knowing nothing about the life and the work of Nick Drake: their involvement ranges from mild fanatism to strong obsession… even though reading a book requires that the readers are able to move eyes [...]
Aurelio Peccei
July 4, 2008 – 9:25 am
In some way, a century after his birth, Aurelio Peccei is still standing.
Local maximus of Oil extraction
July 2, 2008 – 9:58 am
Passing peak oil, skeptical people would say:
Sooner or later, we’ll reach again the past peak… it’s just a question of time.
Strictly speaking, it’s not possible to negate this statement but, thinking about it, I’ve started to wonder about another question:
What is the longest period in history between a local peak and its next greater or [...]
Astonishing result
July 1, 2008 – 3:58 pm
“very” and “unsound” are two common words but, using a search engine, I’ve just discovered that, not including “Fruit Tree”, their combined use is quite rare.