It seems Google finally discovered the hot water, and taken a new approach to China.
Well done! Yeah, as an activist at Amnesty International, and idealistic person, I’m very happy about this decision.
Of course, who dare to not be happy? But, reading twice this piece of news a question arises.
Where was Google in the past years? With its head under the sand? Maybe they were blind by the shining of waving things…
Human rights are denied all over the world. China is one of the top-most repressive free speech: people are tortured, the justice is unfair, there are arbitrary arrests and detentions.
Suddenly, Google is attacked by Chinese hacker and they discover that, maybe, something is wrong. Because of this accident, they are reconsidering their approach to China. Fine. “Not to be evil”, is your motto, and finally you understand that was bad bow your head for the Chinese money. Now, you have the opportunity to show to the world that the change is possible.
Please, do not stop by just this episode. Keep opening the Internet, everywhere. Keep the free speech, well, FREE!
And then, we will forgive you this late second thoughts…
Filed under Google, Human Rights, Real Life, Thoughts by on Jan 13th, 2010. 1 Comment. 
Può piacere o non piacere, ma Lorenzo per me è un grande!
Mettete le cuffie, alzate al massimo, chiudete gli occhi… e ascoltate…
Filed under Video by on Jan 9th, 2010. Comment.
Rolling twisting jumping: parkour! sliding jumping twisting rolling (again)…. rolling twisting sliding cover me/uncover me JUMP!
Amazing papercraft by Serene Teh.
Filed under Video by on Jan 9th, 2010. Comment.
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
Filed under Real Life by on Dec 28th, 2009. Comment.
One month ago, I stumbled upon a very interesting project: PostCrossing
Essentially, it is bookcrossing applied to postcards. What? Are you wondering what all these *crossing things are?
Well, try to click on the link above, or keep reading! 
Filed under Fun, Postcrossing by on Dec 27th, 2009. Comment.
Have ever heard “Poker Face” the popular song by Lady Gaga?
What if Lady Gaga were a man and she has a beard?
For those of you that think “Poker Face” does not deserve a bad review, check this video by Jark & Mason
And if you are wondering what the hell is “Neutra” look at the company vendor
Filed under Video by on Dec 3rd, 2009. Comment.
Ohohoh! Santa Wave is coming!
Dear folks,
apparently Google people are extremely generous to me.
Early last month, they sent me a full invitation (the one with 8-more invite to send). Now, I discovered 8 more invitation in my googlewave account. If that wasn’t enough they sent me another regular invitation to a second account I own.
Thus, here I am wishing you Merry XMas and giving away my invitation!
What you have to do
Send me a mail (yes a snail-mail or better a postcard, I love them) to this address:
Luca Marchetti via Ariosto 25 00185 Roma Italyand send me your XMas greetings!
The first eight people will receive a google wave invitation as soon as I receive their postcard.
Leave a comment as soon as you sent the postcard, with your email, so I can reserve an invite for you!
A little remark
Greetings From Google!
Try to be polite with the subject of your request, and choose a great theme for the postcard. The best of all would be one of these from Google, but unfortunately I do not live in US 
(but if you are and would like to be at the first rank…)
Filed under Google, Technology, xmas by on Dec 2nd, 2009. 2 Comments.
Have you ever used Google Image Search trying to find that-funny-thing-you-cannot-remember-the-name?
Have you felt the sense of frustration trying to remember a clue or something else related to that thing, but not having idea about what to write in the box search?
Well, this happen to me very often, and one of the most exciting practical application of Artificial Intelligence is the ability to retrieve the information not by a word match, but by connected topic.
Applied to the WWW it becomes the (in)-famous Semantic Web.
This post is not about what the Semantic Web is, or what it can be useful (a very well-known cousin of Semantic Web is the Semantic Desktop, and one of the most promising technology related is NEPOMUK).
What this is all about is that a piece of real Semantic Web just landed few days ago.
And of course it comes from Mountain View: let’s give a cheer to Google Image Swirl.
Filed under Google, Technology by on Nov 22nd, 2009. Comment.
