Today with Reynald we installed the MapServer which will host the maps for the MapTribe project. A demo is available on the system. Check this out.

Google labs are testing an innovative service that allows the user to search the internet querying for page at a specific location. Basically their engine are parsing the pages looking for hints on the location of the content. The criteria by which this is communicated are still not clear. In addition, it is not specified if they look for existing meta-data information like GeoURL or similar.

This is our home network backbone. The concept design was invented by Nico, who also added small and smart pieces of tape to stick it to the floor.

Today driving to Lausanne I noticed the moon quickly disappearing behing the mountains.

This internet site proposes a collections of Mental Maps. The author began this collection putting together the maps created by people he asked to when asking for directions while visiting a new city. it will be nice to run a study out of it trying to find similarities on the way people draw maps and makes sketches of the places they live in.

Apparently SMEG, with Renzo Piano’s son, has realised my master thesis’ project: a Biosphera. This object is beautiful but it is really expensive (1080.- euro).

Apparently all Torino is full of these piece of papers with apparently no mean. I think that they refer to some illegal meeting somewhere in the city, and that only informed persons can decrypt these messages.

One of my preterite shops in Torino.