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  • love & hate statement

    love & hate statement

    I love to hate Facebook I hate to love Google I love to love Twitter I hate to hate Apple

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  • Is Perl vintage?

    Is Perl vintage?

      *     *     *   Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/WDBI.pm line 425. Trace begun at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Exceptions.pm line 129 HTML::Mason::Exceptions::rethrow_exception('Can\'t call method "prepare" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/WDBI.pm line 425.^J') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/WDBI.pm line 425 WDBI::query0('SELECT *,wdbi.acl_mask(acl,?) as mask FROM kiki_explorer WHERE path=?', 'public ', '/about/') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/WDBI.pm line [...]

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  • David McCandless on the Beauty of Data Visualization, On TED.com

    David McCandless on the Beauty of Data Visualization, On TED.com

    Because sometimes is not easy to explain wtf I work on: David McCandless is known as the ‘data journalist’ behind the impressive book The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential Trivia and the blog Information is Beautiful. In a short amount of time, he has proven to be able to turn [...]

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  • Letter to President Obama (Col·lectiu Emma)

    Letter to President Obama (Col·lectiu Emma)

    (Original post in Emma website >>) Col·lectiu Emma is a network of Catalan professionals living in different countries who have made it their job to try and set the record straight on news items published in the international press relating to different aspects of the Catalan economy and society (from Susan M. DiGiacomo, Ph.D., Professor [...]

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  • Biggest demostration ever in Catalonia for the independence

    Biggest demostration ever in Catalonia for the independence

    Yesterday, 10th July 2010 (#10j) will be an historical day. More than 1 million march in Barcelona against the Spanish constitutional court very centralist declaration (9 July 2010) rules that can be compared to the rules before the Democracy. Catalonia is treated as a colony (economically, culturally and in  citizen rights). The Spanish decentralization, started [...]

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  • The future of the archives

    The future of the archives

    Workshop and round table, 1st July 2010 @ CCCB, inside CCCBlab ICI (Investigació i innovació en l’àmbit cultural). Barcelona (CAT) Second workshop 13th July The CCCB has worked on the digitization of its documentary for more than three years. It is now fully searchable and offers to the visitors the materials of the activities organized [...]

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  • riereta’s logos

    riereta’s logos

       

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  • Rauxa! Portem a Viena els Badabadoc i Orxata Sound System

    Rauxa! Portem a Viena els Badabadoc i Orxata Sound System

    We (Paco and me) have organized probably the our last “big” event in Vienna. Two super bands are coming to play and show how is a party in the catalan way. You are all invited On Friday October 16th: Nit eclèctica d’electrònica mediterrània Xerramequ, El Belda, Biano Selecta and Jaumet el del Tabalet On Saturday [...]

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  • Lecture about Interoperability in digital archives

    Lecture about Interoperability in digital archives

    Free software and shared archive systems in cultural institutions place: Medialab Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid This meeting brings together various cultural institutions and software developers to share resources and knowledge related to digital archives and access to stored cultural contents. The purpose of these meetings is to work on [...]

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  • Even english say it

    Even english say it

    Catalonia pays homage to the EU, not Spain, as push for independence grows A growing number of Catalans want independence for their prosperous region, spurred on by the possibility of separate nationhood within the European Union Continua a telegraph UK

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