by Pier Marton | Dec 16, 2012 | Jewish, Politics, Spectacle, Wars
Updated (Feb. 2013) Violence Has a Price. As Arne Naess would have said: EVERYTHING COUNTS – LET US USE EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO STOP THIS. One look, and your life was absolutely changed. Michael McGowan, one of the first police officers to arrive at Sandy Hook...
by Pier Marton | Dec 15, 2012 | iOS, Software
HERE are the apps. Explore: (for iPhone) PaperKarma, Fuzel, Languages, iTranslate, Chefs Feed… (for iPad) Paper by FiftyThree, The Room, Creatures of Light, DocuSign Ink… Not my most used nor valued apps at this point – that list may make it some day...
by Pier Marton | Dec 11, 2012 | iOS, Software, Sound
This is not about Siri nor about HAL, etc… Do you want to have your computer read you a text or a webpage? Not completely automated but getting closer: In OS X, open a text item (Safari & Chrome work, not Firefox) and select/highlight it. Then “Control...
by Pier Marton | Dec 11, 2012 | History, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Women
from Haaretz published 10.12.12 Jewish anti-Zionist academic insists Israeli occupation is un-Jewish by Carlo Strenger Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, by Judith Butler. Columbia University Press, 256 pages, $28 Judith Butler has rightly been...
by Pier Marton | Dec 6, 2012 | Ideas, Idées, Middle-East, Politics, Sci/Nat, Wars, Women
Source: (check out) BBC 4’s Open Sesame – Science in the Desert with David Shukman – Available for the next year. Peace through Science! SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a “third-generation”...