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”...
by Pier Marton | Dec 4, 2012 | Afri, Hispanic, Middle-East, Music, Women
Jon Balke & Amina Alaoui & Jon Hassell & Kheir Eddine M’Kachiche – Itimad (Reliance) Gharnati/Al Andalus/Andalusian music (730 to 1492), Sufi & Lope de Vega & St John of the Cross texts for another wondrous ECM collaborative project....
by Pier Marton | Dec 4, 2012 | France, Humor, Review, Spectacle, STL
My short review: ‘Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be at all.’ André Breton. CAUTION: This film, a delirious RIFF around Hollywood’s subconscious, will not increase your “joie de vivre!” Like with Buñuel and Dali’s unforgettable...