Alejandro@Oxford

From Jon Worth’s blog I got this report from the German television RTL on how the MEPs are cashing in their daily allowance (which makes around €3,000/month of their €14,000/month total income together with the base salary and indemnity), and then leaving the European Parliament immediately after, thus getting it for literally nothing. Interesting when [...]

Some days ago, a friend of mine made reference to a phenomenon he reckons being quite innovative. He has a friend, let’s call her Mary, who died quite recently. Before dying, Mary had a Facebook profile. Facebook policy is to keep all profiles as long as the owner doesn’t delete it, obviously Mary cannot delete [...]

Vanity Fair has an online article about the development of the Internet/Web, with interviews with key players in this history achievement. The title “How the Web Was Won” is not exactly fortunate in my opinion, but I guess it is appropriate for Vanity Fair

You’ve probably heard about Phoenix. Its full name is Phoenix Mars Lander, and it is the last of the NASA’s Mars projects. It is a spacecraft for the exploration of the Mars surface in search of ice. Phoenix started to twit on Twitter less than twenty days before its landing on Mars and it continues [...]