Notes on the run… Sci-fi author Bruce Sterling was in charge of the opening talk at Lift08. He wanted his keynote to be “punchy” and “focused”. He did mentioned Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, the US economic depression and Al-Quaeda, the global …
I’m currently reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s Black Swan. I know I will have to read it at least 3 times before I get the whole idea and even then, I’m not quite sure I will get it straight. It’s the …
Ever heard of Sandrine Szabo and her web portal www.profession-web.ch? Well if you haven’t, you’re either not a web professional in the French-speaking Switzerland or you’re working too hard to see what’s going on. I don’t even know exactly why …
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I’ve just finished reading the “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” by Naomi Klein… Wow! It has been a continuous effort keeping the book open. Descriptions of torture procedures and other psychological shocks are simply unbearable, but it …
Our local nationalist, obviously adept of the Chicago school, and dreadfully racist mini-Bush has been kicked out of the Swiss government. At last! No need to be ashamed of my passport any longer 🙂 Hooray! On the same subject: Bon …
The famous French ethologist, neurologist and psychoanalyst, Boris Cyrulnik was giving a public lecture, in Lausanne, last Friday evening (Nov. 9, 07) on behalf of the Eben-Hezer Foundation. First of all I was quite impressed with the queue of people …