Arhive zilnice: 17 noiembrie 2005

Google changed the name of its book search service from Google Print into… Google Book Search. It’s just another name, but the former name didn’t give any idea about the essence of the service. You couldn’t print pages from the displayed book and it wasn’t a book anymore, since it was scanned, digitized and transformed into an image. Maybe we should speak in terms of „Web screens” instead of using „Web pages”. I know we think a lot of our bright past, where books were representing the culture, the authority and the knowledge, but now we speak more in terms […]

I guess you all remember the Nigerian Scam, so famous because a Nigerian gentleman was asking you for some money, as a fee for the future transfer of a large amount of money from a foreign bank account. Well, it seems that the guys who put his together organized a football match in Romanea yesterday. Only 10 players present at the airport, the official T-shirts printed with the names and numbers at a supermarket in Bucharest (2 hours before the match) and some other funny moments were offered to the Romanean citizens for free by the Romanean Football Federation. Well, […]