Ghost Town
This ghost town is not somewhere in Arizona, but it's actually Moscow.
Alexey Titarenko did it with a long exposure setting and his camera: Alexey Titarenko's City of Shadows.
Indifference
The story has something amazing: a woman, missing since 1966, was found dead after 42 years in front of her TV, with the cup of tea she prepared herself 42 years ago.
She was in her home, but somehow no one had the idea to check there when she was declared missing.
Symbian as open source software
In the last days we saw a smart move from Nokia: it bought the remaining shares of Symbian and decided to release the OS as open source software.
Here the talk by O'Reilly Radar.
Although Symbian is not so brand new as Google's Android, the move from Nokia seems like a direct attack to iPhone's platform and the upcoming Android.
As O'Reilly Radar points out, the license choosen by Nokia is not the standard Linux GNU Public License, but the Eclipse Public License; the main difference is that, thanks the EPL, Nokia will be free to include proprietary extensions (so without shipping the source code, as required by the GPL) in its Symbian release.
L'ho sempre detto
In Olanda, dal primo luglio prossimo, scatta il divieto di fumo nei locali pubblici, come bar e ristoranti. Forse non è un caso che un Paese di solito all'avanguardia nelle leggi che tutelano i diritti civili sia stato uno degli ultimi a recepire la normativa Ue che bandisce l'uso delle sigarette nei locali: questo, infatti, vigerà anche nei famosi coffee-shop, dove però si potrà continuare a fumare estratti di cannabis. A patto che siano puri, cioè non mixati con il tabacco
Io l'ho sempre detto che i "purini" sono la cosa meglio...
Are CCTV cameras really useful?
Bruce Schneier talks about CCTV cameras and the (supposed) benefits.
Spoiler for our beloved british readers: they're almost useless and a waste of money.