Beijing: lo sport di regime. A showoff of power

Partners In Grime
By Sally Jenkins
Tuesday, August 5, 2008; Page E01
Washington Post
A haze the color of dishwater hangs over the billion-dollar advertising billboards of profiteers such as General Electric and Visa. (…)
So what is this Olympics really about? It’s about 12 major corporations and their panting ambitions to tap into China’s 1.3 billion consumers, the world’s [...]

Watch the sky this summer: there is the Big Bang out there

Big Science will get even bigger this Summer, with the start in late  August, in Geneva, of perhaps the widest experiment ever, Mental Experiments excluded (in them, you can imagine another Earth, another universe …). For sure by far the largest cryogenic project in history, with the new CERN’s LHC close to absolute zero.
The FT [...]

An odd ad in Johnston St., Hong Kong

CROWDED. May 26, 2008.
Dian Karlina says: “I was crossing Johnston Road. and I saw this tram. The scene looked weird. Chaotic. I took a closer look and eventually noticed it was advertising.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/diankarl/
CC: Atribuição, Não-comercial, Compartilhamento pela mesma licença. Alguns direitos reservados 

Il salotto di Verona

Today’s picture was taken on a Saturday night (when the square is “bare”,  free from sellers). Verona’s salotto, Piazza Erbe – the ancient vegetables markets as the name says – taken by Giorgio on last June 28.
© http://www.flickr.com/photos/jojazz/

New Mexico: Rio Rancho, July 4th. Santa Fe, Feb. 1st

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