Red Hat Open Source Day rewards with proprietary hardware. For the fourth time

The “Open Source Day” by Red Hat Italia is a yearly event in which the italian branch of that corporate Open Source champion:

On male-dominated technology, and marriage

Is there a connection between male dominance in ICT, and high-tech in general, and evolution of marriage? I don’t know for sure, but these two pieces make me wonder.

New 3D printing demo opens huge market to makers

They did “The Ultimate (3D printing) Bridge Test”. They had no idea of what may happen next.

Gucci vs the Restaurant Who Must Not Be Named

(this is a translated excerpt of “Uno che si chiama Gucci” by Alessandro Gilioli)

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Peer-to-Peer Science: The Century-Long Challenge to Respond to Fukushima

(this is a guest post by Layne Hartsell and Emanuel Pastreich, who are research fellow and, respectively, director of The Asia Institute. The post, originally published at Foreign Policy In Focus, in September 2013, is now reposted here on invitation of the author, to whom I am grateful, because I consider it a useful complement to my previous work on Open Data).

Individual or collective clouds? Both, of course

Yesterday, I presented what I consider a perfect confirmation of my views on “Twitter replacements”. Today, I “defend” that position from “accusations” of individualism.