On our final day in Pittsburgh, we find ourself in a decommissioned coal mine. Just northeast of the city proper, Tour-Ed’s owners run field trips and tours during the warmer months, despite the fact that the mine’s innards run a constant 50 degrees or so, […]
Day: March 31, 2019
Gratosoglio, caccia alla «Eva Kant» del colpo in banca: presi i complici
Lo scorso 5 giugno una banda di tre rapinatori (due uomini e una donna) fece irruzione nella filiale Unicredit di via Corradino D’Ascanio, zona Gratosoglio, e dopo aver sequestrato per circa un’ora e mezza dipendenti e clienti riuscì a portar via 69mila euro. Nei giorni […]
Apple AirPods (2019) Review: Little, Better, Not That Different
A curious thing has been happening with new Apple products the past couple years: They don’t look new anymore. Apple seems to believe it has hit a design stride where the shapes and screens and curvature of things don’t need a dramatic reinvention at this […]
Wikipedia article of the day for March 31, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
The Wikipedia article of the day for March 31, 2019 is Georgetown Car Barn. The Car Barn is a historic building in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Designed by the American architect Waddy Butler Wood, it was built between 1895 and 1897 by the […]
The great ad-space race: the history of space advertising
There are very few places left in the world that advertising hasn’t poked its unwelcome way into – and no one knows that better than advertisers. While most have switched from trying to find new spaces in the real world to hawking stuff in the […]
Mark Zuckerberg actually calls for regulation of content, elections, privacy
It’s been a busy day for Facebook exec op-eds. Earlier this morning, Sheryl Sandberg broke the site’s silence around the Christchurch massacre, and now Mark Zuckerberg is calling on governments and other bodies to increase regulation around the sorts of data Facebook traffics in. He’s […]
Picture of the day for March 31, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
Wikipedia picture of the day on March 31, 2019: Interior of the Serbian Orthodox Hercegovačka Gračanica church, built in 2000 and located on the Crkvina Hill overlooking the town of Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The temple is an exact copy of the Gračanica […]