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Google is not a dictionary

Pietro — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:09:56 +0000

And gets offended when it’s treated as such.

Let’s face it, google is such a mighty search engine. Can you imagine the spiders going around the world, the results gathered and indexed. And every time you make a search those data are confronted and pages of results are returned. Well, maybe you don’t, but here [...] No related posts.

My reading list

Pietro — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:59:37 +0000

Some of you know that I left ProtoLife. I hope in the future to keep on colaborating with the P.A.C.E. project, but for now that’s it. I want to go back to Germany, and finish my Ph.D. . Somehow this seem to have a higher priority. Beside is getting clearer for me each day that [...] Related posts:

No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...

Funniest acknowledgment mail

Pietro — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:11:35 +0000

Dear Dr. Pietro,

Thank you for sending us your review. Your contribution to Artificial Life is greatly appreciated.

you’re a rockstar.

ciaociao, signed mail

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And I Patent War and Copyright the declaration of War

Pietro — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:59:04 +0000

Wikisource is a repository of open source materials. Various texts are present, all totally open source. This resources repository is necessary, as the commons are getting daily smaller. Well, browsing among the present texts I spotted: The declaration of war on Germany dated 1917.

We keep the document in this repository to give to all [...] No related posts.

ACA: Workshop on AC and its application

Pietro — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:17:17 +0000

Funny, I am in the program commitee without anybody ever telling me. No problem, I am happy to be in the list and happy to help. But it did surprise me quite a bit.

So if you didn’t know about it:

Call for Papers: WORKSHOP on Artificial Chemistry and Its Applications (ACA) Submission deadline: May [...] No related posts.

Gollum answers to his medical check up

Pietro — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:16:48 +0000

How was it:

Yoda: “When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm?” Star Wars

Which we could rephrase as: Gollum: “When 587 years old you reach, look as healthy you will not, my treasure.” which should be Gollum Answer to his check up.

Gollum displays pervasive maladaptive behaviour that [...] No related posts.

Telling it

Pietro — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:59:53 +0000

An old famous professor makes love with a young beautiful student (this was many years ago, when it was not a big deal, as it would be today). As they are getting dressed, after, the professor sais: “Don’t tell it around, we both would be flattered”

A mature experienced woman makes love with a young [...] No related posts.

Please Ban Me!

Pietro — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:07:59 +0000

I can’t believe how stupid I can be. I think I surpassed myself this time. I was playing with my new toy the blog setting, and I was trying to get it to append an rss of the category at the end of each category page. So I needed an image of the little rss [...] No related posts.