P. S.: Post Scriptum » nature http://blog.pietrosperoni.it Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:25:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © P. S.: Post Scriptum 2011 pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg P. S.: Post Scriptum http://blog.pietrosperoni.it 144 144 Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log P. S.: Post Scriptum P. S.: Post Scriptum pietros@gmail.com no no Ebooks, the next revolution. But this time is BIG! http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:21:41 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/ Another revolution is about to happen.

A revolution that is many times in size and importance bigger than the music revolution. I call it the e-book revolution.

In this moment a number of technologies are coming together:

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/feed/ 1 Would you rather have sex or know about it? http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/07/18/would-you-rather-have-sex-or-know-about-it/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/07/18/would-you-rather-have-sex-or-know-about-it/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:38:46 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/07/18/would-you-rather-have-sex-or-know-about-it/ This is quite interesting. According to this very unscientific statistics, with way too few data, but enough to start showing some trends, we discover that people who just completed elementary school has way more sex than everybody else.

Elementary school 24 Junior high / middle school 11 High school 10 College 11 College – post [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/07/18/would-you-rather-have-sex-or-know-about-it/feed/ 0 Polyphasic Easter http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/04/12/polyphasic-easter/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/04/12/polyphasic-easter/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:26:13 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/04/12/polyphasic-easter/ It is 2.30 am and I just woke up. I went to bed at 2.05 am.

I am not crazy. Not yet, not anymore, at least not more than usual. I am just trying a new sleeping technique. It is called polyphasic sleep. I actually wanted to become polyamorouse, but I got confused during the [...] Related posts:

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