August 2011

Steve Jobs shows an iPhone 4 in 2010

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Yesterday Steve Jobs resigned from his position as CEO of Apple. For several years Jobs has had serious health problems beginning with a pancreatic cancer so it’s clear that his situation got worse. He promised that he’d resign when he could no longer meet his duties and he did it.

Doctor Who - The Black Guardian Trilogy - Enlightenment

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“Enlightenment” is an adventure of the twentienth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, the third of the mini-arc known by the global title “The Black Guardian Trilogy”, which aired in 1983. It follows “Terminus” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Barbara Clegg and directed by Fiona Cumming.

Friday by Robert A. Heinlein (Italian edition)

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The novel “Friday” by Robert A. Heinlein was published for the first time in 1982. Friday is an artificial person, the result of genetic engineering. She works as a courier delivering anywhere in the world or close to Earth colonies anything, often very cnfidential information. Her trips are often dangerous so sometimes she must use her physical skills, which are far better than normal to defend herself.

Doctor Who - The Black Guardian Trilogy - Terminus

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“Terminus” is an adventure of the twentienth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, the second of the mini-arc known by the global title “The Black Guardian Trilogy”, which aired in 1983. It follows “Mawdryn Undead” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Stephen Gallagher and directed by Mary Ridge.

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Greg Egan was born on August 20, 1961, in Perth, Australia. His novels are: “Quarantine”, “Permutation City”, “Distress”, “Diaspora”, “Teranesia”, “Schild’s Ladder”, “Incandescence”, “Zendegi” and “Orthogonal: Book One: the Clockwork Rocket”. Among his great works there’s also the novella “Oceanic”.