Tuesday was a national holiday here in Argentina. March 24th, 1976 marked the removal of Isabel Martínez de Perón (Juan Perón’s third wife [after Evita] who succeeded him as President) by a right-wing military junta that ruled Argentina until 1983. It’s actually a brand-new holiday, first celebrated in 2006, intended to commemorate the memory of […]
Entries from March 26th, 2009
Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Argentina, Photos, Travel
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Download Free Buenos Aires Audiotours
March 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Argentina, Shameless link-bait, Travel
Alright, so this post is probably more of a service to the internet at large than to anyone who reads this blog regularly. The local Buenos Aires government has thoughtfully prepared twelve different free audio tours covering various neighborhoods in the city, in Spanish, English and Portuguese. I can vouch that the English-language ones are […]
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Hackerspaces make Wired, Digg frontpage
March 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Austria, Germany, Hacker culture, United States
Way to be late to the party, guys. The world’s least cutting-edge tech media source, Wired, has a decent overview of the hackerspace scene as it exists today in the United States, which this morning made the front page at Digg. I don’t have any major bones to pick with the article, except for the […]
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