I spent the first couple nights in Ljubljana at the “#1 hippest hostel in the world” as determined by Lonely Planet. Since I’ve been stubbornly avoiding carrying any tourist guidebooks on this trip, I was unaware of this when I checked in. I just picked the closest hostel to the train station marked on the […]
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Kiberpipa: All our code are belong to you.
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Hacker culture, Photos, Slovenia, Tech-art, Technology, Travel
After the exhibition at the art gallery, most people went over to Kiberpipa (“Cyberpipe”, in English), the hacklab/group organizing the festival. Kiberpipa is almost as cool as C-base, but in a very different way. Where C-base has a very gritty, cyberpunk aesthetic, Kiberpipa is much more upscale, receiving funding from the European Union and some […]
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HAIP Day 2
November 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Free software, Hacker culture, Photos, Slovenia, Tech-art
Day two of the HAIP festival was mostly lectures. Kiberpipa is putting together a video archive of all the lectures from the festival, so you can watch them for yourselves there, there’s also text explanations from the HAIP program here. The first talk was by a woman named Eleonora Oreggia. She has an idea for […]
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Pula Part One
November 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Croatia, Hacker culture, Photos, Travel
I swore I would get caught up, and by god, I intend to get caught up even if I have to keep writing all night (it’s currently 4:41 am and I’m in Zagreb, Croatia). After HAIP, I got a ride from a girl I’d been couchsurfing with to Koper, which is one of the coastal […]
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Pula 2
December 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Croatia, Hacker culture, Photos
Tuesday, I killed more time in Pula. I got coffee at a cafe frequented by James Joyce when he lived in Pula in the early 1900s.
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