sábado, diciembre 20, 2008

The year 2008 in Photographs



Maasai warriors cover a battle field as they clash with bows and arrows with members of the Kalenjin tribe in the Kapune hill overlooking the Olmelil valley located in the Transmara District in Western Kenya on March 01, 2008. The Massai, the Kalenjin and the Kisii tribes have recently clashed over ongoing land disputes that erupted after botched local elections during the general elections held in Kenya in December of 2007. Over twenty warriors from the tribes have been killed in bow and arrow battles near the borders of these tribes in the last couple of months. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)



Time exposure of the Swiss mountain resort of Grindelwald next to the north face of the Eiger mountain, seen on January 10, 2008. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)


sábado, diciembre 13, 2008

Dislexia... ¡esperemos!

Remembering Sarah Silverman in I am fucking Matt D

El Google Zeitgeist de Colombia 2008

Esta es la lista de los temas mas buscados en colombia en google...

"El 2008 ha sido un año de muchos cambios en Colombia, y las personas han estado utilizando Google para acceder a información relativa a estos cambios. La lista de los temas más buscados incluyen temas políticos, deportivos, de entretenimiento y más, como los intereses de la población en temas de solidaridad económica o el nivel de educación superior; así como búsquedas de eventos locales en el país, como conciertos y escándalos de famosos. Estas listas pueden darnos resultados de 2 tipos; resultados de búsqueda más populares, que indican los términos que más se buscaron durante el año, o Resultados de búsquedas con mayor crecimiento, que indican las búsquedas que más crecieron en comparación al 2007. ¡Navega por el sitio para conocer más de Zeitgeist, el espíritu de los tiempos, para 2008 en Colombia!

Emergentes (Fastest Rising)

facebook
hi5
naruto
youtube
sena virtual
computrabajo
traductor
juegos juegos
juego
you tube

Más Populares (Most Popular)
juegos juegos
juegos
colombia
youtube
facebook
hotmail
videos....
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/index.html#top

jueves, noviembre 27, 2008

THE WEEE MAN





Un hombre que mide 7 metros y pesa 3 toneladas está en Londres. Las tres toneladas de desperdicios refleja la cantidad de lo que, en promedio, un ciudadano inglés desecha en su vida…

lunes, septiembre 01, 2008

Podcast Recomendado: Radio Lab (Press the wake up button)





Mi afición por los podcasts crece. "This American Life" (www.thisamericanlife.org) sigue siendo uno de mis favoritos pero hace poco y gracias a Ira Glass oi Radio Lab (www.radiolab.org).
Radio Lab es un programa de radio de WNYC Normalmente, dura una hora y es presentado por Jad Abumrad y Robert Krulwich


Se pueden bajar en itunes (y están en inglés, claro está) pero también se pueden oir en la pagina de radio lab. Para cada episodio, añado el link.


Algunos de mis favoritos y recomendados son:


"Have you wondered if there is another you out there? Somewhere? Sitting in the same chair, reading the same blog post, wearing the same clothes and thinking the same thoughts? Well, Brian Greene says there must be one. Or two. Or lots and lots and lots and lots and… Why? You ask, well listen to Greene’s argument in this week’s podcast.
We are still furiously working on Season 5, so while you wait we bring you today’s podcast of a conversation between Robert Krulwich and Brian Greene, physics and mathematics professor and director of the Institute of Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University. The interview is part of a series called “Giants of Science” hosted by venerable New York institution, the 92nd St Y.
Robert and Brian discuss what’s beyond the horizon of our universe, what you might wear in infinite universes with finite pairs of designer shoes, and why the Universe and swiss cheese have more in common than you think".


Morality:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/28
Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? We peer inside the brains of people contemplating moral dilemmas, watch chimps at a primate research center share blackberries, observe a playgroup of 3 year-olds fighting over toys, and tour the country's first penitentiary, Eastern State Prison. Also: the story of land grabbing, indentured servitude and slum lording in the fourth grade.
Memory and Forgetting:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08
"According to the latest research, remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. It’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7 second memory".


Laughter:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/02/22
"We all laugh. But why? If you look closely, you'll find that humor has very little to do with it. In this episode, we explore the power of laughter to calm us, bond us to one another, or to spread... like a virus. Along the way, we tickle some rats, listen in on a baby's first laugh, talk to a group of professional laughers, and travel to Tanzania to investigate an outbreak of contagious laughter".

Mortality:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/15
"Is death a fact of life or a disease that can be cured (as some scientists claim)? We filter the modern search for the fountain of youth through personal stories of witnessing death...the death of a cell, the death of a loved one...and the aging of a society".

VALE EL TIEMPO...
(¡Bienvenidos podcasts recomendados!)

From A to Zyxt: Reading the Oxford English Dictionary




Pinta bien el libro del hombre que se leyó el Oxford English Dictionary en un año. La reseña del New York Times (que vale la pena leerla) dice:

"Shea’s book resurrects many lost, misshapen, beautifully unlucky words — words that spiraled out, like fast-decaying muons, after their tiny moment in the cloud chamber of English usage. There’s hypergelast (a person who won’t stop laughing), lant (to add urine to ale to give it more kick), obmutescence (willful speechlessness) and ploiter (to work to little purpose) — all good words to have on the tip of your tongue when, for example, you’re stopped for speeding.

Shea’s book offers more than exotic word lists, though. It also has a plot. “I feel as though I am eating the alphabet,” he writes halfway through, and you want him to make it to the end. This is the “Super Size Me” of lexicography".

Mas en
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Baker-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin





READING THE OED

One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.

By Ammon Shea.

223 pp. Perigee. $21.95.

Kermit Bale: What do Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog have in common?

Muy chistoso...

Gracias Meema!

sábado, agosto 30, 2008

Y el Dr. W continúa: Un teaser por Muyi Neira



El amigo Muyi sigue con su serie de animación (infantil -6 o más- "but not really") llamada el Dr. W.
El doctor W es un "professional mystery solver" o "truth digger" que, en su programa de TV, indaga sobre misterios varios (y van desde el estornudo hasta las fobias).

Aqui les doy el link a un pequeño "teaser":
http://magoproduction.com/contenido/video/drw_teaser.html

Y más sobre el Dr. W:
http://magoproduction.com/dr_w/index2.html

Synopsis
Dr. W is a delirious Doctor who's always searching for the truth of natural facts of life. He hosts a general knowledge TV Show and on each episode he explains things in his own funny, ironical and sarcastic way, being very persistent and not afraid to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of life's mysteries...

Technical info
3D animation serie
Color
26x4 - age: 6+

domingo, abril 13, 2008

Moda en el año 2000 según un video de la década de los 30s

Absolut Mexico




In this image released by the Mexican advertising firm of Teran/TBWA on Monday April 7, 2008, an advertisement created for Swedish Absolut Vodka which ran in Mexico, shows a map of the border of Mexico and the United States where it stood before the Mexican-American War of 1848. The Absolut vodka company apologized for the ad campaign amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. (AP Photo/Teran/TBWA)..

jueves, marzo 20, 2008

Vampire Weekend M79

Descubrí esta canción hace poco y gustó.
No existe el video pero en este link de youtube se puede oir la canción.

martes, enero 01, 2008

Bachata... delicia...



gracias a Thea.. La bailarina, al final, queda embarazada... pero no dejen de ver lo que pasa alrededor en el minuto 2:40...