Vuelta por el universo

sábado, octubre 25, 2008

Buenos Aires

Para más fotos mías tomadas en Buenos Aires: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camilasegura/

viernes, octubre 10, 2008

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

ABOUT THE PET STORE:

http://www.woostercollective.com/2008/10/the_village_pet_store_and_charchoal_gril.html
http://thevillagepetstoreandcharcoalgrill.com/menu.html
http://thevillagepetstoreandcharcoalgrill.com/

viernes, octubre 03, 2008

War of the Social Networks (Facebook vs. My space vs. others)

domingo, septiembre 07, 2008

CUT COPY- TIME STAND STILL Video cortesia de catch22prod en You tube

Buen grupo

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

(ver bios aquí: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/bios.html)

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:

The (Multi) Universe(s):
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/08/12/the-multi-universes/

"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+

martes, junio 10, 2008

KEN LEE!!!! Increible

BULGARIAN IDOL

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)..