Wednesday, June 30, 2004

El juego de reconocer bandas en pixeles

Me mandaron un mail que contiene este juego en una tabla de excel. El chiste es reconocer a los pixeles que son artistas musicales de ayer y hoy.

este es un ejemplo de las mas sencillitas:





resulta que Erwin tiene el 96% y tan solo le faltan estos 4.



si saben quien demonios son o quieren que les mande el juego pidanlo en los comentarios o manden mail a ponchorama at gmail.com

Mayra reporta con rumores que hay un poster con las respuestas flotando por ahi...

Erwin, pixelguru musical o solo trabajaba en la zona Polanco y estrenamos el modulo de votación:









Erwin, Pixelguru músical ó trabajaba zona Polanco??
Pixelguru who loves the musics
vió el poster y tiene memoria fotográfica




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Cita del dia



Henry Stimson
'The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.'


Kin Hubbard
'Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.'"


y aprovecho las citas del dia para recomendarles Movietalks un blog de Upiro dedicado a citas de pel�culas. Y buenas pel�culas 100 veces de 100 dan buenas citas.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Yahoo! News - De Vere anniversary revives Shakespeare debate

Se celebran los 400 años de la muerte de Edward De Vere... que es famoso por:

Four hundred years ago today, a little known aristocrat died who may just have written plays like "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet."

His name: Edward De Vere, better known by his nom de plume of Shakespeare.


A sacrilegious notion perhaps, but a determined group of history and drama enthusiasts still believes there are too many unanswered questions in the Bard's works for them to have been written by a provincial actor from Stratford.


El problema no es si Shakespeare existió o no... pero mucha gente alega que como es posible que un actor pueda haber tenido un conocimiento del funcionamiento de la corte, lugares de italia, etc. En cambio un aristocrata como De Vere podría haber tenido acceso a la corte y a viajar dada su posición acomodada...

yo pienso igual que los criticos en contra de esta idea:

Shakespeare specialist Dr William Poole from Downing College Cambridge said: "It takes only the most basic historical spade-work to conclude that each and every one of the standard objections fall flat at the kindergarten stage of reasoning.


"Some people would just like to think that an earl can write plays better than a glovemaker's son," he told Reuters.



Yahoo! News - De Vere anniversary revives Shakespeare debate

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Citas del Día.



Joseph Heller
'The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.'

Dan Barker
'Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own merits.'


Andrew S. Tanenbaum
'The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.'

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Monday, June 28, 2004

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Beer device cheers football fans






Beer device cheers football fans


David said his device pours "the perfect pint"
A Caledonian University student claims he has made an important breakthrough in how to pour "the perfect pint" during Euro 2004.
David Stevenson, from Helensburgh, said his device is "fool-proof" and enables football fans to watch games without worrying about pouring problems.

The Homer beer pourer was one of 60 designs on display during the university's Product Design Week.





BBC NEWS | Scotland | Beer device cheers football fans

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Backwards City: Paging all poets....

Las palabras mas intraducibles:


World List

1 ilunga [Tshiluba word for a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time; to tolerate it a second time; but never a third time. Note: Tshiluba is a Bantu language spoken in south-eastern Congo, and Zaire]
2 shlimazl [Yiddish for a chronically unlucky person]
3 radioukacz [Polish for a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain]
4 naa [Japanese word only used in the Kansai area of Japan, to emphasise statements or agree with someone]
5 altahmam [Arabic for a kind of deep sadness]
6 gezellig [Dutch for cosy]
7 saudade [Portuguese for a certain type of longing]
8 selathirupavar [Tamil for a certain type of truancy]
9 pochemuchka [Russian for a person who asks a lot of questions]
10 klloshar [Albanian for loser]


y las palabras mas intraducibles del inglés a otro idioma:

English List

1 plenipotentiary
2 gobbledegook
3 serendipity
4 poppycock
5 googly
6 Spam
7 whimsy
8 bumf
9 chuffed
10 kitsch




visiten la liga para saber los significados de estas palabras.

Backwards City: Paging all poets....

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Comercial de televisión chino



Tienen que ver este comercial.

hmm. no se si decirles el producto... mejor no.

esta en chino, y es un comercial de un producto chino. Son dos cuates que estan platicando en la oficina en el coffee break. Uno le platica al otro que acaba de ver kill bill.

watch it.

comercial chino

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Yahoo! News - Cops Told to Give Break to Organ Donors

No se que tan buena idea sea esta...

An edgy new advertising campaign to promote organ donation hints that police officers should cut speeders who are organ donors some slack.



"Hey policeman," a Cleveland billboard calls out, an arrow pointing to a donor insignia on a young man's license, "give this guy a break."


The advertisements by LifeBanc, the Cleveland-based organ procurement agency for 20 counties in northeast Ohio, are meant to attract attention, a spokeswoman said.


"We wanted to get people thinking," said the agency's Monica Heath, noting that 1,300 people in northeast Ohio are waiting for organs.


Councilman Matthew Zone wasn't laughing. "I think it sends the wrong message to the average Joe citizen," said Zone.


"Just because you participate in a unique program as precious as donating an organ doesn't mean (you) should be given preferential treatment," he said.


Lt. Wayne Drummond, a Cleveland police spokesman, said he had no problem with the billboard, but people shouldn't get the wrong idea.


While patrol officers have discretion in ticket writing, "in my experience, it's not typical to give someone a break because they're an organ donor," he said.





let me get this straight... Le estan dando incentivos a los donadores de organos para que puedan romper los limites de velocidad... no se si es una excelente idea (ie: mas organos para las listas de transplantes) o pesima (más accidentes de gente que se cree invulnerable, o intocable ante la ley)



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Yahoo! News - Firefighters Return to Find Station on Fire



En la casa del herrero, azadón de palo...


Firefighters in a Dallas suburb returned to their station to find a fire started by potatoes they left cooking on a stove, officials said on Friday.



The fire caused about $125,000 in damages to the station in Lancaster, a southern suburb of Dallas, said Fire Marshal Ladis Barr.


The blaze was extinguished late Thursday night with the help of firefighters from other stations. It damaged the kitchen and living area.


Fire officials also wanted to remind the public to make sure not to leave food cooking before stepping out.



Yahoo! News - Firefighters Return to Find Station on Fire

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Yahoo! News - Czechs Roll Out Marijuana Flavored Liquor

O como yo lo llamo "Otra buena razón para irle a la Republica Checa en la Eurocopa"


Czech Republic - A large alcoholic drinks manufacturer has launched a marijuana flavored liquor, the company said Friday.



The drink does not contain any tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is the active substance in marijuana. But the beverage does have an alcohol level of 16 percent, said Jiri Janak, the head of liquor production at Drinks Union.


"We produce it from hemp, but there's no THC in it," Janak said, adding he has received no complaints from anti-drug activists.


He said the flavored vodka is sold mostly in large supermarket chains and in some restaurants.







Yahoo! News - Czechs Roll Out Marijuana Flavored Liquor

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Singaporean sets SMS world speed record | The Register



Kimberly Yeo, 23, entered 26 words in just 43.24 seconds to claim the title at Singapore's Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza against 125 rival quick-thumb artists. The impressive - if singularly pointless - achievement secured Yeo a cool $17,500, free subscription to SingTel’s Premium 1500 mobile plan and a top-of-the range Nokia mobe. The previous record holder was Brit James Trusler, who clocked up 67 seconds during a textational 2003 display in Sydney.

Yeo had to tap in a text supplied by Guinness World Records. No predictive text or other aids were permitted, and this piece of piscine trivia had to correctly transcribed:



esto es el texto que tenia que escribir:

The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.



Singaporean sets SMS world speed record | The Register

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Citas del dia.



Stoppard
'If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.'

Walter Lippmann
'Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.'


Evan Esar
'A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.'"

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Los leones de Cannes

Nueve comerciales que fueron galardonados con el Leon en Cannes.

muy recomendables, si tienes que ver comerciales por lo menos pueden ser como estos.


Along with the other purposes it serves, the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival offers a valuable window on the best and most interesting work produced in cultures beyond the U.S. Below, from nine other countries, are some of the most memorable TV commercials in contention for potential honors at Cannes this year.

Tienen que ver el comercial argentino de cerveza... y el de olympus australia de camaras fotograficas en safari.

BOILED EELS, BASHED SKULLS AND BEER-SWILLING BALLET DANCERS

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Digital Apocalypse

Aparte de un excelente dominio (ww.digitalapocalypse.com) el artista Chad Michael Ward tiene unas galerias de portadas de discos y dvds muy interesantes.


Digital Apocalypse Studios is the brainchild of artist Chad Michael Ward. Specializing in horror, erotica and dark fantasy fine art, Chad's work has appeared in numerous magazines including SKIN TWO, SPECTRUM, GOTHIC BEAUTY, TATTOO SAVAGE, CARPE NOCTEM, CLUB INTERNATIONAL, GALLERY, PIT, DARK REALMS and THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE. He has also done album art for many bands including The Cruxshadows, Collide, The Blank Theory, Soilwork, Pissing Razors, Naglfar, and Darkane.

Chad is currently available for private commission, band photography and packaging art, book covers and magazine illustration. Direct all inquiries to chad@digitalapocalypse.com







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Friday, June 25, 2004

D O G T O Y :or: M A R I T A L A I D - You decide.

Its freaky quiz friday:

Es un juguete para perro... o un juguete sexual??








D O G T O Y :or: M A R I T A L A I D - You decide.

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The Onion A.V. Club | Feature

Ultimamente se ha dado una invasión de celebrity bloggers en la blogosfera, los buenos muchachos de Onion se dan a la tarea de criticar algunas. Ejemplo:

Blogger: Billy Corgan

Site: billycorgan.com

Claim to fame
: Singer-guitarist for The Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan

Current project: Working on solo album, writing poetry

Overall tone: Conversational. Corgan aims his blog at readers who are already interested in his every move. Just in case they're not, Corgan does mention that mean-spirited e-mails won't reach him—someone else reads them first.

Is God in the blog? All over the place. "I would not be here if it wasn't for God... One only needs to look at a bumblebee on a flower to know there is a higher power than lil' ol us."

Political leanings: He doesn't like George W. Bush.

Bloggings he may one day regret: Bashing his former bandmates. "The truth is that James Iha broke up the Smashing Pumpkins... not me, not jimmy, but james... did it help that d'arcy was fired for being a mean-spirited drug addict, who refused to get help? No."

Only for the diehards: A brief summation of Billy's vacation with his friend, the author and "gifted psychic" Sonia Choquette.

Not made up: "I even love my enemies... that doesn't mean I want to hear them speak, but as one of God's children I say I love you, too... I am on a mission, to love, to rock, to heal, and to help light the path for as many as I can."


enjoy the rest

The Onion A.V. Club | Feature

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Citas del Dia



Stephen Hawking
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."



Kurt Vonnegut
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."



Michael Pritchard

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."



John Kenneth Galbraith
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."




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Thursday, June 24, 2004

Baby mutant conquers world

Ya muchos lo deben de saber y si no se los presento. El superbebé.

Somewhere in Germany is a baby Superman, born in Berlin with bulging arm and leg muscles.

Not yet five, he can hold 3,15kg weights with arms extended, something many adults cannot do. He has muscles twice the size of other children his age and half their body fat.

DNA testing showed why: the boy has a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth





pero porque solo tenemos una foto de su trasero... somebody's ass is going to get kicked when the baby finds out.


IOL: Europe

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Portadas de libros para niños japoneses

Oh yeah they are pretty freaky too:





página en japonés, pero denle click a todo lo cliqueable.


Kid's Books Japan

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Awful Plastic Surgery

Dos páginas dedicadas a reportaje de investigación de cirugia plástica en los famosos (err ponen muchas fotos antes después... hey es investigativo de alguna manera!!)



Awful Plastic Surgery: Tara Reid's New Breasts


GoodPlasticSurgery


click them you won't regret it... ok maybe you could.... but click it!!!

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Cita del Dia.


Jean Kerr
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."



Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."





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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

P-mate





parece una zapatilla de cartón no?

qué es??

es el P-mate!!!

qué es el P-mate??

es el producto que hace que las mujeres cumplan uno de sus sueños (no creo o si?) hacer del baño paradas!

Why P-Mate?

Absolutely leakproof: The P-Mate is made of a firm and reliable material.
Shaped to female body forms: It closes properly around your pee-opening without making any mess while peeing.
Easy to take with you: : Fold the P-Mate in two till pocket-size if you only want to take one with you.
Clean and hygienic: When you use the P-Mate you will urinate directly and forward. You don't have any contact with a dirty seat, and no spatter on shoes or clothes.
You can use it always and (almost) everywhere.
Practical and discrete.





intro

via Gizmodo

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blik


Blik son unas pegotinas para pared para lograr efectos como estos:







if you likey then buy it!

Blik

via Mocoloco

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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Yahoo! News - School Gives Transvestites Own Restroom

Only in Thailand...


Snubbed by both men and women, transvestite students at the Chiang Mai Technology School just wanted a restroom to call their own — and were granted their wish.



Dubbed the Pink Lotus Bathroom, the facility is exclusively for the school's 15 transvestite students and features four stalls, but no urinals. On the door hangs a sign with intertwined male and female symbols.


"They would come in the morning and use the women's bathrooms, but the women were annoyed, didn't like it or played pranks on them," said Posaporn Promprakai, registrar of the school in Chiang Mai province, about 360 miles north of Bangkok.


The transvestites — who must wear male attire at school but are allowed to sport girlie hairdos — switched to the men's bathrooms, only to run into more trouble.


"The men teased them, chased them, and they came screaming and in tears again," Posaporn told The Associated Press.


So Posaporn designated a lavatory just for them, telling the vocational school's 1,500 students to just use their own restrooms.


The transvestite bathroom opened last fall, but this week attracted the notice of local media. Gays, cross-dressers and transsexuals are generally accepted in easygoing Thai society.


"We don't support their decision to be transvestites. We are just trying to solve the problems of one group that is unhappy at school," said Posaporn. "They don't get teased in the bathroom anymore. They're much happier."



a eso llamo escuelas progresivas.

Yahoo! News - School Gives Transvestites Own Restroom

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iGrendel.com - The Art of Ted Wing III - Portfolio


Ilustraciones de Ted Wing III. Buen uso del blanco y negro.




iGrendel.com - The Art of Ted Wing III - Portfolio

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28 DAYS LATERER

Ya estan preprando la secuela a la mejor película de horror de los ultimos años (que obviamente no sera tan buena como la primera y le quitara merito a la original...) 28 Days later, o Exterminio. Ya no será dirigida por Danny Boyle (Tumba al ras de la tierra, trainspotting, etc)pero si la va a producir (eh... , 50/50 entonces) CHUD - Cinematic Happenings Under Development

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Godchecker - Your Guide To The Gods. Mythology with a twist!

Una buena guía de referencia de Mitología.

Greek Mythology : ATHENA Also known as ATHENE




ATHENA: Greek Goddess of War, Wisdom, Art, Technical Skill and Creative D.I.Y.

The daughter of ZEUS and METIS, Goddess of Wisdom, she almost didn't get born as the insecure ZEUS, not wanting a daughter cleverer than himself, swallowed METIS at the crucial moment.

But it wasn't long before strange tapping and banging noises began to emanate from inside him. What on earth was she doing in there? He was getting a headache.

A little while of this and the pain began unbearable. HEPHAESTUS, hearing the cries of agony, came running in and bashed his dad over the head with an Olympic wrench.

And from the split in ZEUS's skull sprang forth his daughter ATHENA. She was fully grown, fully dressed and fully armed with newly forged weapons and helmet. That's what all the noise was about.

Although wise and thoughtful, ATHENA is no shy maiden. Her best friend is NIKE, the Goddess of Victory, and she carries the Aegis, a flashy-looking device for zapping enemies.

She is, of course, highly skilled in arts, crafts and matters of intelligence. Her symbol is the owl, and in matters of wisdom she is always right. After all, who's going to argue with a War Goddess?

See also PALLAS.



claro para mi Atena es otra.

Godchecker - Your Guide To The Gods. Mythology with a twist!

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Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring - step by step

Un paso a paso de la famosa pintura que inspiro la Pelicula del mismo nombre... Girl with a Pearl Earing... (hmm. Scarlet Johansson butt shot in this one?"



Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring - step by step

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Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Tarkovsky index

Pequeña galeria del Guardian Unlimited de las polaroids de Tarkovsky explicadas por su hijo:


Cold snaps
The great Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky always carried a Polaroid camera with him. His son, Andrei A Tarkovsky, explains the background to some of the pictures




Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Tarkovsky index

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Yahoo! News - German 'Samurai' on the Loose in Woods Near Berlin

ó: im Ende kann es nur eins geben, que babelfish me dice que es la traducción al alemán de: In the End there can be only one!!!



A camouflage-clad German man wielding a samurai sword attacked at least seven hikers in forests west of Berlin, performing sword tricks before ordering them to leave the woods, police said Friday.



They suspect a 46-year-old local man who trained in martial arts and survival skills in camps in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam to be the attacker.


"He's dangerous and has been hard to find because he wears camouflage," said Catrin Feistauer, spokeswoman for the Nauen police department. Police have used infrared cameras mounted on helicopters to try and track him down.


The man pushed two elderly people off their bikes and, flashing his sword, shouted at them to leave the forest. He later tried to drive a young couple out of the woods. No one was seriously hurt.


"It's frightening because the violence level has increased each time," Feistauer said.





Yahoo! News - German 'Samurai' on the Loose in Woods Near Berlin

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Pelo largo






Tran Van Hay, 67, from Chau Thanh district in the southern Kien Giang province of Vietnam poses for a photo showing his over 6.2 meters (20.34 feet) long hair Saturday June 19, 2004. Hay has his name written in the Vietnam Guinness Book of records and is expected to have his name written in the world's Guinness record book soon. Hay has not had his hair cut for 31 years

hmmm. tambien puede tener el record de la rasta mas grande.


Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP

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HELLO KITTY 30 Years of Cute

La diosa del kitsch cumple 30 años.

Pagina oficial donde vienen varios diseños a lo largo de los 30 años (hagan click en las florecitas)

HELLO KITTY 30 Years of Cute

Y tambien la historia del consolador de Hello Kitty.

now that freaks me out.




un poco de la historia.

In 1997, Genyo designed a product that would live in infamy: the Hello Kitty vibrating shoulder massager, which really is a shoulder massager (trust us -- it says so on the package). Sanrio approved this design without batting an eye, and the product enjoyed modest sales in toy shops and in family restaurants like Denny's and Coco's. It wasn't until 1999 or so that people began to catch on to the fact that the Hello Kitty massager had other potential uses, and with amazing speed, they started popping up in adult videos in Japan. The next thing anyone knew, they had changed into a cult adult item, sold in vending machines in love hotels -- after all, what self-respecting man wouldn't buy his girl a Hello Kitty vibrator when she asked him for one?


Jmate.com The History of the Hello Kitty Vibrator

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Cita del Dia.



Katherine Cebrian
'I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.'"

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Monday, June 21, 2004

Yahoo! News - Boy Writes Apology in Blood for Dozing in Class

Después de tantas notas que se preguntan por qué los adolescentes japoneses estan tan locos...

una pequeña clave:

fucked up teachers:


A Japanese teenager was forced by his teacher to write an apology in blood after dozing in the classroom, the school's principal said on Monday.



The teacher later went to high school principal Hiroaki Dan and confessed what he had done, Dan told Reuters.


The teacher had apologized to the 17-year-old boy and his parents, Dan said, confirming a local media report of the incident, which happened last Thursday.


He said the boy was taken to the staff room of the school in Fukuoka City, southern Japan, after being caught asleep during a lesson. The 40-year-old male teacher handed the boy a box-cutter and paper and told him to write an apology in blood.


The teacher left the student, who then cut his finger and began to write an apology using his own blood.


Other teachers in the staff room did not notice what was happening, Dan said.


"To ask a student to write in their own blood is something I just can't imagine," he said.




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Citas del dia.




Al Capone
'Vote early and vote often.'



David Friedman
'The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.'



Chester Bowles
'Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.'



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Friday, June 18, 2004

Yahoo! News - Suspected German Rapist, 81, Fights Potency Check

Qué hacer si eres acusado de violación y tienes 81?? Indicar que es imposible que cometieras el acto por impotencia. La corte dijo que no se podia aplicar la puebra de potencia, que ya otra corte habia autorizado:


One court had ruled medical staff could tie him to a bed, attach a ring to his penis overnight, and use an "erectometer" to check whether there was any stiffening.



hehehe... erectometer...

Yahoo! News - Suspected German Rapist, 81, Fights Potency Check

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Cita del dia



Martin Luther King Jr.
'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.'"

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Thursday, June 17, 2004

Yahoo! News - Crooks in Pick-Your-Own Strawberry Heist

El crimen no paga... si robas huertos de fresas...

German police are hunting three bandits who held up a self-service strawberry farm with a pistol and a knife -- for a five-pound basket of strawberries.



Germany's AZ newspaper reported on Wednesday that the three men filled their basket with strawberries at a "pick-your-own" farm in the southern town of Taufkirchen near Munich.


When the farm saleswoman approached the men in the field to take their money, they drew their weapons. She fled while the thieves escaped in their nearby car, the daily reported.


Yahoo! News - Crooks in Pick-Your-Own Strawberry Heist

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Cita del Dia



Shelley Winters
'I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.'"

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La pornografia aumenta la fertilidad.

Si eres un panda...

guest link que termina la historia del panda que sometieron a sesiones de videos er�ticos de otros pandas.



American-born panda Hua Mei is pregnant, just months after she settled into her new home in southwestern China, state newspapers reported Wednesday.

The 4-year-old panda, whose name means "China-America," was the first foreign-born panda to return to its ancestral homeland. She arrived in February from the San Diego Zoo, where she was born to two pandas on loan from China.

Chinese veterinarians, concerned that she had little knowledge of sex after living only in captivity, showed her videos of mating pandas to prepare her for a series of "blind dates."



Panda pregnant after watching sex videos

American Panda gets Sex Ed

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Straight Dope Staff Report: When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails?

No se si esta información disminuirá el número de pesadillas de zombies... o si solo le dara mas y mejores detalles... pero bueno la premisa es la siguiente:

Cuando el error humano/virus extraterrestre/hell on earth se presenten en forma de zombies... Cuanto tiempo tardaria en acabarse la energia electrica???

Despues de un detallado analisis de todos los tipos de plantas electricas (carbon, nuclear, gas, etc) esta es la conclusión:

Bottom line? My guess is that within 4-6 hours there would be scattered blackouts and brownouts in numerous areas, within 12 hours much of the system would be unstable, and within 24 hours most portions of the United States and Canada, aside from a rare island of service in a rural area near a hydroelectric source, would be without power. Some installations served by wind farms and solar might continue, but they would be very small. By the end of a week, I'd be surprised if more than a few abandoned sites were still supplying power.

los datos anteriores son para un zombificación total y repentina. shazam!, para un proceso gradual de zombificación tenemos:

Fuel supply would eventually be a problem. Hydro plants would fare best, essentially having an unlimited fuel supply given normal rainfall, and could operate until some essential component failed or wore out. Nuclear plants could run for perhaps a year or more before they would need refueling. Refueling is a tricky operation requiring many specialized personnel, and it's doubtful that a nuclear plant could effectively refuel if 90% of the nuclear technicians and engineers in the country were running around glassy-eyed in the parking lot. Coal power plants on average have maybe 45-60 days' worth of coal on hand. If the power output of the plant were reduced, this could be stretched for six months or more, but eventually it would run out unless deliveries could be maintained. There are a few mine-mouth coal power plants in the U.S. that could conceivably run for years, provided enough miners and operators remained un-zombified. Natural gas plants might be the most vulnerable, since maintaining the gas wells, balancing the gas flow, and otherwise keeping the pipeline system intact requires considerable effort. In addition, most power plants have little or no gas storage available on-site, so a zombie situation could put natural gas plants in a real bind.



la sugerencia de la mejor alternativa:

So there you have it. As to your final question, I can suggest a better tactic than relying on solar. Go to the abandoned hardware stores, load up a flatbed trailer with gasoline generators, and take them and a few dozen tanker trucks of gasoline to your house. You could have power for a long time, possibly years or more, until the zombies finally come for you.


leanlo completo... nunca se sabe... nunca se sabe....

damn zombies...

Straight Dope Staff Report: When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails?

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Yahoo! News - Police Say Bank Robbery Only Yields $50

Gran contraste con la historia de la joyeria en Japón


The robbery of a Plymouth Township bank yielded only a single $50 bill, a Montgomery County detective said Monday.



Detective Jeff McGee said a man entered a Madison Bank branch on Friday and handed a note to a teller that read, "Give me all your hundreds and fifties FAST." That man left the bank with one $50 bill and got into a car driven by a woman.


Si vas a cometer el crimen... por lo menos asegurate de que valga la pena.


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Yahoo! News - Thai gun shops offer discounts to teachers



Yikes algunas tiendas de armas en Bangkok... para darles a los maestros una ventaja competitiva en el sur de Tailandia...

Es como de película mala de vision del futuro. Ahora todos estan cargando armas...


Gun shops in Bangkok are offering discounts to teachers in Thailand's troubled Muslim south where a spate of almost daily attacks show no signs of abating despite government promises to restore peace.


y para que quieren armas? (like you need to ask?)

Most of the victims, including those in the last 24 hours, have been attacked by motorbike-riding assailants armed with guns or machetes.


Authorities have alternately blamed bandits, youths high on cough syrup, and Muslim militants for the daily explosions and killings that have revived memories of a separatist insurgency that plagued the region in the 1970s and 1980s




jarabe para tos?? damn.

Yahoo! News - Thai gun shops offer discounts to teachers

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Los horrores de no equivocarse en Photoshop

No es ningún secreto que todas las revistas de modas utilizan photoshop ara "mejorar" a las modelos... pero que pasa cuando se equivocan o se les olvida borrar algo...

vayan a la liga para la historia completa.




Error de Photoshop

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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

IOL: Interpol hunt four in Japan's biggest robbery

El robo mas grande en Japón.

Tokyo police are to seek an international arrest warrant for a British woman and three Serbs suspected of pulling off Japan’s biggest robbery.

The four are accused of stealing 12 pieces of jewellery, including a 125 carat diamond necklace worth £15 million, from a store in Tokyo’s exclusive Ginza district in March.

Police have already obtained domestic arrest warrants for the four on charges of robbery and assault, Kyodo News agency said.

They plan to ask Lyon-based Interpol to place them on an international wanted list.

The four suspects are a British woman in her 50s and three Serbs – two men in their 30s and a woman in her 20s.

The two women reportedly helped scout out the Le Supre-Diamant Couture De Maki store before the robbery and kept a lookout as the two men entered the store posing as customers.

After immobilising a clerk with pepper spray, they smashed through a glass showcase to steal Yen3.4bn (€25.5m) worth of jewellery before escaping on a motorcycle.

The robbery was Japan’s largest-ever in value.

The group fled Japan for France using fake passports.


Realmente es impresionante como algo tan pequeño puede ser tan valioso.... y facilmente robable.



IOL: Interpol hunt four in Japan's biggest robbery

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This Week's Top 10 Spammers



Lista de los 10 mayores spammers... si quieren que algo crezca o decrezca (deuda... hehehe) ver XXX, chat, chicas calientes... ahora saben con quier hablar.


Editor's Note: Each week we bring you a list of the top ten organizations sending Spam. The list is generated weekly using data from IronPort's SenderBase. See below for details on how this list was generated, and to learn more about each spammer, click on its name in the chart.

This week: Peak Speed Communications continues to hold down the No.1 spot, while Tekmailer remains at No. 2. AuctionHelper.com has moved up the list, while Razor Media is slipping a bit.

We'd like to offer a spammers welcome to Kwtourcoll, who hit the chart this week with a bullet, riding all the way up to the No. 4 spot. Two other newbies grace the list this week.

When it comes to longevity, three of our spammers just can't seem to do anything wrong. Tekmailer, MailGravity and AuctionHelper.com have all been on the list for ten weeks straight. That's a new record!



1 Peak Speed Communications, Inc
2 Tekmailer.com
3 AuctionHelper.com, Inc
4 kwtourcoll
5 MailGravity
6 Opt-In Enterprises
7 V9 Networks
8 Hyundai High School
9 Razor Media LLC.
10 STARGATEPC


This Week's Top 10 Spammers

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Todo lo que tienen que hacer es pedir...




Quien lo hubiera dicho, en Virginia al darse cuenta de que habia un inusual y creciente numero de mujeres (en proceso?) adolescentes embarazadas, se dedicaron a crear una campaña de Espectaculares: "Isn't She a Little Young?"


"Virginia Billboard Campaign Asks Men Not to Have Sex With Young Girls
To combat what appears to be rampant sex between men and young old girls - 219 births among 13 and 14 years old girls from men over 18 in 1999 and 2000, the Virginia Department of Health has launched a statewide billboard campaign telling men to keep it in their pants. With headlines, 'Isn't She A Little Young?' and 'Sex With A Minor, Don't Go There' the campaign also appears on posters, coasters and napkins in bars - the likely hangout for these sexaholic men who seem to be incapable of getting it on with women their own age.

If anyone has pictures of the actual billboards, you simply must send them to tips at adrants dot com."


Adrants: Virginia Billboard Campaign Asks Men Not to Have Sex With Young Girls:

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Citas de hoy



Al Boliska
"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"


Robert Orben
"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral."


Horace Walpole
'The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.'

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Yahoo! Noticias - TOKIO Y LONDRES SON LAS CIUDADES MAS CARAS DEL MUNDO

Buena forma de darme cuenta que este blog casi cumple un año... Reportando una historia anual... Y esta es la segunda vez que lo hago... yikes.


México baja 7 lugares... que supongo que es bueno... pero sigue siendo mas caro que Toronto...



La ciudades de Tokio y Londres se ubicaron como las más caras del mundo, mientras que las urbes latinoamericanas se colocaron como las más baratas, donde destaca Asunción, Paraguay.

De acuerdo con los resultados de la reciente encuesta de costo de vida realizada en 144 ciudades por parte de la consultora Mercer Human Resource Consulting, México se ubicó en la posición número 84, a diferencia del año pasado que ocupó el lugar 77.

La capital japonesa continúa como la ciudad más cara del mundo y Londres avanza cinco lugares para ocupar la segunda posición, seguida por Moscú, que descendió un lugar este año.




Yahoo! Noticias - TOKIO Y LONDRES SON LAS CIUDADES MAS CARAS DEL MUNDO

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Monday, June 14, 2004

Ananova - Woman marries a month after being stabbed by husband

No se que es esto... una cosa si se... Love it ain't

A Warwickshire woman married a man just a month after he stabbed her for having pre-wedding jitters.

Katrina Grant, 36, needed 12 stitches and suffered a collapsed lung after being stabbed by her 22-year-old fiancee Luke in a drunken attack.

He was later given a suspended sentence, but while he was on bail the couple from Nuneaton got married.

She told the News of the World: "People think I'm crazy. They don't understand how I could marry Luke after what he did, but no one knows him like I do.

"I love him. He's worth a second chance. He'll never hurt me again."

Luke, who is now seeing a psychiatrist to control his jealous rages, said: "What I did was terrible."



Ananova - Woman marries a month after being stabbed by husband

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Reluct.com feature. 100% Design furniture fair Rotterdam.

Cortesia de Reluct.com, la Feria de Diseño de Muebles en Rotterdam








Reluct.com feature. 100% Design furniture fair Rotterdam.

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Kid A is walking the streets.

Apenas me cayo el veinte que tenga algo que ver con Radiohead... Pero siendo ponchorama... no vamos a hablar de musica...

Kid A es el asesino serial japones de 14 años, que por no ser 13 meses mayor se libro de la pena de muerte.

y ahora cumple 21 años... y es liberado...

He has supposedly recovered from the sexual sadism that drove him to attack and wound at least five people with a hammer, two of them mortally.

In fact, he later severed the head off Jun Hase, an 11-year-old boy he had killed, filled the mouth with a threatening letter and placed the head on the front gate of an elementary school like some sort of warped trophy. His killings so shocked Japan, the normally tight-lipped Justice Ministry took the unprecedented step of publicly announcing his release from the reformatory where he has spent the past seven years apparently atoning for his sins to the extent bureaucrats deemed he could be released.

Robbers of trifling sums serve longer sentences.



Only his release was announced, however, not his identity.

And his address remains a secret, so he could be anywhere in Japan.


Anywhere in Japan... that is a comforting thought... Scared much??

"Youth A is known for being a hard case (for years he refused to meet family members when they went to visit him). There's a high likelihood he's only pretending to have reformed so he can get out on the streets again

esa ultima linea esta como el poster de la pelicula de su vida...

una buena razón para no envidiar a los japoneses...


MDN: Wai Wai

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Friday, June 11, 2004

ClamperPod Camera Tripod

No se que tan seguro sea este producto, but looks cool for a fair price

Now you can carry a "tripod" with you all the time without lugging cumbersome gear around. Made of heavy-duty die cast aluminum alloy, the ClamperPod mini tripod is strong enough to hold even the heaviest cameras, but weighs only 2 ounces.

Not much bigger than a business card, it fits into pocket, purse, camera bag, backpack or briefcase with room to spare. Attaches to any still or video camera with a standard 1/4x20 tripod socket.




ClamperPod Camera Tripod

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Yahoo! News - Filipino Congressman Wins Seat for a Day

Esto podría estar pasando en México. El diputado por un dia...

Noel Carino ran for the Philippine House of Representatives in 2001, but it took him three years to be declared the winner — just in time for him to enjoy his office for one day as Congress ended its session Friday.



Carino, a businessman, lost the 2001 elections in an initial tally, but a recount later showed he won by 2,000 votes.


His opponent, however, appealed to the Supreme Court.


On Thursday, the court ruled in Carino's favor, and he was sworn in Friday, Congress's last working day.


"I'm glad that finally, the people's mandate was respected," Carino told reporters.


"Better late than never," House Speaker Jose de Venecia said


Yahoo! News - Filipino Congressman Wins Seat for a Day

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Sony debuts Linux-based in-car nav / infotainment line in Japan



esto es lo que dice la página:

Sony introduced three Linux-based in-car navigation and infotainment devices in Japan today. The NV-XYZ 33, 55, and 77 feature 3D map navigation technology, media players, hard drives, GPS, and PC connectivity. And they are based on a Linux 2.4-series kernel.

esto es lo que yo leí...

"wahoo! Sony hizo un videojuego tipo Grand Theft Auto para la vida real!!!"





Sony debuts Linux-based in-car nav / infotainment line in Japan

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Japan schoolgirl killer 'sorry'

Los secuaces de siempre: internet, comics y la televisión...


Japan schoolgirl killer 'sorry'


Satomi Mitarai, 12, bled to death at her school on Tuesday
A Japanese schoolgirl who killed her classmate has offered an apology to her family and the victim's relatives as more details emerged of her motives.
The girl reportedly told police she was annoyed by comments Satomi Mitarai made about her appearance during their exchanges in internet chatrooms.

This has prompted Japanese media to question the dangers of this form of communication.

Satomi Mitarai, 12, died on Tuesday after being slashed with a small knife.


"She wrote something bad about my appearance several times on the Net a few days before the incident. I didn't like that, so I called her (to a study room) and slashed her neck after getting her to sit on a chair," the Yomiuri Shimbun quoted Mitarai's killer, 11, as telling police sources.

Her lawyers said she had begun to question her actions, and had repeatedly expressed remorse.



"I wonder why I did it. If I thought and acted properly it wouldn't have happened. I would like to apologise," she was quoted as saying.

The Mainichi newspaper said she told investigators she had planned the murder four days earlier, and had been inspired to use a paper cutter after seeing the method used in a television drama.

"I saw that drama. I thought I'd do it that way", she was quoted as saying.

The Asahi Shimbun said classmates at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, southern Japan, had often seen her reading horror books, including Battle Royale, about schoolchildren killing each other.


sorry? I don't think sorry is going to be enough...

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Japan schoolgirl killer 'sorry'

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Thursday, June 10, 2004

Pejeman? Superpeje? Iron Peje? Pejeboy? o simplemente Peje Lagarto...

Creo que no he hecho una nota politica mexicana... pero esta realmente no la pude resistir...

Con la opinión pública dividida en si: a) Eres un político corrupto (redundancia?" o b) la victima de un complot (JFK se queda corto)que haces para regresar a la credibilidad de la gente??

publicas un comic??

Como parte de su defensa ante la opinión pública, Andrés Manuel López Obrador iniciará una campaña de difusión sobre el caso El Encino a través de historietas que se repartirán en 2 2 millones de hogares de la ciudad de México.

Anunció que a partir de la próxima semana se repartirán los volantes casa por casa, para que la gente esté informada sobre “todo el plan de ataque”, un asunto que considera importante: “nada más la destitución del jefe de gobierno, ¿les parece poca cosa ”, ironizó.

El folleto incluirá el caso laboral por el que de nuevo fue citado por la Procuraduría General de la República.

Explicó que se trata de una historieta, la cual contendrá el fundamento jurídico, que es un poco complicado de explicar en pocas palabras.


Espero que llegue a mi casa, para seguir la colección al lado del de Vicente Fox...

El Universal Online

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Yumiko | A R T W O R K





Yumiko Kayukawa was born in the small town of Naie in Hokkaido, Japan. The panoramic beauty of her surroundings and feelings of communication with the native animals inspired her to paint the things around her. As a teenager she also fell in love "with the energy and giddiness" of American pop-culture through her exposure to rock n' roll, film, and fashion. By the age of 16, she had debuted into the art world with a comic-book (Manga) feature.

After graduating from Art school, she continued to paint, but struggled with truly expressing herself in her art. Fortunately, this frustration took a dramatic turn during a visit to Seattle where Yumi painted a picture at the request of an American friend. In comic-book style, two girls sit entwined atop a mushroom, Japanese symbols and American pop art styles melding together in lively color and bold lines. Yumi now realized her art persona - sagacious Japanese tradition in synergy with the jubilant irreverence of American pop culture.

What does she see for her future as an artist? "I'd rather my paintings hang next to rock star pin-ups than on museum walls. Ultimately I want to connect with people all over the world on that level", she says with a smile. When we look at her work, it's obviously just a matter of time.



beautiful stuff... check it
Yumiko | A R T W O R K

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Turbo Toenail Clipper

Debo admitir que se me hizo de los productos más estúpidos del mundo... hasta que leí la descripción...

still looks damn silly



Trimming toenails can be a nuisance for people with rheumatoid arthritis.

The Turbo Long Reach clipper combines extra reach with a securely attached clipper, and adjustable magnifying mirror.

Smooth clipping mechanism is designed for years of use

Turbo Toenail Clipper

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Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Ananova - F*cking villagers vote against name change

The people of fucking...



Residents of an Austrian village called F*cking, have voted against changing the name.

The 150 or so people who live in the village debated the issue after roadsigns kept being stolen - many by British tourists.

Spokesman Siegfried Hoeppl, said: "Everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us F*cking is F*cking - and it's going to stay F*cking - even though the signs keep getting stolen."

He said the name came from Mr F*ck and his family who settled in the area 100 years ago, and added "ing", meaning village or settlement.

The villagers didn't find out about the English meaning of the word until Allied soldiers stationed in the region in 1945 pointed out the alternative meaning.

Local newspaper editor Menhardt Buzasa said there had been an increase in the number of signs being stolen, and said British tourists were usually blamed.

"I do not agree it is just the British. F*cking is universal. Germans use it as much now as the British, and it also means the same to the Americans, Australians and anyone in the English speaking world," he said.

Similar votes on a name change have taken place recently in neighbouring Austrian towns Wank am see and Petting, as well as in Vomitville and Windpassing.


hehehe Vomitville...
Ananova - F*cking villagers vote against name change

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Yahoo! News - Japanese Man Sues Over Iraq Kidnapping


Activista japones que fue secuestrado demanda a Gobierno...

A Japanese activist who was briefly held captive in Iraq has sued his own government, saying its decision to send troops to the region angered his kidnappers and was to blame for his ordeal.

Nobutaka Watanabe, 35, is seeking the equivalent of $46,000 for mental and physical hardship he suffered during his four days as a hostage, his lawyer Masatoshi Uchida told The Associated Press Wednesday.


"Mr. Watanabe believes his kidnapping was the result of Japan's military presence," said Uchida. "His captors told him that he had been taken because he was from a country that had sent troops to Iraq."



duh! Tal vez el Sr. Watanabe no ha leido la recepción que tuvieron sus compañeros de secuestro, donde el publico les ha gritado de cosas en el aeropuerto y en los programas de television... like "you shouldn't have been there in the first place"

buena suerte con la demanda... si se tardaron decadas en pagarles a las victimas koreanas de la 2nda guerra...

Yahoo! News - Japanese Man Sues Over Iraq Kidnapping

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Yahoo! News - Pig's blood halts German motorway



A German motorway has been flooded with 34,000 litres of pig's blood after an accident that caused a 20 km (12 mile) tailback, police say.



A Dutch tanker spilled its bloody contents on Wednesday after colliding with a truck next to a slip road, police in the central town of Rotenburg said. Heavy rain obstructed the clean-up of the blood, which was on its way for disposal in Hamburg.


Una tragedia sin duda... pero quien demonios necesita tanta sangre de cerdo??



Yahoo! News - Pig's blood halts German motorway

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Yahoo! News - Jail Offers Violent Inmates Aromatherapy

Esta nota causó indignación entre la sociedad ya que se tomo por el lado de: "Spa para asesinos y violadores"


Inmates at a jail in Ciudad Juarez on the U.S. border, where more than 300 women have been murdered over the past decade, are enjoying aromatherapy and piped classical music as part of a novel rehabilitation program.



This month the prison authorities began burning scented oils and playing soft music for a group of 25 "violent and disturbed" inmates.


"It is a unique program to help the most psychologically and socially damaged prisoners, whose grave crimes have shaken society," prison governor Arturo Herrera told Reuters.


"We play them Mozart and give them occupational, play and aroma therapies to relax them for evaluation."


The group receiving the special treatment includes murderers and rapists serving up to 40-year sentences. They will be integrated into the mainstream prison system once they have been evaluated.






Yahoo! News - Jail Offers Violent Inmates Aromatherapy

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Citas del dia

Laurence J. Peter
'America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.'



Bill Vaughan
'Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.'"
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

GreatestQuiz

Es hora de otro quiz... no muy bueno, o mas bien muy temperamental, con cualquier cambiecito te sale algo totalmente diferente de lo que salio en primera instancia... pero bueno:


Kill Bill: Which Deadly Viper Assassin Are You?


GreatestQuiz

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Camouflage Duct Tape ~ Camouflage Gaffers Tape





caracteristicas:


Pro-Gaff
High strength vinyl, impregnated cloth tape, matte finish, waterproof and abrasion resistant. Pro-Gaff has smooth, controlled unwind and is hand tearable.

48 LB/IN tensile strength
11.5 mils
rubber resin adhesive, leaves no residue
vinyl backing


Camouflage Duct Tape ~ Camouflage Gaffers Tape

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Monday, June 07, 2004

Kaleidoscope Painter

Pagina para crear efectos de caleidoscopio... muy induciva a perder tiempo en el trabajo...




Kaleidoscope Painter

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Cita del dia



George Winters
'If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.'

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Friday, June 04, 2004

Cual es tu etiqueta de advertencia??



ponchoblue = poison

ponchoblue is poisonous! Induce vomitting if ingested.
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El inventor del Walkman demanda a Sony


y gana...

The German inventor who pioneered the technology behind the Sony Walkman has won a multimillion-pound payout nearly 30 years after dreaming up his invention.

Andreas Pavel's original 1970s concept of the "stereobelt" revolutionised portable listening and Sony's version - the Walkman - became a global hit.




screw the ipod... yo quiero un stereobelt!!!!


y por supuesto el siguiente en la linea es el ipod... especialmente en Italia y Canada, donde las patentes de Pavel siguen vigentes...

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Yahoo! News - Indiana Boy Wins Spelling Bee, Runner-Up Faints


El duro mundo de los concursos de deletreo...

In a new definition of a fainting spell, the runner-up in the National Spelling Bee apparently fainted on Thursday when asked to spell "alopecoid" in the contest eventually won by a 14-year-old Indiana boy.



Akshay Buddiga, 13, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, recovered enough to spell the word correctly and continued into the championship round, but he stood out from the crowd by spelling from a seated position, unlike the other competitors, who remained standing as they spelled.


Buddiga lost on the word "schwarmerei," a German term that means adulation.


He got plenty of that and a standing ovation from the hundreds of defeated spellers, their families, friends and teachers who watched the three-day competition.


The champion was David Tidmarsh, whose final winning word was "autochthonous," meaning indigenous.


Tidmarsh, from South Bend, Indiana, also triumphed over such spelling nightmares as "sumpsimus," "sophrosyne" and "serpiginous."


That feat won Tidmarsh a $12,000 cash prize and a huge loving cup he seemed barely able to grasp after the strain of spelling. As soon as he realized he had spelled the final word correctly, he covered his face with his identifying placard and acknowledged later he was crying tears of joy.


"I was so nervous, I couldn't even begin to explain," Tidmarsh said after it was all over. "I was just hoping I got a word I had studied."


He said his favorite movie was "Spellbound," a documentary about the National Spelling Bee, an annual rite of nerves for children under the age of 16 administered by E. W. Scripps Co. and some 250 other sponsors.


Tidmarsh and Buddiga were among 265 spellers who gathered in Washington from across the United States.


Asked if the experience was as good as Hollywood could make it, Tidmarsh replied, "It's even better."






Yahoo! News - Indiana Boy Wins Spelling Bee, Runner-Up Faints

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Yahoo! News - This Pen Really Is Mightier Than the Sword



Spanish police have arrested a Russian woman carrying 38 "pen guns" capable of firing .22 caliber bullets, saying she was part of a Russian-Kosovan gun-smuggling ring.

as opposed to what?? a member of the pen club???

ahora quiero una namiki/pilot vanishing point y una pluma pistola rusa!!!


Yahoo! News - This Pen Really Is Mightier Than the Sword

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Yahoo! News - Man sued after finding cash in rubbish

Otra historia de exito entre los pepenadores...


A jobless Argentine who found $50,000 (27,200 pounds) buried in rubbish and promptly bought a house, two cars and a corner shop is being sued by a woman claiming her maid mistakenly had thrown out the cash.



"All I can say is that I am no criminal," Paulo Altamirano, a 46-year-old man who ekes out a living by collecting street garbage in the central city of Cordoba, was quoted as saying on Thursday by local DyN news agency.


Emilia Mascoy, a 70-year-old store owner, brought a lawsuit for fraud and demanded her money be returned. She says a maid mistakenly threw out the box of cash during a spring cleaning at her home, DyN reported.



Yahoo! News - Man sued after finding cash in rubbish

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Police slap cuffs on Punk SMSer | The Register



Un miembro de una banda tributo a "The Clash" le manda a su compañero la letra de una canción por mensaje de celular sms...

la letra:

"How about this for Tommy Gun? OK - SO LET'S AGREE ABOUT THE PRICE AND MAKE IT ONE JET AIRLINER AND TEN PRISONERS"

despues de esto, fue arrestado por la policia por creerse de un mensaje terrorista...


Police slap cuffs on Punk SMSer | The Register

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MoCoLoco: Muji Kazuhiko Namba

Es cierto que el minimalismo es casi imposible de alcanzar, ya que todos tenemos historia y mucha de esta historia se refleja en nuestros muebles y cosas que vamos coleccionando a traves de los años...

pero igual como meta inalcanzable its pretty sweet.







MoCoLoco: Muji Kazuhiko Namba

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Thursday, June 03, 2004

Primera razón que encuentro para dejar de usar salsa de soya...



The Chinese government has shown an unusually high level of concern as a result of a bold media exposure towards a scandal in which human hair was used to make soy sauce. The government has now ordered an immediate inspection of all domestic food seasoning plants before the end of January

eso explica todo...

por eso le sale tan barato a los chinos hacer las cosas... Usan pelo humano para todo!!!!

ropa, juguetes, they put it in our food!!!

tell your friends.





Interfax :: Search

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Yahoo! News - Porsche drivers have most affairs

yeah whatever... por qué los alemanes quieren medir todo por el tipo de coche que alguien maneja??


BERLIN (Reuters) - Don't trust the driver of a fast car.



Porsche drivers are less faithful than any other group of car owners, with almost 50 percent of them cheating on their partners, a survey published in German magazine "Men's Car" has revealed.


Among German men, Porsche drivers were the least faithful, with 49 percent admitting infidelity, followed by BMW drivers at 46 percent. Among women, Audi drivers were the least reliable, 41 percent admitting to affairs.


The most faithful group were owners of Opel-Vauxhall cars, with only 31 percent of male and 28 percent of female drivers in Germany having committed adultery.


The survey was carried out by Hamburg-based opinion poll institute Gewis, which questioned 2,253 male and female drivers aged 20 to 50. The results follow similar findings from the same magazine showing that male BMW drivers had the most sex.


Yahoo! News - Porsche drivers have most affairs

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Yahoo! News - Hit the beach with Hippo sweat



Want to be hip at the beach while being cool and healthy too? Try Hippopotamus sweat.

Not only is the sweat of the hippo a fetching shade of red that gradually turns to brown, it also acts as a sunscreen and has antibiotic properties, according to Japanese scientists writing in Nature science journal.


But before heading off to the zoo for sweat samples, a word of caution.


The scientists at Keio University say there is a downside -- it stinks.


Yahoo! News - Hit the beach with Hippo sweat

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Yahoo! News - Man Commits Suicide After Sex with Hen

hehehe. Dedico esta historia a "you know who you are"


A 50-year-old Zambian man has hanged himself after his wife found him having sex with a hen, police said Friday.

The woman caught him in the act when she rushed into their house to investigate a noise.

"He attempted to kill her but she managed to escape," a police spokesman said.

The man from the town of Chongwe, about 50 km (30 miles) east of Lusaka, killed himself after being admonished by other villagers.

The hen was slaughtered after the incident


Por qué siempre pagan los inocentes por los pecadores... ¿Por qué?

Yahoo! News - Man Commits Suicide After Sex with Hen

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Yahoo! News - Lego rated adults' favourite toy


Lego rated adults' favourite toy


Eso me pasa por leer rapido... yo lei. Lego rated favourite adult's toy...

que no es lo mismo.

Entonces me decepcione al entrar en la página y encontrar la historia del lego y que es el jueguete favorito de los adultos y no el juguete para adultos favorito...

I know... I'm sick... maybe I wanted to see a lego dildo??

lego:


Invented in 1932 by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen, the pieces of interlocking plastic were rated the best toy by 1,000 adults aged over 25, the Cartoon Network survey found on Monday.


Christiansen coined the name Lego by combining "Leg" and "Godt" which is Danish for "play well". By lucky chance, the word "lego" also means "I put together" in Latin.




Yahoo! News - Lego rated adults' favourite toy

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Yahoo! News - He'd Better Hope He Doesn't Get Sick


La historia de un hombre al que le ha sido prohibido entrar a todos los hospitales en Inglaterra y Gales. Esto a raiz de que tiene un fetiche con los "medical items" pero leyendo el resto de la historia:

A British man with a fetish for medical items has become the first person to be banned from every hospital in England and Wales, the government said on Wednesday.

Unemployed Norman Hutchins, 53, has harassed and abused medical staff more than 40 times since January in his quest for surgical masks and gowns, a court in the northern city of York was told.


Cubre bocas??? Un poco excesivo no?? Yeah the man's a nutter... pero prohibirle acceso a los hospitales... Yo pense que coleccionaba instrumental de cirugia o algo asi...

Yahoo! News - He'd Better Hope He Doesn't Get Sick

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tomer hanuka illustration portfolio

Galeria de imagenes de Tomer Hanuka



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Girl slits classmate's throat


Otra nota de Japón... pero esta muy macabra...

pequeños fragmentos de la historia:


AN 11-year-old girl led a fellow sixth-grader to an empty classroom during their lunch hour, slit her neck and arms with a box-cutter, and left her to bleed to death.

The grisly murder at an elementary school in southern Japan yesterday sent shockwaves through the local community, leaving many asking how such a tragedy could strike in their midst.

They did not release the assailant's name, according to Japanese legal protections for juvenile offenders.

Serious juvenile crimes have become a rising concern in Japan in recent years.

Last July, a 12-year-old boy in Nagasaki - a city just north of Sasebo - was accused of kidnapping, molesting and murdering a four-year-old by shoving him off the roof of a car garage.

In the same month, a 14-year-old boy was arrested for beating a 13-year-old classmate to death in Okinawa.

Just three years ago, lawmakers lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 14 from 16 amid public outrage over the brutal beheading of a 10-year-old boy by a 14-year-old in 1997. Last year's Nagasaki murder led many to wonder whether the line should be lowered again.


NEWS.com.au | Girl slits classmate's throat (June 2, 2004)

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Galeria de Aparadores de Tiendas Japonesas.


Cuando tienes una economia que depende del consumo... Well you better have damn cool displays!

and they do...



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Greg Kucera Gallery | Seattle

Galeria de imagenes de racismo anti asiatico en Estados Unidos... lo mas fuerte es como siempre no el arte, sino la historia detras de la obra...

ejemplo:




VINCENT CHIN MURDER, 2003
Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24 inches (sold)

In 1982, while attending his bachelor party at a suburban Detroit strip club, Chinese American Vincent Chin was lured into an altercation with Ron Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz, two white auto workers who blamed him for the ailing U.S. auto industry and the consequential loss of jobs. “It’s because of you little motherfuckers that we’re out of work,” witnesses recalled hearing. The violence escalated and the two auto workers bashed Vincent Chin’s head with a baseball bat, killing him.

Ebens and Nitz pled guilty and received a sentence of three years’ probation and a $3,000 fine. Judge Charles Kaufman reasoned that Ebens and Nitz did not have criminal records and were not likely to violate the terms of their parole. Later, the judgment was appealed, but the respective juries acquitted each of them. Neither served any jail time for his crime.

Vincent Chin’s mother, totally disheartened, left the U.S. and returned to her native village in China.


Greg Kucera Gallery | Seattle

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