Friday, December 31, 2004

eye of science

La ciencia es uno de los mejores artistas no intencionales, ejemplo:




Our aim as a two-person team of photographer and biologist is to
combine scientific exactness with aesthetic appearances thereby
helping to bridge the gap between the world of science and the
world of art. Our commitment is to the evidence of scientific
investigation but also to the use of colour as a creative and harmonious
tool to achieve beauty. In the combination of the aesthetics and the science
we hope to inspire the public. Day by day, in a world beyond human vision, we
explore fascinating forms and structures.


galerias microscopicas:

eye of science

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Trivia


Hay que contestar tres preguntas en total, no más de una sola pregunta por categoría para hacerse acreedor a una playera conmemorativa.

Update!!

Parece que hay problemas con la falta de instrucciones de la trivia. Solo hay que contestar tres preguntas de las trece. Tres preguntas mandadas al mail = una playera.


Buena suerte a todos, que google los acompañe.


Segundo Update!!!

se agregaron algunas preguntas y se eliminaron otras, suerte!

blogs
Quién escribió un tutorial de paleta de colores?
Quién escribe cineblog/mx?
Nombre de la reunión de bloggeros mexicanos?
Mencione por lo menos dos blogs de famosos (pueden ser reales o ficticios)


Tecnología
Nombre de los teléfonos más pequeños de la línea Sony-Ericsson en Japón
Quién es el editor de engadget?
Como se llama el hack de la Canon Eos300D?

Comics

un regalo: Quién colabora con Jim Lee en Superman y por qué serie es mejor conocido?
Cuál es el nombre de la ciudad asiática ficticia donde Wolverine (también conocido como Lobezno ó Glotón) tiene su segundo hogar (el primero siendo la Mansión X)?
Quién escribe, dibuja, entinta Stray Bullets?
Nombre del personaje por el cual MacFarlane esta siendo por un jugador de hockey?
Serie de John Byrne, para Dark Horse bajo "Legend" (que tuvo crossovers con Monkeyman and O'brien, y figura la primera aparición de Hellboy)


Japón
Nombre de la asesina de 13 años que mató a su compañerita de 12.
Cuantos silabarios tiene el idioma japonés?
Estrella de telenovelas coreanas que trae locas a las japonesas?
Quien creo a Devilman?
Nueva película de Miyasaki?
Si en japón hablan de Matsushita Electric Company, en America y Europa estan hablando de?

cine
A quien remplazó Yuen Wo-Ping como coreógrafo en Kung fu hustle?
Cual es el sobrenombre de Alyssa Jones en “Chasing Amy”?
Cuál es el nombre en coreano de "Tale of Two Sisters"?

bizarro
Quien es el 2ndo hombre más peludo del mundo?
Quienes son los primeros?

El niño ruso mas famoso de ponchorama?

Mención honorífica a quien me mande una foto de ellos.

Ana de Sonrisa de Caracol ya se hizo acreedora a la mención!!! posteo la foto la próxima semana!! y les cuento las pesadillas... freaky kids.



mandar el mail con las respuestas a:


Liga a las Playeras conmemorativas

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How Did Animals Escape Tsunami?


Curioso dato post tsunami, no han sido encontrado animales salvajes....





JOHANNESBURG -- Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a sixth sense for disasters, experts said Thursday.

Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.



"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit," said H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department. "I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening."



Wired News: How Did Animals Escape Tsunami?

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Citas del día


Logan Pearsall Smith

"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."



Abraham Lincoln

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

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Thursday, December 30, 2004

Especial de Fin de Año.

Bajo consejo de L. me dedique a tratar de sacar todo lo que tengo en el archivo, que no he sacado durante el año... creo que no lo logre... pero aqui tienen un super post para aquellos que tienen que trabajar mañana... y acceso a internet:




A principios de este año por primera vez oi el termino metrosexual, dentro de lo que yo conocía el único tipo de persona que cabía dentro de esa categoría eran los "train gropers" de Japón. Es muy conocido la eficiencia del transporte público por medio de trenes en Japón. Asi como casi todo el mundo ha visto como pueden llegar a ponerse en hora pico. LLenos al punto de tener oficiales dedicados a empujar a la gente para dentro y empacarlos como sardinas. Es ahi donde los gropers hacen de las suyas metiendo mano (y ahora gracias a la tecnología sacando fotos con celular) a las chavas.


Esta historia es de un groper que despues de un accidente con las puertes, encuentra una nueva obsesión:


Train doors close on groper's gonads,
sets perversion off on different track



One Sendai pervert has found out that although one train door has closed on his career, another appears to have opened, according to Gatsun! (August).

The train groper was going about his ordinary business on a Sendai subway line, making life hell for female commuters by fondling them or using his camera-equipped mobile phone to take shots up their skirts.

When a young woman spotted what he was doing and let out a mighty scream, the pervert tried to scamper through the automatically closing carriage doors only to be caught between them by what most men would undoubtedly agree is their most sensitive appendage.

Though he may have wanted to escape, there was little to help the pervert as he lay on the carriage floor clutching the family jewels he had managed to extricate from their predicament.

He soon fainted, however, and was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment meted out shortly before his arrest. He admits to his wrongdoing.

"I was overcome by this enormously overwhelming stimulation while I was molesting the women," Gatsun! quotes the perverted predator as saying.

Investigators are amazed that the man has showed no remorse.

"All he has talked about was how good he felt," an officer tells Gatsun!

Since being released on bail, the pervert has apparently developed an inordinate interest in subway carriage doors. He spends most of his time squatting down on a platform somewhere, watching train doors open and close, a look of deep longing never leaving his face."


MDN: WaiWai



Un pequeño artículo acerca de uno de los train gropers más famosos, ahora autor de... qué mas? Diario de un train groper....



Perversion Pays
Confessing to be a groper invites condemnation, right? Wrong. Samu Yamamoto parlayed his notoriety as a serial molester into a career





Meet Samu Yamamoto. He describes himself as a reformed railway groper these days, but the balding 49-year-old is still Japan's celebrity perv. The former sports newspaper illustrator came to public attention in 1994, when he published his autobiography. Diary of a Groper sold 50,000 copies before pressure from women's groups forced its withdrawal. Notoriety, however, introduced Yamamoto to a new career as a sort of cult pundit on sexuality. He issued two other books on gropers, or chikan, and now makes his living writing on the sex industry.


Asiaweek.com | Perversion Pays | 5/25/2001


y obviamente al haber un movimiento en contra de los gropers, ahora estos se defienden de que han sido acusados falsamente... pero después de leer esta historia de un miembro de estos grupos... es difícil de creerles (aunque si se han dado casos de extorsión de chavitas de secundaria que acusan falsamente a los hombres de cierta edad... para que les den un donativo... "lo que sea su voluntá")


There is a group in Japan "Chikan Enzai Higaisha" (Victims of False Groping Accusations) that fights for clearing men who are charged of groping women. A leading member of this group, Mr. Mitsuru Nagasaki has been arrested on charges of allegedly filming up a woman's skirt on a night subway train. He was sitting next to this lady on a 11pm train when he used his camera-fitted mobile phone to film up her skirt. A co-passenger who was standing, saw what happened and grabbed the photographer, who happens to be a printer by profession. Later, Mr. Nagasaki refused to admit he had done such a thing, and added that he was very drunk that night. But before he was handed over to the police, he had deleted the photo, and also smashed his mobile phone.



Netnihon Newsletters




Esta imagen, no recuerdo donde la saque...

pya!

pya!




Galeria del Festival de nieve en China:




The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and competitions. The festival officially runs from January 5 through February 15, but often opens a week early and runs into March, since it's usually still cold enough. This is the amazing sculpture made of snow greeting visitors to the snow festival in 2003.


R Todd King: China Photos 2003 - Northeast Winter



You need to get out more... es como Pixelsurgeon, un portal de diseño e ilustración:



you need to get out more...

si la memoria no me falla esta liga la saque de 1, 2, 3 por mi, aunque puedo estar mintiendo.



Ni idea por qué no postee esto en su debido tiempo, exposición de peinados en Detroit:






It’s a hair show. Sorry, the hair show: Hair Wars.

One of the biggest black hair shows in the country, Hair Wars is a Detroit-born, national touring, three-hours-plus extravaganza of blooming, towering, blinking, spinning, smoking, cartoon-like hair creations. The purveyors of these gravity-defying dos achieve rock-star levels of fame in Detroit and beyond. They’re not hair stylists, hairdressers, hair designers or even hair artistes. These are hair entertainers. And they reign supreme in the Motor City, the hair capital of the world.



Tressed to kill (Metro Times Detroit)



Se acuerdan de como el masajeador de hello kitty se convirtió en el vibrador de hello kitty???

algo similar pasó con la escoba de harry potter (albur automático)




comentario de un usuario de amazon

Keep the batteries out!, December 26, 2001 - Amazon.com Reviewer: "A toy enthusiast from NJ; This toy was #1 on my daughter's Christmas list. So what the heck, although it has no educational value I figured it would be good for imaginative play. It wasn't until after she opened her gift and started playing with it that I realized that the toy may offer a more than sensational experience. The broomstick has cute sound effects and ***VIBRATES*** when they put it between their legs to fly. Come on---what were the creators of this toy thinking? She'll keep playing with the Nimbus 2000, but with the batteries removed."


para mas y mejores comentarios de usuarios:

Potter's Stick



el clásico de la pornografía "Garganta profunda" como nunca lo han visto...

animación ASCII



Contemporary ASCII

via octopusdropkick




Copyright laws... leave them kids alone!

Los coros del clásico de Pink Floyd demandan por regalias no pagadas... ever.


A group of former pupils at a London comprehensive school are poised to win thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties for singing on Pink Floyd's classic Another Brick In The Wall 25 years ago.


The pupils from the 1979 fourthform music class at Islington Green School secretly recorded vocals after their teacher was approached by the band's management.

Now the 23 ex-pupils are suing for overdue session musician royalties, taking advantage of the Copyright Act 1997 to claim a percentage of the money from broadcasts.

ThisisLondon


No tengo idea de como saque esta liga, o con que fin la saque... La revista online cladestina:


curiosamente la revista actual tiene entre los ilustradores presentados al Dr. Alderete... coincidencia?? no lo creo
(visiten la tienda online de Alderete... no se van a arrepentir...)




clandestina



Lava lamp mata a un hombre!!!




Digo la puso en la estufa... Explota y un pedazo de vidrio se le entierra en el corazón...

death by lava lamp...

Yahoo! News - Lava Lamp Left on Stove Explodes, Kills Man



Una niña japonesade primaria tiene un stalker muy persistente... y grafitero:

"Shockwaves first reverberated through Ise on April 23.
Written in thick, black marker on a guardrail on the road leading to the Ise Shrine was a shocking piece of graffiti that read: 'I'm going to rape Kyoko Sonobe.'
Kyoko Sonobe is, of course, a false name, but the actual name written in the graffiti belonged to a real person.
And she was a tiny young girl not even into her teens who had just graduated from elementary school less than one month earlier.
Similar obscene graffiti targeting young Kyoko was found in numerous other places near her Ise home.
'An identical scrawling was on the bonnet of the family car, which also had half its tires punctured,' a friend of the Sonobe family tells Shukan Shincho. 'The same graffiti was found on vending machines, a bus stop and on the wall of the Sonobe home. It was written all over the place.'
Any target of such vitriol would naturally be terrified, but it was especially frightening for pre-teen Kyoko.
Her enraged father raced around town scrubbing out the scrawlings, then reported the incident to the police. But the graffiti kept popping up.
'After about 10 days, the message changed to read 'I raped Kyoko Sonobe,'' the family friend says. 'A few days later, the graffiti became even coarser, saying things like 'I came inside her' and 'she's already pregnant.' All the messages had her real name in them.'
Kyoko's secret enemy had written messages that slurred her in about 50 prominent places, including near the junior high school she started attending in April. Some messages were wiped away only to return later.
Then, suddenly, the cops looking into the case got a break. On the night of May 22, they caught a middle-aged man walking around town with a huge, black marker identical to the one in which the graffiti ha"


y quien es el stalker??

He was promptly arrested, but crimefighters were shocked to learn the man in their custody who had been writing the heinous graffiti was Shigefumi Murai, Kyoko's sixth-grade teacher until she completed elementary school in March.

"Murai really adored Kyoko," one of the girl's classmates tells Shukan Shincho. "All the stuffed toys he'd get from the UFO Catcher he'd give to her."

Murai continued showering Kyoko with presents even after she'd finished elementary school and left his class.

"He sent Kyoko text messages lots of times, but she totally ignored them all," the school buddy says.

It seems the spurned advances sparked Murai's evil streak. The 49-year-old teacher leaped over the bounds of mere stalking and a Lolita complex, as the Japanese refer to pedophilia, to become little more than a common criminal, the weekly says.


MDN: WaiWai



Un noruego presenta una defensa peculiar para librarse del cargo de violación...

estaba dormido:



OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court has acquitted a man accused of raping a sleeping woman after he said he was also asleep at the time.

The 18-year old woman, who had gone to sleep dressed in trousers and a sweater on a sofa after a party with friends, awoke to find the 34-year-old man having sex with her. The man said he was woken by her screams for help.

"He said that he was asleep and the majority of the judges found that they could not rule out the possibility," defense lawyer Christian Riig told NRK public radio on Thursday.

The three-judge panel in the court in Inderoy, west Norway, acquitted him by a 2-1 margin because of doubts about whether he had been conscious.

Riig declined to speculate about how the man, who had been drinking, could have had sex in his sleep, apparently after undressing the woman. But he said an ex-partner of the man had testified by telephone that similar things had happened to her.


Yahoo! News - Man Acquitted of Rape; Says He Was Asleep



Considerada la mejor foto de violación a la ley en la historia:





me gusta pensar que es un final alterno a El principe de las marea... (surfs up dudes!!)



Galeria de Aoki Kazuya, fotografa de moda:




Aoki Kazuya photography



Portafolio en lina de Viktor Koen:



ViktorKoen.com - HOME


Robotmania.


Página en flash, ganadora de varios premios... acerca de juguetes antiguos




*** ROBOT::MANIA ***

orgullosamente hecha en México por CARACOL DISEÑO & MULTIMEDIA




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Desenfocado

Photoblog de Guillermo Ruiz... por qué será que la vida se ve mejor en blanco y negro....




Sobre Desenfocado

Bienvenid@ al fotolog de Guillermo Ruiz, lleno de fotos sin retoques, al natural, hechas con una Casio Exilim EX-Z4 y una Kodak DX7590.



Desenfocado

y de paso dense una vuelta al blog: Desenfocado, el weblog

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Wired 13.01: The Shadow Internet

Si alguna vez se han preguntado como funciona la piratería... la verdadera piratería en linea. No tiene nada que ver con Kazaa, Edonkey o el golpeado Bitorrent...





Tiene más que ver con camaras de miles de dolares, contactos en plantas de quemado de discos, empresas de mercadotecnia, y los muy secretos "top-sites".

Muy recomendado este artículo de Wired.

Aqui viene un mini esquema de la operación de pirateria:



Call it trickle-down file-sharing. The goods - a game, movie, song, or other piece of copyrighted media fall into an insider's hands. Then it's only a matter of hours before a drop becomes a tidal wave.

- Erik Malinowski

1. THE INSIDER
Industry and theater employees run their own straight-to-video operations. Hackers looking for prerelease videogames target company servers. And before that long-awaited CD hits Amazon.com, moles inside disc-stamping plants have already got a copy.

2. THE PACKAGER
The pirated goods are passed on to a release group. These groups take multi-gigabyte movie files and squeeze them down for easy online trading.

3. THE DISTRIBUTOR

Release groups are known to have exclusive relationships with certain so-called topsites. These are the highly secretive sites at the top of the distribution pyramid. When a topsite operator drops a file, the avalanche begins.

4. THE COURIERS
Alerted by release groups, worker bees spring into action, copying and transferring files from the topsites to lower-level dump sites, and then from there to P2P networks like Kazaa and Morpheus. For the couriers, the payoff is props from their peers and credits redeemable for goods on upper levels of the pyramid.

5. THE PUBLIC
After the file is copied thousands of times the P2P networks saturate, allowing casual file-traders easy access to the newest movies, music, and videogames.


Wired 13.01: The Shadow Internet

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Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Baby girl dies after being left in car for 12 hours as parents play pachinko

Yo siempre supe que ese maldito juego con balines era obra del diablo (estupidos padres que se dejan hipnotizar por algo tan idiota)




TSU — A 6-month-old baby girl died Tuesday after being left in a minivehicle for about 12 hours while her parents played pachinko, in Inabe, Mie Prefecture, police said Wednesday.

The parents told investigators that they started playing pachinko at around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, leaving their daughter in the car in the parking lot. The parents told the police they returned about 10 times to the car to check on the baby, but did not feed her as she seemed to be asleep, but at around 9:30 p.m. they realized something was wrong. (Kyodo News)



Japan Today - News - Baby girl dies after being left in car for 12 hours as parents play pachinko - Japan's Leading International News Network

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RezaAbedini.com

Galeria del trabajo gráfico de Reza Abedini:




RezaAbedini.com | Home

también existe un Quien es quien del poster iraní:

Rene Wanner's Poster Page / Who's Who in Iranian Posters

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2004 The Year in Pictures


El New York Times hace un recuento de 2004 con fotos.

las categorias son: Guerra en Irak, Nacional, Internacional, Campaña 2004, Nueva York y Deportes.

De las historias nacionales me gusto esta foto:




Es del funeral de Reagan.

Algo asi como Ha muerto Reagan... Larga Vida a Reagan... (Bush Jr. siendo el nuevo Reagan...)


The New York Times | Multimedia

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All About Nevada-tan: The Preteen Japanese Killer

Todo acerca de Nevada-tan...llamada asi por su sudadera y con el muy afectivo tan






Who is Nevada?

On Tuesday, 1 June 2004, an 11-year-old Japanese girl led 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai into an empty classroom. The girl slit Satomi's wrists with a box-cutter and slashed her throat open, then returned to her homeroom in bloodied clothes. Satomi died later that day.

The story, an unprecedented and grisly murder, was printed in newspapers around the world. However, nobody could have anticipated what happened next. On the Japanese side of the Internet, a class picture was discovered, and two of the girls stood out. On the far left, wearing glasses and a green sweatshirt, Satomi stood grinning, giving a victory sign to the camera. Right next to her, with an inexplicable expression on her face, stood the killer— Nevada.

For some reason, the specifics of the murder— a seemingly normal 11-year-old girl, with a box-cutter, in a Nevada sweatshirt— made a clear impression in communal consciousness of the Internet. In Japan, she was given the name "Nevada-tan"; "-tan" being the way a young child would pronounce the honorific "-chan", i.e., "Widdle Nevada".



update, comic de nevada-tan:






All About Nevada-tan: The Preteen Japanese Killer

link a wikipedia:

Nevada-Tan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Babes in Space

Una pequeña galeria de chicas en el espacio. Con diferentes categorias

ejemplo de robobabe:




Babes in Space

via metafilter

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Citas del día



Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."



Sir William Drummond

"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."



Emo Phillips

"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend."



Susan Ertz

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Wallpaper from the 70s, retro wallpaper

No cabe duda que estos tapices se ven mejor en sitios web que en las paredes de nuestra infancia...









Wallpaper from the 70s, retro wallpaper

via monkeyfilter

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ipod

Más ipods personalizados a los artistas:


New Apple Signature iPods


Thanks to the success of our Special Edition U2 iPod, a slew of other artists are now clamoring to have signature MP3 devices of their own. Pre-order your favorite today.










liebography: ipod

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Making Color Images from Prokudin-Gorskii's Negatives

Gracias a los ingeniosos negativos de Prokudin-Gorskii se pueden crear imagenes de color:



We know that Prokudin-Gorskii intended his photographic images to be viewed in color because he developed an ingenious photographic technique in order for these images to be captured in black and white on glass plate negatives, using red, green and blue filters. He then presented these images in color in slide lectures using a light-projection system [right] involving the same three filters.


Making Color Images from Prokudin-Gorskii's Negatives - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)


via metafilter

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Citas del día



Marshall McLuhan

"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."


From the 1985 movie "Bliss"

"The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer."



William Blake

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

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Monday, December 27, 2004

Communist Mario?

Super Mario... Super Stalin?



Video game heroes are traditionally people we would like to emulate. Sonic the Hedgehog is fast and quick-witted. The Contra commandos are total badasses, even if they die in 1 hit. And Link wields a cool sword and has a harem of hot fairy bitches waiting off of him. What kid worth his legos wouldn't want to be any of these fine role models? Why then, as their flagship hero, does Nintendo choose an overweight, big nosed plumber with an ungainly mustache and ridiculous suspenders? Why was this, the most unlikely heroic figure, chosen? Unusual yes…but deliberate? Looking at the evidence in light of this new Communist hidden agenda, the answer for this mystery is obvious. Mario, and his short-lived brother, are none other than cartoon representations of Joseph Stalin. Stalin was Russia's amicus humani, amor patriae or communist super man. So could this "super" Mario represent another "super" man? Well, that is for you to decide.
Communist Mario?

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FARK.com: (1266192) What if Bin Ladin stopped releasing tapes and started releasing albums? Link goes to cover-art inspiration

Concurso de Fark de portadas de musica, si Bin Laden hiciera musica:



FARK.com What if Bin Ladin stopped releasing tapes and started releasing albums

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Lemmings Suicide Myth

Ahora resulta que los lemmings no se suicidan... que todo empezó con un especial de naturaleza de Disney...

ah y aparentemente hoy es Dia Animal en ponchorama:



One myth deeply entrenched in our language is that of the "Lemming Suicide Plunge" - where lemmings, apparently overcome by deep-rooted impulses, deliberately run over a cliff in their millions, to be dashed to their deaths on the rocks below, or to drown in the raging ocean. Indeed, this myth is now a metaphor for the behaviour of crowds of people who foolishly follow each other, lemming-like, regardless of the consequences. This particular myth began with a Disney movie.


The myth of mass lemming suicide began when the Walt Disney movie, Wild Wilderness was released in 1958. It was filmed in Alberta, Canada, far from the sea and not a native home to lemmings. So the filmmakers imported lemmings, by buying them from Inuit children. The migration sequence was filmed by placing the lemmings on a spinning turntable that was covered with snow, and then shooting it from many different angles. The cliff-death-plunge sequence was done by herding the lemmings over a small cliff into a river. It's easy to understand why the filmmakers did this - wild animals are notoriously uncooperative, and a migration-of-doom followed by a cliff-of-death sequence is far more dramatic to show than the lemmings' self-implemented population-density management plan.

So lemmings do not commit mass suicide. Indeed, animals live to thrive and survive. Consider a company like Disney, where one rodent, namely Mickey Mouse, was Royalty. It's rather odd to think that Disney could be so unkind to another rodent, the lemming...




Great Moments in Science - Lemmings Suicide Myth

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Court Lets Man Change Name to 'Variable'

Un hombre se cambia de nombre a Variable...

esa no es la noticia. El nombre anterior del hombre era:

Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon

SANTA FE, N.M. - Just in time for Christmas, Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon got a gift from the state Court of Appeals: a name change. The Albuquerque resident's new name will be Variable.


The appeals court ruled this week that a state district judge in Bernalillo County didn't provide sufficient reason for denying Mokiligon's name change application.



Yahoo! News - Court Lets Man Change Name to 'Variable'

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Zoo to inseminate "love" birds

Siguendo en el tema de parejas del mismo sexo en zoologicos:





JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Johannesburg zoo plans to artificially inseminate a pair of female birds who appear to be lovers to help boost dwindling numbers of the endangered wattled crane species.

Staff at the zoo assumed Cherry and Amazona were lovers when they arrived earlier this year and charmed visitors with typical mating rituals -- including dancing, serenading one another with song and tossing sticks into the air.

Tests showed the pair were both females, but due to a shortage of male wattled cranes and the species' faithfulness to one partner, the zoo decided to artificially inseminate the birds so they could reproduce.

"They are very, very endangered in South Africa so we have to try to optimise the breeding potential," said Mike Hamon, bird curator at the zoo. "This pair formed a strong bond, and when we realised they were both ladies it seemed artificial insemination was the best option."

Hamon said artificially inseminating the birds was a tricky business and that experts from the United States would come and help.


Yahoo! News - Zoo to inseminate "love" birds

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Researchers find homosexual penguins in aquariums

Investigadores japoneses descubren parejas del mismo sexo entre pinguinos...





TOKYO — A group of researchers said it has found a number of same-sex pairs of penguins at aquariums and zoos in Japan. They found about 20 same-sex pairs at 16 facilities.

The group led by Keisuke Ueda, professor of behavioral ecology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, attributed the phenomenon to the difficulty of finding partners of the opposite sex because facilities only have an average of 20 birds. (Kyodo News)

Japan Today - News - Researchers find homosexual penguins in aquariums - Japan's Leading International News Network

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NBC.com > Late Night with Conan O'Brien > If They Mated

Conan O'Brien tiene la distinción de ser el graduado de Harvard más chistoso de la historia. Uno de los mejores y de menor gusto que tiene su programa es el llamado "If they mated"

en el cual se toma la foto de dos celebridades:




y luego como el mismo lo llama con tecnología computacional muy avanzada se llega a lo que seria el producto de la cruza de estas dos celebridades:





liga a los archivos de esta sección de Late Night con Conan O'Brien... que tiene en su curriculum el haber trabajado en un show de televisión que tal vez conozcan... Los simpson.
NBC.com > Late Night with Conan O'Brien > If They Mated

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Citas del día

Alfred Hitchcock

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."



Thomas H. Huxley

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."



W. C. Fields

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."



Evan Esar

"Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either."



Robert Heinlein


"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win."



Samuel Goldwyn

"Television has raised writing to a new low."



Martin Luther King Jr.

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."



Rita Rudner

"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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Friday, December 24, 2004

Sock city!!

La ciudad de los calcetines en China:




DATANG, China - You probably have never heard of this factory town in coastal China, and there is no reason why you should have. But it fills your sock drawer.

Datang produces an astounding nine billion pairs of socks each year - more than one set for every person on the planet. People here fondly call it Socks City, and its annual socks festival attracts 100,000 buyers from around the world.

Southeast from here is Shenzhou, which is the world's necktie capital. To the west is Sweater City and Kid's Clothing City. To the south, in the low-rent district, is Underwear City.

This remarkable specialization, one city for each drawer in your bureau, reflects the economies of scale and intense concentration that have helped turn China into a garment behemoth. On Jan. 1, a new trade regime will end the decades-old system of country-by-country quotas that divide the world's exports among roughly 150 countries. Now, China is banking on its immense size and efficient operators to grab an even larger share of the world's clothing orders.

Neither Adam Smith nor Karl Marx could possibly have imagined that this kind of capitalism would evolve from a communist system in quite this way, with an obscure town in the middle of nowhere becoming the world's socks capital. But these days, buyers from New York to Tokyo want to be able to buy 500,000 pairs of socks all at once, or 300,000 neckties, 100,000 children's jackets, or 50,000 size 36B bras. And increasingly, the places that best accommodate those kinds of orders are China's giant new specialty cities.







liga al New York times en linea... el articulo es mas un la sobreespecialización de la industria china, más sus subsidios van a convertir a China en el Número 1... buena lectura si estan interesados en comercio internacional... no muy bueno si son amantes de calcetines.

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The New York Times > Business > World Business > Made Elsewhere | Textile Enclaves: In Roaring China, Sweaters Are West of Socks City

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Scared of Santa photo gallery



Galeria de Santas que dan miedo:

dos de mis favoritos








Scared of Santa photo gallery

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Thursday, December 23, 2004

Idiomsite.com - Idioms and Sayings

Buena referencia para expresiones no tan comunes del idioma inglés. ejemplo:



Cup Of Joe
According to the June 2004 issue of Sea magazine (volume 96, no. 6, page
22): When Josephus Daniels became secretary of the Navy in 1913, he
prohibited alcohol aboard all U.S. Navy vessels - making coffee the
strongest drink that could be served on board. For that reason, sailors
started referring to a mug of strong coffee as "a cup of Joe".


Idiomsite.com - Idioms and Sayings

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PUBIC STENCILS



No es un error de dedo... Pubic Stencils




Browsing Store - PUBIC STENCILS

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Look at Me, a collection of found photos

El peligro de tirar fotos:




Look at Me, a collection of found photos
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también encontré esta página en argentina:




Fotos encontradas | Found photos

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Sex Offender

Una pequeña galeria con texto relacionado a la ofensa, o a burlarse del criminal en cuestion.





This is the face of a registered sex offender from Delaware. He was born on February 26th, 1990. He was convicted of unlawful sexual contact in the second degree on August 20th, 2001. He was eleven years old at the time. He was four feet eleven inches tall and weighed 85 pounds when they charged him.

A person is guilty of unlawful sexual contact in the second degree when the person intentionally has sexual contact with another person who is less than 16 years of age or causes the victim to have sexual contact with the person or a third person.





Sex Offender #19

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Enjoying Japanese Tale, Otogi Zoshi


Hospedado por la Universidad de Kyoto, Otogi Zoshi son historias japonesas ilustradas.

y ahora traducidas al inglés:



Long ago there lived a venerable Zen monk. He had diligently studied the teachings of the venerable Bodhidharma for more than 30 years and was proud that he had finally mastered his secrets. Becoming a monk means renouncing the world, so he built a small wagon, thinking that it would be bad to settle down in one place. During the day he would let his wagon take him around town and at night he would sleep in it, so people called him the "wagon monk."


Enjoying Japanese Tale, Otogi Zoshi -- Kyoto University Digital Library

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Slyck News - Top 10 Suprnova.org Alternatives



Con la muerte de Suprnova me siento obligado a poner esta lista de slyck News:


10 alternativas a suprnova:

Bt.etree.org
Torrentreactor.net
Torrentbits.org
Torrent.youceff.com
Code9-group.org
Lokitorrent.com
P2PForums.com
TvTorrents.net
BTefnet.com
Torrent.hackz.nl

Suprnova era la mejor compilación de torrents en la red. En especial de programas de televisión y documentales. Se le extrañara... pero finalmente hay alternativas.

Slyck News - Top 10 Suprnova.org Alternatives

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90 Days, 90 Photographs | Metafilter

Un excelento reto, tomar 90 fotos en 90 días




claro ayuda bastante si eres fotografo de national geographic...



Looking for the Summer 1-30

Chased By The Light

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Citas del día



John Burroughs

"It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."


Mary Wilson Little

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."


P. J. O'Rourke

"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

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Monday, December 20, 2004

::: COLORSTROLOGY :::

Que color pantone eres, basado en tu cumpleaños???




Doe??

es un ejemplo clásico de instant karma... por postear fotos de bebes...



::: COLORSTROLOGY :::

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Missing Angels

Buscando una imagen para ilustrar el post de Rodolfo el reno, me encontre con la imagen de un bebe, haciendo click en el link me mando a esta página:



con este texto abajo:

Stephen and Candy McVicar
Proud parents to Grace McVicar
Stillborn on December 20, 2001.


se me hizo algo curioso que alguien se apellidara Stillborn.... hasta que me acorde que era el termino de un bebe que nace muerto...

yikes.

Missing angels es una galeria de bebes que nacieron muertos... y los padres que los extrañan.

waaay to creepy


Image Gallery of Beautiful Stillborn Babies

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer


La verdadera historia del origen de Rodolfo el reno:




Claim: The character 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' was created for the Montgomery Ward group of department stores.

Status: True.

Origins: To most of us, the character of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — immortalized in song and a popular TV special — has always been an essential part of our Christmas folklore. But Rudolph is a decidedly twentieth-century invention whose creation can be traced to a specific time and person.

Rudolph But do you recall . . .came to life in 1939 when the Chicago-based Montgomery Ward company (operators of a chain of department stores) asked one of their copywriters, 34-year-old Robert L. May, to come up with a Christmas story they could give away to shoppers as a promotional gimmick. (The Montgomery Ward stores had been buying and giving away coloring books for Christmas every year, and May's department head saw creating a giveaway booklet of their own as a way to save money.) May, who had a penchant for writing children's stories and limericks, was tapped to create the booklet.



Urban Legends Reference Pages: Holidays (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)

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Chow Yun Fat en la secuela de los Piratas del Caribe???


Jack Sparrow ahora tiene seria competencia....



Hong Kong's Chow Yun-fat is set to star in the upcoming sequels of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, says Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily. Chow's wife, Jasmin Chan Wui-nin, said the actor will play the famous 19th century Chinese pirate Cheung Po Tsai for the second and third installments of the film. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley are expected to return in their roles.


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