CopyFight!

Debate at Cornell. Real stream here.

Kaput

Whew. It seems like the guys at Guardian Unlimited have been doing their homework lately. Yet another interesting article from them.

Well, how will it all end? I vote human stupidity, so among all the options portrayed by the Guardian, terrorism and nuclear war are in my opinion the worst. Viral pandemic and climate change are in the like, though.

{I´m still thinking on the last one! Some of the comments about what everybody should know about science are interesting, and almost all are amusing. For some reason I can´t take out of my head the words of one of them talking about how science can help as to live in a better way in this pointless universe...}

Life Lessons

What is the one thing everyone should learn about science? Spiked asked 250 scientists. The Guardian published some of the most provocative responses here.

*Hope

I had a couple of beers last night, enough for me to be on a hangover today. While looking up to the roof, I realized that my imaginary friend was an imaginary number.

1up! Seven deadly sins. Sins! Fuck. I`m in love. No wait. I`m drunk.

Sonata in F

-Wake up!
-(I´m more awake that you will ever be.)

Alfredo, missing. The pope, dead & buried. Obrador, jail? (wtf) Eclipse at 2:00 pm.

Giving flyers away in the streets of the city this morning. Temperature: 35 °C.

I have a huge headache.

Update

"One Hundred Years of Uncertainty". Nice article of Brian Greene @ NYT

Goa-Psy Freak. Yet another lonely friday. Bed Stories.

David Stove.

And, that´s all for tonight.

One more last thing. Oh, C´mon, it is SANS!

Dr. Bob

I have no sense of humor.

Geek-asting

I know, I know dear hypotetic reader. It is not your fault that I write about tech, and that I´m on my "casting" phase, but this collection of podcasts seems to be worth listening.

Don´t do it, though. Wait until I pick the best ones. Oh weell do it! Fine! Don´t wait! :P

The Silk Road Ensemble

Here is the preview of the new album of Yo-Yo-Ma. I love Mohini (enchantment).

This is bizarre. A coworker is missed/lost/ since saturday. The one who covered public safety and narcotrafic.

Ugh. >:*(

Ces´t moi*

(and my safety blanket)

!!!!

Black Holes "do not exist".

Pulitzer

Nick Anderson won the Pulitzer this year for editorial cartooning.

Other winners here.

Dolls

Last night, I saw a wonderful movie by Takeshi Kitano. I thought it was beautiful, but, as it often happen, I was left to see it by myself as everyone else thought it was too weird.

Here is the link to it.

déjà vu

According to Scientific American.

Hereje

¿Y si aboliéramos la religión?

Drencrom Lollipop

"This learned veck said the usual veshces, about no parental discipline, as he called it, and the shortage of real horrorshow teachers who would lambast bloody beggary out of their innocent poops and make them go boohoohoo for mercy. All this was gloopy and made me smeck, but it was like nice to go on knowing one was making the news all the time, O my brothers. Every day there was something about Modern Youth, but the best veshch they ever had in the old gazetta was by some starry pop in a doggy collar who said that in his considered opinion, and he was govoreeting as a man of Bog, IT WAS THE DEVIL THAT WAS ABROAD and was like ferreting his way into like young innocent flesh, and it was the adult world that could take the responsibility for this with their wars and bombs and nonsence. So that was all right. So he knew what he talked of, being a Godman. So we young innocent malchicks could take no blame. Right right right."

A Clockwork Orange, Page 41.

Klimt

The book archive

Math, Physics & Computer Science. So many things, so little time. Access here.

Feynman

PDF´s & mp3´s here.

Hoy, precisamente hoy, se tenían que haber descompuesto mis audífonos.

Regalos

Un caballito de mar. Un beso. Una perversión.

Un sueño. Varios. Una mirada. Un arranque de llanto.

Una canción. Un roce. Una nube. Un garabato. Una llamada a medianoche.

Una ilusión. Una primera vez. Tres deseos.

Un infierno. Un paraíso. Una fantasía. Dos.

Está bien. Pueden quedarse con todo.

Pero por favor.

Devuélvanme el pedacito de alma.

Oldie but Goodie

Microsoft Acquires Nothing

Fake News written by James Baughn on September 9, 1998
from the pigs-are-flying dept.

REDMOND, WA -- In an unprecedented move, Microsoft refrained from acquiring any rival companies for a full week. "I can't believe it," one industry analyst noted. "This is the first time in years that I haven't read any headlines about Microsoft acquiring something."

The lack of Microsoft assimilation this week left a vacuum in computer industry publications. "Microsoft acquisition stories make up 10% of our headlines," an editor at Ziff-Slavis said. "We had to scramble to fill this void. We ran some controversial Jessie Burst columns instead, hoping that we could recoup ad revenue from people reading all the flames in the Talk Back forums. Jessie Burst forums account for 15% of our total ad revenue."

InfoPlanet also faced a small crisis in filling its headlines. "We were so desperate for news that we ran a story about Mark McGwire. Since the groundskeeper who caught home run 62 uses Linux at home, we were able to justify this as computer news. Sort of. Okay, maybe not."

Industry pundits are at a loss to explain the cease in Microsoft acquisitions. "They can't innovate products by themselves. They have to acquire ideas from other companies. If Microsoft doesn't start assimilating some more companies soon, they could be in big trouble," Bob Y. Cringely said. Another pundit observed, "Bill must be on vacation or something. This can't be right. Maybe Microsoft is worried about the upcoming anti-trust court case? I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't acquired a couple of Seattle law firms yet."

@Found it while making a compilation of recent MS acquisitions at Humorix.org.