Deathly Podium

According to International Amnesty the USA stays in the third place in the ranking of legal executions with it's 65 killings. Only China (726) adn Iran (108) have killed more people. It's at least curious that the only two occidental countries that still apply Death Penalty are Cuba and the USA.
When we review death penalty history in the USA we find that 113 people who were at first declared guilty and sentenced to DEATH were innocent (strictly not-guilty) in the past 31 years. These people at least were freed, but it can give us an idea of how many inocent people has been executed in the name of justice.
That's why the US deserves this bloody bronze medal.
You can get more data here and here

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I'm back
Unfortunately the weekend ended and I'm back here, so be ready to read more news here in the weblog

That's all folks
And this is everything until next week, I know you have enjoyed the weblog but I'm going to be out of town all the weekend.
Be good

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Are you bored of common signs? Have a look at these then

Just a few funny signs to see.

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Why do I need a password if I have a phone?

According to what this gadget's homepage say, it would be possible to buy bus tickets (the Spotcode in the pic) or even remotely control some of our domotic electronic devices at home. It uses multimedia handy cameras to recognise a 2D coded symbol, letting us do what that SpotCode allows to.
They show us some examples of use both in Bluetooth or GSM/GPRS mode.

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Edit: Lurking around for examples of this technology I have discovered that the 2D code used depends on a third company Bango

Sometimes jokes are disgusting

What's the point of this? I cannot find anything funny in what these guys are doing. Why would someone make a parody of the tortures at Abu Graib prison. Judge yourself:
Real photos
The lame parody pics

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Nice soccer field in Greece. This can explain why the Greek Team is not as good as others in europe (only joking). Original story in FlyingChair

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Google^-1 quiz project

Just spent a couple of minutes playing with it, try to complete the quiz without using Google

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Owned by Rugrat

Virii writers created the first virus for 64bit systems (though it's also capable to infect 32bit systems). The name of this new electronic pet is Rugrat.
We knew it would happen, but I thought it would take a few more time.

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Forelle time

Ladies and gentlemen, after this short break I'm ppleasured to present you Forelle
Little I can say about this gorgeous band if you don't hear them.
You can download free mp3 and lyrics in their homepage:
Forelle_-_Fractions.mp3

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Gadgets Weblog but ... only for girls?

Looking at this page you could believe that women's handies most important feature is the mirror. It's funny to see how technology can be presented in a Cosmopolitan way.
I'm afraid it has too pink for me.

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500 MD == 1 iPod || Hello iPod, GoodBye MD
Hello iPod
It seems Apple is not going to give the portable mp3 market to Sony for free. Their Japanese site clearly shows it's strategy.
Apple publicists only needed a couple of words to make all the campaign Goodbye MD.

Stats give us the idea at a glance.
And NO, the English version of Apple's home doesn't show any of these ads

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I have been thinking on various ways to improve a little bit this weblog's appearance and it's browsability and I have wonder how the different browsers handle it. Doing a search for internet browsers I have come to a web that offers this as an online service. iCapture lets us see how Safari 1.2 handles it. Not far from that page I found another service where I could test it in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and Opera 7.23.
More than a 99% of the people who will ever browse this blog will use one of the these, but I have also done some tests in OffbyOne, Lynx on a remote shell, Lynx for w32 and even with Winamp.

Last but not least, I have captured a IOD-4 screen. Nice, isn't it?

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And the dream came true

If you ever invented a robot that could bring you a cold beer and also sweeps the cigarettes people throw to the floor I'm pretty sure you will also call it Party Bot

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Thanks God They didn't use this game in the test when I got my driving license, I'm sure I would have had some serious problems.
You can even learn to park a caravan and vote for the next game they can develop

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Now that we are talking about soda, have you ever wondered how do Americans call it? In case you have, I doubt it btw, you can find a complete study here

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As new worms and virus are spreading, specially among Windows systems I've collected some live-scan links that will diagnosticate wether you are infected or not.
Symantec
Panda Activescan
McAffee
Norton Sygate
Trend Housecall

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Don't drink too much soda or...

It sounds like a joke but it's as real as beer. A group of German mothers have joined under the name MAPSU because they do not want to clean their male children bathroom. Medical studies say that urine gets too sticky and degrades (with the odour it carries) faster due to the high sugar concentration it has, probably caused for drinking too much hicarb soda. The solution they have found is that bathrooms are kept cleaner if they pee sitting.
Now I say you Mapsu mothers, why don't you better try to give water or milk to your children instead of letting them drink so much soda?

Al'Sadr offers the peace to the US

Could this be the beginning of the end of this illegal war? I trully hope so, even if GW Bush gets proffit from it.

Edit: US seems to have accepted the terms of Al'Sadr offer to stop hostillities. Let's see if they can mantain their word

It seems Singapore has lifted the ban on chewing gum. Maybe they have been pressed by the gum removal companies that were missing the 150M pounds they earn each year in the UK cleaning or they just want to place celebrity targets like they did in London.
I read about the ban lift in Fark 

You can use The Web Stalker if you want to make your own internet map, a browser that includes mapping functions.

Have you ever got lost while browsing? Wish you had a map of the whole internet? Well, there are several 'maps' out there. Don't expect anything from them but understanding how the net is distributed and how it evolves.

We can find it in 3D, showing us the conections among countries,
Maybe you want to see how it is in Thailand or in North America
And YES, they also have internet in Africa
And you can even buy a poster, or other goodies
There are other representations in this gallery and if you want to go deeper into internet's topology representations you should learn some Cybergeography

American Way of Life. Visions by Slowinski 

Some wise man said that a nothing was great until it someone versioned it, according to that Mona Lisa must be one of the best artworks ever done. We can find lots of different versions, some painting the walls
Or even disguised like Janet Jackson, in a Comedy of Art style

Here you can find some of these artwork. Be sure to check the links to see hundreds of different Gioconda's smiles. 

Portrait machine

In these times of Terror Color Alert codes should be interesting to know how to make a robot portrait of the terrorist we have just seen on the street, it could earn some time to the police. Here you have an online tool for making them, it's called Flashface. 

Let me piss on it

I'm pretty sure you saw those Rolling Stones like mouth urinaries Virgin tried to mount on their planes. Those were not the only original ones, several designers around the globe are trying to convert our bathrooms into musseums.

Bathroom Mania is a Dutch company that have some proposals, but we can also take bathroom design as a joke like some others do.

I thought chatting bots were obsolete, but I have found that they are quite wiser than a few years ago. http://www.alicebot.org/ is a good example. There you can find a good bot compilation. You can have a free conversation here 

Have a look at this gorgeous video that supposedly announces http://www.tv-robotics.co.za though this page doesn't seem to work. It's in Quicktime format, but it's worth watching.

Googlebombing the Sgae 

Googlebombing?

Everybody is doing it, so why not helping them?
Open Google and do a search for the word "ladrones" (thieves in Spanish) click then the lucky button, the result is as funny as true. It redirects your browser to the official web of the Sgae (Spanish RIAA)

As you may have guessed it's not the only googlebomb, so I'm copying some of this curious searches for you:

"encontrar un trabajo digno con un sueldo decente" (findind a decent and well paid job)
"miserable failure"
"Buffone
"Aznar"

And yes, it also works with the image search Google offers us -> Facce da culo" shows us a nice pic of the Italian prime minister.

You can find more information about this in several media, from weblogs like the great Boing-Boing to Internet's Wikipedia

Edit: Another great weblog talking about it Spitting-Image

This is the NewsMap generated by Marumuchi A nice way to be informed at a glance 

Here begins this weblog

Everybody ask me why do I want to make a weblog if we can browse others like Spitting-Image, Boing-Boing or Metafilter in which we can find almost everything we want. The answer is simple, my long term temporal memory is as bad as it can be, so whenever I want to review a post I saw in a blog I usually have to browse hundreds of pages before finding it, I thought having my own scrapbook could simplify this tedious job a little.

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