tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71189362024-03-07T10:11:53.443+01:00RscThe bilingual alternative to your current newsfeedprihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1132253790442233702005-11-17T19:56:00.000+01:002006-02-04T02:56:37.520+01:00<font size="3"><b>Targeting teenagers</b></font><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.ep.tc/intro.html" target="_blank"><img alt="grenada_instrucciones_comunistas.jpg" src="http://www.spitting-image.net/archives/grenada_instrucciones_comunistas.jpg" width="320" height="161" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br />It's well known that propaganda makers (either institutional or commercial) often target children and teenagers as they are easier to convince and they tend to keep the ideas they have assimilated while young all over their life. It's also true that we usually associate the word 'propaganda' with communist regimes, though most countries, either commies or not, use it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ep.tc/intro.html" target="_blank">Ethan Persoff</a> has compiled some American comics writen with different purposes, for example <a href="http://www.ep.tc/hooked" target="_blank">keeping teenagers away from drugs</a><br /> or making them <a href="http://www.ep.tc/grenada" target="_blank">support the invasion of Grenada</a>.<br /><br /><font size="1">Via: <a href="http://absencito.blogspot.com/2005/11/un-tebeo-de-la-cia-estos-tipos-son.html" target="_blank">El blog ausente</a></font><br /><div class="media">[Escuchando: drop it on me (ft daddy yankee - <a href="http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=ricky+martin">ricky martin</a> - life (3:54)]</div>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1132248977277010352005-11-17T18:36:00.000+01:002005-11-17T18:40:14.526+01:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Roll, roll down the hill</b></span><br /><a href="http://www.miniclip.com/streetluge/streetluge.htm"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 2px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/streetluge.jpg" target="_blank" border="0" /></a><br />A racing 3D flash game. Kinda difficult, kinda nice.<br /><div class="media">[Escuchando: Are U Comin' - <a href="http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=+Moodorama+"> Moodorama </a> - (5:28)]</div>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1132196306130139542005-11-17T03:58:00.000+01:002005-11-17T04:03:51.083+01:00<font size="3"><b>Admitance after denial (or the nth Iraq tale)</b></font><br /><a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4442988.stm'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/phosphorus.jpg' target="_blank"></a><br />Saint Peter denied knowing Jesus three times, the USA denied several times the use of white phosphorous bombs (napalm like devices) in the raid for Fallujah but <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4442988.stm" target="_blank">has been finally forced to admit they employed this chemical weaponry</a>.<br /><br />Sometimes we know the truth only when witnesses and proofs are too evident to be hidden, and this is the case.<br /><br />Take a look at the video that started everything: <a href="http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/default_02112005.asp" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><font size="1">Previously discussed <a href="http://rsc112.blogspot.com/2005/11/oops-they-did-it-again-no-its-not-new.html" target="_blank">here</a></font><br /><div class="media">[Escuchando: Lo Que Me Gusta A Mi - <a href="http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=Juanes">Juanes</a> - Mi Sangre (3:30)]</div>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1132033282298144452005-11-15T06:41:00.000+01:002005-11-15T06:42:16.363+01:00<font size="3"><b>Spacecraft's pocket guide</b></font><br /><a href='http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Home/SEMN5N2PGQD_0.html'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/corv_78_L.jpg' target="_blank"></a><br />So you want to be an astronaut? Then this might be useful for you: <a href="http://www.arianespace.com/site/documents/Ariane5_users_manual_Issue4.pdf" target="_blank">Ariane 5 User's Manual</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Access_to_Space/ASEVLU0TCNC_0.html" target="_blank">Ariane 5</a> is the <a href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html" target="_blank">ESA</a>'s (<a href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html" target="_blank">European Space Agency</a>) most advanced launcher, until 2007 at least when <a href="http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Access_to_Space/ASEKMU0TCNC_0.html" target="_blank">Vega</a> is planned to make its first launch, and is also the launcher that can put the highest payload in orbit, 6 tonnes.<br /><br />~ I suppose it's not the only user manual as my car's one has almost the same amount of pages.<br /><div class="media">[Escuchando: Hung Up - <a href="http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=Madonna">Madonna</a> - Confessions On A Dance Floor (5:37)]</div>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1131994322904170082005-11-14T19:52:00.000+01:002005-11-14T20:02:15.166+01:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Making grotesque beautiful</b></span><br /><a href="http://www.saudek.com/en/Jan/Fotky.html"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 2px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/01-08.jpg" target="_blank" border="0" /></a><br />That's what Jan Saudek does. The galleries could be NSFW though they are not sex explicit, but what it's important is that they are great.<br /><div class="media">[Escuchando: Off The Wall, November 1, 2005 - <a href="http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=Emmanuel+Goldstein">Emmanuel Goldstein</a> - (1:02:08)]</div>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1131712961442573452005-11-11T13:34:00.000+01:002005-11-11T13:42:41.716+01:00Free .be domains<div align="center"><img border="'0'" style="'border:1px" src="http://domainleases.biz/pics/Domain-Leases-01.jpg" /></div><br />I just want to point all of you that you can now access this weblog using the following url:<br /><span style="color:#FF0000;"><b><div align="center">http://rsc112.be</div></b></span><br /><br />Anyone who wants to get a free .be (Belgium) domain can check for it's availability and acquire it completely free in any of these providers:<br /><div align="center">http://www.eurodns.com<br />http://e3internet.ru<br />http://www.e3internet.com/domain-registration/conditions/register-be</div><br /><br />*Maximun 10 domains per human being :)prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1131462858854511552005-11-08T16:14:00.000+01:002005-11-08T16:22:52.866+01:00<font size="3"><b>Oops, they did it again</b></font><br /><a href='http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/default_02112005.asp'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/napalm.jpg' target="_blank"></a><br />No, it's not the new Britney Spear's song. If the information RAI News, the public Italian TV channel, is correct the USA would have used chemical weapons during the Fallujah raid.<br /><br />The USA army supposedly used the white phosphorous bomb named<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/mk77.htm" target="_blank"> MK77-5</a><br /><br />It's not the first time we hear news about the use of napalm in Iraq <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/21/1047749944836.html?oneclick=true" target="_blank">March/2003</a>, <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20030805-9999_1n5bomb.html" target="_blank">August/2003</a> or <a href="http://vitw.org/archives/878" target="_blank">March/2005</a>.<br />--<br /><font size="1">View or download the video: <a href="http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/default_02112005.asp" target="_blank">here</a> (either in English or Italian).</font><br /><font size="1">Full article: <a href="http://www.rai.it/news/articolornews24/0,9219,4201030,00.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</font>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1131448269007622382005-11-08T12:11:00.000+01:002005-11-08T12:11:09.090+01:00<font size="3"><b>France is burning, vive la France!</b></font><br /><a href='http://'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/06.jpg' target="_blank"></a><br />Almost six thousand cars torched, hundreds of people arrested, buildings and schools burned down and having this riots spreading across France tell us one thing: the French model of an illustrated society has collapsed.<br /><br />A lot of European countries (Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, ...) usually took France as a reference in how to handle inmigration, this situation, which was predicted by several people like Polanyi, and now they are witnessing the situation in France without hiding their fear of the revolts crossing the unexistant borders.<br /><br /><font size="1"><a href="http://www.elmundo.es/albumes/2005/11/02/disturbios_paris/index.html" target="_blank">Images</a></font><br /><font size="1"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4416728.stm" target="_blank">Full story</a></font>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1128718355457985322005-10-07T22:48:00.000+02:002005-10-07T22:58:21.596+02:00Hundreds of inmigrants left to die in the middle of the Sahara desert<a href='http://www.informativos.telecinco.es/reproductor_video.htm?idSkin=218&urlVideo=mms://media.telecinco.es/telecinco/informativos/informativos_ba/051004reportaje.wmv' target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/melilla.jpg" alt="Melilla assault"></a><br /><br />As most of the readers are overseas won't probably heared about the massive tryings of sub-saharan inmigrants to cross the fences that stand as borders of the Spanish' colonies of Ceuta and Melilla using homemade stairs in a XV century-like assault to a fortress.<br /><br />Those who were arrested by the Moroccan police were inmediately being deported to the near town Oujda, in Algeria, were they found their way to cure their wounds (sometimes as results of the jump over a 6 meters fence with barbedwire and several times inflicted by the always agressive Moroccan police), recover some strength and try again to jump the fences that separate the two Spanish, ergo European, colonies from Morocco.<br /><br />Things seem to have changed now that Spain and Morocco have signed a treaty that allows the first country to inmediately deport all the inmigrants that are arrested just after the jump into Spanish territory. Some non governmental/non proffit organizations like <a href='http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=CB96C938-E018-0C72-09798CE0BD3E6548&component=toolkit.pressrelease&method=full_html'>Doctors Without Borders (MSF)</a> denounce that hundreds of inmigrants have been left to die in the middle of the Sahara desert without food and water by the Moroccan forces.<br /><br />Hang on as I'll be updating the news concerning this subject.<br /><br />Click <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4319828.stm' target="_blank">here</a> to read the news in English.<br /><br />Click <a href='http://www.informativos.telecinco.es/reproductor_video.htm?idSkin=218&urlVideo=mms://media.telecinco.es/telecinco/informativos/informativos_ba/051004reportaje.wmv' target="_blank">here</a> for a video stream showing one of the assaults.<br /><br />Click <a href='http://www.cadenaser.com/player.html?audioFile=20051007csrcsrnac_5.Aes' target="_blank">here</a> to hear the interview (Spanish only, sorry) of a MSF head talking about the subject.<br /><a href='http://www.informativos.telecinco.es/reproductor_video.htm?idSkin=218&urlVideo=mms://media.telecinco.es/telecinco/informativos/informativos_ba/051007abandonados.wmv' target="_blank">Here</a> you can find a video covering the news.<br /><br />~ Imagining a caravan of trucks full of these inmigrants reminds me to the nazi trains full of jews heading death camps. The problem is that I bet nobody will remember this humanitarian crime in a few years (just the same way people seem to have forgotten the rest of the ethnic groups who were massacred in the holocaust like gypsies, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Estonians, ...).<br /><br />~ I wonder if Spain should be accused of breaking the UN Convention Against Torture treaty for deporting all these inmigrants to a country that is known for using extreme violence against its own citizens and inmigrants on their soil.prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1127752774164508852005-09-26T18:31:00.000+02:002005-09-26T18:39:34.170+02:00What do you need to become a F1 World Champion<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/1592005175751.jpg" alt="Azafata tetas"><br />1.- It's important to take a vision test.prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1126625572798592122005-09-13T17:32:00.000+02:002005-09-13T17:32:52.853+02:00<font size="3"><b>Another time wasting tool for politicians?</b></font><br /><a href="http://www.elmundo.es/documentos/2005/09/espana/congreso/consola.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/congreso_diputados.jpg" alt="Congreso de los diputados multimedia" border="0"></a><br />Spanish politicians have finished their holidays today and they have been welcomed to the Congress of Deputees by a shiny 15'' TFT screen showing a personalized Windows XP desktop.<br /><br />It is supposed to help them read/write transcripts, have remote assistance from their team and gather instant information about whatever is being discussed in the Congress and I'm pretty sure they will have hard policies implemented, but after seeing it I have some questions flying around my head:<br /> - How long will it take until a journalist takes and publish a pic of a deputee playing some kind of videogame or surfing sex sites?<br /> -How long will it take until we see these computers infected by some kind of malware?<br /> - Will they use it's idle processor time to contribute to any of the <a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Computer_Science/Distributed_Computing/Projects/" target="_blank">distributed computing projects</a> that are around there (<a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank">SETi</a>, <a href="http://folding.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Folding@Home</a>, <a href="http://climateprediction.net/" target="_blank">ClimatePrediction</a>, ...)?<br /><br />Time will tell us.<br /><br /><font size="1">Click on the pic if you want to see the <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/documentos/2005/09/espana/congreso/consola.html" target="_blank">terminal in detail</a></font>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1126566823164894992005-09-13T01:13:00.000+02:002005-09-13T01:13:43.210+02:00<font size="3"><b>When rumble cannot hide beauty</b></font><br /><a href="http://www.feromono.com/artistik/index.php" title="Feromono's Greenpeace campaign gallery" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/Greenpeace_Bose04.jpg" border="0"></a><br />Great photographs but... does showing nude top models in rumble scenarios like those help gathering funds for Greenpeace?<br /><br />Anyways, click on the pic to surf to Feromono's gallery of this Greenpeace campaign. The models are Verónica Blume, Martina Klein, Nieves Alvarez, Esther Cañadas, Almudena Fernández, Vanessa Lorenzo, Vanessa Vasbert, Estefanía Luyk and Laura Sánchez among others.prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1126561540119957002005-09-12T23:45:00.000+02:002005-09-12T23:45:40.176+02:00<font size="3"><b>Date 9/11/2001 - Location: Baghdad, Iraq</b></font><br /><blockquote>- “How long do you think before they bomb us?”<br />- “But it wasn’t us. It can’t be us…” I rationalized.<br />- “It doesn’t matter. It’s all they need.”</blockquote><br />And it was true. It began with Afghanistan and then it was Iraq.<br /><br />Four years later and the War on Terror (or is it the War of Terror?) has been won:<br />Score:<br />Al-Qaeda – 3,000<br />America – 100,000+<br /><br />Congratulations!<br /><br /><hr><br />This is a rip-off the story I have just read at <a href="http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#112647459352403679" target="_blank">Baghdad Burning</a>. Follow the link to read the full story as I'm sure it will make you think.prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1126366429573571372005-09-10T17:33:00.000+02:002005-09-10T17:33:49.643+02:00<font size="3"><b>With or without quotation marks?</b></font><br /><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/comillas.jpg"><br />It's your choice.<br /><br /><font size="1">Via: <a href="http://www.escolar.net/MT/archives/2005/09/el_desastre_de.html" target="_blank">Escolar</a></font>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1126282530034968112005-09-09T18:15:00.000+02:002005-09-09T18:15:30.093+02:00<a href="http://glennferon.com/portfolio1/index.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/glennzapsmall2.gif" border="0"></a><br />Spots, lines, ... do you have anything you want to get rod of your pics? Give a try to <a href="http://glennferon.com.nyud.net:8090/portfolio1/index.html" target="_blank">Glenn C.Feron's</a> make-up service.<br />Satisfaction guaranteed.prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1126181448353468132005-09-08T14:10:00.000+02:002005-09-08T14:10:48.356+02:00<font size="3"><b>Security != --Liberties</b></font><br /><div align="center"><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/BsAsLifeIsFreedom.jpg"></div><br />There are hundres of thing Europe can and should copy from the USA, but trading liberties and cutting down fundamental rights for more security is definitely not one of them.<br /><br />It's clear that we must do whatever is in our hands to, using Clarke's own words, "defend our values of respect of tolerance of freedom and democracy against any who wish to destroy or replace them with some other doctrine, particularly if they seek to use violence to promote their ambition", but deportation laws like the ones he wants to be approved or the retention of all-type communications is not a good way of defending them.<br /><br />Some politicians don't seem to understand that human rights apply to everybody, including terrorists, and that, as the graffiti in the pic says "life is freedom", and there's no life without it.<br /><br /><font size="1">More info: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/07092005/323/clarke-presses-fellow-eu-states-tougher-terror.html" target="_blank">Yahoo News</a></font><br /><font size="1">Via: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/07/lib_security_trade/" target="_blank">The Register</a></font><br /><font size="1">Photograph Via: <a href="http://marginallife.blogspot.com/2005/04/buenos-aires-graffiti.html" target="_blank"> The noise of a marginal life</a></font><br /><font size="1">Also published at: <a href="http://www.spitting-image.net/archives/003733.html" target="_blank">Spitting-Image</a></font>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1125914968995203602005-09-05T11:41:00.000+02:002005-09-05T12:09:29.953+02:00FATx/NTFS is dead, hello WinFS<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/winFS.jpg" alt="WinFS Beta"><br /><br />Microsoft has made available <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/WinFS/default.aspx">Windows Future System</a> (WinFS) beta through msdn (80'2MB), the new Windows filesystem is intended to be introduced with the recently named Windows Vista.<br /><br />At first glance it wil allow upgrade the previous file systems bringing a better handling of structured and unstructured data, allowing symbolic links, removing the 26 drives limitation, ... However there are several comments that point that it makes almost impossible the coexistance of different operating systems in the same volume.<br /><br />This beta is focused to developers, who will be able to use its unified Item Data Model across applications, present new relational organization constructs for data, and create applications that exploit data more powerfully. WinFS is a development platform that will improve developer productivity and reduce organizations' time to market. It requires Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed. WinFS Beta 1 will install on other editions of Windows XP such as Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition, but is only supported on Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition though it only provides local access if installed in home ed .<br /><br />You can watch a 58 minute video with a WinFS demonstration at <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=106356">Channel9</a>.prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1125661131072811822005-09-02T13:38:00.000+02:002005-09-02T13:38:51.116+02:00<font size="3"><b>So far, so near</b></font><br />Although I've been reading and watching the news about Katrina's hurricane, I had the movie-like image the news are showing (aerial photographs, military and police trucks and helicopters rescuing people, ...) and I didn't realize how bad were thing going there.... until a few hours ago.<br /><br />I got a phone call from a friend who was "stored" (that's the word he used) without protection, water, food or medical services in a convention center with some other thousands of people. We couldn't talk me a lot in the 1'23'' the call lasted, but it allowed me to see what's happening there under another perspective.<br /><br />After the call I digged the network for more information but I was kinda surprised of the lack of information and the few news sources I could find considering this catastrophe is happening in a First World country like the USA. I don't believe news agencies don't have interest or money to cover this news so I have to ask myself if they are using some kind of selfcensorship like they did on 9-11.<br /><br />Sometimes a call can force you to open your eyes and see what it's really happening out there.<br /><br />Flickr gallery of the disaster - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrina/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><font size="1">Also published: <a href="http://www.spitting-image.net/archives/003698.html" target="_blank">here</a></font>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1119572275249531532005-06-24T02:17:00.000+02:002005-06-24T02:17:55.316+02:00<font size="3"><b>Everything you wanted to know about flies but you never dare to ask</b></font><br /><a href="http://www.ento.csiro.au/biology/fly/fly.html" target="_blank"><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/mosca.jpg"></a><br />CSIRO Entomology hosts an online Anatomical Atlas of Australian flies. Really didcatic.<br /><br /><font size="1">Via: <a href="http://www.electricedge.com/greymatter/" target="_blank">Gordon.Coale</a></font>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1119500879217983072005-06-23T06:27:00.000+02:002005-06-23T06:27:59.260+02:00<font size="3"><b>When torture is an inspiration</b></font><br /><a href="http://www.revistadiners.com.co/noticia.php3?nt=24663" target="_blank"><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/Botero44B.jpg"></a><br />Artists are sensible by definition as they have to express their feelings in their artwork, that's why every disturbing event can become a source of inspiration, the seed they will make a piece of art.<br /><br />When Fernando Botero saw the <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444" target="_blank">AbuGhraib episodes</a> of torture he was so impressed that he began to paint the scenes in his particular World.<br /><br />He has not be the first nor the only one to reproduce the abuses in their works:<br /><a href="http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/mumford/mumford10-5-17.asp" target="_blank">Sculpture by Abdul Karim Khalil</a><br /><a href="http://www.criticarte.com/Images/Images2005/ElPerro.Democracy05.jpg" target="_blank">Colectivo El Perro "Democracia 05"</a><br />...prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1119399559190465932005-06-22T02:19:00.000+02:002005-06-22T02:19:19.246+02:00<font size="3"><b>So you are a wanabee doctor?</b></font><br /><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/brain-knot.gif"><br />Either you are interested in medicine or not you can try to answer NCEMI's weekly cases.<br />Each one provides a hint and the correct answer, see how many can you guess.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ncemi.org/xrotw/datafiles/0023.htm" target="_blank">X-Ray test</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ncemi.org/cotw/datafiles/0021.htm" target="_blank">Photographic test</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ncemi.org/ekgotw/datafiles/0032.htm" target="_blank">EKG test</a> (by far the most difficult of all for non initiated)prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1117076249305835462005-05-26T04:57:00.000+02:002005-05-26T04:58:46.746+02:00<font size="3"><b>Don't dry clean your clothes with gasoline!!</b></font><br /><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://ia108621.us.archive.org/1/items/more_dangerous_then_dynamite/more_dangerous_then_dynamite.thumbs/more_dangerous_then_dynamite_00000006.jpg"><br />According to this <a href="http://ia108621.us.archive.org/1/items/more_dangerous_then_dynamite/" target="_blank">movie</a>, using flammable liquids for dry cleaning was a quite common back in the 30s.<br /><div class="media">[Escuchando: Lija y terciopelo - <a href="http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=Marea">Marea</a> - La patera (4:36)]</div>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1115192803084706352005-05-04T09:46:00.000+02:002005-05-04T10:06:09.476+02:00<font size="3"><b>Tips to know a web can be a scam</b></font><br /><a href="http://www.johnpaulbracelet.com/" target="_blank"><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/papacondon.jpg"></a><br />Imagine a website announced in <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/papacondonad.jpg" target="_blank">Google-ads</a> (something that gives a false sense of confidence in some people) that sells Joh Paul II memorial gifts like a T-shirt and a bracelet. You might avoid the fact that the website seems to have been made in less than five minutes and you might want to buy one of those precious items and wait 4-6 weeks for delivery 'Due to the high demand for this bracelet' but just one second before pressing the Add to Cart button you see a pic the catches your attention:<br /><br />There's a pic of the Pope wearing a <a href="http://www.durex.com" target="_blank">Durex</a> t-shirt!!!!<br /><br />It seems these guys have made a search in Google images for JPII pics and they took the first that came out.<br /><br />Kinda lame, isn't it?<br /><div class="media">[Escuchando: Leave me alone - <a href="http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=+Natalie+Imbruglia+"> Natalie Imbruglia </a> - (4:21)]</div>prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1115057234880216032005-05-02T19:56:00.000+02:002005-05-02T20:07:14.880+02:00Dark humour<a href="http://www.theonion.com/history/index.php?issue=4117"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/image_article2841_250x250.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"></a><br />Sometimes there's no better way of understanding the magnitude of horror than trying to find something humorous in it.<br /><br />The article concerning the destruction of Guernika in The Onion cover dated at April 30, 1937 is the best example.prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118936.post-1113926737665246452005-04-19T18:05:00.000+02:002005-04-19T18:46:46.890+02:00<font size="3"><b>Habemus papam</b></font><br /><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/1113927559.jpg"><br />We don't know who's him yet, the only thing we know is that the Holly Spirit needed 4 votings to get from Heaven to the Earth (I thought pigeons were able to fly faster).<br /><br />Edit: You can see the White Smoke in this <a href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/television/multimedia/vatican_med.ram" target="_blank">ram file</a> hosted by the Vatican TV.<br />Edit2: It's incredible hearing all the bells in the town ringing at the same time.<br /><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #AAAAAA; margin:2px' src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/rsc112/ratzinger.jpg"><br />Edit3: The new Pope is Ratzinger (Benedict XVI). The sword of the dogma has killed the Spirit of evolution in the Church.prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07007730521613101815noreply@blogger.com1