Romulo Lopez Cordero

links for 2006-11-30

• TIME.com: The Pope Tones Down His Act in Turkey -- Page 1
  The Pope is learning to be more careful in his approach to the Muslim world
  (tags: Pope Muslim)
• Pope Benedict XVI in Turkey: In the Shadow of Muhammad - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
  Account of the Pope's visit to Turkey.
  (tags: Pope Turkey)
• BBC NEWS | Health | Face transplant woman can smile
  (tags: health medicine Science technology)
• eluniverso.com - Diputado del PSC advierte con resistencia democrática ante nuevo gobierno - Nov. 28, 2006 12h46 - POLÍTICA
  New leadership at the most influential party in Ecuador, recently defeated in the elections
  (tags: PSC Ecuador)
• CRE Satelital Ecuador | Vicepresidente electo resume sus funciones en tres puntos claves
  Ecuadorean Vicepresident plans
  (tags: Ecuador Vicepresident Elections)
• BBC Mundo | América Latina | Correa "nuevo presidente de Ecuador"
  (tags: Ecuador Elections Correa)
• Correa ya limita su exposición a la prensa Ciudadania Informada
  His real personality is coming out?
  (tags: Ecuador Elections Correa)
• best of craigslist : 7 out of 8 ain't bad...
  What do you do when you get a 7 slices pizza instead of 8.
  (tags: funny pizza humor)
• The Long Tail: Amazon names The Long Tail best business book of the year
  (tags: longtail)
• Election for President of Ecuador | Samizdata.net
  (tags: funny ecuador elections noboa)
• PrawfsBlawg: Judge Posner in "Second Life"
  Judge Posner as an Avatar
  (tags: Avatar Posner)
• ThinkGeek :: The ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron
  Sweet toy to have. Maybe people will learn to get rid of annoying rings with this.
  (tags: fun hardware toys)
• Parking Timer Keychain - Gizmodo
  Something to have, very useful when parking on metered park space
  (tags: park meter timer)
• TCS Daily - A Second American Civil War?
  Scary scenario.
  (tags: civil wars)
• monologos: Chicha tu madre! : ya llegó el perreo chacalonero
  Perreo Peruano te puede interesar
  (tags: Peru perreo)
• La Jornada > Política> Muro protector
  Security for the the sweering ceremony of Felipe Calderon
  (tags: Mexico Calderon security)
• AP Spanish | 11/29/2006 | Uribe comenta elecciones en Ecuador y Venezuela
  Uribe tries to be cautious
  (tags: Colombia Uribe Ecuador)
• AP Spanish | 11/29/2006 | Correa: un "izquierdista cristiano" amante de la polémica
  Correa defends his character. His he arrogant or prepotent?
  (tags: Correa character)
• A code of conduct for bloggers
  (tags: code conduct blogs)
• urban trekker blog: Rosslyn Central Place
  New developments in Rosslyn
  (tags: Rosslyn architecture)
• TIME.com: Radiation on Planes Is Now Part of the Litvinenko Poisoning Investigation -- Page 1
  The plot in the case of the Russian spy thickens. Now the airplanes used by him might be contaminated.
  (tags: russia spy airplanes)

links for 2006-11-29

• One last picture of the mother of all avalanchas
  Let's see if this is enough to get rid of Chavez
  (tags: Chavez Elections opposition)
• CRE Satelital Ecuador | Correa rescatará tres puntos positivos de “ley Febres Cordero”
  Febres Cordero, worst freedom enemy in Ecuador
  (tags: Ecuador banking law Correa)
• RGE - Ecuador debt watch: What Would Correa Do?
  (tags: correa watch)
• Adital - Elecciones en Ecuador
  The left celebrates in Ecuador
  (tags: Ecuador left Correa)
• Ecuadorinmediato.com: Noticias Ecuador Periódicos Ecuador Webs Ecuador Política Elecciones Ecuador 2006 - PSC advierte a nuevo Gobierno: 'Si quiere guerra, guerra tendrá'
  New leadership emerging at the PSC
  (tags: Ecuador PSC Torres)

links for 2006-11-28

• AP Spanish | 11/27/2006 | Izquierdista Correa confirmado por cómputos oficiales
  What the international press are saying about Correa's win.
  (tags: Ecuador Elections Correa)
• Ecuador leftist heads for victory after vote | Top News | Reuters.com
  The press comments
  (tags: Ecuador Elections)
• BBC Mundo | América Latina | Ecuador: piden a Noboa aceptar derrota
  Noboa is in denial.
  (tags: Ecuador elections Noboa)
• Swiss Wall Station Phone - retro done right! - The Red Ferret Journal
  This is what I want for Christmas
  (tags: gadget phone oldie)
• Vonage presents 1-700-Call-Santa
  Pay attention to this.
  (tags: Santa Vonage)
• Microsoft: virtualization not mature enough for home Vista users
  (tags: vista windows Virtualization microsoft)
• 256GB paper storage claims simply don't add up
  Storing data on paper?
  (tags: data Science storage paper)
• Experts rate Wikipedia's accuracy higher than non-experts
  The ongoing debate about wikis vs, encyclopedias.
  (tags: wikipedia accountability)
• Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
  (tags: Ecuador Elections Correa)
• Economist's View: Was Friedman a "Great Conservative Partisan"?
  (tags: Friedman conservative)
• BOLIVARIAN RESURGENCE?
  (tags: Chavez Latin America trends)

links for 2006-11-27

• Interest and Responsibility
  Interesting moral point of view on interest rates
  (tags: interest rates Sirico)
• eluniverso.com - Guardadas en un cajón - Nov. 26, 2006 - COLUMNISTAS
  He is a leftist but I could not said it better about the electoral decision in my home country.
  (tags: Ecuador Elections)
• El Nuevo Herald | 11/26/2006 | ¿Un mundo sin agua?
  Is the world running out of water?
  (tags: Oppenheimer water)
• BBC NEWS | Americas | NY police kill man on wedding day
  Sad story about the consequences of police overreaction.
  (tags: Police groom)
• BBC Mundo | América Latina | Pinochet "asume responsabilidad"
  Story about Pinochet accepting his responsability for the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile. Would Castro do the same one day, let alone quit before dying?
  (tags: Dictatorships Chile Pinochet repentance)
• Jorge Castaneda: Hugo Chavez's Moment of Truth - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
  What Venezuela can expect in the upcoming elections.
  (tags: Elections venezuela)
• A Latino 'Spanking' - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
  The effect of the ill conceived Republican tactic to use inmigration as a wedge issue and win the elections.
  (tags: Elections latinos)
• The axis Bolivia Ecuador
  (tags: Ecuador Bolivia)
• The Long Tail: The Rise of Freeconomics
  "Never in history has so much innovation been offered to so many for so little. The world’s most exciting businesses – technology, transport, media, medicine and finance – are increasingly defined by the word “free”. Whereas WalMart, the world��
  (tags: Long tail free economy)
• The remarkable Dr. Ayau -- The Washington Times
  I am honored to be a friend of Manuel Ayau.
  (tags: Ayau Washington times)
• Cafe Hayek: Manuel Ayau
  More on Ayau, how I found the Washington times article on him by Richard Rahn
  (tags: Ayau Bodreaux)
• Boing Boing: Fine art ads photoshopping contest - kick ass!
  Funny art. Art experts are revolting at this.
  (tags: art mcdonalds)
• Boing Boing: Bahrainis use Google Earth to spy on royals' palaces
  How th royals live in Baharin
  (tags: MiddleEast royals google earth)
• Another Social Conflict Confronts New Orleans - New York Times
  The truth is that regardless of the cost, it is the club owners that have to pay for the security of event if they want it safe.
  (tags: New Orleans police)
• Home Schoolers Content to Take Children’s Lead - New York Times
  Anarcho capitalist education?
  (tags: education freedom)
• Ecuador’s Path and Alliances at Stake in Runoff Election - New York Times
  The importance of Ecuador for the geostrategical balance of Latin America
  (tags: Ecuador New York Times)
• "In Ecuadoran Vote, Rhetoric Gives Way To Popular Pledges: Runoff Today Pits Banana Tycoon, Leftist" By Monte Reel
  QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 25 -- No matter who wins Ecuador's presidential election on Sunday, many outside the country will view it as a decision between dueling political stereotypes: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's dream of a unified region liberated fro
  (tags: Ecuador Elections)
• TIME.com: Can a Mormon be President? -- Dec. 4, 2006 -- Page 1
  (tags: mormon president USA)

links for 2006-11-26

• Special Events and Promotions | Allegany County, Western Maryland
  (tags: trains kids Maryland)
• TIME.com: Brits Probe Ex-Spy's Radioactive Death -- Page 1
  The story of the poisoned russian forme spy. Russia is getting back in business as in the old days.
  (tags: Russia Spy poison)
• FT.com / Weekend columnists / Tim Harford - Dear Economist
  So long distance relationships work?
  (tags: economics psychology)
• The price of humans who'll spam blogs is falling to zero | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology
  This is exactly what I was talking about in my office the other day.
  (tags: blogging captcha spam)
• TIME.com: What was an Alleged Russian Spy Doing in Canada? -- Page 1
  This is too many stories on russian spies, what the heck are they into?
  (tags: russia spy)
• Can a Manager Be a Techie and Survive?
  This is definetevily important, a manager can not survive in today's office without understanding the tech issues involved.
  (tags: management technology knowledge)
• What is a truly liberal Muslim to do?
  Interesting efforts done by Liberal international
  (tags: Muslim Liberal Montaner)

links for 2006-11-25

• Ben Allnutt's Homestead Farm: Pick-Your-Own Produce in Poolesville, Maryland
  (tags: farm)
• BBC Mundo | Internacional | Piden fin a mutilación genital femenina
  Finally the end of a gruesome practice
  (tags: mutilation Islam)
• BBC NEWS | Americas | Ecuador rivals wrap up poll fight
  The decision that Ecuador faces
  (tags: Ecuador elections)
• El Nuevo Herald | 11/24/2006 | Polarizada elección presidencial en Ecuador
  The decision that Ecuador faces. Miami Herald
  (tags: Ecuador Elections Miami Herald)
• Now online: slide-rule celebrities - Los Angeles Times
  Economics blogs rock!!! See the new celebrities in town.
  (tags: blogging economics)
• Newsmaker: Muglia: Microsoft's future is in 64-bit - CNET News.com
  Virtualization and 64-bit will be key planks of Microsoft's architecture, says server and tools chief Bob Muglia.
  (tags: microsoft 64-bit)
• Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims
  When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they established a system of communal property. Within three years they had scrapped it, instituting private property instead. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell tells the story.
  (tags: Private property Thanksgiving)
• MEGARESISTENCIA.COM :: Ver tema - Video de la agresión al equipo de Globovisión
  Freedom of expression is clearly violated in Venezuela
  (tags: Venezuela free press)
• For iTunes hacker, the freedom of the open code - CNET News.com
  Jon Lech Johansen's Web site, "So Sue Me," reflects the famed hacker's philosophy. Now he's up against Apple.
  (tags: DRM apple)
• El Nuevo Herald | 11/24/2006 | Una nueva encuesta indica mayoría para Hugo Chávez
  Seems like Chavez will stay for a long time in Venezuela.
  (tags: Chavez venezuela Elections)
• IN PRAISE OF DISCRIMINATION - Yahoo! News
  An alternative view on the recent ejecting of Muslim Imans from an airplane.
  (tags: Muslim airplanes Imans)
• Babalu Blog: More problems at the Miami Herald
  What is wrong with the Miami Herald?
  (tags: Miami Herald)
• TIME.com: The Pope Meets His Opposite Number -- Page 1
  On the eve of his much-anticipated trip to Turkey, Benedict XVI hosted the Archbishop of Canterbury and got a glimpse of the perils of running a worldwide religion like a democracy
  (tags: catholic episcopal church)
• Rep. Frank offers business a 'grand bargain' - The Boston Globe
  Peronism in the US? Another Social Pact?
  (tags: Peronism republicans elections)
• Green Thumb - WSJ.com
  Be careful with those gift cards, they can be really expensive.
  (tags: gift cards)
• VW Towing a 747?! - Gizmodo
  Great publicity stunt
  (tags: Volkswagen Boeing)
• Rugged Wheelchair Lets Disabled Go Off-road - Gizmodo
  This is what my mother in law needs while she visits us.
  (tags: wheelchair sweet roughed)

links for 2006-11-24

• SunbeltBLOG: What to do after your big Thanksgiving feast
  Very interesting piece of code to try.
  (tags: code java funny)
• Windows 98/ME-Friendly Security Tools - Security Fix
  Who on earth is still using windows 98
  (tags: Windows)
• Boing Boing: Images of animals in the womb
  Wonderful National Geographic video, make sure to check the video preview following the link to the magazine.
  (tags: animals National Geographic)
• eluniverso.com - Ecuatoriano liberado en NY - Nov. 23, 2006 - MIGRACIÓN
  Sad story with happy ending about an ecuadorean jailed and his rights denied for being illegal.
  (tags: ecuador inmigration)
• Six Notebooks That Don't Burn - Panasonic, Jetta, Velocity, HP Compaq, Asus, Twinhead - CRN
  Check this out if you are shopping for a laptop.
  (tags: computers laptop hardware list)
• El Nuevo Herald | 11/23/2006 | Los fondos del muro fronterizo
  Interesting ideas on how to solve the inmigration conundrum
  (tags: inmigration oppenheimer)
• Symantec Norton 360
  Seems promising, I am still not sure about backing online my data.
  (tags: online 360 Norton)
• TIME.com: In Venezuela, It's Support Chavez — Or Else -- Page 1
  Better say hail to the duce or loose your Job. The never ending tale of Venezuela descent into hell.
  (tags: Venezuela oil jobs)
• The Shadow Internet
  I read this article long time, I realize now, but at the time I did not have del.icio.us. This is report on how movies move through the pirate world.
  (tags: computer security video Hacks interesting movies p2p)
• GoogleOS: What To Expect
  How many old computers might start working if this kind of technology is really on the works?
  (tags: GoogleOS linux)
• "Billy" vs. God: Swedes Trust IKEA More than the Church - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
  IKEA church?, at least they know how to attrack millions of people to hear the gospel of cheap furniture.
  (tags: Ikea religion)
• CareerJournal | Five Common Scams That Target Job Hunters
  Scary, be careful if you are job hunting of falling into these scheemes
  (tags: job scams)
• Populism Loses Appeal for Voters In Latin America - WSJ.com
  What Ecuador faces this weekend. Good article especially for those who don't know what is going on in my hometown this weekend.
  (tags: Elections WSJ Ecuador)
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Giant Mexican telescope launched
  The telescope's antenna has a diameter of 50m (164ft) and is the largest of its kind in the world.
  (tags: Telescope Mexico)
• NPR : In Ecuador, Concerns Raised over Rose Workers
  How the rose business changed Ecuador andean communities.
  (tags: roses Ecuador)
• Sigma SGM2 mouse looks more like a hearing aid
  Interesting concept for a mouse
  (tags: mouse gun)
• Vargas Llosa denuncia que en Venezuela "se están violando todas las reglas preelectorales" - Libertad Digital
  Vargas Llosa denounces the fairness of the upcoming Venezuelan elections
  (tags: Vargas Llosa Venezuela)
• Worldwide Child - Natural Toys, Eco-friendly Toys, Wooden Toys, Baby Toys, Infant Toys, Haba Toys, Fairly Traded Toys, Wood Toys, Natural Art Supplies, Children's Herbal Remedies, Non-violent Toys, Craft Kits and European toys.
  Crazy Toys
  (tags: toys egg)
• Gilles BARBIER
  The hall of justice at the asylum.
  (tags: comics superhero art funny)
• As the Earth Shakes, a Machine Below the Bronx Takes Note - New York Times
  Interesting story about a hundred year plus seismograph at Fordham university
  (tags: seismograph jesuits fordham)
• The First Thanksgiving Dinner (as depicted in the New York Times).--
  What they really ate.
  (tags: thanksgiven)
• Immigrant Entrepreneurs - WSJ.com
  This is the reason why the current inmigration reform proposal is totally wrong.
  (tags: inmigration entepreneurship)

links for 2006-11-23

• Remembering Milton Friedman :: Atlas Economic Research Foundation
  Check the updated links
  (tags: Milton Friedman Obituary Atlas)

links for 2006-11-22

• BBC Mundo | Cultura | Murió Robert Altman
  (tags: quote Altman director)
• Pope-commissioned condom study passes first hurdle | Top News | Reuters.com
  This is encouraging, that they are analizing the issue not only from a theological perspective, but a factual perspective.
  (tags: condom Pope catholic)
• AP Spanish | 11/21/2006 | Parte del empresariado prospera bajo el mandato de Chávez
  How some entepreneurs have benefittedfrom doing business with Chavez
  (tags: Chavez empresaurios fascism)
• melissa claire designs custom photo birth announcements and newborn photography
  (tags: Photography Alexandria)
• Conmoción en el TSE por informe de la Politécnica que afirma que hubo fraude en las elecciones Ciudadania Informada - Noticias Ecuador - Elecciones 2006 Ecuador
  Voting Fraud in Ecuador?
  (tags: Elections Ecuador)
• Hacking Google Maps: Building a Community Site
  How to hack google maps and personalize it.
  (tags: maps google hacks)
• xeni.net/trek: Guatemala: Recycled Life, film on dump residents
  I was few years ago helping the kids at the dumpster while I lived in Guatemala. It is a very sad place indeed, but I was surprise by the resilience of the kids living there.
  (tags: dumpster Guatemala)
• Portuguese say everyone late but me - study - Yahoo! News
  Sounds very latin to me. Why I am not surprised? I think that this holds true for other latin countries.
  (tags: time management Portugal)
• Family of missing boy's mother sues CNN, Nancy Grace - CNN.com
  Journalist sometimes are relentless with their interviewed and they don't even face charges if their actions damage somebody's reputation or sanity. They deserve this.
  (tags: CNN journalism)
• Polygamist witness describes teen bride's fear - CNN.com
  If people want polygamy so be it, but forcing teenagers into marriage plus polygamy is sick. Using religion to support your wicked fantasies is despicable.
  (tags: polygamy teen)
• ABC News: Piercing Relief for Back Pain?
  Needles? OK, if this works I am listening.
  (tags: back pain needle)
• CASTROITES PLAN FOR EXILE
  This is really an exceptional report, the end is soon, freedom for CUBA
  (tags: Cuba Chile Argentina)
• New Software Promises to Unlock iPod and iTunes
  Free my itunes music
  (tags: ipod itunes)
• Economics With A Face: Is Anarchy on the Streets a Good Thing?
  TRaffic without traffic signs, amazing, see video
  (tags: traffic anarchy)
• Brunelle's mirror images
  Follow up on the doppelgänger story
  (tags: Doppelgängers)
• captchas.net
  (tags: design Free captcha security)
• MAKE: Blog: Ron Mueck @ The Brooklyn Museum (Giant people sculptures)
  Scary Sculptures
  (tags: art sculpture)
• Townhall.com::Working mothers need the free market, too::By John Stossel
  Stossel is going to get in trouble with her cohost Elizabeth Vargas. Bravo for him, too bad that his article is friend looser.
  (tags: stossel mommy wars vargas)
• Choosing Who Can See What on Your Blog
  Review of the new VOX service from Six Apart and its privacy features.
  (tags: Vox Six Apart privacy)
• U.S. Sets Up a Perch in Dubai to Keep an Eye on Iran - New York Times
  A look into Iranians living in Dubai
  (tags: Dubai Iran)
• Justice Courts for Small New York Towns to Be Overhauled - New York Times
  Incredible, the justice system in New York state is completely outdated
  (tags: justice new York)

links for 2006-11-21

• El Independent: El olor de la pobreza
  (tags: Vargas Llosa Mario Poverty)
• http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=12..201106.nov06
  (tags: poligamy)
• ZASK INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL SUPPLY
  Wheelchair Rental in Alexandria
  (tags: wheelchair Alexandria VA)
• Is the Worst Over for the Housing Bust? - WSJ.com
  I hope so, although I should be happy with the current market since I am a potential buyer. I wonder if anyone is focusing on the rental market
  (tags: housing bubble)
• Bill O'Reilly: Tech helps the terrorists win - CNET News.com
  O'Reilly is a moron...
  (tags: terrorism technology)
• F5 Moves to Guard E-Mail Against Spam
  Looks promising.
  (tags: spam firewall)