Romulo Lopez Cordero

links for 2006-12-31

• Cobertura Digital » Diario El Telégrafo, el impreso más antiguo, da un giro web con periodismo ciudadano
  Finally my country's oldest newspaper is taking the lead with innovation on it's website. See the post on the hiperlink.
  (tags: Telegrafo, journalism)
• Hussein hung with the Web as the village square
  The power of the web unleashed in the death of the former dictator of Irak.
  (tags: Hussein internet video Irak)
• Gmail users report vanishing e-mail
  Good thing that I download my email.
  (tags: Gmail lost email)
• Tickle Me Elmo On Fire - Google Video
  This shurely is a horror flick for kids.
  (tags: toys video elmo)
• El Independent: Para qué sirven los diarios
  What are newspapers for? From the respected italian Umberto Eco
  (tags: Eco newspaper Italy)
• Welcome to Woz.org
  Very funny story about exccentric behavior with a 2 dollar bill by Woz
  (tags: apple funny government money WOZ security)

links for 2006-12-30

• Casio XJ-S30 Ultra-Slim DLP Projector
  When will they come integrated with laptops?
  (tags: LCD projector)
• Untangle the World Wide Web with RSS
  Why RSS is not that popular altough is so helpful.
  (tags: RSS WWW)
• Cato-at-liberty » Jailed for a Blog
  Help this guy be liberated. He was jailed for speaking his ming in Egypt.
  (tags: Egypt bloggers jail)
• Marginal Revolution: The Economics of Chocolate
  The real deal with Chocolate
  (tags: Chocolate mayans)
• ALT1040 » Un error de dedo causó que un turista viaje a otro continente
  This is very funny, although I must admit that every time I shop online ticket I can not help feeling a little bit stressed.
  (tags: Funny tourist Sidney)
• Bloggers on whether Saddam deserves to die. - By Michael Weiss - Slate Magazine
  Should Saddam dye? See what bloggers say.
  (tags: bloggers Saddam)
• El Nuevo Herald | 12/29/2006 | Lula, el pragmático amigo de Bush y Chávez
  Lula the pragmatic leftist.
  (tags: Lula pragmatism)
• The ugly truth about Gerald Ford. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
  A not so rosy view of Ford's legacy.
  (tags: ford history legacy President)
• Mistress to Mrs. in One Year | The Genealogue
  Common law marriages will help somehow in the current controversy of same sex marriage.
  (tags: marriage common law)
• Boing Boing: A tale of two social newsfilter sites: Digg and Newstrust
  (tags: Digg newstrust)
• Mario Rizzo
  A great austrian economist finally on the net
  (tags: economics Rizzo)
• The Austrian Economists: Mario Rizzo embraces Modernity?
  Another Marginal Revolution?
  (tags: Boetke Rizzo Economists)
• HOW TO: Install Backup from the CD-ROM in Windows XP Home Edition
  (tags: windows ntbackup)

links for 2006-12-29

• B-School Applications: Writing a Winning Essay
  (tags: Business School essays)
• Street scene, Guayaquil, Ecuador
  I wonder where exactly is this in my hometown. Check other old photos, very interesting.
  (tags: Guayaquil vintage photos)
• BBC NEWS | UK | Education | E-credits for more gifted pupils
  Interestint idea to enhance chances for gifted students
  (tags: credits education alternatives england)
• El Nuevo Herald | 12/28/2006 | Médico cubano pide llegar a Estados Unidos
  Things are getting uglier by the minute in Bolivia. Why the US does not accept this brave doctor who dared to speak out his mind?
  (tags: Bolivia Cuban Doctor)
• MacBook Keyboard Gutted to Support Dvorak Layout - Gizmodo
  This guy is crazy or has a lot of money in case he breaks the keyboard. I have tried to use Dvorak but I reached the conclusion that learning it was too much to justify the switch.
  (tags: Dvorak Mac)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Spam surge drives net crime spree
  Holy smokes at this rate 93% they are going to shut down the email system.
  (tags: crime email spam)
• Edelman: New Ethics Scandal Brewing with Microsoft's Blogger Bribe Campaign | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
  Vista Rocks, I want my laptop.
  (tags: PR ethics Microsoft bloggers)
• Universal 401(k) Accounts Would Bring the Poor Into the Ownership Society - New York Times
  (tags: economics policy 401(k))
• "Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq" By Bob Woodward
  Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. 'I don't think I would have gone to war,' he said a little more than a year after President Bush launched the invasion advocated and carried o
  (tags: war Ford)
• Old Pictures
  Awesome old photos
  (tags: photography vintage)
• "Cybercrooks Deliver Trouble: With Spam Filters Working Overtime, Security Experts See No Letup in '07" By Brian Krebs
  It was the year of computing dangerously, and next year could be worse.
  (tags: crime spam)
• The Austrian Economists: Friedman v Galbraith
  (tags: Friedman Galbraith)
• El Independent: La reinvención de Uruguay
  How can Uruguay reinvent itself to become the Switerland of Latin America once again.
  (tags: Uruguay Montaner Suiza)
• Repairs on Network Cables in Asia Could Take Days - New York Times
  Ho vulnerable are the communications in Asia. The problem of relying on one technology.
  (tags: earthquake Asia submarine cable)
• Babalu Blog: Dr. Samartino to be deported to Cuba...
  More on the cuban doctor that dared to speak too much.
  (tags: Samartino Bolivia Cuba)
• A toilet-lock mom confronts child-safety fears | csmonitor.com
  It is a dangerous world indeed... enough with this fear mongering
  (tags: toilet seat kids danger)
• Why Somalia war unsettles the world | csmonitor.com
  How, when and how to intervine in a country.
  (tags: Somalia UN)
• Turkmenbashi - WSJ.com
  (tags: Turkmenbashi legacy)
• Japan, Home of the Cute and Inbred Dog - New York Times
  Sad story about inbreeding dogs in Japan.
  (tags: inbreeding Japan)
• In Bolivia’s Affluent East, Anger at Morales Is Growing - New York Times
  Seems like Morales will either slow down or Bolivia is headed for a civil war
  (tags: Bolivia Morales)
• "Health Insurance's New Wave And the Man Behind the Plans" By Christopher Lee
  I know NCPA and its work, I like it, but I tried the high deductible system for a year and did not like it at all.
  (tags: insurance Goodman)
• FT.com / Home UK / UK - Why immigration policy must be a compromise
  (tags: inmigration)
• Nuevo Catholics - New York Times
  Interesting article about how inmigration is shaping the Catholic church in the USA and specifically in LA.
  (tags: Catholic church inmigration USA)
• The Lost Continent
  Why Latin America has been lost out of sight for many public policy analysts
  (tags: Latin America Foreign Policy Magazine)
• The Merchant of Deat
  The real story of Lord of War main character.
  (tags: Lord War movies)
• Why the FBI Is Coming After Me - washingtonpost.com
  Doing interviews for a respected newspaper about controversial issues can bring on quite a few problems.
  (tags: history journalism politics)
• FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Chile blazes trail for Latin America
  How Chile's democracy is sustained today by it's economic success.
  (tags: Chile Latin America)
• Face value | The view from 36,000 feet | Economist.com
  How fedex is helping to shape world trade.
  (tags: trade fedex)
• Stalled in America
  Why Latinos should be more assertive in pushing their kids to get more education and to get the best education available and why Herman Badillo is currently being labeled race traitor for saying it.
  (tags: Latinos inmigration Badillo)

links for 2006-12-28

• bochaísmos: who the fuck wants to live in that hazleton shithole anyway?
  (tags: inmigration hazleton PA Ponce)
• Gerald Ford's Alexandria Home For Sale
  What a different time... I wish I had lived that time.
  (tags: Alexandria Ford home)
• Microsoft hands out Ferrari’s to bloggers - istartedsomething
  This seems to be headed to be a PR disaster. Although I would love to have one, Vista rocks... I need one of those computers
  (tags: blogging ethics microsoft)
• Milton Friedman: Objective scientist first, free-market promoter second | csmonitor.com
  Interesting point of view on the importance of empirical work, to reassert your theories.
  (tags: Friedman Skouses CSM)
• Poor Ecuador valley gets a kick start
  Another advantage of Soccer profesionalization in my home country.
  (tags: ecuador soccer)
• El Independent: ¿Quién va ganando en América Latina?
  Analysis of how the left is doing in latin America, and if the continent is heading to a moderate left or to a carnivorous left.
  (tags: Latin America left)
• El Independent: Un niño brasileño y el lado duro de la inmigración
  The hard side of inmigration. What is most important here, compassion or fiscal needs? Why if the father is paying the bills himself he is denied his permanent residency due to the potential expenses his son might cause to the government?
  (tags: Brazil inmigration compassion fiscal expenses)

links for 2006-12-27

• Extreme Mortman » Second Life? First, Tax - Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again
  The question indeed is why they should tax people over virtual reality
  (tags: virtual reality taxes)
• The Daily Record - NEWS - FILIPINO PRIDE
  Phillipinos should also embrace their hispanic pride.
  (tags: Scotland Phillipines bagpipes)
• El Independent: El efecto YouTube
  (tags: Youtube Nahim)
• El Nuevo Herald | 12/26/2006 | Policía colombiana descubre coca en territorio ecuatoriano
  The war on drugs needs a new approach...
  (tags: Drugs war)
• 50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006 | Smashing Magazine
  I need to learn some of this...
  (tags: CSS design)
• El Nuevo Herald | 12/26/2006 | Obispo paraguayo cambia Iglesia por política nacional
  Why they become priest in the first place?
  (tags: priest politics Paraguay)
• Axess, a magazine for the liberal arts and social sciences
  (tags: Brazil Federalism)
• Pictorial: Top 10 Blogger Babes of 2006
  (tags: blogging Girls)
• Foryota? Toyford? A new hybrid being born? - CNET News.com
  The end of Ford?
  (tags: cars Ford)
• Goodbye SSL padlock; hello green safety bar
  Would this means than only big business will be able to trade on the web securely.?
  (tags: certificates web business)
• RGE - Merrill sees Ecuador defaulting in February
  Really sad what is happening, I guess that dollarization will follow soon after that.
  (tags: Ecuador Debt Correa)
• Japan's oldest PC still adds up for Fujitsu
  Are they so poor that they can not use a modern calculator?
  (tags: computer history)
• BBC Mundo | Cultura | Chocolate, chocolate y más chocolate
  So why nobody thought about this in Ecuador?
  (tags: Ecuador Chocolate Germany Restaurant)
• Do you AOL-Yahoo? Maybe you will, if they merge
  Please no, I hate AOL...
  (tags: AOL Yahoo merger)
• Why you can't get iPods at a discount. - By Sean Cooper - Slate Magazine
  (tags: economics ipod marketing Price)

links for 2006-12-26

• Che, Cuba and Christmas
  How despite the ruthless and merciless methods Christmas is still alive in Cuba.
  (tags: Guevara Cuba Christmas)
• Forget L.C.D.; Go for Plasma, Says Maker of Both - New York Times
  (tags: LCD Plasma)
• http://www.boingboing.net/images/NR-F8_PERILFINAL.pdf
  WTF?
  (tags: NRA Boing)
• Los objetivos inmediatos de la educación económica  Ludwing Von Mises
  (tags: Mises economics education)
• Big WebOS roundup - 10 online operating systems reviewed
  (tags: computers online web AJAX)
• NORAD Tracks Santa 2006
  (tags: Christmas fun Santa norad)
• El Independent: La anarquía somalí es más ordenada que el gobierno somalí
  (tags: Somalia anarchy)
• El Independent: Ecuador: Urge enfocarse en la producción, el ahorro, la inversión y el empleo
  (tags: Ecuador dollarization IEEP)
• Microsoft applies for "RSS patent"
  (tags: IPR Microsoft)
• Flaws detected in Vista - CNET News.com
  Problems with their upcoming operating systema security.
  (tags: Vista microsoft flaws)
• 'Tis season for nearly nude calendars - Yahoo! News
  It's becoming fashionable to publish nude calendars by middle age people!!!
  (tags: nude calendars)
• Why plants and animals hibernate in winter. - By Constance Casey - Slate Magazine
  (tags: hibernation winter animals depression)
• "Nonprofit Connects Murtha, Lobbyists: Ties to Pa. Group Mutually Beneficial" By Jonathan Weisman
  For a quarter of a century, Carmen Scialabba labored for Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), helping parcel out the billions of dollars that came through the House Appropriations Committee, so when the disabled aide needed a favor, Murtha was there.
  (tags: democrats Murtha)
• eluniverso.com - Otra obra de 'Gabo' será llevada al cine - Dic. 25, 2006 - LIBROS
  Love in times of Cholera goes to Holliwood with the blessing of the author. Must see for 2007
  (tags: Garcia Marquez movies)
• Microsoft Ad Push Is All About You - WSJ.com
  Microsoft is joining the race for placing ads in your mail based on your behavior.
  (tags: ads microsoft)
• 1962 VW bus gutted, filled with giant hot rod engine - Engadget
  Nice to bad it is only for 2, no space for passangers with that huge engine.
  (tags: car cool combi)
• bochaísmos: entre la imperfección y la perfección sólo hay un paso... que se llama photoshop
  Very good post about how surreal is our concept of beauty with the use of tools like photoshop.
  (tags: humor Ponce beauty photoshop)
• The Radical Libertarian Political Economy of 19th Century Preacher David Lipscomb: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
  (tags: lipscomb libertarian)
• "Where Real Money Meets Virtual Reality, The Jury Is Still Out" By Alan Sipress
  Veronica Brown is a hot fashion designer, making a living off the virtual lingerie and formalwear she sells inside the online fantasy world Second Life. She expects to have earned about $60,000 this year from people who buy her digital garments to outfit
  (tags: virtual reality property rights)

links for 2006-12-25

• Your Shiny New Toy Needs Attention
  Interesting roundup of things to do as soon as you get a new computer.
  (tags: security backups PC)
• Boing Boing: Snowed-in Denver airport viewed from above (photo)
  This is what I call snow...
  (tags: Snow Denver Airport Weather)
• Why cousin marriage matters in Iraq | csmonitor.com
  Would this be the reason of US failures? Sounds probable.
  (tags: anthropology culture consanguinity)
• Questioning Capital Punishment - Yahoo! News
  Death punishment is brutal it goes against the fundamental values of the USA.
  (tags: death punishment)
• Babalu Blog: BREAKING - Spanish Doctor rushed to Cuba
  (tags: Castro)
• Marginal Revolution: The World We Have Lost
  (tags: racism Brazil)
• BBC NEWS | Americas | Raul Castro urges transport plan
  The new Cuban Leader is starting to put his seal in his government style.
  (tags: Castro Raul)
• How Christmas Brings Out The Grinch in Economists - WSJ.com
  (tags: Christmas economists grinch)
• FCW.com - DOD bars use of HTML e-mail, Outlook Web Access
  What regular users can expect then?
  (tags: email threats)
• El Independent: México: ¿Dividido en dos o tres?
  Mexico's division's need to be resolved to face the future.
  (tags: Mexico)

links for 2006-12-24

• Extracine » Nuevo tráiler de la esperadísima Transformers
  Must see in July 4, 2007
  (tags: movies)
• ELPAIS.com - Una niña de 14 años, pillada a 170 kilómetros por hora - Sociedad
  Cool!!
  (tags: speeding Spain)
• ELPAIS.com - Dos deuvedés por segundo, en un único canal, y a 160 kilómetros de distancia - Tecnología
  Awesome speed, why my computer can't burn a DVD in less than a minute?
  (tags: speed fiber optics)
• Looney Tunes - Cartoons
  Some Lonney Tunes for free.
  (tags: cartoon kids Looney Tunes entertainment)
• Christmas Deliveries | The Genealogue
  Tell me about weird names
  (tags: genealogy names Christmas)
• Betsy Reason column: MacInnis family name has 1 more reason to live on
  Would you change your last name if your mother in law ask's you?
  (tags: genealogy last name)
• CHAVEZ GOES JIM JONES
  Chavez is loosing it...
  (tags: Chavez cult)
• Manassas Park Smears a Businessman
  Bureocrats abuse of power for business gain.
  (tags: abuse bureocrats)
• BBC Mundo | América Latina | ¿Cobrar petróleo en euros?
  (tags: Chavez Oil Euros)
• El Independent: Ambivalencias americanas
  The new left
  (tags: politics left latin America)

links for 2006-12-23

• Coinmach Service Corporation :: Welcome
  (tags: laundry)
• Ktrak
  I will need one of this bikes.
  (tags: bicycle conversion cool ski)
• HELLSDITCH DOT ORG's December 20 2006 Blizzard slideshow on Flickr
  Holly Storm
  (tags: Photos Weather)
• Boing Boing: Greatest cartoons of all time (video link roundup)
  You can't miss this roundup of the best cartoons
  (tags: video children)

links for 2006-12-21

• Marginal Revolution: How good was Pinochet for the Chilean economy?
  (tags: Pinochet Chile Reforms)
• eluniverso.com - ¿Autonomías o impunidades? - Dic. 20, 2006 - COLUMNISTAS
  (tags: Ecuador autonomías Ponce)
• What happens to your body if you drink a Coke right now? - Orangish
  (tags: coke cola)
• TCS Daily - Latin America's Wrong Turn
  (tags: Latin america)
• ECUADOR: Correa gana las elecciones | Informes | CADAL
  Detailed analysis of the latest ecuadorean elections.
  (tags: Ecuador Correa)
• Nature responds to warming signs | csmonitor.com
  Is it really warming?
  (tags: global warming evidence.)
• MyFox Chicago | Media Player Had Porn On It
  This is really weird. I will be outraged if it is specially for daughter/son.
  (tags: Christmas zune gift sex)
• Page view, RIP? | News.blog | CNET News.com
  (tags: internet counter)
• El Nuevo Herald | 12/14/2006 | Historia de caníbales
  (tags: Chile Cuba Dictatorships)
• Ten Years in Prison for 17-Year-Old Who Had Consensual Oral Sex with 15-Year-Old
  Teenagers beware
  (tags: teenagers sex prison)
• Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Basques and Chile
  Interesting comment about the basques influence in Chile and how they have help that nation's entepreneurial spirit
  (tags: basques Chile)
• NPR : The Chinese Learn to Smile for the World
  They are really worried about the Olympics in Beijing.
  (tags: Chinese smiles)
• El Independent: Tú, personaje del año
  Vargas Llosa (Alvaro) take on the man of the year by Time
  (tags: Vargas Llosa man Time)
• El Independent: Neoyorquinos, bajo amenaza terrorista
  (tags: Sorman terrorism)
• Why Be An Economist? To Be Happy, That's Why - Mises Institute
  (tags: economics happiness)
• WP: Administration split on more Iraq troops - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
  What a moron, if he really thinks that digging deeper into Irak will solve the problem. It this turns out to be true he will only prove that he is stubborn as mule and that only impeachment will save the nation from this war mongeering.
  (tags: war irak Bush)