Romulo Lopez Cordero

links for 2007-05-31

• The Borjas Blog: The Proposed Point System: A Nod To The Economic Way of Thinking
  Details in the proposed point system.
  (tags: inmigration)
• A Poor Diet: 1936 | Shorpy
  Poverty in America. I am always surprised by how poor the south was in the 30's regardless of race.
  (tags: Poverty vintage photos 1936)
• Microsoft Surface - Behind the Scenes with VIDEO - Touchscreen, Multi Touch Coffee Table - Ballmer - Jeff Han - PlayTable - Popular Mechanics
  The future has arrived.
  (tags: via:alt1040 2007 computers microsoft technology visualization)
• Celebrities with itch (18 pics) (//STATiC)
  They are normal as we are and they itch.
  (tags: celebrities fun itch)
• Now You See It: Invisible PC a Sign of Things to Come - Gizmodo
  I really like this concept.
  (tags: computers thin PC)
• TV station chief: We are not afraid of Chavez - CNN.com
  (tags: media politics venezuela)
• Boing Boing: Venezuela's TV crisis, continued: Chavez to sue CNN in world court?
  Although I agree with CNN it is true also that they have played alongside Mr. Chavez in past times.
  (tags: media politics Venezuela CNN)
• La editorial Alfaguara inicia una nueva colección a partir de blogs liderados por escritores
  This is proof that blogs are a new literary phenomena. Now professional writers in the spanish language are going to start blogging.
  (tags: literature blogs spanish)
• El Boomeran(g), blog literario latinoamericano
  Too bad they don't have RSS on the front page to follow them all.
  (tags: blog culture media spanish web2.0 cultura literature)
• Internet Archive: Details: How to Use the Dial Phone
  In case you forgot how to dial a phone.
  (tags: education film history humor telephone)
• Marcelo Figueras: Se armó la gorda
  Very funny, la casita con estos grindios.
  (tags: Argentina language expresssions)
• Do Americans love pets too much? | csmonitor.com
  Ayee
  (tags: Americans pets kids)
• Robert Zoellick: a good choice | FP Passport
  Lets hope that this is a good president for the World Bank.
  (tags: World Bank President.)
• Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > No YouTube for You!
  (tags: youtube censorship worldmap)
• Tu.tv - Videos - La Broma del equipo de goma
  So size does matter!!
  (tags: funny videos prank)
• BBC Mundo | Cultura y Sociedad | García Márquez vuelve a Aracataca
  The great Gabo is back in Macondo for a visit.
  (tags: Garcia Marquez Aracataca)

links for 2007-05-30

• Chavacano language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: Chavacano Spanish history Phillipines)
• FT.com / Arts & weekend / Magazine - ¡Viva el español!
  (tags: language FT Spanish)
• Mexican Takes Page From Carter, Clinton - washingtonpost.com
  (tags: Mexico Fox)
• Topo Gigio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  I did not knew that he was originally Italian.
  (tags: topo gigio)
• cambio de persona - zappinternet
  Does anybody cares to see the person's face?
  (tags: humor videos curioso)
• OptOutPrescreen.com
  Important to avoid those pesky offers for credit card.
  (tags: opt-out spam privacy Credit)
• A Final Appeal: Save Christian Iraq
  It is the only country where the liturgy is still celebrated in Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
  (tags: Irak Christian community)
• George F. Will - Cabs and Cupidity - washingtonpost.com
  An Ecuadorean freedom fighter.
  (tags: economics monopolies Ecuadorean)
• Robert D. Novak - How to Lose an Ally - washingtonpost.com
  (tags: free trade Colombia Novak)
• H2O + Arquitectura = Arquitectura líquida
  José Herrera's Blog.
  (tags: arquitectura FAES)
• Firefox Tip: Force links to open in the background - Lifehacker
  (tags: Firefox web tweaks)
• Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks - Lifehacker
  (tags: tweaks firefox config browser)
• Telepresence TV - New York Times
  Teleconference reconsidered.
  (tags: teleconference)
• Cyber Attack Vexes Estonia, Poses Debate
  (tags: ciberwar Estonia)
• Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: How Best to Maximize Blog Traffic - Portfolio.com
  (tags: blog traffic)
• The 1688 Glorious revolution.
  Michael Barone explains how the "Glorious" Revolution led to the American one.
  (tags: England history glorious revolution)
• The Conservative Mind
  The American right is a cauldron of debate; the left isn't.
  (tags: libertarian politics conservatism)
• ELPAIS.com - Chávez amenaza a Globovisión con retirarle la concesión y le acusa de incitar al magnicidio - Internacional
  Chavez now goes after the other tv stations
  (tags: Chavez censorship)
• MySpace v. Facebook: “It’s Not A Decision. It’s an IQ Test”
  (tags: facebook myspace web2.0 socialnetworking)
• » Google buys anti-malware browser virtualization startup | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
  Google security.
  (tags: google security news tech)
• WorldNetDaily: Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills
  I will sue Best buy if this happens to me.
  (tags: crazy crime money)
• Better than Google? Creator thinks so - Technology - brisbanetimes.com.au
  Could this be the search engine that beats google?
  (tags: search google engine mylivesearch algorithm)
• ABC News Uncovers ‘Operation Northwoods’ : TruthEra.com - Uncover the Truth
  (tags: government conspiracy corruption Politics interesting)

links for 2007-05-29

• Marginal Revolution: Is Hayek less important today?
  (tags: Hayek philosophy)
• Woman seeks fame as face of Mao - Yahoo! News
  Creepy who wants to look like Hitler?
  (tags: MAO)
• WP: Immigration agency mired in inefficiency - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
  (tags: inmigration INS)
• How the Pentagon Got Its Shape
  The country was about to take the plunge into World War II, and the race was on to build the biggest office building on the planet" By Steve Vogel
  (tags: architecture history war pentagon)
• Vanity: Apple Blocks MySpace From All Their Stores - Gizmodo
  Apparently I was not the only one fooling around on the apple stores.
  (tags: apple store photoboth)
• TVlia - Y así acabó RCTV
  The end of RCTV and the new propaganda channel of Chavez
  (tags: RCTV venezuela censorship propaganda)
• Immigration bill could spark brain drain - 05/27/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
  Encouraging brain drain in the third world can have undesired consequences for the first world.
  (tags: inmigration Oppenheimer)
• BBC Mundo | Internacional | Islam: El Papa mete reversa
  More emphasis on Islamic studies at the Vatican.
  (tags: Islam Pope)
• Forget Photoshop: 15 Online Graphics Generators
  (tags: Web2.0 tools online)
• How fear of failure destroys success - lifehack.org
  (tags: lifehacks psychology success failure productivity work)
• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Second Venezuela TV is under fire
  (tags: Venezuela censorship)
• Will ISPs spoil the online video party? | last100
  (tags: bandwidth streaming netneutrality isp)

links for 2007-05-28

• How to Clean an Apartment Before Moving Out - WikiHow
  (tags: housing howto lifehacks moving apartment)
• Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health - Independent Online Edition > Health
  (tags: diet soda science health cola)
• Charles Koch - The real thing
  (tags: Koch FT)
• Ikea Employe Job Test
  Very funny.
  (tags: career comics creative Ikea job)
• El Independent: Posada Carriles y Che Guevara
  Posada Carriles a little bit of history.
  (tags: Guevara Posada Montaner)
• El Independent: Ecuador: La deuda eterna abraza la corrupción
  (tags: Ecuador debt corruption Molina)
• El Independent: La ruta Quito, Buenos Aires y Wall Street
  (tags: Ecuador debt swaps corruption)
• El Independent: El escándalo de los "Credit Default Swap" (CDS)
  (tags: Arosemena Ecuador Swap corruption Scandal Patiño)
• Noticias24 :: Actualidad » Así se despidió ‘El Observador’
  The last RCTv news on friday.
  (tags: RCTV censorship Chavez Venezuela)
• San Francisco in Ruins
  A very high resolution photo of the 1906 fire of San Francisco that left the city in ruins.
  (tags: sanfrancisco Photography history disaster)
• BBC Mundo | América Latina | RCTV fuera del aire
  THE END!!!
  (tags: RCTV censorship Venezuela)

links for 2007-05-27

• The Borjas Blog: Generic Software Engineer, Yes; John Lennon, No.
  (tags: Borjas inmigration)
• ¿Cómo hacer que los niños japoneses coman pepino? » ALT1040
  (tags: via:alt1040, soda Japan cucumber)
• Memorial Day: 1942 | Shorpy
  (tags: Memorai day vintage photos 1942)
• Killing Tyrants :: Dissent Spring 2007 Issue
  (tags: english tyrants)
• Psychology Today: Crying Over Spilled Semen
  (tags: biology depression interesting sexuality science women)
• Can a Guest Worker Program Work? | TIME
  (tags: inmigration guest worker program)
• What is reCAPTCHA?
  This is better than using those useless random characters, and you help a project in the meantime.
  (tags: books captcha technology spam ocr)
• Could Ron Paul Win in New Hampshire? - Free Market News Network
  Could this be true, could this be the candidate needed to return the republican party to a more libertarian ground?
  (tags: politics 2008)
• The President's White | Shorpy
  (tags: President USA cars 1908)

links for 2007-05-26

• The Catholic Boom - New York Times
  (tags: Catholic faith social mobility)
• "Acuerdo de inmigración, un paso adelante pero ¿qué tanto?: Preferencia por los más educados y calificados ignora el espíritu empresarial" By Por Marcela Sanchez
  No le faltan críticos al acuerdo bipartidista sobre inmigración que está siendo debatido en el Senado. Por mi parte, me rehuso a unirme a quienes no muestran un mínimo ánimo conciliatorio. Incluso con sus fallas, el acuerdo es un paso encomiable haci
  (tags: Sanchez Inmigration construction benefits)
• This is What We've Become: Woman Pushes Baby on Segway - Gizmodo
  (tags: baby exercise humor segway)
• Document on Immigration on National Review Online
  They got a point, is not clear to me how do the calculate that. Still WSJ assertion seems more credibly for me, but they need to add the numbers.
  (tags: Heritage immigration)
• Marginal Revolution: Fun with Central Bankers
  (tags: central bankers)
• Sneak Peek at the Zonbu PC
  A minimalist PC
  (tags: pc Zombu)
• Google Launches Security Blog
  (tags: google security blogs)
• Immigration and American Exceptionalism
  Why american entepreneurship and independence relay on inmigration.
  (tags: inmigration entepreneurship)
• BBC Mundo | América Latina | RCTV sin señal y sin antenas
  (tags: censorship Venezuela)
• You Need A Better Diet: The Loo Read Helps You Concentrate on the Task at Hand - Gizmodo
  (tags: toilet gadgets)
• How Economists Lost Hayek, and Then Found Him
  (tags: economics Science Hayek)
• I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Final Days of Google | PBS
  How that will happen.
  (tags: benefits google business technology management blog)

links for 2007-05-25

• On Patriotism - by Ron Paul
  (tags: Ron Paul patriotism)
• Marginal Revolution: How much of a jerk do you have to be to oppose immigration?
  (tags: inmigration)
• Marginal Revolution: What Danny Glover and I have in common
  Does Marginal Revolution supports Chavez?
  (tags: Venezuela Marginal Revolution)
• Reforma inmigratoria integral: La solución definitiva | elcato.org
  (tags: griswold inmigration)
• Conservatism Has Always Been Pro Immigration
  WTF? That was not the original title.
  (tags: Alvaro Vargas Llosa inmigration)
• Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past
  (tags: productivity Career psychology interesting)
• El Independent: Los peligros del acuerdo migratorio
  (tags: inmigration Oppenheimer)
• ELPAIS.com - Los forenses de Nueva York vinculan por primera vez una muerte al polvo provocado por el desplome de las Torres Gemelas - Internacional
  (tags: 9/11 dust deaths)
• Windows Server Division WebLog : Windows Server 2008 hits the bookshelf
  Need to buy this.
  (tags: windows 2008 book)
• Immigration backers beat key challenges - Yahoo! News
  (tags: congress reform inmigration)
• What Wal-Mart means to Dell - CNET News.com
  Direct sales aren't working the same magic they once did for the PC maker. Can it now cash in at retail?
  (tags: Dell Walmart)
• The "supernotes" conspiracy theory | FP Passport
  (tags: conspiracy USA money North Korea)
• Boing Boing: Central America: notes from the road (Xeni)
  (tags: Guatemala Xeni)
• Boing Boing: Get Illuminated podcast #10 -- Steven E. Landsburg
  Worth listening, unconventional wisdom.
  (tags: Landsburg economics wisdom)
• Should Policies Nudge People To Make Certain Choices?
  (tags: Rizzo behavioral economics)

links for 2007-05-24

• Google Proposes Innovation in Radio Spectrum Auction - New York Times
  Interesting idea.
  (tags: fcc google auction radio spectrum)
• CSI Too Close to Home | TIME
  Creepy...
  (tags: CSI forensics body farm)
• The Borjas Blog: Sondheim on Migration
  Why Puerto Rico has not emptied?
  (tags: migration Puerto Rico)
• A Circus But No Bread - WSJ.com
  (tags: venezuela O'Grady food)
• Kevin Ham, the $300 million master of Web domains - June 1, 2007
  Nice way of making money.
  (tags: advertising domains domain names)
• OpenDNS Blog » Google turns the page… in a bad way.
  (tags: dell spyware privacy malware google)
• Hugh Hewitt
  The Immigration Analysis Consolidated (Bumped and Updated)
  (tags: inmigration bill analysis)
• Google compra Feedburner » ALT1040
  (tags: google feedburner)
• Wealthy NY couple charged with slavery - Yahoo! News
  Believe or not modern slavery.
  (tags: slavery)
• Next version of Windows to be 'fundamentally different'
  80 cores?
  (tags: Computers processing power)
• Ecuador: ¿Cómo se está resolviendo la crisis de agua en Guayaquil? | elcato.org
  (tags: Water the economist Calderon)
• Why are Americans short? | FP Passport
  (tags: economics Healthcare)
• Gangs, immigration, and human rights | FP Passport
  (tags: inmigration gangs human rights)
• Hack My Son's Computer, Please
  (tags: law privacy technology rights legal)
• El Independent: El crimen de Rosita
  (tags: immigration Alvaro Vargas Llosa)
• A Brave Heart for Atlas Shrugged
  Finally...
  (tags: Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged movies)
• El disfuncional Banco Mundial | elcato.org
  (tags: World Bank corruption disfunctional)
• Marginal Revolution: What can I do with an economics major??
  (tags: economics profession major)
• Immigration and Welfare - WSJ.com
  Heritage has some wrong facts. Inmigrants are not a burden.
  (tags: inmigration welfare Heritage)

Technorati Gets All New Redesign

Lets see if it becomes more user friendly.

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links for 2007-05-23

• Weirdest vehicles ever (22 pics) (//STATiC)
  Third world car.
  (tags: cars weird)
• Local election in Philippines settled by a coin toss | FP Passport
  Democracy in the Philippines...
  (tags: Philipphines democracy chance)
• Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Hugo Chavez Fantasizes About Dying in Poverty
  Chavez thinks that is the reincarnation of Bolivar.
  (tags: Chavez Bolivar)
• Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film on epic slave revolt | News | Guardian Unlimited Film
  Chavez the filmmaker.
  (tags: film movies socialism venezuela)
• Megashopping comes to India | FP Passport
  Globalization
  (tags: Walmart India megashopping globalization)
• El Telégrafo - EE.UU. vende embajadas a nivel mundial
  American embassies sold arround the world
  (tags: american embassies)
• El Telégrafo - Periodistas venezolanos protestan por cierra de canal de TV
  Free press in peril in Venezuela.
  (tags: Venezuela)
• AppleWeblog » El escritorio maquero de Al Gore
  No wonder he consumes so much energy
  (tags: via:alt1040 energy AlGore)
• La hiperinflación más intensa (y no reportada) del mundo | elcato.org
  (tags: hiperinflation Hanke CATO)
• Nozick on democracy
  Majority rule without a real constitution is very dangerous.
  (tags: Nozick Democracy)
• On Immigration
  Tariffs on goods are bad because they reduce trade. Same applies to inmigration
  (tags: inmigration trade)
• How to debate with one's wife
  Very true
  (tags: debate wife)
• BBC Mundo | Cultura y Sociedad | Apartamentos con vista de 360º
  Wow I can't wait to buy a condo there. (like if I could buy a condo alone).
  (tags: architecture Dubai)
• Heavenly spot in desert (15 pics) (//STATiC)
  Where is this place to begin with?
  (tags: oasis desert)
• Salesforce Announces On-Demand SOA Feature
  (tags: salesforce)
• El Independent: Orgullo para Bolivia: Cainco, entre las cinco mejores del rubro en el mundo
  (tags: CAINCO Bolivia)
• El Independent: La descentralización del gobierno iraquí es la última esperanza
  Divide and conquer, the time for a divided Irak has come.
  (tags: Irak confederation)
• El Independent: ¿De qué sirve el profesor?
  What are teachers for?
  (tags: teachers Eco)
• El Independent: Mario Vargas Llosa: "El antinorteamericanismo es más una enfermedad europea"
  (tags: antiamericanism Mario Vargas Llosa Europe Latinamerica)
• El Independent: Usura, anatocismo o crédito
  (tags: RLS interest usury credit)
• Merits of the bipartisan immigration reform deal | csmonitor.com
  (tags: inmigration bill)
• African bacteria ate holes in girl's eyes
  I lost my apetite for going to Africa one day.
  (tags: article biology wtf eyes weird)
• » Four Reasons Why We Procrastinate · Leadership Training · Personal Development 2.0 Blog, Podcast, and Portal | Cultivate Greatness | Leadership Blog |
  (tags: lifehacks Procrastination productivity psychology work)
• Running a Windows Partition in VMware - Oopsilon
  (tags: linux microsoft partition virtualization windows)
• What exactly is Montessori education? - By Emily Bazelon - Slate Magazine
  (tags: learning school reference Maria Montessori)
• How To Live an Open-Source Musical Life With Ogg Vorbis
  (tags: ogg opensource howto free music)
• Varieties of Institutionalism « Organizations and Markets
  Old and modern explained.
  (tags: institutionalism varieties)
• Why Bush hasn't been impeached | Salon.com
  (tags: Bush politics impeachment war iraq)
• QNAP TS-100 NAS handles BitTorrent downloads, media server duties - Engadget
  (tags: NAS wishlist storage networking drive)
• Wanna drive Steve Ballmer nutso? Here's how | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
  Interesting...
  (tags: Google salesforce)
• BBC NEWS | Business | Google invests in genetics firm
  Google Gen coming soon? Would you be able to search your genes with google?
  (tags: google genetics)
• Boing Boing: Bacteria for data storage
  Uhm, bacteria that has my information, how would you control them? That means that somebody can get sick with my information?
  (tags: wtf bacteria storage)