Romulo Lopez Cordero

links for 2007-06-30

• Infidel: My Journey from Somalia to the West
  Very important testimony from Somalian Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  (tags: Somalia Women Rights)
• How Prosperity Made Us More Libertarian
  From his new book Brink Lindsey on prosperity and libertarianism
  (tags: Lindsey prosperity libertarian)
• Do Something for Other People by Getting Very, Very Rich
  Pay attention to Fred Smith letter.
  (tags: Wealth aid Africa Fred Smith)
• LIBERTY BELLES » The Kids are Not All Right
  I agree
  (tags: poll future opinions kids)
• H-1B Increase Dealt Death Blow
  Don't come later crying because companies outsource outside of the US.
  (tags: inmigration)
• Freakonomics Blog » Why Isn't the Video Resume More Popular?
  I think # 1 is the answer.
  (tags: video resume freakonomics)
• Kuchofuku's air conditioned bed, clothing line - Engadget
  Just the kind of thing I need, I always wonder why there are electric thermal blankets, and not cooler blankets, this is must for the summer
  (tags: cooler blanket electric)
• Bypass Censorship, Unblock All Restricted Websites With Opera Simulator at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide
  This is a very useful tip to test your website on phones or bypass censorship at your offices.
  (tags: censorship simulation tools opera phones)
• Mises Economics Blog: The Call of the Entrepreneur
  I have seen a prerelease is awesome. I highly recommend it.
  (tags: Acton entepreneurship movie review)
• Freakonomics Blog » Buy This Book or He Will Crush You
  Creative marketing indeed for the book.
  (tags: freakonomics marketing)
• Boing Boing: Thomas Crampton: How Facebook ended my marriage - UPDATED
  Got to be careful when updating facebook.
  (tags: facebook funny)
• El Independent: Cobarde estrategia: optó por ser japonés
  In my country we will call him Sapo!!!
  (tags: Peru Fujimori Japan)
• It's lonely being a leftist revolutionary | FP Passport
  (tags: Chavez left Venezuela)
• National ID plan may have killed immigration bill - CNET News.com
  Privacy advocates say flap over Real ID Act requirements was the last straw for a bill to overhaul immigration laws.
  (tags: inmigration privacy)
• El Independent: Gobierno insiste en intervenir el sistema financiero a pesar de los daños que esto ocasionaría
  (tags: Ampuero IEEP Dollarization interest rates Ecuador)
• Exchange Update Fixes Potential iPhone Mail Issues
  I see the I phone coming to my office, opps...
  (tags: iphone exchange)

links for 2007-06-29

• Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > The American Gulag
  One of the consecuences of the war on drugs
  (tags: jail USA Gulag war drugs)
• An Anecdote on Health Care
  The wonders of socialized health care.
  (tags: economics libertarian politics hayek health care France)
• Creative Photo Effects, Text Captions for your Pictures at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide
  Interesting.
  (tags: tools Photoshop editing)
• Immigration Expert Running for Senate | The Genealogue
  (tags: genealogy inmigration politicians)
• Boing Boing: One day left to fight the US national ID card - ACT NOW!
  Big brother is going to be watching us very soon.
  (tags: realid inmigration privacy)
• Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift - New York Times
  (tags: Evolution Darwin)
• Washington se queda sin discurso - 06/28/2007 - El Nuevo Herald
  How shortsighded are the protectionists, free trade for all, no restrictions.
  (tags: Protectionism free trade Americas)
• how your brain makes political decisions - newsweek
  (tags: politics science brain neuroscience)
• Google Public Policy Blog: ¡Bienvenido a YouTube, RCTV!
  The revolution will not be televised it will be seen on YouTube.
  (tags: censorship freedom venezuela youtube)
• CareerJournal | As PowerPoint Turns 20, Creators Ponder the Dark Side to Success
  Powerpoint reevaluated on its 20 anniversary.
  (tags: Powerpoint)
• Instituto Juan de Mariana: Una oportunidad única
  New Masters program on Austrian economics organized by Juan de Mariana Institute
  (tags: Austrian Economics)
• Rodrigo Rato dejará su cargo en el FMI por "razones personales"
  This is a surprise.
  (tags: IMF Rato)
• The Murdoch effect: WSJ reporters refuse to come to work | FP Passport
  A transition not so smooth.
  (tags: WSJ Murdoch)

links for 2007-06-28

• Technology Review: Creating Ethanol from Trash
  (tags: Ethanol biofuel Science)
• CareerJournal | Hidden in Plain Sight, Some Colleagues Remain a Mystery
  I have seen a few of these.
  (tags: career funny bad employees mystery)
• Quotable: You cannot eat democracy | FP Passport
  Well that is the reason why we need to promote not only democracy but economic freedom and growth.
  (tags: Democracy Africa freedom growth)
• Lugar to Bush: Revise Iraq policy or else | FP Passport
  The house is on fire and the chief is on denial.
  (tags: Irak Policy war republicans)
• Freakonomics Blog » MySpace v. Facebook: The Class Divide
  (tags: facebook class myspace interesting)
• Marginal Revolution: What it is like to be a baby
  But why people can't remember when they were babies.
  (tags: babies experience)
• Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > John Mackey: Libertarian Fascist?
  (tags: Libertarians Whole Foods)
• 100 Years Ago Today: June 27, 1907 (Wednesday)
  Tell this to an antimigrant conservative.
  (tags: inmigration history)
• Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective « Just Say “No” To Google
  (tags: google microsoft culture work office)
• MAKE: Blog: LEGO build at World Children's Festival in DC
  Too bad that I missed it.. it was last weekend according to the link
  (tags: kids Washington DC)
• El Federalista: Nuevos ataques a la prensa: gobierno colombiano
  (tags: Colombia censorship Ecuador)
• Boing Boing: Google enters Kenya, hires first sub-Saharan African exec
  Google goes to Africa.
  (tags: google Africa)
• Merkel: The Mother of All Protest Babes?
  (tags: Europe Germany Poland funny magazine)
• aerolínea ecuatoriana contrata modelos para desfilar dentro del vuelo » alt1040
  My country is definitevely funny.
  (tags: Ecuador Airle airlines girls)
• new cancer worries for diet soda drinkers - consumerist
  Opps, better stop drinking soda at all.
  (tags: health sweeteners cancer study)
• La Tierra no proviene de la Vía Láctea aseguran astrónomos - El Universal - Ciencia
  Uhm, what's next?
  (tags: astronomy Science)
• slimming photos with hp digital cameras
  Finally I need one of this urgently.
  (tags: advertising photography psychology)
• What's to Blame for Baby Names | The Genealogue
  And I thought that this was a problem that only happened in Manabi
  (tags: names)
• White House, Cheney's Office, Subpoenaed
  (tags: Bush Cheny corruption power abuse)
• Brookstone lanza su almohada anti-ronquidos Soma - Engadget Spanish
  I will have to try this.
  (tags: snoring pillow sleep disorder)
• Tu.tv - Videos - Los Años Perdidos de Jesús
  Worth seeing it.
  (tags: bible religion videos)
• Springwise: Craigslist meets YouTube — online video classifieds
  (tags: craigslist mashup video web2.0 youtube)
• Thorstein Veblen - On Icelandic Anarchy
  (tags: Iceland Veblen anarchy)

links for 2007-06-27

• ¿Nos caería bien una pizca de mentalidad australiana?
  (tags: Ecuador politics)
• quitomas
  Very nice Photoblog of Quito
  (tags: Ecuador Quito via:cristianecuador)
• http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2061101070626.gif
  I know someone like this...reality is stranger than fiction.
  (tags: dilbert funny)
• Would you pay $1,200 to see John Bolton in a bathing suit? | FP Passport
  Funny mistakes in donor events.
  (tags: funny events fundraising)
• Jimmy Lai: 'I Was Scared to Death' - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
  (tags: Lai Hong Kong)
• Poland: The next hot destination for Indians | FP Passport
  Even the countries that have huge emigration find benefit in being open to inmigrants.
  (tags: Poland economics development inmigration)
• Jimmy Lai: 'I Was Scared to Death' - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
  (tags: Hong Kong democracy Jimmy Lai)
• YouTube - Bureaucrash Asks: Why is Immigration Immigreat?
  Why is immigration immigreat? Post your video responses for the chance to win and immigreat tee and other sweet swag. See link for more details.
  (tags: inmigration bureaucrash)
• Reason Magazine - Finking on Finkelstein
  (tags: academic independance censorship)
• Townhall.com::Big-Government Conservatives::By John Stossel
  Jeffersonians agains Hamiltonians.
  (tags: conservatives Libertarians)
• EconLog, Closet Your Inner Economist?, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty
  Very funny.
  (tags: economist Tyler Caplan)
• España es el país del mundo donde más se usa la mensajería instantánea » ALT1040
  And I thought that Spain was a backward country regarding the use of technology.
  (tags: Spain instant messaging)
• Docs: Sand more deadly than sharks - CNN.com
  And I thought that just staying on the sand was the safest thing.
  (tags: news tech sand beach holes)
• Townhall.com::Cultural Heritages::By Thomas Sowell
  The importance of not only respecting people's diverse culture, but of having a unifiying culture.
  (tags: Thomas Sowell)
• Freakonomics Blog » Eating Too Much Leads to More Gas
  It seems that global warming is the result of fat people getting fatter.
  (tags: culture obesity politics global warming)
• Manteniéndose a la Moda: La Modelo más Delgada del Mundo
  Very cool machine, but even cooler is that the guy on the video is a friend of mine, Xavier Vidal.
  (tags: Vidal Dell laptop)
• Analysis: DRM may be why Microsoft flip-flopped on Vista virtualization
  Why Microsoft decided to backpedal on virtualization for cheaper Vista versions.
  (tags: virtualization vista)
• Soda Bottle Water Rockets
  Sounds like a nice project to do with my son.
  (tags: rockets weekend projects)
• USB Mouse on Bike - type faster or the rodent gets it - The Red Ferret Journal
  Nice to check your typing speed.
  (tags: type speed)
• Class Actions: Some Belkin Wireless Owners May Be Entitled To Full Refunds - Consumerist
  I have one of those, but producing the receipt is going to be impossible. What do they expect that you keep your receipts for 10 years?
  (tags: lawsuit router wireless refund belkin)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Social sites reveal class divide
  So it seems that the web2.0, did not really erased social classes.
  (tags: web2.0 Facebook MySpace socialnetworking)
• BBC NEWS | South Asia | Sharp practice of melting coins
  This is classic problem with inflation, the actual metal is worth more than the coins, thus the coins dissapear and the metal is used for other purposes, classic economics 101.
  (tags: BBC currency economics India)
• Detailed Report of CIA's Wiretapping of Americans and Dirty Tricks To Be Unclassified -- Updated
  A must read.
  (tags: conspiracy politics power privacy secrets usa)
• Immigration and the GOP
  Why the GOP is loosing more by not supporting inmigration reform
  (tags: inmigration hispanics GOP)
• Boing Boing: Bamboo jeep
  (tags: Philippines cars transportation Asia design fun)
• Boing Boing: China's manufacturing cities - photo gallery
  (tags: china globalization)
• China - Factories - Business - Labor Practices - Hostages - Toys - New York Times
  (tags: Thomas government China news)

links for 2007-06-26

• "Kung Fu": the Original TV Series - Warner Brothers
  Those old times.
  (tags: Kung Fu tvseries)
• Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk
  (tags: virtualization microsoft vhd OS)

links for 2007-06-25

• eluniverso.com - ¡Estoy cabreado!... - Jun. 24, 2007 - COLUMNISTAS
  Genial!!!!
  (tags: language spanish Bernard)
• Secret Habits of the Super Rich - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
  How the rich live in an era of globalization and democratization of certain things that we considered luxury before and now have become regular stuff for the people.
  (tags: luxury life globalization)
• ELPAIS.com - Un club erótico contrata a Cherie Blair para luchar contra una ley de su marido - Gente y TV
  (tags: Blair funny)
• "Washington Gas Actions Questioned in Va. Blaze" By Amy Orndorff
  A charred bib with Elmo's face on it is on the driveway. A melted toaster hangs out of what was once a kitchen wall. The stench of charred plastic lingers even a month after an early morning fire burned a Bristow home to the ground.
  (tags: fire local washington gas)
• Immigration and Xenophobia - Acton Institute PowerBlog
  Could an elimination or reduction of entitlements make our country even more attractive while at the same time removing some of the economic incentives for xenophobia? I think so, but that reduction has to be general not limited to inmigrants.
  (tags: inmigration welfare)
• OpenMarket » Sarkocialism
  Sarkski the mercantilist.
  (tags: Sarkoszi mercantilism France)
• Cosmos & Polis: NO LO OLVIDEN: ES UN GAULLISTA
  (tags: Sarkozy France mercantilism)
• BBC NEWS | Americas | Cyber attack on Pentagon e-mail
  The best security tool, don't use email. Thanks for the recommendation
  (tags: email pentagon security usa dumb)
• Antipodes Map - Antipodal location for any map point
  Ecuador is the antipodes of Singapur. Now we have the Geographical evidence that Ecuador is not only the political and economical antipodes of Singapur.
  (tags: googlemaps antipode)
• No es una espiral | Microsiervos (Puzzles y Rubik)
  Uhm very good trick.
  (tags: art curiosities illusions)
• Libremente » "El interés general sobre el derecho privado"
  Why private law should be above public law.
  (tags: Ayau Law)
• WP: Cheney exerts influence out of public view - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
  Meet the Rasputin of the Bush administration.
  (tags: Bush Cheney politics Government Power)
• "Nap Time and Playtime And Time to Learn Farsi" By Delphine Schrank
  At 2 years old, Lanah Boissy has perfected the art of linguistic one-upmanship. Perched in a highchair at dinnertime in Sterling, she will say something in Farsi, wait for a look of bafflement from her Senegal-born parents and dissolve into giggles when t
  (tags: culture language inmigration)
• Frisbee name flies for 50 years
  Happy birthday frisbee
  (tags: frisbee)
• WendyMcElroy.com: Emails you should never answer
  Good advise
  (tags: children internet laws)
• "Lots of Prosecutors Go Too Far. Most Get Away With It." By Jonathan Turley
  Punishment for prosecutorial misconduct is so rare, Michael B. Nifong's demise is a surprise.
  (tags: prosecutors law Duke)
• Reducing U.S. aid unwise move - 06/24/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
  I disagree with Oppenheimer, I actually think is good to decrease assistance, but the US should increase trade and get rid of commerce barriers.
  (tags: Oppenheimer trade aid Latinamerica)
• The Borjas Blog: The Continuing Saga Of Jobs Americans Won't Do
  (tags: inmigration residence visa)
• Aussie hired by state GOP embroiled in immigration lawsuit
  Interesting story it shows the hipocracy of some antiinmigrants among Republicans.
  (tags: GOP inmigration)
• Cómo era el Partenón antes de ser destruido | Anfrix
  A good excuse to visit Tenesse
  (tags: architecture curiosities history Tenesse)
• Economic Lessons from the Amish - Mises Institute
  (tags: Amish economy interesting Libertarians)
• Commentary: The Weekend Interview - WSJ.com
  Storyteller, Mario Vargas Llosa is interviewed by WSJ.
  (tags: Mario Vargas Llosa WSJ)
• El Independent: La cultura y desarrollo económico
  Arosemena reviews the last Osvaldo Hurtado book that tries to find an answer to Ecuador's underdevelopment in Ecuadorean culture.
  (tags: Guillermo Arosemena Osvaldo Hurtado culture)
• Plantillas (themes) gratis para WordPress » ALT1040
  (tags: wordpress themes)

links for 2007-06-24

• Pegboard gadget mount
  This is the best hack out of the list of 10 hacks.
  (tags: Pegboard gadget computer organization)
• "Chávez tendrá que pagar por todo lo que ha hecho"
  Harsh words or Lech Walesa for Chavez.
  (tags: Chavez Walesa Peru)
• How Facebook could crush MySpace, Yahoo!, and Google. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
  Who is going to win the battle?
  (tags: facebook myspace web2.0)
• El Independent: Ecuador: entre el populismo y la globalización
  (tags: Ecuador Populism globalization)
• El Independent: La publicidad en Web afina su puntería
  (tags: marketing segmentation ads)
• Marginal Revolution: Credit card games
  I have had a totally different experience, I never sign the credit card and I think is better to get rid of it and use instead a Pin in conjunction with the card. At least they can not steal what you have in your mind.
  (tags: credit cards signature)
• How to Take Great Group Photos
  I will have to give it a try.
  (tags: photography tips tutorials via:errepece)
• Fact About Founder Found Faulty | The Genealogue
  What I found interesting is the story at the link of Vallejo.
  (tags: Vallejo California history)
• Freakonomics Blog » When Whaling Was King
  (tags: economics environment history Whales)
• Photography Banned in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland | The News is NowPublic.com
  I do believe that private companies have the right to protect themselves from being photographed, but that place is public, moreover it was subsidized by public money, so there is no reason to prohibit the pictures.
  (tags: photography business security via:BoingBoing culture censorship)
• Boing Boing: DIY gadgets in Africa: the knife-sharpening bicycle
  A lone gone profession in my hometown too.
  (tags: Africa knife sharpening)
• El Opinador Compulsivo: La Argentina sin convertibilidad
  I don't understand him either.
  (tags: Cavallo Argentina convertibility)
• BBC NEWS | Americas | Vertical farming in the big Apple
  More on the same issue bookmarked before.
  (tags: agriculture building environment science)
• Microsoft ditches about-face on virtualization restrictions at 11th hour
  (tags: microsoft news tech virtualization)
• DHS acknowledges own computer break-ins - Yahoo! News
  Another reason to ditch this agency.
  (tags: computer government failure DHS)
• Elephant Drive - data backup that never forgets? - The Red Ferret Journal
  (tags: online storage)
• MAKE: Blog: Google solar panel project
  (tags: google solar energy)
• Help your kids clean their rooms
  Uhm, less toys definitively.
  (tags: ideas kids parenting)
• FRB: Choosing a Credit Card
  Complete site about credit cards from the Federal Reserve.
  (tags: via:lifehacker Finance money creditcard tips)
• Software Serial Numbers and CD Keys on Google at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide
  Uhm, how long will it take software companies to send letters or cancel licenses for companies that are careless?
  (tags: cd Keys google)
• MAKE: Blog: The complete guide to PDFs in iTunes
  Interesting, I was not aware that you could download PDF's on itunes.
  (tags: PDF podcast iTunes podcasting)
• instructables : How to Make Bacon Soap
  If you don't like to bathe and you want a compelling reason to do it, use the bacon soap, here the instructions on how to make it.
  (tags: awesome DIY funny soap tutorial bacon)
• Flash drives the new vinyl? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
  Interesting concept finally recording houses are figuring out how to give more value added in order to keep the flow of money coming. It doesn't matter how much the music cost (or the USB BTW), but certainly it gives you more incentives to shell out the
  (tags: USB music piracy)
• Scientists reconstruct still-horrifying 9-11 images
  Finally let's check the facts and see what really happened.
  (tags: CSI 9/11)
• Media tremors--the earth is shifting
  The end of the dinosaurs, on the internet.
  (tags: web2.0 yahoo)
• USB hub opens letters, wakes you up - Engadget
  (tags: usb gadgets letter opener)
• Lawrence Lessig
  One of the top promoters of the free culture is moving to a different arena. How will he fight corruption?
  (tags: politics lessig copyright activism corruption)
• An Arab Solution
  Egypt, Jordan, the Saudis--and Palestine.
  (tags: MiddleEast)

links for 2007-06-23

• The State Department's Arabic problem is worse than you think | FP Passport
  (tags: government language)
• El Independent: Mario Vargas llosa: "Lo importante es no perder la curiosidad"
  Interesting interview.
  (tags: Mario Vargas Llosa Literature Guayaquil)
• The man who would be the "oil king" | FP Passport
  The next Bill Gates.
  (tags: oil corn energy)
• eluniverso.com - Rocafuerte y Nebot, familias de Narcisa - Jun. 22, 2007 - EL GRAN GUAYAQUIL
  This prooves that Guayaquil is a small town in which everybody knows and its related to everybody.
  (tags: Saint Narcisa Guayaquil)
• El Independent: ¿Por qué Ron Paul?
  (tags: Alvaro Vargas Llosa Ron Paul)
• El Independent: Los nuevos amigos de Ortega
  (tags: Nicaragua Iran Venezuela O'Grady)
• Paris Hilton getting $1 million for interview - The Superficial - www.thesuperficial.com
  Not a bad business to stay for 23 days in jail for a million dollars. Maybe the judges should rule that whatever money you earn while in jail gets confiscated.
  (tags: Hilton fine)
• Boing Boing: Grandma with bread knife fined and placed on terrorist watch list
  (tags: airplanes security transportation)
• La demanda de Ubuntu y Vista en Amazon
  (tags: Ubuntu Amazon)
• Apple buyout rumours circulate as iPhone launch nears | Channel Register
  Interesting
  (tags: business Apple Google)
• En sólo dos meses, desapareció un lago chileno de 30 metros de profundidad
  (tags: global warming)
• Guayaquil | Mario Bravo, el magnate del reciclaje
  The trash king of Guayaquil, entepreneurship to solve the problems of the city.
  (tags: entepreneurship Guayaquil)
• Carpe Diem: ¡Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuy!
  Ups the left is coming in Guatemala too.
  (tags: Guatemala left)
• Bush suffers from foot-in-Crocs disease | FP Passport
  My wife agrees with the fashion blogger that the use of this crocs with black socks are on itself good grounding for impeachment.
  (tags: impeachment bush crocs shoes fashion)
• Nuevos feeds y nuevas características en Hipertextual » ALT1040#comment-175269
  (tags: hipertextual alt1040)
• El Independent: Vilma, Raúl, Fidel y la soledad de la muerte
  Montaner ponders on the recent death of Raul Castro's wife Vilma, and how would that play in the post Castro Cuba.
  (tags: Montaner Castro Raul Cuba)
• El Independent: Schwarzenegger tiene razón pero se equivoca
  Good point.
  (tags: Language USA spanish english)
• Fruit-picking robots closer to reality - Engadget
  (tags: labor robotics farming)
• Run Windows Vista, Office 2007 Together Without Installation at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide
  Very useful, I was thinking in repartioning my hard disk to run it side by side, but now I am going to try this.
  (tags: vista office virtualization)
• Google Public Policy Blog: Censorship as trade barrier
  Interesting Google by way of supporting free trade are supporting free speech. Free speech is after all a good business practice.
  (tags: censorship google copyright)
• VivaLinux! » Ubuntu Transformation Pack para Windows XP
  Too lazy or too scared to switch to linux? Make your windows look like Ubuntu instead.
  (tags: ubuntu WindowsXP style)
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 DIY office projects - Lifehacker
  (tags: cool desk organization lifehacks productivity)

links for 2007-06-22

• DIY: Make a laptop sleeve with a FedEx envelope - Lifehacker
  Very handy..
  (tags: tech laptop case)
• ELPAIS.com - Hallado el primer esqueleto de un indio muerto por arma de fuego durante la conquista de América - Cultura y Espectáculos - Agenda Ocio
  The first or the oldest victim of the Spanish conquest of Peru.
  (tags: Peru indigenous_peoples Latinamerica)
• Freakonomics Blog » Will the "Ten Commandments of Driving" Create a "Benedict Effect"?
  The vatican has issued the 10 commandments for driving. Are they set on stone?
  (tags: driving commandments Vatican)
• What you see when you try to clean your old keyboard... (6 pics) (//STATiC)
  It might surprise you what is under your keys.
  (tags: keyboard hygiene)
• Granta: 'How to write about Africa' by Binyavanga Wainaina
  (tags: Africa humor journalism satire)
• Iranian Dissidents Gather To Discuss Regime Change - June 18, 2007 - The New York Sun
  (tags: Iran)
• Escape from Moscow
  Mart Laar on the Russian attemps to curtail those countries breaking from the Russian sphere of influence.
  (tags: Laar Russia)
• brick masterpieces
  Impressing.
  (tags: lego art curiosities via:errepece)
• cover browser
  Very useful for cartoon fans.
  (tags: comics art history reference)
• In His Nightmare City - The New York Review of Books
  Interesting review of Mario Vargas Llosa "La tentacion de lo imposible". Too bad that is gated the article.
  (tags: Mario Vargas Llosa review Victor Hugo.)

links for 2007-06-21

• El Independent: Mario Vargas Llosa
  That is the real question, en que Momento se jodió Ecuador?, reflections on the current visit to Ecuador by Mario Vargas Llosa.
  (tags: Mario Vargas Llosa)
• globeandmail.com: What would Jack Bauer do?
  24 shapping the judicial debate in the US, WTF?
  (tags: 24 terrorism torture supremecourt jackbauer scalia)
• Pictures of Insanely Complex Intersections | DailyCognition.com
  What is the purpose of this entangled turns?
  (tags: architecture highway spagetti)
• Dear Sir Bill Gates: invoice enclosed | The Register
  I wonder if they can come clean like Dell and issue some sort of apology.
  (tags: billgates funny microsoft windows technology)
• Get Reviewed on Google Maps » Viget’s Four Labs
  Interesting, but I found that the company I work with has a listing already to a phone number and Google takes 4 weeks to update the entry.
  (tags: googlemaps)
• Libremente » La cajita feliz vs. "la cajita social lista"
  (tags: Indoctrination Venezuela)
• The great wall of China
  I tried this tool, I am blocked of course, but guess who is not blocked? Granma.cu.... Even the oficial mouthpiece of Chinese government in english, is blocked to Chinese users.
  (tags: firewall politics censorship China)