Romulo Lopez Cordero

links for 2007-09-30

• http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/draft-includer/askos-home-pub-fridge-is-a-fridge-for-real-men-304739.php
  A fridge freezer with built-in draught beer system
  (tags: alcohol beer design home)
• 10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years - Entrepreneur.com
  See the list, very important if you are thinking in getting into any of these businesses.
  (tags: business culture future management)
• The Sun Online - News: Sister locked up and forgotten
  I know it's the sun, you will have to believe a third of what it says, but how could this happen if it's real?
  (tags: abuse stories crime crazy)
• Raising Money on Facebook - Philanthropy.com
  As the younger facebook generation grows, this might be more of a reality.
  (tags: facebook fundraising)
• Friday Photo: China's big silver egg opens for business | FP Passport
  Interesting story about some of the clashes with modernity in China.
  (tags: China olympics development)
• danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Blogging scholarship available
  Pay attention to this.
  (tags: blogging scholarship)
• El Independent: Elecciones en Ecuador: La madre de todas las batallas
  Scary outlook for Ecuador
  (tags: ecuador national assambly)
• Selling Ads on Facebook Is a Tempting but Risky Business
  Will facebook share the add revenue with it's users?
  (tags: ads facebook social advertising)
• Get the Most Out of Gmail / Wired How To's
  I have known some of this tricks for a while, but it is wortwhile to review them again.
  (tags: gmail google how-to apps)
• Speed Record: Hercules Hits 130.7mph On a Bicycle - Gizmodo
  Down a cliff that is no merit.
  (tags: bicycle bike record speed)
• So Many Reasons Government Shouldn’t Fund Newspapers
  (tags: government funding free press newspaper)
• Correa no fue a cena con Bush en protesta por discurso en la ONU 10:00 (15:00 GMT)
  So if talking about Iran, CUBA and Burma is anti XXI century, I prefere to be IXX century admirer.
  (tags: Correa Bush UN)
• Create A Tag Cloud Based On The Content of Your Blog or Website at Digital Inspiration - Software Reviews, Internet and Technology Guide
  Interesting hack.
  (tags: blogging news tutorial cloud tag)
• New AT&T terms of service: We'll cut off your Internet connection for criticizing us - Boing Boing
  Be careful if you have an AT&T account
  (tags: ATT censorship)
• Wikipedia wars erupt - Los Angeles Times
  As the 6-year-old encyclopedia project begins shifting from adding articles to pruning them back, arguments ensue, and it isn't pretty. Just ask its founder -- and victim.
  (tags: wikipedia culture community internet history)

links for 2007-09-29

• U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
  This is scary.
  (tags: privacy security travel politics government)

links for 2007-09-28

• Ecuador y Guatemala fuera de la Lotería de Diversidad « La Alharaca
  Game over with the visa lottery, time to spend some big bucks on the attorney for the green card.
  (tags: DV lottery Ecuador Guatemala)
• http://travel.state.gov/pdf/2009DVInstructions.pdf
  The official notice.
  (tags: immigration)
• Simpletracks :: Adam Kalsey
  (tags: Trackback tools)
• Confession Makes a Comeback - WSJ.com
  Some churches are allowing confession on youtube.
  (tags: confession)
• BBC Mundo | A fondo | "Made in U.S.A."
  Las autoridades de California dijeron a BBC que no emplean fumigaciones aéreas contra las plantaciones, por considerarlas nocivas a las condiciones ambientales en esos parques naturales.
  (tags: California drugs u.s.a.)
• A year of following all the rules in the Bible - Boing Boing
  (tags: bible choice life religion interesting)
• Why Ahmadinejad wanted to speak at Columbia. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine
  Why ?
  (tags: Iran)
• Las notas de Bush » ALT1040
  (tags: Bush funny mishaps)
• Products of dreams (35 pics) (//STATiC)
  (tags: architecture design crazy cool inspiration products)
• Should Nonprofit Conferences Go Virtual? - Philanthropy.com
  I think it should be included as an option.
  (tags: conferences virtual)
• Report Says Hussein Was Open To Exile Before 2003 Invasion - washingtonpost.com
  He Is Said to Have Sought $1 Billion and Information on Arms
  (tags: Bush Hussein Aznar)
• Sources: Staged cyber attack reveals vulnerability in power grid - CNN.com
  Truth or fiction? It conceivably happen, but they might be too dumb to allow it.
  (tags: government hack news security)
• El Independent: La ilusión de Paraguay
  Disgusting, Latin America getting worst than Africa.
  (tags: Latin America Paraguay Alvaro Vargas Llosa)
• I, Robot in Romanian - Boing Boing
  I think I can read some Romanian
  (tags: languages sci-fi romanian)
• Open Networks and Regulation
  Totally agree on this.
  (tags: networks regulation Hazzlett)
• El Federalista: Gorila ignorante
  Friend of Pat Robertson?
  (tags: Chavez)
• Carlos Sabino recibió reconocimiento - Universidad Francisco Marroquín
  Congratulations Carlos
  (tags: Sabino Guatemala history)
• New Media finalista en Exponet - Universidad Francisco Marroquín
  I love new media, but sometimes I don't watch their videos, because they lack bandwith outside of Guatemala and the video studders.
  (tags: videos Guatemala UFM/)
• Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique | GNUCITIZEN
  This is worrysome, come on Google fix the problem.
  (tags: google security exploit Email)
• El Independent: Un pequeño país, Bélgica
  The death of Belgium
  (tags: Belgium separatism)
• Interview With A Convicted Hacker: Robert Moore Tells How He Broke Into Routers And Stole VoIP Services
  Amazing on his way to federal prison, the 23-year-old hacker says breaking into computers at telecom companies and major corporations was "so easy a caveman could do it."
  (tags: business Hacker security voip)
• OpenMarket.org » Time to Reform the FCC
  While I am up for no FCC, the issue is would democrats be willing to dissapear the FCC, given that it is highly unlikely the only solution is to work with it.
  (tags: FCC reform)
• 'Viridian' Is Huge Draw for Windows Server 2008
  Interesting, but vmware camp looks more interesting. The only advantage here is price, it would be free.
  (tags: virtualization windows viridian)
• El Independent: ¿Campeones en "tramitología"?
  Why Latin American love paperwork?
  (tags: bureocracy paperwork Oppenheimer)
• Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
  Pretty strong.
  (tags: vista microsoft OS)
• village voice > people > !Ask a Mexican!: Do Mexicans Like Speedy Gonzalez? by Gustavo Arellano
  Hahaha, but better is the following question.
  (tags: mexico television u.s.a. via:errepece)
• EJEMPLO DE CONSTANCIA Y LEALTAD
  (tags: obituaries Prentice Daysi Rios)
• Insiders: 5 Confessions Of A Comcast Customer Service Rep - Consumerist
  Finally somebody tells the truth.
  (tags: comcast customer service)
• Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video#utm_source=en-et-gmhpp&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=en
  Wonderful collaborative effort.
  (tags: video google youtube gmail marketing cool viral)
• Mistake costs dishwasher $59,000 - CNN.com
  This is government sponsored theft.
  (tags: immigration customs rights law government illegal)
• WorldTime News Report :: Major biological discovery inside the Chernobyl reactor, a fungus that feeds on radiation
  When do X-men and godzilla show up? Another 10 years?
  (tags: biology evolution nuclear russia Science)

links for 2007-09-27

• Bolivian president appears on Daily Show - Yahoo! News
  Very funny.
  (tags: Morales Stewart)
• estudiante estadounidense torturado con electricidad en público tras haber hecho una pregunta a john kerry
  Totally agree, and not only that Kerry making fun of the situation.
  (tags: u.s.a. politics police john_kerry)
• The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management
  (tags: non-profit technology techsoup secondlife)
• Ex-President of Bolivia Faces Suit in U.S. - washingtonpost.com
  (tags: Bolivia Sanchez de Lozada)

links for 2007-09-26

• El Independent: Rafael Correa ofende a los cubanos
  The truth that the author of this article does not wants to see is that Correa belongs to the same class as Fidel Castro.
  (tags: Correa Cuba Castro)
• Dear Facebook: may I have my life back, please? - Download Squad
  Scary to loose your facebook social life.
  (tags: facebook socialnetworks ban)
• Pacifictel quiere impulsar la TV por cable en Ecuador - Engadget Spanish
  Not happy with providing a horrible service, they want to expand offerings into an arena that the private service provides better than the public sector.
  (tags: Pacifictel phone company)
• A Few Good Event-Registration Tools
  (tags: registration tools)
• ABC News: Michael Moore to John Stossel: 'Little Debate' About Health Care in Cuba
  (tags: Moore Sicko Stossel)
• IRI President addresses students at Colombia University - Irna
  The world upside down, a blatant lie, reminds me of 1984
  (tags: Iran doublespeak)
• El Independent: Ojo con los venezolanos que traen regalos
  (tags: venezuela gift)
• Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Hide a Hard Drive in a UPS
  Interesting hack
  (tags: storage hardware harddisk hack)
• Marginal Revolution: YouTube of Tyler Cowen speaking at Google, about Google
  (tags: Cowen google)
• La mujer que escribió un diccionario
  The woman who wrote a dictionary
  (tags: dictionary Garcia Marquez)
• Google Hunts for Undersea Fiber Capacity as Traffic Surges
  (tags: cable globalization innovation news Google)

links for 2007-09-25

• MAKE: Blog: Bike fixin'
  (tags: DIY MAKE bikes)
• Old hard drives are a goldmine for data thieves - tech - 21 September 2007 - New Scientist Tech
  Wipe your hard drive if you get rid of your computer.
  (tags: hard drives security)
• OldVersion.com
  Useful.
  (tags: software download freeware downloads tools windows)
• Starbucks to Give Away 50 Million Songs - New York Times
  Let's begin the party.
  (tags: starbucks free music)
• Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: Blogging as a Source of Profits - Portfolio.com
  (tags: blogs blogging profits)

links for 2007-09-24

• Are children harmed by seeing their parents naked? - By Michelle Tsai - Slate Magazine
  (tags: parenting naked)
• APOD: 2007 September 22 - Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years
  I am not that convinced, why would they go together again.
  (tags: earth future maps Science)
• Arlington criticizes regional crackdown on illegal immigration -- dailypress.com
  Another reason why I love Arlington, sadly it is too expensive.
  (tags: Arlington inmigration)
• Buy a Linux Computer - linuxpreloaded.com
  Other computer sellers that bundle linux on it.
  (tags: computer hardware linux)
• eluniverso.com - Fujimori estará en una celda blindada - Sep. 23, 2007 - INTERNACIONALES
  Well hopefully this will deter other would be dictators of doing the same as Fujimori.
  (tags: Fujimori human rights)
• totalitarianism today: Make Mine Freedom
  This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism."
  (tags: culture economics politics usa 1948)
• eluniverso.com - Tres Santiagos cuidan el Salón de la Ciudad desde hace 14 años - Sep. 23, 2007 - EL GRAN GUAYAQUIL
  Santiagos de Guayaquil.
  (tags: history Guayaquil workers)
• http://reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=2sl6x
  Ship on the middle of a dessert? WTF another Noah's ark?
  (tags: pictures WTF)
• El ñiccionario « Elblogdelcapi
  Very funny and creative, let's add words
  (tags: ñ español)
• Las bases de la riqueza
  Very good video.
  (tags: Luis Pazos Riqueza)
• Wikipedia 2.0, with added trust
  Lets see if this improves the quality and credibility among scholars of wikipedia.
  (tags: collaboration online wikipedia)
• 'I am a young woman. I have sex for money. And I love to write. This is my story...
  Why is she in this business, I don't get it.
  (tags: sex career bloggers)
• MiCocinaLatina.com | Recetas | Bebida Caliente de Avena con Chocolate de Olga
  Here is a recipe from my wife, yummy, she makes this things while I am not at home, so I never get to taste them.
  (tags: wife recipes)
• 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby
  Good to know this I was just starting to get interested on what is rails.
  (tags: php rails programming web)
• Ron Paul Girl
  Yeahh Ron Paul for President
  (tags: ron paul humor politics videos Elections via:errepece)
• 10 Google Services That Get No Love
  (tags: computer service software google)
• » New version of Gmail being tested | Googling Google | ZDNet.com
  I can't wait I love gmail.
  (tags: Gmail google research web)
• WILLisms.com: More On The Babe Theory of Political Movements.
  Where are the babes in my country?
  (tags: activism gender politics)
• El Independent: La violencia, el huevo y la gallina
  (tags: Montaner Violence government resources)

links for 2007-09-23

• VMware bugs shine spotlight on virtualization security
  (tags: virtualization security)
• ‘Ecuador no es un país libre, sino regulado’
  (tags: think tanks Ecuador Lazo)
• Online Video Takes Off - Philanthropy.com
  We are seeing it.
  (tags: online videos non-profit)
• Cobertura Digital » Más trabajo para Steve Jobs: el Iphone funcionando con Movistar y Porta en Ecuador
  Another example that Ecuador has entepreneurial potential. Only if the system changed...
  (tags: iphone hacks ecuador)
• El Federalista: Sorprendente sistema bolivariano de metereología
  hahahha
  (tags: weather forecast Bolivia)
• Gems from the archive of the New York Times (kottke.org)
  Wonderful resource for research.
  (tags: history nytimes journalism internet via:alt1040)
• Video: Do Doctors Wash Their Hands? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
  No wonder
  (tags: medicine freakonomics)
• Los trenes elevados de Nueva York | Microsiervos (MundoReal™)
  (tags: history u.s.a. trains via:errepece)
• Facebook Suicide.
  (tags: facebook socialnetworks web2.0 privacy)
• MISS MARIE KELLY WEDTOKSTAfiGJR.; The Ceremony Is Held Here in the Chu... - Free Preview - The New York Times
  The Stagg family of Ecuador are direct descendants of Juan José Flores
  (tags: genealogy flores staff history Ecuador)
• List of Latin-American Individuals and Companies Put on the Blacklist ... - Free Preview - The New York Times
  During WWII the USA published a list of companies on the blacklist due to their relationiship with Germany or Italy. Here is the list of south American companies and specially my country, see the names.
  (tags: history WWII)
• TO TRANSFORM GUAYAQUIL; Complete Sewer and Water Supply Systems to be ... - Article Preview - The New York Times
  Guayaquil on the previous regeneracion urbana.
  (tags: 1903 Guayaquil development)
• Ecuador's Army Seizes Power; Says President Drank Too Much; Ousted Aro... - Free Preview - The New York Times
  A funny incident in history, the NYT does not mentions how the president disgraced himself, but we know what he did.
  (tags: Ecuador Arosemena President 1963)
• THE SPANISH REPUBLICS.; LATE ADVICES FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA. T... - Article Preview - The New York Times
  Accounts of President Garcia Moreno's assasination in 1875 outside the palace, scroll all the way down to the bottom to read it.
  (tags: Garcia Moreno history Ecuador)
• BLACKLISTS 1,600 GERMAN FIRMS; United States Cuts Off All Trade with E... - Article Preview - The New York Times
  List of individuals not allowed to trade with the US on the eve of the First world war. What is funny is that Great grandfather is listed. He worked for a German owned company Juan Kruger.
  (tags: Ecuador genealogy Lopez WWI USA history)
• ECUADORAN LEADER DIES IN PLANE CRASH - New York Times
  Remembering Ecuador's history.
  (tags: Ecuador history Roldos obituaries)
• THE REVOLUTION IN ECUADOR. - Article Preview - The New York Times
  More than a century and a quarter after and this old quote from a NYT article in 1883 still holds true "Life is never dull in Ecuador. When it is not a good year for earthquakes there is always a revolution, an assassination of the President, or some oth
  (tags: Ecuador History 1883 Urbina Veintimilla)
• ECUADORIAN WINS TOP POST IN O.A.S; Voting Begun Nov. 17 Ends With Plaz... - Free Preview - The New York Times
  Accounts of Galo Plaza Laso's Election as Secretary General of the OAS, 1968
  (tags: Ecuador history 1968)
• LATIN-AMERICAN TREND IS TO 'STRONG MAN' RULE; But ... - View Article - The New York Times
  The beginning of Latin American failed development policies and the antiamerican sentiment.
  (tags: Latin America)
• Experts Say Great Highway Through Latin Republics Can Be Built -- Will... - Free Preview - The New York Times
  The start of a dream not accomplished yet. Some day, the Americas will be united and easy to travel by car.
  (tags: Americas highway)
• ECUADOR TO START ON SHIP TERMINAL - Free Preview - The New York Times
  Puerto Marítimo announced on NYT
  (tags: Puerto Maritimo Ecuador Guayaquil 1959)
• New York’s Immigrant Drivers - New York Times
  Cheers for NYC sensible policies toward inmigrants.
  (tags: inmigration cab drivers)
• Exposing Michael Moore's Lies About Cuba
  I need to see this.
  (tags: Moore Cuba Stossel)
• Noticias locas - PROPONEN QUE EL MATRIMONIO CADUQUE A LOS 7 AÑOS
  Funny
  (tags: marriage funny)
• The Austrian Economists: Hayek in the classroom
  (tags: Hayek austrian economics syllabus)
• TRIED TO SELL ISLANDS TO THE UNITED STATES; Ex-President Garcia of Ecu... - Article Preview - The New York Times
  When Ecuador tried to sell Galapagos
  (tags: Galapagos Garcia 1906)
• ECUADOR. - Article Preview - The New York Times
  When Ecuador almost became a french protectorate.
  (tags: Ecuador Flores Garcia)
• THE WOMAN IN THE CASE; CONSUL RUIZ'S ADOPTED DAUGHTER ALSO ARRESTED. T... - Article Preview - The New York Times
  This is a extrange case of the consul general arrested. It turns out that he might be uncle of Antonio Flores Jijón that was married to a Ruiz Apodaca.
  (tags: Ecuador Flores)
• HISTORY OF 1852.; POLITICAL AND GENERAL HISTORY OF THE Principal Natio... - Article Preview - The New York Times
  The world in 1852, good review of what was happening arround the world.
  (tags: world history NYT)
• Going Undercover in the Slimy World of Phishing
  Amazing: A security analyst learns the lingo and gains cyber-crooks' trust to penetrate the phishing underworld.
  (tags: security phishing)
• 1era García Moreno Gabriel - EDUFUTURO
  (tags: Garcia Moreno history Ecuador)
• sexbycountry tappyyourheels on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Poor japanese, congrats to greeks
  (tags: stats japan Greece sex funny)
• El Independent: Dickens en escena
  Mario Vargas Llosa ponders on the life of Charles Dickens.
  (tags: Vargas Llosa Mario Dickens)
• Libertad Ecuador: Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres
  Chavez insults a journalist showing great disrespect to answer him.
  (tags: Chavez insults)
• Atlas Mugged: How a Gang of Scrappy, Individual Bloggers Broke the Stranglehold of the Mainstream Media
  How the internet is shaping our culture.
  (tags: history internet media)

links for 2007-09-22

• Man breaks world record for longest phone call - Engadget
  What a chatty guy.
  (tags: record phone call)
• El Independent: Correa: El buen discípulo
  (tags: Correa)
• El Federalista: Fraude electoral anunciado
  The fraud in Ecuador elections is coming.
  (tags: fraud ecuador assambly)

links for 2007-09-21

• Division of Labour: Alan Greenspan and Jon Stewart on free markets versus central banking
  (tags: banking capitalism economy greenspan finance)
• Shared Stuff from People You Know
  A new tool on town.
  (tags: socialnetworking web2.0 google social)
• Could China be the real subprime winner? | FP Passport
  (tags: subprime financial mess)
• El Independent: Sin gobierno, Bélgica lucha por mantenerse unida
  (tags: Belgium separatism)
• Belgium put up for sale on eBay | FP Passport
  hahah, I am going to put for Sale Ecuador. For sale country with socialist Presidents that not even socialists want now. Sale sale.
  (tags: Ecuador Belgium politics)
• The Accidental Thief - WSJ.com
  Next time you shop make sure you are taking the right box with the right product, otherwise you can experience a bad moment.
  (tags: business crazy crime law news)
• El Independent: ¿Por qué Hugo Chávez?
  Why corruption and bureocracy have led Venezuela to Chavez, and people to vote for Chavez. The problem is that the medicine will be worst than the actual problems.
  (tags: Chavez Alvaro Vargas Llosa)
• Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain - Los Angeles Times
  Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show. Como diría el chapulín colorado, lo sospeché desde un principio.
  (tags: politics phycology)
• CSS Menu Generator
  Very useful.
  (tags: cool CSS tools webdesign)
• Neatorama » Blog Archive » 10 Things You Might’ve Been Better Off Not Knowing About Your Body#comment-226606
  (tags: facts via:errepece human body)
• Mises Economics Blog: Austrian Economics and Libertarian Political Theory
  (tags: Carpio Mises Institute)
• Wikipedia: What Is It Good For? - Mises Institute
  More on Hayek;s influence on wikipedia.
  (tags: libertarian hayek tech wikipedia)
• After Years Lost, Identity Reclaimed - washingtonpost.com
  (tags: Dna cold cases)