Romulo Lopez Cordero

links for 2008-05-31

• D-Link DAP-1522 Bridge / Access Point Review - Lab Notes by ExtremeTech
  I need one of this.
  (tags: bridge router)
• Screenshots of Google AdSense Ads in FeedBurner RSS Feeds
  I have been eagerly waiting for this.
  (tags: adsense advertising feedburner google)
• Splashtop Instant-On Desktop from DeviceVM
  This is the kind of software that can defeat windows.
  (tags: amazing asus splashtop linux)
• Software: Launch Apps Without Booting Windows Using Phoenix HyperSpace Mini OS
  Getting to the Browser operating system.
  (tags: bios boot development ideas)
• Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax?
  Very true.
  (tags: Faxes interesting signatures)
• Hidden Drawers - Articles at Woodcraft
  Very nice trick to hide your valuables.
  (tags: woodworking furniture security cool)
• Marginal Revolution: Free banking in Second Life
  (tags: banking money secondlife virtual)
• DIY: If You Build a PC Case Out of Duct Tape, Geeks Will Come
  Interesting mod.
  (tags: PC case duct tape)
• Real Time Economics : Inflation Expectations May Be Spending Gauge
  I have been saying this all the time.
  (tags: inflation expectations)
• Comunicación Digital: El Mundo según Google
  To see.
  (tags: video Google history)
• Video: Google Docs attracting more developers - CNET News.com
  (tags: google docs video)
• Hotmail users getting locked out
  (tags: hotmail hijacks)
• Analysts to Google: Buy Salesforce
  I have always thought that this is a marriage that is going to happen sooner or later.
  (tags: salesforce google)
• Dell Sustains Itself on Notebooks
  (tags: Dell notebooks)
• May 29, 1935: Hoover Dam Set in Concrete
  Interesting story about the Hoover Dam.
  (tags: Hoover Dam 1935 history)
• USATODAY.com - NORAD had drills of jets as weapons
  The conspiracy goes on.
  (tags: 9/11 airline conspiracy norad)
• Emptywheel » George Bush Authorized the Leak of Valerie Wilson’s Identity
  (tags: Libby wilson bush)
• Building home linux render cluster
  Supercomputer on the cheap.
  (tags: linux cluster hardware diy hack ikea)
• MAKE: Blog: Eliptical bike interview
  (tags: bikes eliptical)
• An Epidemic of Abandoned Horses - TIME
  (tags: Horses economic crisis)

links for 2008-05-30

• Unstoppable Solar Cycles
  Put a stop on the Sun Carbon Footprint.
  (tags: Sun global warming)
• Web As Desktop: BrowserPlus Offers Drag and Drop Uploads and More
  The browser is becoming the operating system as predicted a while back during the browser wars.
  (tags: browser desktop firefox)
• Our Local Correspondents: Up and Then Down: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
  How freakish.
  (tags: architecture buildings design interesting magazine elevators)
• Google Gears Enabled Sites That Work Even When You Go Offline
  (tags: google gears)
• Google Gears and WordPress 2.6 Is Not About Offline Blogging
  Interesting
  (tags: Google gears wordpress)

links for 2008-05-29

• Video: Un ladrón muy, muy estúpido - ALT1040
  Very, very funny.
  (tags: funny thieves)
• Project Mac SE Monitor Mod
  Nice project.
  (tags: gadgets mac monitor old pc)
• What Will Globalization Do to Languages? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
  Interesting discussion about the prevalence of english language thanks to globalization.
  (tags: behavior culture economics globalization language)
• Web Publishing: Webon Makes Building a Web Site Easy
  Interesting, but the name is the best.
  (tags: webdesign lifehacker blogging design website)
• Built-in Windows commands to determine if a system has been hacked
  Very useful.
  (tags: windows security commands utilities hacks xp)
• GNOME file manager gets tabbed file browsing
  (tags: desktop linux software news interesting nautilus gnome)
• Ballmer And Gates Demo Windows 7: Multitouch, Pie Menus And a Piano | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
  Would this be enough to stop the leak of users?
  (tags: windows microsoft technology gadget)
• The Agitator » Blog Archive » “Balko is a collectivist, a statist, and a shmuck.”
  (tags: Balko Libertarians)
• El Independent: La soledad de Colombia
  In other words you have to do, what you have to do, not because we have allies.
  (tags: Colombia international public policy)
• Los compinches de Chávez: Articulos: The Independent Institute
  (tags: Latin America Alvaro Vargas Llosa Chavez)

links for 2008-05-28

• Fighting Words - WSJ.com
  Ouch.
  (tags: libertarianism)
• 'Nothing but Misogynists' - WSJ.com
  (tags: Misogynists women boudreaux)
• How to Read Popular Magazines on your Desktop for Free
  Well Safari is good for something.
  (tags: magazines Hacks online safari)
• TheRecord.com - CanadaWorld - WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags
  Amazing teen
  (tags: environment Green plastic bacteria)
• May 27, 1937: A Bridge Over the Gate? Are You Crazy?
  (tags: Golden gate bridges)
• Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy?
  This is crazy.
  (tags: Amazon researcher)
• Would you 'friend' Grandpa Wen? | FP Passport
  (tags: China Facebook)
• CRE Satelital Ecuador | Líderes opositores censuran a sacerdote que denunció terror en Sucre
  (tags: Bolivia Sucre)
• Marginal Revolution: So You Think You Can be President? Revisited.
  (tags: President democracy)
• Neatorama » Blog Archive » Bus + Train = This
  Interesting concept.
  (tags: bus hybrid)
• Neatorama » Blog Archive » Cell Phone in the Microwave
  This video if real is creepy.
  (tags: cell phone creepy)
• How to Outsource Your Applications: A Nine-Point Checklist
  Important list.
  (tags: Applications outsourcing)
• Via set to fight Intel in microprocessor arena
  (tags: cpu history intel Via)
• What we just learned about Windows 7
  Microsoft is in high year after the Vista disaster.
  (tags: software tech vista windows)
• El Independent: Muso on my mind
  One of the true heroes of liberty in the Americas.
  (tags: Muso Guatemala)
• Slashdot | Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail
  "Is Google starting to make web hosts less necessary?" I think so.
  (tags: communication gmail google web2.0)
• Manuel F. Ayau recibió Premio Juan de Mariana - Universidad Francisco Marroquín
  Well deserved.
  (tags: Ayau Mariana)
• Microsoft Aims to School Google Collegiate Apps
  The battle is getting hot.
  (tags: Microsoft google apps)
• VMware will cut hypervisor prices, says virtualization guru Chris Wolf — Server Virtualization Blog
  Finally.
  (tags: vmware virtualization)
• El Independent: China: el sismo también es político
  (tags: China Guy Sorman)
• CSS Decorative Gallery
  (tags: css gallery webdesign images tutorial)

links for 2008-05-27

• El Independent: Obama y el voto étnico
  (tags: Montaner Obama)
• Ssd: Blazing Samsung 256GB SSD Is the One We've Been Waiting For
  (tags: hardware SSD memory)
• Thalía se desnudaría contra el maltrato animal
  I will become an animal right activist just for that.
  (tags: Thalia Animal rights celebrities girls mexico)
• Twitter Tools, Tweaks and Theories: TypePad Hacks
  Some interesting info about twitter.
  (tags: twitter tools web2.0)
• Beyond Blogs
  Blogs business.
  (tags: socialmedia blogs blogging businessweek web2.0)
• YouTube - Sleepless In Seattle : Recut as a horror movie
  Very funny.
  (tags: fun movie video youtube)
• Marginal Revolution: What should be an allowable non-profit?
  A good question
  (tags: non-profits)
• How My Son Spread the Measles - TIME
  Scary story
  (tags: measles disease epidemia)
• Windows: Microsoft And The $1,632 Copy Of Vista
  Never use your debit card for online purchases.
  (tags: windows microsoft vista business license)
• 5owlkl.jpg (JPEG Image, 608x393 pixels)
  Very funny. Just married photos.
  (tags: funny pictures married)
• Flamboyant archeologist believes he has identified Cleopatra's tomb - Times Online
  (tags: archaeology Marco Antonio Cleopatra)
• Half of world's population has a mobile | The Daily Telegraph
  THE number of mobile phone users world soared to over 3.3 billion by the end of 2007, equivalent to a penetration rate of 49 percent, the International Telecommunications Union has said in a report.
  (tags: mobile statistics technology world)
• CRE Satelital Ecuador | Gobierno boliviano admite que subestimó a grupos opositores de Sucre
  In Bolivia they have balls.
  (tags: Bolivia Sucre)
• Orsai: Una década flaca (41)
  Very funny as always
  (tags: Orsai)
• Blogs: Al periodista José Pablo Feinmann no le gustan los blogs - ALT1040
  (tags: blogging via:alt1040)
• New York Times API Coming - ReadWriteWeb
  The times definitively understands the web2.0
  (tags: api web2.0 nytimes journalism nyt)
• mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
  A truly precursor of a Photolog.
  (tags: photography art polaroid life death lifestream)
• 10 Craziest PC Case Mods | Device Daily
  The toilet pc is grose.
  (tags: computers design computer mod mods pc)
• They Rule the World - washingtonpost.com
  Who rules us.
  (tags: politics economics money research society)
• Memorial Day History
  (tags: memorial day History Holidays)
• Welcome to Las Vegas - Home of the technology superpower you've never heard of | The Register
  In fact first time I am hearing about this.
  (tags: datacenter internet computing switch secret)

Memorial day Weekend

Wonderful the Memorial day parade.

links for 2008-05-25

• Central High Shell: 1927 | Shorpy :: History in HD
  (tags: Washington DC 1924 potomac)
• Arlington: 1924 | Shorpy :: History in HD
  (tags: Arlington 1924)
• 20 Unusually Brilliant Bookcase and Bookshelf Designs: Creative, Modular and Unique Furniture
  I want a few of those.
  (tags: amazing library organization storage urban)
• Optimization: UltimateDefrag Moves Apps and Files for Quicker Access
  Sounds interesting.
  (tags: defrag windows software lifehacker tools freeware)
• Articulo OnLine “Tirofijo está muerto”
  Could it be true?
  (tags: Colombia FARC)
• Carpe Diem: Recuerdos del Serranazo
  I remember that episode.
  (tags: Guatemala Democracy)
• Beijing Passes Initial Earthquake Test - TIME
  (tags: China earthquake)
• Steampunk: Massive Steampunk-y Telectroscope Lets You See From New York to London
  (tags: interesting steampunk technology usa awesome)
• More Digital Ads Are Produced Offshore - WSJ.com
  big marketers are now increasingly shipping off that work to little-known businesses in places like Costa Rica and Bulgaria.
  (tags: design outsourcing)
• Six 'uniquely' human traits now found in animals - being-human - 22 May 2008 - New Scientist
  (tags: animals behavior biology brain culture evolution)
• Body-Mod: Elf Ears - Instructables - DIY, How To, offbeat, life
  Ouch I have to be crazy to do this.
  (tags: weird body)
• Update available for Foxit PDF reader | Defensive Computing - CNET News.com
  Software is not perfect.
  (tags: foxit adobe reader)
• 276 - Transgenic Corn Linked To Neo-Fascism « Strange Maps
  correlation does not imply causality.
  (tags: maps fascism)
• Neatorama » Blog Archive » Bankrupt Offices Photography by Phillip Toledano
  Pretty good photos.
  (tags: office bankrupt photography)
• Hillary Clinton's candidacy has done feminism no favours - Telegraph
  Ouch: "Well, which is it? Are men convenient sugar daddies or condescending oppressors?"
  (tags: clinton culture people women)

links for 2008-05-24

• Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack SP2 will be a True PDF Writer
  Interesting
  (tags: Office 2007 SP2)
• Blogs Informativos Telecinco - Al abordaje - Los animales predijeron el terremoto chino
  They keep talking about this everytime there is an earthquake but nothing has been researched so far.
  (tags: earthquakes China Animals)
• Ciencia: El experimento más largo de la historia - ALT1040
  This is what I call patience
  (tags: experiments viscocity)
• VMware entering final phase of virtualization evolution: Cloud computing
  (tags: VMWARE cloud computing)

links for 2008-05-23

• Featured Windows Download: HomeCamera Turns Your Webcam into a Surveillance Camera
  (tags: camera lifehacker spy surveillance tips)
• Las Armas de Coronel: EL DETERIORADO HEINZ DIETERICH
  “Se repite el patrón de actuación imperialista con la llegada al poder de Rafaél Correa…el imperialismo moviliza la oligarquía de Guayaquil en su contra”.
  (tags: Dietrich Socialism)
• Dumb drivers parking (18 pics) (//STATiC)
  I love the photo of the car parked in front of the hydrant.
  (tags: drivers parking)
• Photoshop Tip: Turn Photos into Sketches
  I find interesting the sketches used in WSJ.
  (tags: photoshop images tips photography pictures)
• Firefox 3: Shrink Firefox 3's Supersized Back Button
  Very useful specially with space in a premium.
  (tags: firefox lifehacker tips)

links for 2008-05-22

• Internet: SDG: Google Reader no funciona - ALT1040
  Fortunately I did not suffered any problem.
  (tags: google reader)
• Naked Ladies Riding the Paris Metro - FRONT PAGE - How Markus makes $15k a day from free dating site Plentyoffish
  Very funny, why this things don't happen here.
  (tags: naked nsfw paris)
• Sociedad: Tokio en 1991 y por qué el flextime sí funciona - ALT1040
  At some hours the DC metro can get like this.
  (tags: Tokio train)
• It's Time to Pay Sales Tax Online - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com
  I agree is unfair, but it is also unfair the sales taxes.
  (tags: Taxes online)
• [Re]Encoded dot Com » Blog Archive » 42 Awesome Business Card Designs (With Links to 100s More)
  This are some interesting Business cards.
  (tags: design businesscards inspiration art)
• Neatorama » Blog Archive » Sumo Car Wash
  (tags: car wash funny sumo)
• FakeTV emulates human watching the tube, supposedly discourages thieves - Engadget
  Interesting gadget.
  (tags: gadget security home technology thieves)
• New TypePad Compose Window: TypePad Hacks
  Typepad hacks comments on the new typepad compose window.
  (tags: typepad)
• El Independent: El calvario de Telma
  Interesting discussion.
  (tags: privacy paparazzi Alvaro Vargas LLosa)
• Featured Download: Snackr RSS Ticker Keeps You on Top of News
  Coincidentally I was searching something like this the other day, I don't like the idea of using Adobe software on the other hand.
  (tags: lifehacker software rss tips)
• Toilet Signs Across the World : Wacky Archives
  I remember seeing another one, but this one is different.
  (tags: humor toilet pictures photos images funny)