Archive for December, 2006
Revealed: Executioner of Saddam Hussein
M.C. Escher: An Interpretive Short Film
Tal vez él encuentre trabajo con la ONU
Éste parece ser un candidato ideal para trabajar en la ONU.
Un empleado de la municipalidad de la ciudad bonaerense de Tres Arroyos fue detenido hoy acusado a entregar a mujeres cajas de alimentos del Plan Vida a cambio de sexo, informaron fuentes policiales.
Zidane Headbutt: The Clothing Line
The infamous “Zidane headbutt” has inspired an Italian produced clothing line, Xqua.
One Step Closer to 1984
This makes me want to move back to Latin America where many aspects of Orwellian big-brotherness, if desired, are too expensive for the government to implement.
England is not so lucky, having been blessed with both wealth and autocratic-leaning politicians.
“People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when they see everyone else looking at […]
MySpace is the new GeoCities
If you’ve been on the net for at least eight or nine years then you certainly remember GeoCities.
As further evidence that MySpace is the new GeoCities, I bring you:
Top 8 Christmas MySpace Pages To Make Your Eyes Bleed
Merry Christmas
Happy Festivus
It’s December 23rd, which means that people from around the world will be gathering in their living rooms tonight around the aluminum pole for the airing of grievances and feats of strength.
UPDATE: ¡Festivus, explicado en Español!
The Absurdity of Copyright Law
If nothing else demostrates the nonsensical nature of U.S. copyright law, then this surely does:
The RIAA is suing the website AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music in the amount of $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs that were downloaded from June to October of 2006. That comes […]
more use of the “botched joke” excuse
as we predicted, use of the botched joke excuse is growing. as with our predictions on new LDS apostles and jurisprudential trends, you can take our prognostications to the bank.
previous offenders:
john kerry
faith hill
new offenders: (in order of increasing seriousness)
jim mora
rosie o’donnell
wesam al delaema
jim mora took some flack from atlanta fans after he […]
nice try, wikipedia
nice try making video games sound like they belong in a serious conversation, that is. from wikipedia’s page on the state of hawaii, discussing places in various media in which it has been featured, after film and television:
Other Media
An unidentified tourism community in Hawaii is featured as a level in the Tony Hawk’s Underground […]
Intoxicados - Nunca Quise
The second song of Argentine rock nacional this week is from Cristian ‘Pity’ Alvarez’ group, the Intoxicados.
Intoxicados - Nunca Quise
Rather than do my rock nacional posts in Spanish this week, I figure that I’ll post them in English. Thus broadening their reach among all-encompassingly readers who skip over the Spanish stuff.
This week, two great songs.
First, from the new CD of one of my favorite Argentine bands, Los Auténticos Decadentes, Cuando te escucho decir […]
last two BYU victories over utah
i’ve spent the last two BYU victories over utah with briant and katie. in 2001, we were high atop the stands at then-cougar stadium, where we saw BYU improbably recover from trailing twice by 11 points to win in the last two minutes:
then, in 2006, we returned home from some vegetarian place […]
peace on earth
you know the bumper sticker: ‘visualize whirled peas.’ this is what it would look like.
