Looking for the The Google Font? It is Catull, but found out more about the Google logo by reading the Google Font Page
Fancy reading my Spam collection ? It's even getting multilingual
Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux... want to try it ??? Knoppix is really nice. And easy. Download, burn, reboot. Et voila, Linux is running...
A funny tip on the WikiHow to watch a soccer game on TV in the USA spanish channel
Watch the games on a Latin channel or foreign station – the announcers are better, you might not understand a word but it won’t matter – you’ll know when something exciting is happening.
One good thing for sure about watching the World Cup on Univision are the ads in spanish. 90% of them are soccer oriented. And they are funny.
My favorite is the one from T-Mobile, where two cousins argue if there was a penalty or not, through SMS/Text messaging. Of course, the ad is nowhere to be found on the T-Mobile website...
But it's on YouTube because it's a nice one: Spanish tv T-Mobile spot from Word Cup 2006: ¡No fue penal!.
The ones with Eric Cantona and Nike for JogaTV are nice too: Joga TV
It was a wonderful headbutt. And the flash game that goes with it. The sound effect are bad though...
et un
et deux
et trois coups de tête would seem to be more appropriate.
Speaking of balls, Same player, shoot again (via Make blog)
A list of the most popular blogs written by scientists. and a portrait of the top 5 (via Kottke)
A quick sample: Video Games - Mental Exercise or Merely Brain Candy?, Lying with Statistics: Abortion Rates, What did Materazzi Say? and Schadenfreude, coming through
schadenfreude: A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.
YourGreenDream: a free source of information on how to create your own homemade projects on solar, hydro, wind, tidal, geothermal or other green power.
How-to: Rebuild an Alternator in Africa and the blog in general: Gadgets for Africa, solving everyday problems with African ingenuity.
Where there is no doctor, a village health care handbook, and Where there is no dentist are available online (en español también)
I was going to write an article reminding the world that Bill Gates is still Bill Gates, but TheInquirer did it for me Bill Gates pledges to dominate the charity market
TheInquirer existe en français au fait The INQUIRER - Pour taper sur les doigts de ceux qui se rongent les ongles
Fighting Diseases With Checkbooks
Another concern is that governments will cut spending if they believe that philanthropies are taking care of a problem. A study done last year by the London School of Economics and the Wellcome Trust said that so-called public-private partnerships — a recent phenomenon governments, charities and companies uniting to develop drugs for neglected diseases — were being financed mainly by philanthropies.
"We are in a current climate where the government is saying 'Let philanthropy do it,' " said Sara Engelhardt, president of the Foundation Center, a research organization.
ICv2 (Internal Correspondence version 2 provides news and information for pop culture retailers from inside the world of pop culture products, with the only daily trade news, in-depth analysis, and product and sales information available anywhere.
An office suite in your browser:
DabbleDB, easy database and reports, Gliffy - draw and share diagram on the web, aka Visio(tm) on the web.com. And Wufoo allows you to design quickly web forms (and you can download the html (CC licensed)). Plus WikiCalc and Wikiwig
Speaking of diagrams, Eve, the EmbeddedVectorEditor, which exports to SVG, is still great (74 Kb, win32)
More art: Anya Gallaccio's Conceptual Project Yields Zinfandel
Her current project, under way in Sonoma County in California, adroitly combines her love of process with an actual physical object. "After the Gold Rush," a collaboration with the winemaker Zelma Long, will culminate sometime next summer in 400 half-cases of six different types of zinfandel.
Early on, Ms. Gallaccio set her heart on making zinfandel, a California wine that is known — rather like Abstract Expressionism — for having no obvious European antecedents. Part of its appeal was that "there's this suspicion around the wine," she said. "People either love it or hate it."
And technically, it can be quite challenging to make, largely because the grapes don't ripen evenly on the vine, "which to me was really exciting," she said.
Wikipedia adds After years of intense debate, DNA tests, at University of California, Davis have proved that Primitivo, a Southern Italian variety of red wine grape, is identical to the renowned Californian grape Zinfandel. And in fact both come from Croatia where it is known as Crljenak Kaštelanski
Oh well, one less for the journalistic fact-checking process, I guess.
The results of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest are in. The next edition will be in May 2007
Scoble once again pulls out this tired yarn: “Users don’t care about specs, or arguments about formats.”
My standard answer to that is, “Yes, but they should. And that’s why we developers have to care about them on our users’ behalf.”
And Mark is writing again on his own site too: this time we even get videos DiM video edition: You make bunny cry, with the roomba stool torture (SPOILER for the roomba lovers: it gets out).
Roomba, the vacuum cleaner for geeks: Roomba Bluetooth Interface, Serial Interface and Line following Roomba mod. I'm sure it vacuums too.
So I was trying to compile Sugar and my PC keeps rebooting. So I Memtest86-ed it and for sure the RAM was bad.
So I went on the Kingston website, got a RMA, they sent me a new one and then I sent back the bad one. 3 days. New Ram. PC working again.
Lesson 1: want to test your PC ? compile Mozilla
Lesson 2: Kingston return policy is really nice (note though that the lifetime warranty ends when they don't produce the model anymore)
Oh, and in case you care, my compilation of Sugar failed at the end.
Sam Ruby plays with SVG and then canvas vs SVG
China launched a Web site, Linese, which offers free Chinese lessons and materials to promote the study and use of the language abroad. The site includes audio-visual presentations, interactive exercises and advice for teachers of Mandarin Chinese, with photographs and descriptions of cultural icons such as the Great Wall, kung fu actor Jackie Chan and basketball star Yao Ming.
And it's slow.
The Grim Neurology of Teenage Drinking
"There is no doubt about it now: there are long-term cognitive consequences to excessive drinking of alcohol in adolescence," said Aaron White, an assistant research professor in the psychiatry department at Duke University and the co-author of a recent study of extreme drinking on college campuses.
"We definitely didn't know 5 or 10 years ago that alcohol affected the teen brain differently," said Dr. White, who has also been involved in research at Duke on alcohol in adolescent rats. "Now there's a sense of urgency. It's the same place we were in when everyone realized what a bad thing it was for pregnant women to drink alcohol."
One of two brain areas known to be affected is the hippocampus, a structure crucial for learning and memory.
New Medicine for AIDS Is One Pill, Once a Day
The new drug is a combination of drugs already on the market — Sustiva, sold by Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Truvada, sold by Gilead Sciences. Truvada is a combination of two Gilead drugs, Viread and Emtriva.[...]
The companies have not revealed the new drug's name or its price, though they have suggested it will cost roughly the same as Sustiva and Truvada bought separately, which is about $1,200 a month.
and New AIDS Pill to Treat People in Poor Countries
The new pill, made by Aurobindo Pharma of Hyderabad, India, combines three common first-line drugs, AZT, 3TC and NVP, which are also known as zidovudine, lamivudine and nevirapine and sold in the United States as Retrovir, Epivir and Viramune.
Dr. Dybul said he was also pleased that the new pill did not contain D4T, also known as stavudine and Zerit, which is another common first-line drug, but somewhat more toxic than the others.
In poor countries, where it is harder to do frequent blood and liver tests, toxicity can be harder to control.
At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust
"I hate to be cynical, but when it was a problem of black or poor kids, nobody cared, but now that it's a problem of white sons of college-educated parents, it's moving very rapidly to the forefront," Dr. [Judith Kleinfeld, a University of Alaska professor who has created the Boys Project (boysproject.net), a coalition of researchers, educators and parents to address boys' troubles.] said. "At most colleges, there is a sense that a lot of boys are missing in action."
Paper and Pencil = Modern Field?
When questioned about how frequently they used a range of tools and resources for design and analysis:
- 52% indicated that they use “hand calculations (calculators) and paper” daily, with an additional 21% citing it as a weekly practice;
- 47% of respondents indicated that the next most common resources used daily are “electronic references and tables (e.g. CD-ROM, Web),”)” with another 26% using them weekly;
- 35% indicated that they use “print reference books and tables” daily, with another 31% using them weekly; and
- 39% indicated daily use of spreadsheets, which remain the most common software tool used in analysis and design. Another 31% of users employ them weekly.
Afraid that cracking the code might have been copyright infringement, Psiaki's group consulted with Cornell's university counsel. "We were told that cracking the encryption of creative content, like music or a movie, is illegal, but the encryption used by a navigation signal is fair game," said Psiaki. The upshot: The Europeans cannot copyright basic data about the physical world, even if the data are coming from a satellite that they built.
Il faut détruire pour pouvoir faire du neuf
A la fin de Takeshis', je dis : "Je ne tournerai plus jamais de films violents", ensuite je tire une dernière balle et c'est la fin, je n'ai plus de munitions. C'est déjà l'annonce de l'époque à laquelle je ne ferai plus de films violents.
Et je pense qu'au début de mon prochain film on me verra, moi et mon producteur, en train de nous casser la tête pour trouver que faire, puisque nous avons renoncé à la violence. Ce sera la première scène du prochain film, mais je ne sais pas ce qui viendra après.
Takeshis' est le nouveau film de Takeshi Kitan
jm - @writeme@ - un ptit mot ?