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Charlie Rose interviews himself in edited video

April 23, 2008 2:39am

A daily show in Spain makes almost daily farcical edited interviews, most of the times facing a retired torero with other public figures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Bkfxfvh7M&feature=related

In that video, and the related ones that you mau check, Bruce Lee, Sarkozy, current Spanish pm Rodriguez Zapatero and more. The effect is very similar to the one observed in the one featured here.

Six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure

February 15, 2008 12:43am

I have never been good at math

National Museum of Public Health photo archives on Flickr

January 29, 2008 12:21am

It would be great if the International Center of Photography in NYC, which recently received 3000 undocumented negatives by Robert Capa decided to do the same.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/arts/design/27kenn.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Voytek, the drinking, smoking soldier bear -- will he get his memorial?

January 28, 2008 3:50am

Here's another bear drunk with vodka for geopolitical reasons: Mitrofan. A bear hunted by King of Spain Juan Carlos in the Russian region of Vologda. Reportedly local authorities had the bear drunk with vodka so the King could kill him more easily.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/20/wbear20.xml

Rant on bad haircut spotted at bar

January 25, 2008 12:31am

Here's another recent rant directed towards the Mullet, a hairstyle horrifyingly common in Spain:

http://wheylona.blogspot.com/2008/01/tragedy-by-hair.html

iPhone's "Location" feature helps explain open cell platforms

January 23, 2008 1:16am

The Jaiku client app for some Nokias does celltagging. That's not triangulation but capturing just the IDs of the celltower used for communication. Yet, it's a powerful tool for geolocation.

Whenever a user sends a jaiku with that, cell IDs are transmitted. If those IDs are already identified in Jaiku's database, city and neighboorhood can be inferred (no lat-lon so far in Jaiku's processes, not visible in their API, at least, see http://eibar.org/blogak/luistxo/en/archive/2007/10/11/geodata-in-twitter-s-and-jaiku-s-apis ). If the cell ID is not in the database, the user can also add neighboorhood and city tags on his/her own, and from that moment, any Jaiku user going around that point will be located to the place.

Google bought Jaiku last year. See a recent pic in Flickr by Jaiku's founder Jyri Engestrom chatting with Google's bosses: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jyri/2198675172/ That photo was transmitted with that Nokia's Jaiku app. See the Flickr machine-tags: those are the cell Id's, the other locative tags (Mt. View etc...) were automatically assigned.

Raquel Welch: Space-Girl Dance

January 18, 2008 1:20am

Locations are in Mexico City, along the Ruta de la Amistad, south of the city, a creation for the 1968 Olympics, as Azttlan posted above.

I tagged some of the known scultpures over the map:

http://www.tagzania.com/user/tagzania/ruta-amistad

If you can detect more in those Google Maps, add them with a tag 'ruta-amistad'

Foreboding ads featuring the World Trade Center

January 10, 2008 11:53pm

One of Spain's most popular comics (Mortadelo by Francisco IbaƱez) published this image back in 1993, with a place crashing into the WTC in the background:

http://www.guai.com/gemelas/montadelotorres.htm

Photo-bans at pop art shows -- irony impairment, or Dadaism?

November 14, 2007 2:10am

There's this site, http://www.strictlynophotography.com/ for posting photos of places where strictly no photography is allowed

Hidden bear in Toblerone logo

September 14, 2007 8:52am

A fast growing furniture selling company in Spain is called Moblerone (Muebles=furniture in Spanish): http://www.moblerone.es

Logo is unmistakable: http://www.martinmuebles.com/moblerone/logo_moblerone.jpg

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