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Encuesta realizada después de que la columnista de USA Today posteara su propia lista de la mejor banda americana de rock.
Su pick fue R.E.M
The people’s choice:
PEARL JAM
por qué?
Yes, the Seattle rockers outranked powerhouses such as Van Halen (No. 3), The Doors (No. 9) and Nirvana, which landed at No. 18. At first, I was shocked by the choice (to be honest, I fully expected Aerosmith to win). But the more e-mail I read, the more it began to make sense.
Why is Pearl Jam the greatest? Here’s what you said:
•They’ve stayed true to themselves. “Instead of selling out with videos and constant press coverage, they pulled back at their height, and focused on the music,” wrote Willie McNabb in El Dorado, Ark. “They belong up there with Neil Young, Zeppelin and The Beatles because they never compromised their integrity, which is really all any of us have.”
•The music rocks. From Atlanta reader Tom Baker: “They’ve continually reshaped their sound, album after album, and are still making great, vital music 12+ years into their career. What else could you want?”
•Their records sell … “… because they’re good, not because they’ve been hyped to death by the media,” McNabb added.
•There have been scores of imitators. “How many Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder knockoffs have invaded rock radio since Ten?” asked Scott Jordan, another Atlanta fan.
•Their concerts are first-rate — and affordable. Jake Mohlman from Barrington, R.I., praised the band for keeping ticket prices low. “It’s unique in an era when most artists gouge their fans to the limit,” he wrote. “Likewise, releasing their shows on low-cost bootlegs brings a new dimension to seeing one of their shows.”
USATODAY.com – And the greatest American rock band ever is …
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Nada como una lista de los 40 mejores libros de los 20′s a ahora para aumentar la lista de libros por leer:
(1927) ……To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf, England
(1928) ……The Gypsy Ballads (Romancero gitano) – Federico García Lorca, Spain
(1928) ……The Tower – William Butler Yeats, Ireland
(1929) ……The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner, United States
(1931) ……The Turning Point (I strofí) – Giorgios Seferiades, Greece
(1933-47)…Residence on Earth (Residencia en la tierra) – Pablo Neruda, Chile
(1934-35)…Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk) – Halldór Laxness, Iceland
(1935-40)…Requiem (Rekviem) – Anna Akhmatova, Russia
(1941)…… Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) – Bertolt Brecht, Germany
(1942) ……The Stranger (L’étranger) – Albert Camus, France
(1943) ……The Four Quartets – T. S. Eliot, England/United States
(1944) ……Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
(1945) ……“The Day Before Yesterday” (‘Tmol shilshom) – S. Y. Agnon (Spain/Israel)
(1948) ……Snow Country (Yukiguni) – Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
(1950) ……The Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad) – Octavio Paz, Mexico
(1952) ……Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot) – Samuel Beckett, Ireland
(1952) ……Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison, United States
(1952) ……The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway, United States
(1952) ……In Country Sleep – Dylan Thomas, Wales
(1953) ……The Lost Steps (Los pasos perdidos) – Alejo Carpentier, Cuba
(1956) ……The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Grande sertão: veredas)– João Guimarães Rosa, Brazil
(1956-57)…“The Cairo Trilogy” (Al-Thulathiyya) – Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
(1957) ……Voss – Patrick White, England/Australia
(1958) ……Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
(1958) ……The Guide – R. K. Narayan, India
(1959) ……The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) – Günter Grass, Germany
(1961) ……A House for Mr. Biswas – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad
(1961)……The Book of Disquiet (Livro do desassossego) – Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
(1962)…… The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing, Zimbabwe/England
(1962)…… Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States
(1962) ……The Time of the Doves (La Plaça del Diamant) – Mercé Rodoreda, Spain
(1962) ……One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia
(1964) ……A Personal Matter (Kojinteki-na taiken) – Kenzaburo Oe, Japan
(1966) ……Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 – W. H. Auden, England
(1967) ……One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia
(1968) ……House Made of Dawn – N. Scott Momaday, United States
(1972) ……Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili) – Italo Calvino, Italy
(1974) ……The Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
(1978) ……Bells in Winter – Czeslaw Milosz, Poland
(1987) ……Red Sorghum (Hung kao liang) – Mo Yan, China
lista subjetiva, pero de gran calidad.
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Juegos que no existen… pero deberian:
Leaving Las Vegas
Destroying your liver and your psyche on the streets of Sin City sounds easy enough, but watch out for that dreaded Hooker with a Heart of Gold—she’ll try to reform you and keep you on the straight and narrow. Anything less than suicide is complete failure.
The Silence of the Lambs
Here’s a different sort of role-playing game, tailor-made to satisfy your inner seamstress. Use night-vision goggles to hunt down unsuspecting size-14 women so you can make the suit of your dreams and become the butterfly you’ve always known you could be. “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
Not Coming Soon … to An Xbox Near You
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Cuando estar tocado (termino científico) no es suficiente, y tienes que decirle al mundo que enfermedad o estado te afecta… Psycho Therapy Clothing al rescate:
tambien hay: abnormal, sex objetct, antisocial, co-dependent, etc, etc, etc…
Psycho Therapy Clothing :: Humorous psychotherapy t-shirts and novelty products.
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Excelente diseño de unos goggles con contador de vueltas y tiempo integrado:
Smart goggles that help swimmers log lengths have been designed by a UK engineering student.
The Inview goggles display a lap count and time elapsed on their lenses so swimmers can track their progress.
Invented by industrial design student Katie Williams, the goggles use an in-built compass to spot when swimmers complete lengths.
Ms Williams said the goggles would let swimmers concentrate on improving their strokes rather than count laps.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart eyewear for keen swimmers
Esta historia me recuerda un programa americano 20/20 o 60 Minutes donde les gusta armar polémica. El experimento en cuestión era tomar a: un mono, un salón de niños de primaria y a un analista de bolsa. Dejar que cada uno escogiera un grupo de acciones y ver como iban progresando…
El mono quedo en primer lugar, los niños en segundo y el analista en tercero… El analista se quejó y dijo que el habia hecho inversiones a largo plazo y lo mejor para su cliente y blah blah… Se revisaron los resultados meses después… y si el analista subió de lugar… a segundo. Monkey business indeed.
Monkey business proved to be lucrative Monday when paintings by Congo the chimpanzee sold at auction for more than $25,000.
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The three abstract, tempera paintings were auctioned at Bonhams in London alongside works by impressionist master Renoir and pop art provocateur Andy Warhol.
But while Warhol’s and Renoir’s work didn’t sell, bidders lavished attention on Congo’s paintings.
Coco no lo hace mal… pero despierta el viejo “Qué es arte?”
I like them myself…
Paintings by Chimpanzee Outsell Warhol – Yahoo! News
Debo admitir que el encabezado me hizo hacer un inventario de todas las tiendas donde podría conseguir armas para combatir a los muertos vivientes… pero decidí leer todo el articulo primero:
Zombies rising from the dead sound like the stuff of horror films and nightmares – but it could soon be reality.
Scientists have discovered a way to bring dead dogs back to life.
Using a so-called suspended animation technique, they emptied the dead animals’ veins of blood and filled them with ice-cold saline solution to preserve the tissues and organs.
The animals had no heartbeat or brain activity and were classed as being clinically dead.
The saline solution was then replaced with fresh blood and electric shocks were used to restart the heart. The dogs appeared unharmed by their suspension and had suffered no brain damage
Scientists at the Safar Centre in Pittsburgh hope to use the technique on humans within a year and are in talks with hospitals about trials on trauma patients.
They believe it could save the lives of people who have suffered massive blood loss, such as battlefield casualties or stabbings victims.
‘The results are stunning. They have these dogs with complete cardiac standstill for three hours and they recover to normality,’ said trauma surgeon Dr Howard Champion.
still very creepy…
Engadget traduce contenidos y hará en el futuro artículos enfocodos a España y Latinoamerica.
ejemplo:
El tamaño es lo que importa, bueno por lo menos según el nuevo proyector de Sony. El nuevo proyector digital VPL-cx20 de Sony es solamente unas 2 pulgadas (52mm) de espeso. Este es de resolución XGA(1204 x 768) y 2000 Lumenés. Con ese tamaño (273x210x52mm) y peso (1.9 Kg.), el proyector es perfecto para fiestas en la terraza y apartamentos minimalistas. Puedes esperar pagar unos USD $2000 (1600 EUR) para esta belleza.
hey suena como un proyector poco espeso… heheheh
Quiz para saber quien eres en el mundo de los videojuegos:
 I am a Gauntlet Adventurer.I strive to improve my living conditions by hoarding gold, food, and sometimes keys and potions. I love adventure, fighting, and particularly winning – especially when there’s a prize at stake. I occasionally get lost inside buildings and can’t find the exit. I need food badly. What Video Game Character Are You? |
Sólo me senti 100% identificado con el hecho de que en videojuegos yo soy el tipo que juega 40 hrs más de las necesarias para acabar el juego porque siempre me pierdo …
What Video Game Character Am I?
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