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no contiene mal ni corrupción; | es verdad que no encontrarán nada de perfección |
salvo en materia de reír; |
mi corazón no puede elegir otro sujeto | a la vista de la pena que los mina y los consume. |
Vale mejor tratar de reír que derramar lágrimas, | porque la risa es lo propio y noble del alma. Sean felices!
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lunes, 30 de marzo de 2009

Políticos con p de porno

AFP - 29.3.2009 20:05
La ministra británica del Interior se excusa por el reembolso de películas porno
La ministra británica del Interior, Jacqui Smith, abandona la sesión semanal del gabinete de gobierno en el número 10 de Downing Street, en Londres, el 27 de enero de 2009.

La ministra británica del Interior, Jacqui Smith, se disculpó este domingo por haber pedido y conseguido "por error" el reembolso de una factura que incluía, como parte de sus gastos parlamentarios, películas porno vistas por su marido.

Smith admitió haber solicitado el reembolso de cinco películas pagadas, entre ellas dos calificadas como pornográficas, que fueron visionadas en su domicilio en Redditch, en el centro de Inglaterra.

La ministra dijo en el comunicado: "Lamento que al solicitar (el pago de) mi conexión a internet, pedí por error el de mi abono de televisión". "En cuanto fui informada tomé las medidas necesarias para ponerme en contacto con las autoridades parlamentarias competentes y rectificar la situación", añadió. "Todo el dinero pedido por el paquete de televisión será devuelto en su totalidad", agregó.

El pasado junio, la ministra pidió el reembolso de una factura de 67 libras (72 euros, 96 dólares) por el acceso a internet y la televisión por cable, que incluía como parte de sus gastos parlamentarios dos películas pornográficas.

El diario Sunday Express, que reveló el caso, citó a un amigo de Smith quien dijo que "Jacqui no estaba allí (en su casa) cuando las películas fueron visionadas", y añadió que estaba "furiosa" con su marido.

El marido de Jacqui Smith, Richard Timney, trabaja como su asistente parlamentario.

Maurice Jarre

AFP - 30.3.2009
Fallece el compositor Maurice Jarre
El compositor francés Maurice Jarre, el 12 de febrero de 2009 en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Berlín, que le otorgó un Globo de Oro por su trayectoria profesional.

Maurice Jarre, que falleció en Los Ángeles a la edad de 84 años a consecuencia de un cáncer, compuso numerosas partituras míticas de películas, como 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Laurence de Arabia' y '¿Arde París?'.
El compositor más recompensado en los Oscar ganó sendas estatuillas por 'Lawrence de Arabia' (1962), 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965) y 'Pasaje a la India' (1984).
Maurice Jarre compuso más de 160 partituras cinematográficas para grandes directores como John Frankenheimer, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston o Luchino Visconti.
El músico francés compuso su primera música de película en 1952 a petición del cineasta Georges Franju para el cortometraje 'Hôtel des Invalides'.
Maurice Jarre, que se instaló en Estados Unidos a mediados de los años sesenta, vivió luego en Suiza y de nuevo en Los Ángeles, compuso las bandas musicales de 'El día más largo' (1962), 'Jesús de Nazareth' (Franco Zeffirelli, 1976), 'Único testigo' (Peter Weir, 1985) y 'El club de los poetas muertos' (Peter Weir, 1989).
El compositor había celebrado sus 50 años de carrera en 2006 con un concierto en el Auditorium de Lyon, su ciudad natal, que incluyó sus mejores obras, en presencia de su hijo, el músico Jean-Michel Jarre, un precursor de la música electrónica.
"En una película, el compositor es el último eslabón de una pesada cadena. Con frecuencia, se encuentra frente al productor cuando éste está ansioso por estrenar su película. Así que todo transcurre muy deprisa. Para 'Lawrence de Arabia', me dieron seis semanas para componer dos horas de música", confió hace unos años a un diario francés.
Maurice Jarre contaba que su vocación surgió al escuchar de niño una grabación de la Segunda Rapsodia Húngara de Liszt por Léopold Stokowski, y la obra le dejó fascinado.
Después de cursar estudios musicales, fue percusionista-timbalero y en 1946 formó un dúo con el compositor Pierre Boulez para la compañía teatral Renaud-Barrault. Cinco años más tarde, Jean Vilar le encargó la partitura del 'Príncipe de Hamburgo', representado en el Festival de Aviñón por Gérard Philipe y Jeanne Moreau.
Maurice Jarre también compuso y escribió varios ballets para la Ópera de París, destacando 'Notre-Dame-de-Paris'.El compositor tuvo tres hijos: el músico Jean-Michel Jarre, la decoradora Stéphanie Jarre y el guionista Kevin Jarre.
El pasado mes de febrero, el festival de Berlín le otorgó un Oso de Oro por el conjunto de su carrera. Fue su última aparición pública en Europa.

Rosales silvestres y antiguos

1. Especies silvestres de rosas

- Rosa banksiae
- Rosa canina
- Rosa centifolia
- Rosa damascena
- Rosa eglanteria
- Rosa gallica
- Rosa pimpinellifolia
- Rosa rugosa
- Rosa virginiana

2. Rosales antiguos

- Alba
- Borbonianos
Centifolia 
- China
- Damascenos
- Gallica
- Híbrido perpetuo
- Musgoso
- Noisettianos
- Patio
- Portland
- Sempervirens
- Té

domingo, 29 de marzo de 2009

WILD ROSES

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The actual number of the roses indigenous to Great Britain is a subject open to dispute among botanists, as the roses found wild show many variations. Most authorities agree that there are only five distinct types or species: R. canina, the Dog Rose; R. arvensis, the Field Rose; R. rubiginosa, Sweet Briar; R. spinosissima, the Burnet Rose; and R. villosa, the Downy Rose.

Dog Rose
Dog Rose
Dog Rose
(Hyssopus officinalis LINN.)

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Botanical: Rosa canina
The DOG ROSE (R. canina) is a flower of the early summer, its blossoms expanding in the first days of June and being no more to be found after the middle of July. The general growth of the Dog Rose is subject to so much variation that the original species defined by Linnaeus has been divided by later botanists into four or five subspecies. The flowers vary very considerably in colour, from almost white to a very deep pink, and have a delicate but refreshing fragrance. The scarlet fruit, or hip (a name that has come down from the Anglo-Saxon hiope), is generally described as 'flask-shaped.' It is what botanists term a false fruit, because it is really the stalk-end that forms it and grows up round the central carpels, enclosing them as a case; the real fruits, each containing one seed, are the little hairy objects within it. Immediately the flower has been fertilized, the receptacle round the immature fruits grows gradually luscious and red and forms the familiar 'hip,' which acts as a bait for birds, by whose agency the seeds are distributed. At first the hips are tough and crowned with the fivecleft calyx leaves, later in autumn they fall and the hips are softer and more fleshy. The pulp of the hips has a grateful acidity. In former times when garden fruit was scarce, hips were esteemed for dessert. Gerard assures us that 'the fruit when it is ripe maketh the most pleasante meats and banketting dishes as tartes and such-like,' the making whereof he commends 'to the cunning cooke and teethe to eate them in the riche man's mouth.' Another old writer says:
'Children with great delight eat the berries thereof when they are ripe and make chains and other pretty geegaws of the fruit; cookes and gentlewomen make tarts and suchlike dishes for pleasure.'
The Germans still use them to make an ordinary preserve and in Russia and Sweden a kind of wine is made by fermenting the fruit.

Rose hips were long official in the Pritish Pharmacopceia for refrigerant and astringent properties, but are now discarded and only used in medicine to prepare the confection of hips used in conjunction with other drugs, the pulp being separated from the skin and hairy seeds and beaten up with sugar. It is astringent and considered strengthening to the stomach and useful in diarrhoea and dysentery, allaying thirst, and for its pectoral qualities good for coughs and spitting of blood. Culpepper states that the hips are 'grateful to the taste and a considerable restorative, fitly given to consumptive persons, the conserve being proper in all distempers of the breast and in coughs and tickling rheums' and that it has 'a binding effect and helps digestion.' He also states that 'the pulp of the hips dried and powdered is used in drink to break the stone and to ease and help the colic.' The constituents of rose hips are malic and citric acids, sugar and small quantities of tannin, resin, wax, malates, citrates and other salts.

The leaves of the Dog Rose when dried and infused in boiling water have often been used as a substitute for tea and have a grateful smell and sub-astringent taste. The flowers, gathered in the bud and dried, are said to be more astringent than the Red Roses. They contain no honey and are visited by insects only for their pollen. Their scent is not strong enough to be of any practical use for distillation purposes.

Two explanations have been put forward for the popular name of this wild rose. The first is founded on an ancient tradition that the root would cure a bite from a mad dog (Pliny affirming that men derived their knowledge of its powers from a dream); and the other and more probable theory that it was the Dag Rose - 'dag' being a dagger - because of its great thorns, and like the 'Dogwood' (originally Dagwood) became changed into 'Dog' by people who did not understand the allusion.


FIELD ROSE
Field Rose
Field Rose
(Rosa arvensis)

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Botanical: Rosa arvensis

The FIELD ROSE (R. arvensis) is generally a much more trailing rose than the Dog Rose, a characteristic which distinguishes it from all our other wild roses. It is widely distributed throughout England, but is much less common in Scotland and Ireland.

The leaves in general form are similar to those of the Dog Rose, but are often rather smaller and their surfaces more shining. The prickles, too, are somewhat smaller in size, but are more hooked. The flowers are white, much less fragrant than those of the Dog Rose and sometimes even scentless. Though occasionally occurring singly on the stem, they are generally in small bunches of three or four at the ends of the twigs, though only one of these at a time will as a rule be found expanded. This species generally comes into blossom rather later than the Dog Rose and continues in bloom a good deal longer. It is one of the chief ornaments of our hedge-rows, in the summer, from the profusion of its blossoms and long trailing stems; and in the autumn, by its scarlet hips, which are more globular in form than those of the Dog Rose. It has its styles united into a central column and not free or separate, as in the Dog Rose.


SWEET BRIAR
Sweetbriar Rose
Sweetbriar Rose
(Rosa eglanteria printed as
Rosa rubiginosa)

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Botanical: Rosa rubiginosa

The flowers of the Sweet Briar are a little smaller than those of the Dog Rose and generally of a deeper hue, though of a richer tint in some plants than in others. They are in bloom during June and July. The fruit is eggshaped, its broadest part being uppermost or farthest from the stem.

The specific name rubiginosa signifies, in Latin, 'rusty,' the plant having been thus named as both stems and leaves are often of a brownish-red tint. It delights in open copses, though is sometimes found also in old hedgerows and is more specially met with in chalk districts in the south of England.

Its fragrance of foliage is peculiarly its own and has led to it holding a cherished place in many old gardens. Under its older name of Eglantine its praises have been sung by poets.

It takes a shower to bring out the full sweetness of Sweet Briar, when its strong and refreshing fragrance will fill the air and be borne a long distance by the breeze. Though the leaves are so highly odorous, the flowers are almost entirely without scent.

Sweet Briar only obtains a place among perfumes in name, for like many other sweetscented plants, it does not repay the labour of collecting its odour, the fragrant part of the plant being destroyed more or less under treatment. An Essence under this name is, however, prepared, compounded of various floral essences so blended as to resemble the spicy fragrance of the growing plant. In olden days the Sweet Briar was used medicinally.

Briarwood pipes are not made from thewood of either the Sweet Briar or of any wild rose, but from that of the Tree Heath (Erica arborea).


BURNET ROSE
Scotch Rose
Scotch Rose
(Rosa pimpinellifolia printed as
Rosa spinosissima)

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Botanical: Rosa spinosissima

The BURNET ROSE (R. spinosissima), known also as the Pimpernel Rose, or Scotch Rose, is generally found on waste land near the sea, more rarely on dry, heath-clad hills inland. The whole plant rarely attains to more than a foot or so in height. Its stems are armed with numerous, straight thorns - hence its specific name, signifying in Latin 'exceedingly prickly.' The English name is given it from the fact that the general form of its small leaves, with seven or nine leaflets to each leaf, is very similar to those of the Burnet (Poterium sanguisorba) and the Burnet Saxifrage (Pimpinella).

The white or sulphur-tinted flowers are usually placed singly and are rather small. The roundish fruit is so deep a purple as to appear almost black. The juice of the ripe fruit has been used in the preparation of dye: diluted with water, it dyes silk and muslin of a peach colour and mixed with alum gives a beautiful violet, but is considered too fugitive to be of any real economic value.

This rose is frequently cultivated in gardens and a great many varieties have been raised from it. The first double variety was found in a wild state in the neighbourhood of Perth and from this one were produced about 50 others. The French have over 100 distinct varieties.


DOWNY ROSE
Botanical: Rosa villosa
The DOWNY ROSE (R. villosa) is found only in England in the north and west, but is common in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. It receives its specific name from the downy texture of both sides of the leaves, the Latin word villosa meaning softly hairy.

This species is subject to many variations, five or six of which have been by some botanists considered separate species. The flowers are white or pale pink. The fruit, which is globular, is covered with fine prickles.
The stems of the various kinds of wild rose are often found tufted with little fluffy balls of what look like crimson moss. These are really galls and result from the puncture of a small insect, a kind of wasp - the Rose Gall - in a similar manner as Oak Galls are formed. The wasp punctures a leaf while it is yet undeveloped in the bud and there lays its eggs. Immediately the normal growth of the leaf alters and numerous larvae are formed, which hatch out and creep further into the leaf tissues until the whole swells into the moss-like gall we know. In the Middle Ages these Rose Galls, under the name of Bedeguar, were held in high repute in medicine for their astringency and supposed power of inducing sleep if placed under the pillow at night.

Otto of Rosa centifolia

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R. centifolia is cultivated in Provence, Turkey and Tunis; it has been found wild in the forests of the Caucasus, where double-flowered specimens are often met with.
A small amount of Otto of Roses has been produced in the South of France for at least 150 years, having been an established industry there before the French Revolution, but these earlier French ottos, almost entirely derived from R. centifolia, as a by-product in rose-water distillation, were consumed in the country itself. French roses were almost exclusively used for the manufacture of rosepomade and of rose-water, the French rosewater having the reputation of being superior in odour to any that can be produced in England. In spite of their unrivalled delicacy of fragrance, which always commanded a high place in the estimation of connoisseurs, until recent years the high price and lack of body of French ottos did not enable them to compete for general purposes with the Balkan concrete oil. When, however, Bulgaria joined the Central Empires, the French seized their opportunity, and methods of distillation were modernized, improved stills were erected and many other blooms than those of R. centifolia were experimented with, until now French otto has made itself a place in perfumery. Large plantations of roses have been laid down, and the output of otto is increasing steadily, 10,000 to 20,000 OZ. being at present the annual production. French chemists, botanists and horticulturists have studied the scientific aspect of the Rose, and in the new roses introduced, the chief object has been to improve the odour rather than the appear ance of the flower. The variety of rose mostly cultivated is the Rose de Mai, a hybrid of R. gallica and R. centifolia, bearing recurved prickles on the flowering branches. Two types are grown in the Grasse district, one more spiny than the other. They are mingled in the plantations, but the more spiny is preferred for less irrigated ground and the one with fewer thorns for wellwatered land. The bushes are planted half a metre apart, in rows one metre asunder. The first fortnight in May sees the rose harvest. The buds open gradually and are numerous, as each stalk bears a dense cluster and all the annual stems are well-covered. In the second half of May, after flowering, they are cut back and the complete pruning takes place in the following November. A rose plantation lasts from eight to ten years. Five thousand rose-trees will occupy about 1/2 acre of land and will produce about 2,200 lb. of flowers during the season. It is necessary to distil about 10,000 lb. of roses to obtain 1 lb. of oil. By the volatile solvents process a similar quantity will give anything up to 10 lb. of concrete.

Para quien guste de rosas virtuales

miércoles, 25 de marzo de 2009

Insectos en bibliotecas y archivos

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¿Por qué un libro constituye algo apetecible para un insecto? En primer lugar, porque está hecho de papel, que se fabrica con materias fibrosas, principalmente celulosa, substancia muy común en los vegetales. Numerosos insectos que se alimentan de plantas y son, por ello, naturalmente atraídos por la celulosa, encuentran en bibliotecas y archivos un magnifico hábitat. Un papel de buena calidad contiene alta proporción de celulosa, que le confiere mayor resistencia al envejecimiento, pero lo hace más apetecible para los insectos; uno de menor calidad, por su acidez, que acelera el envejecimiento y favorece la proliferación de hongos, es menos atacable por aquellos. La madera, las telas de cuadros, cortinas y tapices y los hilos, cuerdas y telas de las encuadernaciones contienen celulosa, por lo que algunos insectos que perforan y comen papel son, a la vez, sus enemigos.
Ciertos adhesivos usados en la encuadernación, y el apresto que recibe cada hoja de papel. pueden ser de origen vegetal o animal. Del primer origen son los engrudos, hechos con harina y aún usados; si no se les agregan substancias repulsivas de los agentes biológicos del deterioro, con seguridad atraerán diversos organismos nocivos. Los de origen animal, como la cola de carpintero, se basan en gelatinas. En las encuadernaciones modernas se emplean materiales sintéticos, tanto para costuras, que se realizan con fibras o hilos plásticos, como para cubiertas, que pueden ser de papel plastificado, o para el lomo de los libros. Igual que los tradicionales cueros y pieles, son frecuentemente atacados por una variedad de insectos.

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Fig 1 - Lepisma Saccharina

Los tisanuros -Thysanura- constituyen un orden pequeño, al que pertenece el llamado pececillo de plata (Lepisma saccharina), de color plomizo y generalmente cubierto de escamas, que alcanza hasta 2,5cm de largo. Su cuerpo fusiforme termina en tres largos y delgados filamentos que lo hacen inconfundible (Fig. 1). Es un insecto típicamente nocturno, un ágil corredor que se oculta muy bien durante el día. Vive entre papeles viejos y pone huevos detrás de zócalos y en grietas del suelo. Los recién nacidos se alimentan de restos de los huevos; después de cambiar dos veces su tegumento, están en condiciones de comer papel, cola, cuero o textiles. Antes de llegar a adultos cambian múltiples veces de piel y su ciclo completo puede durar desde varias semanas hasta trece años.

martes, 24 de marzo de 2009

Divas envejeciendo

La belleza tras tres (o dos o más) décadas
Mis favoritas de mis años jóvenes siguen tan atractivas como siempre:
Catherine Deneuve, 64 años
Catherine Deneuve 2008 in Cannes (Foto: Cinetext)
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Jacqueline Bisset
, 63 años
Jacqueline Bisset im Jahr 2006 (Foto: Cinetext)
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martes, 17 de marzo de 2009

Your friend the rat

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Remy and Emile present Your Friend the Rat (2007) DVDRip

Original titleRemy and Emile present Your Friend the Rat
Year: 2007
Genre: Animation
Description: history and behavior of rats in an effort to persuade human viewers not to kill the ubiquitous rodents.

Duration: 00:10:51
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The Pixar Process

The Animation Process

Domino mask

Promotional art by Darwyn Cooke for DC Comics' The Spirit, who wears a domino mask.

A domino mask is a small, rounded mask covering only the eyes and the space between them. Since the 18th century, the domino mask is worn during carnival, especially in Venice, where its origin lies. In comic book and popular culture, a domino mask indicates that a superhero/heroine wishes to maintain his/her secret identity; at the same time the mask actually obscures little of the facial features that make the character recognizable. For example, Batman's sidekick Robin and the Lone Ranger wear a domino mask. A domino mask is very similar to a masquerade mask, except it is not as embellished or decorated.
The original designs for Batman utilised a simple domino mask as part of his disguise, but Batman co-creator Bill Finger suggested that Bob Kane give him a cape and cowl instead.

Lady Luck

Lady Luck is a fictional, American comic-strip crime fighter and adventuress created and designed in 1940 by Will Eisner (who wrote the first two Lady Luck stories under the pseudonym "Ford Davis"), with artist Chuck Mazoujian. Writer Dick French then took over scripting.[2] Through 1946, she starred in a namesake, four-page weekly feature published in a Sunday-newspaper comic-book insert colloquially called "The Spirit Section". This 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book, sold as part of eventually 20 Sunday newspapers with a combined circulation of as many as five million, starred Eisner's masked detective The Spirit and also initially included the feature Mr. Mystic, plus filler materia
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The Spirit

The Spirit (Denny Colt) is a fictional character appearing in the comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer-artist Will Eisner, he first appeared in Spirit Section #1 (June 1940).
A crime-fighter, the Spirit debuted on June 2, 1940, in a seven-page insert into American Sunday-newspaper comics sections.
The Spirit
chronicles the adventures of a masked vigilante who fights crime with the blessing of the city's police commissioner Dolan, an old friend. Despite the Spirit's origin as a detective named Denny Colt, his real identity was virtually unmentioned again and for all intents and purposes he was simply "the Spirit". The stories range through a wide variety of styles, from straightforward crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, often with hybrid elements that twisted genre and expectations.
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"Tengo el aspecto de una chica buena?"
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Plot of the film
In Central City, rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the dead as the detective known only as the Spirit to fight crime. After he finds his nemesis, the Octopus, at the Central City mud flats, the femme fatale Sand Saref discovers two chests in a nearby pond. She tries to flee with both chests, but the Octopus shoots at her, snapping the line that connects the two chests together. After a fight with the Spirit, Octopus takes the remaining chest that Saref left behind and escapes with one of his thugs. The Octopus wants the mystical Blood of Heracles in order to become immortal and Sand Saref wants the treasure of the Argonauts, but both people end up with the wrong chest, Sand with the blood and the Octopus with the treasure of the Argonauts.

miércoles, 11 de marzo de 2009

Believe me, it's torture!

Waterboarding

Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher.[1] The strip was syndicated daily from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. At its height, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. To date, more than 30 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been printed.
Calvin's alter egos
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Academia, Here I Come!

Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes

[The cartoon artwork reproduced hereafter is Copyright © 2005 Bill Watterson, all rights reserved. It was originally published in Stanford Daily and online at: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/. This version for class use only; no reproduction or printing allowed.]


"Academia, Here I Come!" by Bill Watterson

Presto!

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Presto is a 2008 Pixar computer-animated short film shown in theaters before—and included on the DVD and Blu-ray release of—their feature length film WALL-E. The short is about a magician trying to perform a show with his uncooperative rabbit, and is a gag-filled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry. Presto was directed by veteran Pixar animator Doug Sweetland, in his directorial debut.
The original idea for the short was a magician who incorporated a rabbit into his act who suffered from stage fright. This was considered to be too long and complicated, and the idea was reworked. To design the theater featured in Presto, the filmmakers visited several Opera Houses and theaters for set design ideas. Problems arose when trying to animate the theater's audience of 2,500 patrons—which was deemed too expensive—and was solved by showing the back of the audience.
Reaction to the short was very positive, and DVD reviewers of WALL-E considered it to be an enjoyable special feature. One critic called Presto a "winner through and through",[2] while another found it to be "a short and hilarious animated film".[3] Presto was nominated for an Annie Award and Academy Award.

lunes, 9 de marzo de 2009

Dante's Inferno Test

Take the Dante's Inferno Test
Dante's Inferno Test - You Have Been Judged The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale wraps around his body 2 times.
The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Second Level of Hell!
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScore
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)Low
Level 2 (Lustful)Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)Very High
Level 7 (Violent)High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)High
My Second Level of Hell
You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate.

"Think BIG! Riches! Power! Pretend you could have ANYthing!"

25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips

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Dr. Nicholas and Mr. Hyde

Maybe the cartoon characters Calvin and Hobbes sum it up best:
-“Do you believe in the Devil?” Calvin asks.
“You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?”

Replies Hobbes:
-“I’m not sure that man needs the help.”


"Crees en el Diablo?  Tú sabes, un maligno y supremo ser dedicado a la tentación, corrupción y destrucción del hombre?"

- "No estoy seguro que el hombre necesite la ayuda"

Sex, Lies, and Underground Lairs


sábado, 7 de marzo de 2009

WALL·E

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Most of the characters do not have actual human voices, but instead communicate with body language and robotic sounds, designed by Ben Burtt, that resemble voices. In addition, it is the first animated feature by Pixar to have segments featuring live-action characters.
Plot:
In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot that slowly begins to become sentient inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

WALL-E (promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E) is a 2008 computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The film was directed by Andrew Stanton. It follows the story of a robot named WALL-E who is designed to clean up a waste covered Earth far in the future. He eventually falls in love with another robot named EVE, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity.

After directing Finding Nemo, Stanton felt Pixar had created believable simulations of underwater physics and was willing to direct a film set in space. Most of the characters do not have actual human voices, but instead communicate with body language and robotic sounds, designed by Ben Burtt, that resemble voices. In addition, it is the first animated feature by Pixar to have segments featuring live-action characters.

Walt Disney Pictures released it in the United States and Canada on June 27, 2008. The film grossed $23.1 million on its opening day, and $63 million during its opening weekend in 3,992 theaters, ranking #1 at the box office. This ranks the third highest-grossing opening weekend for a Pixar film as of July 2008. Following Pixar tradition, WALL-E was paired with a short film, Presto, for its theatrical release. WALL-E has achieved highly positive reviews with an approval rating of 96% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed $534 million worldwide, won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and the 2009 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and was nominated for five other Academy Awards.

jueves, 5 de marzo de 2009

Great Depression cooking

93 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression.

Jessica Rabbit desnuda y la real, vestida

We found this hot picture in the secret Disney Porn archives and knew we just had to share this with you. Jessica has to rate up there as one of the hottest cartoon babes ever.



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La copia real de Jessica R.: Melyssa Ford

Perfekte Wendetechnik mathematisch berechnet

Método de volteo perfecto calculado matemáticamente en la Uni Leeds
Perfekte Wendetechnik mathematisch berechnet
Foto: Imago
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04. März 2003 - dpa meldet: Britische Physikstudenten der Universität Leeds haben herausgefunden, dass der perfekte Wurf beim Wenden eines Pfannkuchens sich mathematisch berechnen lässt. Die optimale persönliche Wurfgeschwindigkeit ergibt sich dabei aus der Quadratwurzel von Pi mal Schwerkraft geteilt durch die vierfache Entfernung zwischen dem Ellbogen und dem Mittelpunkt des Pfannkuchens.


miércoles, 4 de marzo de 2009

... telling the truth...

“in a time of hype, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” --George Orwell

the-complete-discussion-about-the-actual-economic-crisis

Jessica Rabbit

"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." --Jessica R.

Jessica Rabbit is Roger's wife in the book and movie. In the book, she was an amoral, up-and-coming star and former comic character, over whom her estranged husband, comic strip star Roger Rabbit, obsessed. She is re-imagined in the film as a sultry, but moral, cartoon singer at a Los Angeles supper club called The Ink and Paint Club. Here, she is one of several suspects in the framing of her husband, who is a famous cartoon star. She is voiced by Kathleen Turner. Amy Irving was cast to sing Peggy Lee's "Why Don't You Do Right" for Jessica's first scene in the movie.
Jessica was based on Veronica Lake, and even fashioned her famous "Peek-A-Boo" hairstyle. She is one of the most famous sex symbols on animated screen.[1] She claims to Eddie Valiant, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." She deeply loves her husband Roger and the main reason is that he makes her laugh.
After the film, Jessica also appeared in the Roger Rabbit/Baby Herman shorts Tummy Trouble as a nurse, Roller Coaster Rabbit as a damsel in distress, and Trail Mix-Up as a park ranger. In Tummy Trouble and Roller Coaster Rabbit she made no impression, but in Trail Mix-Up Roger fantasizes over her, calling her a 'babe in the woods' and panting like a dog. She also appeared frequently in the Roger Rabbit comic book series, and she had her own feature in most issues of Roger Rabbit's Toontown such as "Beauty Parlor Bedlam," where she comes face to face with female weasel counterpart, Winnie.
With the success of the film and upon the opening of Disney's MGM Studios on May 1, 1989,[2] the film's characters featured prominently in the company. After taking the Backlot Tram Tour, various props decorated the streets including two different photo opportunities with Jessica: a glittery cardboard cutout and "The Loony Bin" photo shop which allowed you to take pictures in costume standing next to an actual cartoon drawing of characters from the film. There was also a plethora of merchandise including Jessica Rabbit rub-on stickers called "pressers".
Disagreements between the Disney Company, Amblin Entertainment and Gary Wolf (jointly owning rights to the characters) made it difficult for any merchandise or projects to get off the ground and caused the halt of the short film, Hare in My Soup, and the next film Who Discovered Roger Rabbit.[3] In this prequel, Roger meets his bride-to-be, Jessica Krupnick. A completed score by Alan Silvestri is said to exist as well as test footage and computer generated versions of the characters. Also cancelled was an animated TV series, which was replaced by a show called Bonkers about a feline cop. Many park attractions never got out of development, such as Roger Rabbit's Hollywood.[4]
In 2000, Disney - MGM Studios stopped using any character memorabilia in the park, though some props are still present. These include a Maroon Cartoon billboard featuring Roger, Jessica, and Baby Herman across from the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show, Eddie Valiant's office and a cut-out of Roger on the blinds of a neighboring window near the 50's Prime Time Cafe, and the "ton o' bricks" hanging near the “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” Movie Set Adventure.

List of Who Framed Roger Rabbit characters



Breve tratado de la ilusión

Julián MaríasJulián Marías
(1914 - 2005)
Filósofo, escritor, crítico de cine, periodista. Miembro de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española

Indice y resto del ensayo Breve tratado de la ilusión
Prólogo
Hace muchos años, quizá alrededor de veinte, que me ronda este título preciso: Breve tratado de la ilusión. Desde entonces tengo, más que la voluntad, la ilusión de escribir el libro así titulado. ¿Por qué? Sin duda por haber experimentado intensas ilusiones; pero no es razón suficiente: ¿no basta con vivirlas? Cuando se tiene vocación teórica, tal vez no. Hay que reflexionar sobre lo que se vive para así revivirlo; para tomar posesión de ello y no resbalar; para que eso llegue a ser parte de uno mismo.
Y me encontré, tan pronto como empecé a pensar, con dos sorpresas. La primera, que la palabra «ilusión» -tan general, de tan larga historia, de tan claro linaje latino, común a tantas lenguas- es, sin embargo, inesperadamente, algo privado de los que hablamos español. Es decir, que entendemos por ilusión, además de lo que entienden los demás, algo nuevo, distinto y mucho más importante: precisamente lo que desde siempre me fascinaba. La segunda sorpresa es que apenas se sabe qué es ilusión. Entre tantos temas sobre los que se ha pensado poco, éste significa un extremo, una cima; pero como se trata de oscuridad, mejor diríamos una sima.
Tan pronto como me di cuenta de ello, sentí la necesidad de descender a ella, como Don Quijote a la cueva de Montesinos. Ese deseo imperioso no me ha abandonado nunca. He sentido la exigencia intelectual de ponerme en claro; y a la vez he anticipado una vez y otra la delicia de entrar en la cuestión, irla desvelando, averiguar en qué consiste, qué promete, adonde nos lleva.
Extrañará que a pesar de tratarse de un libro breve, haya dejado pasar decenios sin ponerme a escribirlo. Los libros tienen su hora, y esta puede pasarse. Pensar y escribir sobre la ilusión reclama su vivencia adecuada, una intuición de desusada plenitud, un temple que haga posible que las palabras vengan a ponerse en su lugar, al ser llamadas, y hace falta tener voz. La vida, además, tiene urgencias, y con frecuencia se aplaza lo más interesante, cuando es menos apremiante. Hubo un momento, hace años, en que estuve a punto de empezar a escribir una primera página. El azar o el destino lo impidió de la manera más radical. Pensé que ese breve libro nunca llegaría a escribirse.
Pero me ha sido imposible olvidar esa preocupación, preguntarme qué quiere decir, de verdad, ilusión. Al recordarla, al echarla de menos, al imaginarla, al sentirla en ocasiones, se me presentaba siempre como con el rostro cubierto con un velo. El no encontrar en ninguna parte ni la menor iluminación sobre ello excitaba mi deseo, mi punzante deseo de saber. Tenía la impresión de «saberlo» ya, en forma nebulosa y oscura, de que bastaría tender las manos del pensamiento para apresarla y arrancarle su secreto -porque de un secreto se trata-.
Tengo además una extraña conciencia de «deudas», cuando creo poder hacer algo que no está hecho. Siento confusamente que no tengo derecho a no hacerlo. Es posible que una mujer que ha concebido a un hijo se sienta sin derecho a no alumbrarlo.
Llevo demasiado tiempo dentro este proyecto de libro -y demasiado dentro- para renunciar a él. Tan pronto como he entrevisto una posibilidad me he vuelto a ella para aprovecharla. No estoy seguro de poder escribirlo. Pero voy a intentarlo.

Julián Marías
Madrid, 20 de marzo de 1984.


Memez o sexo?

"Si uno se asoma a Internet, el trapicheo de memeces ocupa el 90%."   --Julián Marías Aguilera (Valladolid, 17 de junio de 1914 - Madrid, 15 de diciembre de 2005), filósofo católico español, discípulo y amigo de José Ortega y Gasset.

Yo pensaba que más del 90 % eran videos, fotos y otros temas pornográficos, no tartamudeos de mentecatos

martes, 3 de marzo de 2009

Libertad

La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los Cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad, así como por la honra, se puede y debe aventurar la vida, y, por el contrario, el cautiverio es el mayor mal que puede venir a los hombres.‎ - Página 309



lunes, 2 de marzo de 2009

Sé que soy una princesa...

En Alemania podría tener una cita a ciegas y con gran probabilidad (90 y pico %) me encuentro una chica esbelta, inteligente, muy bonita y acude puntualmente a la cita (sólo una me dejó plantado en 18 años allá y fue una azafata de Iberia, española, lógico).
En Bolivia puede reducirse al porcentaje restante. Y dudo que llegue puntual, si que acude al punto de encuentro que ella misma propuso. Si no me la creen, pónganse mis chancletas.
Luego que por mis circunstancias me rechazó en la vida real de una manera un poco denigrante un contacto virtual con aires de princesa, recibi una invitación suya para unirme a su grupito de amigos virtuales en una comunidad virtual, le escribí entre otras cosas (el resto entrego a la que se interese, previo intercambio de humores:
Ah... Y estafaré a la gente o robaré un banco para poseer lo que una mujer regordeta y regular, común y corriente espera de un hombre.
Y ahora debo aceptar estar entre los círculos que frecuentas?
Luego que trancaste todo lo que pueda comunicarte virtualmente conmigo?
Aquellas comunidades virtuales de gente llena de fotos y sin palabras ni pensamientos? Sea hi5 o facebook? Small talk virtual?
Hubo una forma de disculpa, muy princesal. Por eso pongo aquí fragmentos de la respuesta, la que no esperaba, pero pienso dice mucho del mundo de ella:
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Por los principes no me preocupo, se que soy una princesa y pronto mi principe me va encontrar, eso no me preocupa, se quien soy y lo que valgo, aun gordete rellenada y todo.
Chau, que te vaya bien y adios.
No puedo mostrar una foto de ella, ni quiero describirla, pero me asustan sobremanera las pretensiones de algunas mujeres tan comunes como esa pequeña regordeta ratoncita gris que sabe que pronto....
Apuesto un testículo que (aunque no se lo deseo) le tocará, si éste la encuentra pronto, el peor patán que se pueda imaginar. Y como siempre pasa, le parirá hijos.
Sé feliz, princesita...!
Hay muchos príncipes de charco limpio en el mundo...