Aug/090
What the f**k!
I don't share my impressions about the Californian Governor, Mr Arnold, but Patatas Traigo is a big fan of him, and managed to survive to his Twitter blog and found this two WTF pictures of his office.
The Conan sword
Terminator
Aug/090
Snif!
Did you know that we are unconsciously more attracted to sweat smell of those people whose immune system is most different than ours, therefor having the healthiest children. That there is a theory stating that the red of our lips is no more than the migration of the vivid colours of the flowers that used to cause high pleasure to our ancestors.
Or that is what they think today. Why do we blush, laugh, have pubic hair, dream or like so much kissing each other. The following article in New Scientist shows how few things we know about these things.
Aug/091
I know they were real.
If you happened to know Hakuna Matata you will definitely recognise the following picture:
I saw it on Digg
Aug/092
The 10th dimenssion
For those of you that have read about string theory, you may well know that one of the major outcomes of it is the existence of up to 10 dimensions. We, humans, live and feel in a 3 dimensional world, where any object is made up of length, width and height. We can even perceive an extra one, a 4th dimension that we call time, or duration. From that point on, things become very difficult to imagine, our brain cannot draw a picture anywhere of a 5th dimension, but the theory says that we are just "trapped" in a three dimensional world, just as a King in a playing card could only "see" things in the plane where its eyes sit.
This animation tries to explain the concept visually, and even when the theory does no support this approach, I think it does a good job:
Aug/091
Internet-less
So wireless that my connection went on holidays for the whole week, that is why you missed me so much :)
Aug/090
Google Insight
What happens when almost 70% of the words searches in the planet is done using the same text box, what happens if we are able to store all that information, the information about what the 70% the searches is about, and what happens if you make that information public. Today the power of changing is not any more in the ability of accessing the information gathered 100 years ago, is in the way you are able to use it.
Google Insight lets you see how many searches have been made on specific words throughout a time line. Information is beautiful has very interesting results.
Image: David McCandless.
Aug/094
Lost in translation
I always say to Yael that I feel like I'll never have a English soul, meaning that my soul will never speak English, I can buy bread in English, dream in English, think in English, and forget that I though in English, and think that I was thinking in Spanish, I can even make love in English, if that can be translated. But I never will have a English soul, I will never embed the language, enjoy it, feel it and play with it as I do with Spanish. There are things that cannot be translated, and that it will take too long to learn in another language, I'll have to live be again, to have a boy brain again, it is something that globalisation will never achieve, at least while I'm standing on my feet.
This little project plays with what is lost every time you translate something, and keeps translating a sentence from English to Japanese backwards and forwards until there is static result, what they interestingly call equilibrium.
I saw it on Boing Boing
Aug/090
In for a penny, in for a pound
As usual we see these things out of context, and that maybe the reason they are so funny.
Aug/090
Quantum
Quantum physics, on its way of explaining the rules of the small, says that there is a probability, incredibly small, of the particles in our body not interacting with a external object and making us able to go through it, as it weren't there. Today we know that this is no more that a text book example to introduce this theory, and that actually things work in a very different way. Nevertheless this engineering student from Pakistan tried once more.
Aug/091
Supernatural (not the album)
We have already seen it, but it is worth it to remember it from time to time. In fact, here in UK, some legal process is being reactivated about regulating the use of Photoshop for treating models images. We have reached a point where make is part of the character of some people, and when we see those without it, is like somebody that usually wears glasses is not wearing them.
Anyway, here goes a gallery from Peter Lindbergh where all them look awesome, but with no make up.