Oct/094
I love it when a plan comes together
This is the first official picture of the new film based on the American Action television series the A Team. The very famous four characters created by Stephen J. Cannel, who literally invaded our TVs on the 80s during 98 episodes, are now brought the the cinema by the independent Joe Carnahan (Smoking Aces) - who by the way was offered to direct Mission Impossible III but rejected it -
The actors, who will bring this new production to life by representing a group of ex-United State Special Forces being on the run from the military for crime the didn't commit, are Liam Neeson as Hannibal, Sharlto Copley as Murdock, Quinton Rampage Jackson as M.A Baracus and Bradly Cooper as Phoenix.
Oct/090
CO2 to CO2
When we talk about carbon footprint is not always clear what we mean by it. Carbon.to is a sleek web application that lets you compare CO2 emissions from actions in our everyday's life.
Via: Microsiervos
Oct/090
Global Expenses in perspective
It is always good to pay a visit to Information Is Beautiful. This time areas mean money expenses, earns, gains, fights and loses. Have a look!
Oct/091
Counting Money
I'm sure each of you have your very own way of counting money notes, but just as there are many ways of folding a t-shirt, there are many too of counting money. Please do not miss how they do it in Pakistan (0:51).
Oct/090
XXXXXXX
"XXXXXXX": this is what the parking enforcing officers enter in their system when the vehicle license plate is not visible. The problem arises when you decide to customize your plate to match these "magic numbers", in this case all the parking tickets for all those people with dodgy plates will get sent to you. The result: $19.000 in fines.
Oct/090
XO goes to Uruguay
The OLPC (one laptop per child) project, which initially was targeting India as the first country to adapt it, has shifted direction, and now Uruguay is the first to start a plan by which all primary school students and about 18.000 teachers will get a XO unit.
Oct/098
Oli otya? Gyendi! – Uganda I
I recently traveled to Uganda, where Yael -the amazing woman that I'm fortunate to share my life with these days - is now working. Uganda is in the East side of Africa, just over the Equator and its your best bet for getting to know a bit of Africa if it's your first time there. (continues)
Oct/092
Small Update
I don't even know why you would be interested on this, but it suits as an excuse for my 6 days silence. Also you must admit that it is quite cool when you say that you had to migrate your blog to a new server because bla bla bla... Anyway, you should get now better loading times and it should allow me to type a bit faster, or not :)
Oct/092
More Nobel
More in the Nobel price. Barack Obama has been awarded with the Peace Nobel Price for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples". He and me agree on the same, it may be a bit soon for him to stand by such "transformative figures". It is true that his speech involves great changes on foreign policy but those changes hasn't been achieved yet, and it looks they will need long time, as we have been seeing in his attempts for nuclear disarm.
Looking around I found this article which nicely combines two of my previous posts in its title. - Obama's prize: Noble hopes in an ignoble world. Ignoble is the source of the "Ig" in the Ig Nobel Prizes, what The Globe and Mail meant with it: an exercise for the reader :)