Category Archives: Entertainment

Converting video files

My daughter wanted to watch on the TV some music videos that a friend sent to her, but the problem was that some of the videos were on WMV format and our DVD player only supports DivX (in fact I think that no players with support to those formats exist,…
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The hand of Google


While looking at a library book scanned by Google, I found this image, the hand behind the scanner revealed. Dale Dougherty Saw this at O’Reilly Radar, and other “hands” are at Book Patrol
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Late Hot Fuzz

I saw in the newspaper that today opens in Mexico city the movie Hot Fuzz, which is a good movie to see but the reason of the post is to point the time it took to get this to movie theaters in Mexico. This movie was released…
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Japanese TV shows

I was bored and nothing was on TV, so I browsed Youtube and ended watching some japanese TV shows that are really funny. Some of the shows are hilarious and some are a bit scatological in nature. More videos after the jump
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3D feed reader


When you think on a feed reader you assume that it will show the articles in a chronological ordered list, because we are used to see the information in 2 dimensions, but, what happens when we add a third dimension?. That’s what they did with Voyage
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Master Chief papercraft model

To make the wait for the release of Halo 3 more tolerable you can try to build this papercraft model of Master Chief. The model is 13″ tall, has close to 2100 faces (over 800 faces for the gun), and is composed of 42 pieces (+ 10 for the…
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What I've been reading

During this long time without posting anything in this blog, at night I have been (re)reading some interesting books that I’d like to recommend to you. This books are of the cyberpunk genre and although it’s fiction the stories and what happen to the characters or what they do is…
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Dragon Wars

In only 18 days it’s supposed to be at the theaters the movie D-War/Dragon Wars on USA and the trailer looks good, but lately you can’t tell from the trailers if a movie will be worth watching or not. The theme (dragons) is not new or original, one…
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unusual contests

Last weekend I saw a couple of posts about championships and contests, but not the kind you are thinking about, these are “unusual” at least for me and shows that there is a market for anything you can imagine. The first one is the Rock Paper Scissors World
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Cool street views

With the new Streed View feature in Google Maps a lot of strange, funny and unexpected images have been discovered by the users and in one of Wired blogs (Threat Level) there is a request for the Best Urban Images Captured by New Google
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