Maybe that’s something you all already knew, and it’s just me that arrived late to the party, but this is hilarious. I hadn’t used Google Translate myself too much (if ever; can’t remember), but the other day someone mentioned some “funny” translations in some internal mailing list at Opera: The first translation is… not correct, [...]
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Comic hunting
Some time ago (probably a couple of years) I learned about a couple of TMNT issues that I wanted to read. Yes, that means “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”. I never thought I would want to read a TMNT comic, let alone paying for it, but there you go. The reason why I wanted to read [...]
Useful spam and Knol
The last days I have noticed that most of the spam I receive has some made up news as subject. I imagine it is to make people click on the messages. The point is that one of those messages was titled “Knol, the Wikipedia killer”, or something along those lines. I didn’t click on the [...]
Linux video editing and YouTube annotations
In my recent trip to Copenhagen, I recorded a small video of the subway (it’s really cool, because it’s completely automatic, it doesn’t have drivers or anything). I wanted to edit the video to remove people that were reflected on the window, so I wondered if I could do that on Linux. I imagined it [...]
Animal activists in jail for… no reason?
21 May 2008. Dawn in Austria. A lot of policemen enter in 23 different premises with guns, battering down doors, harassing the people inside. They take 10 people under arrest. Dangerous terrorists? War criminals? Drug dealers? Animal activists. There haven’t been any concrete charges yet_, so they are basically prisoners of conscienceconscience. Some of them [...]
CHDK – Canon Hacker’s Development Kit
Some days ago, Arve posted a very interesting link in Twitter: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera. It was about something called CHDK (Canon Hacker’s Development Kit), which is a non-official firmware enhancement for many Canon cameras. It sounds pretty scary, but actually it’s really safe and easy to use: you just copy some files [...]
NIN: The Slip
Nine Inch Nails released their new album, The Slip, under a Creative Commons license. You are actually encouraged to “remix it share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc.”. After reading that, I couldn’t resist giving away my e-mail address to download it. [...]
I don’t “git” it
I admit I don’t get it. Tons of people are using Git these days, and most of them seem incredibly happy with it. I don’t really have any relevant experience with it (just used a couple of days), but I didn’t like it that much. Feels weird, clunky and complicated (especially, the interface is horrid, [...]
Wiki- and Uncyclopedia on Scientology
So, the other day I was reading about Scientology, and I stumble upon the Space opera in Scientology scripture. Apart from the odd article title, I couldn’t help but noticing the picture on the right. It has the following footer: “Hubbard said that the galactic ruler Xenu transported his victims to Earth in interstellar space [...]
Awesome Star Wars figures
I just saw in Adastra (Spanish only) some really cool Star Wars figures built by some very talented guy: 1942 Star Wars figures Steampunk Star Wars figures His own vision of Star Wars figures I’m not a huge fan of Star Wars myself, but those figures are just awesome, I had to share :-)
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