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Milinkito :: Todo lo que corre, nada o vuela, ¡a la Zarzuela!
The Spanish Royal Family traditionally send a family photo to the citizens of Spain to warm their hearts in the festive season. Last year, due to agenda pressures, they were unable to come together for the photo; instead they pasted one together using PhotoShop. This had the result of warming the Spanish hearts even more than usual, and has created a cult of followers who try to improve on the original attempt.
Labels: Fun
From BBC News (17/10/2006):
Iceland has announced it is to resume commercial hunting of whales.
Icelandic ships will take nine fin whales, an endangered species, and 30 minke whales each year."
An interesting animated GIF of a dripping tap, as featured as Wikipedia's
picture of the day, 29th October 2006.
El mono aullador de manto (Alouatta palliata) (Fotografía: T. Urquiza-Haas)
The mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata) (Photography: T. Urquiza-Haas)
(from El Mundo Ciencia on 6th October 2006): Una gigantesca ballena jorobada ha muerto tras pasar varios días vagando cerca de una playa en el estado de Washington, y finalmente quedar varada en la arena.
A giant humpback whale died and was washed up onto the sand after spending various days swimming around near a beach in Washington state.
(from El Mundo Ciencia on 6th October 2006) Un japonés recita de memoria 100.000 decimales del número
Pi. Después de terminar la proeza,
Akira Haraguchi señaló: "
Tampoco creo que sea nada excepcional, simplemente he vaciado mi memoria de todo lo demás y he recitado los números".
, A 59 year old japanese man recited from memory 100,000 decimal places of the number
Pi. After finishing, he stated "
I don't think it's anything exceptional, I just emptied my mind of everything else and recited the numbers".
The
BBC coverage on this event was fairly poor in my opinion.
An interesting article in
The Economist about
SecondLife, a virtual world, and it's gradual commercialization.
