Murat in Jose .. prvič

Pravijo, da prve Cocte ne pozabiš nikoli. Em? Ja, moja je stala 50 SIT in zraven sem jedu žemljico za 50 SIT in šunko mi je teta, meni, osnovnošolcu, pred ... 10 leti, dala kar zastonj. Kje je zdej to? Tole gre od ljudi za ljudi!
Postan ti sam. Modela oz. modeli, glede na to, da poznam vsaj še 5 ljudi, ki se pojavijo v spotu. D best ... Interrogations will ensue. Več pa enkrat prihodnjič.

SloveniJA NI SEVERno od svobode

Bauman, priznani svetovni sociolog, v svoji zadnji knjigi piše o popisu strahov »tekoče moderne«. Pravi, da najbolje preživi tisti, ki je najbolje prilagojen nenehnemu prilagajanju. Smo se Slovenci uspeli prilagoditi na novo oblastno prilagajanje?

Definitivno, Slovenci smo mojstri v tem.

Prilagodili smo se tudi na nov način komuniciranja. Internet je tako rekoč postal naš drugi dom. Tudi vi ste se udomačili na njem.

Internet je super stvar. V tem trenutku je internet kljub vsem pomislekom in dvomom, ki še vedno obstajajo, mesto svobode. Je prostor, kjer se dá najti tisto, kar človek išče. Dá se povedati tisto, kar se hoče povedati in dopušča neke povsem nove pristope, ki še niso do konca izkoriščeni. Omogoča kombinacijo raznih vsebin, omogoča večplastnost, interaktivnost, in predvsem to, da človek sam določa čas, ki ga bo porabil za pridobivanje informacij. Ta demokratična revolucija, ki se ji mnogi posmehujejo, je dejansko začela spreminjati stvari. To, da lahko vsak v vsaki sekundi postavi svoj blog, vzame kamero in dokumentira dogajanje, bo imelo v prihodnosti večje posledice kot si sploh predstavljamo.

Pa je blog res tako zelo svoboden medij? Nenazadnje Ana Jud je s tožbo zoper Guštijev blog dosegla umik le tega.

Mislim, da to ne spremeni tega, kar sem rekel. Na internetu se glede te prepovedi razvija ena taka živahna debata. Nek zaključek te debate bi lahko bil, da je internet drugačen medij, ki uporablja druge forme medijskih pristopov, ampak to še ne pomeni, da bi morala zanj veljati druga etična merila. To še ne pomeni, da lahko ti o drugem pišeš laži, posegaš v zasebnost ljudi, ki niso javne osebnosti, itd. Ta pravila veljajo na splošno za vse medije, za vse ljudi. Tukaj pač internet ne more biti izjema.

In blogovska prihodnost?

Jaz mislim, da je prihodnost v povezovanju, v urejanju vsebin zato, ker bo eden največjih problemov tega interneta presežek vseh vsebin. Jaz pač vidim prihodnost v prepletanju teh pristopov (video pristopa, fotografije in teksta). Internet prenaša vse to troje in zato je tako poseben. Neke stvari je lažje povedati v nekaj stavkih, nekatere ne moreš pokazati drugače kot z videom, za nekatere trenutke pa je fotografija tisti najboljši pripomoček.

Intervju z Janijem Severjem, preteklim urednikom Mladine, štiri mesece po njegovi odstavitvi (pardon, odstopu). (Ne) spreglejte njegov(ega) blog(a): in spletne strani vest.si, ki sta jo kot medijski portal štartala z Jonasom Ž.
Tukaj pa še en intervju (tudi zgoraj, v tekstu) z J. S.: o medijski svobodi oz. o Mladini. Btw: na sliki v tem postu je seveda Jani Sever in ne tisti sociolog.

Summer job on marine biology station Piran

Tukajle ne you-tube-u dostopen link do krajšega prispevka na vest.si (Jonas Ž., Jani Sever et al.)
Posneto pretekli teden, govora je na kratko o terenskem, aplikativnem delu biologov, tehnikov in ostalih na Morski biološki postaji v Piranu Nacionalnega inštituta za biologijo.

P.S.: Naj vas posentki ne zavedejo: šel sem tja seveda samo zaradi možnosti sončenja.

How to solve Rubik's Cube and the phenomenon of you-tube

"Hey, world! My name is Dan Brown and ... "

It was amazing - see the interview, to see what I'm talking about. See, I wanted, upon many years of deep thought and sarcasm (no, wait), of meditation (that's better) and contemplation, compilation (you're getting all reggae on me;) ... you get the gist.
SOooo, I went to the you-tube (dooooh) and typed in the most straight-forward question - How to solve the Rubik 's Cube? (Faster. Finger tricks.)

From then on, I saw another interview, on CNN, and it's also about political views of Dan Brown - apparently quite enthousiastic about politics right now .. who wouldn't be? See, it's his first. Yes, ladies and gents - the 17 year-old Dan Brown is another internet star, made so by the 30.000 views (at the end of the first day it was on the net! So go figure.) of his tutorial video I'm posting bellow on how to solve the Cube. So: part 1, part 2 and the reply to the questions (I figuered it out before that).
Also: how to scramble the cube:
R2 U' L' R' D B' U' L2 F' D' U B' U' B' U R U2 D B2 U2 L U' L' D U
Soo, fer all of you guys: the videos (If I can tackle them to be side by side, smallish)!
part 1 part 2

-LIST OF ALGORITHMS-

1) Fi U Li Ui

2) Ri Di R D

3) U R Ui Ri Ui Fi U F

4) Ui Li U L U F Ui Fi

5) F R U Ri Ui Fi

6) R U Ri U R U U Ri

7) U R Ui Li U Ri Ui L

8) Ri Di R D

See also the cube Timer: http://www.cubetimer.com/

Lets eat seasoned fruit!

Yeaaaa! People are finally getting it (see bellow): and I would gladly cut down on pineapple usage if this sort of law was put into debate. Gladly. I don't NEED to eat cherries in the mid-january. It's nice, especially the romantic/erotic potential it holds, but hey(!) I would give it all up for mummy (Earth;).

Gordon Ramsay has reportedly ordered that chefs should be fined if they serve fruit and vegetables which aren't in season at the time.
Ramsay claims he has already spoken with Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the food issue, and believes it would cut carbon emissions because less food would be imported.
source: http://www.media-mentor.co.uk/news/media-training-news/ramsay-dictates-what-we-eat-in-restaurants

Let's play ...

Let's play with numbers, just a little bit.
But first - "a human life is ... priceless"? (Innocent person without (proven) criminal record? Say it is a postulate to ponder.

In the previous post, we've seen a reckless display of usage of numbers and language - let me remind you:

"This fight is about 70,000 people who feel more affinity to Russia than they do for the breakaway state," Thompson said. "It's not the sort of fight that raises major issue for the U.S. and it's not in a strategic location to warrant our deeper involvement."

Now, lets dance! 1500 dead (no matter on which sides), out of 70.000 (he says for the region, although CIA worldfactbook states population of Gruzija/Georgia is about 4.630.841 (July 2008 est.) Now ... if we play dirty statistics (which we seem to see quite a lot, especially for commercial and political use, gosh knows why), 1.500 dead out of 70.000 (S. Ossetia) equals to roughly 2,14857 percent of the population.
Funny, the population of USA is 303.824.646 (July 2008 est.) and 2,14857 percent would mean a meaningless 6.510.646 dead people. I wonder If they'd say that It's not the sort of fight that raises major issue for the U.S. ??? (For comparison: estimates for the supposed genocide of jews, the holocaust, is now held at roughly 6 million //is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II.)

Now let us be a bit more fair: 1500 is 'only' 0,032392 percent of the entire Gruzian/Georgian population ... but that would still mean, say, 98.414,87 dead Americans! Wicked - that's ... three times the was in Iraq! See here, it's supposedly 30.490!!!) Not a big issue ... Elections are won and lost, wars are fought for those kind of mistakes and misjudged sentences.
Yeah! In some parts of The Arabic world they would've held big celebrations, compared with those after demolition of the Death Star in Star Wars. Probably. Or to put it like that: in the Hurricane Katrina events and days that followed, supposedly 1,836 or 4,081. (Don't ask me - supposedly the numbers for holocaust are much, much smaller, thus the 9/11, Katrina, the numbers - we don't know. Or do we? The Free Masons probably do. ;) I'm evil, am I not?)

Russia and "Georgia" a.k.a. Rusija in Gruzija

If I wanted to be sarcastic, I'd probably say: "Rusija in Gruzija, what's the difference?!" (The phrase has layers, like onions, mind yeh.)
Firstly, two countries attacking each-other, two bordering countries, two armies, clashing and killing and murdering and pillaging ... I see no difference. Sure, if it was OUR war, I'd probably say that the side I'd be on IS right. SUre. Or not.
Secondly, the names sound (at least in sLOVEnian) quite the same - see above.

Am I the only one who noticed the drop in EURO vs. american dollar? Is it really not that important that Russia is regaining some of the territory previously already theirs? Isn't it so that perhaps Georgia wanted to be attacked? Mind you, if CIA comes to fetch me down for "interrogation" (obviously, because I am a direct threat to the big US&A and a known ter**st in my country (they're probably monitoring every site that mentions key words, so why give them (another;) reason;)) ?

On an interesting page I was recommended just yesterday - What really happened? And one of the links: an article on Market watch.

I'll just post the "cream":
Heavy weapon systems, such as the F-22 Raptor being built by Lockheed (LMT:
Lockheed Martin Corporation (Holding Company) (Last: 112.88+0.82+0.73% 4:02pm 08/11/2008 and Boeing (BA: Boeing Co. (66.62-1.24-1.83%), along with ships, tanks and artillery, will be in higher demand as the U.S. positions itself to check the growing challenges posed by Russia and China, Nisbet wrote in an industry note.

"This fight is about 70,000 people who feel more affinity to Russia than they do for the breakaway state," Thompson said. "It's not the sort of fight that raises major issue for the U.S. and it's not in a strategic location to warrant our deeper involvement."
Though Georgia isn't a member of NATO, President Bush has lobbied for the country's inclusion along with that of Ukraine. European allies, however, have mostly opposed the effort, saying the countries aren't stable enough, but also out of concerns over Russian reaction. (source: MarketWatch, 11. 8. 2008)

And OF COURSE it has nothing to do with pipelines of any sort. Especially not the ones that would hold within them natural gas. And definitively the timing wasn't of essence, since it doesn't matter that the 900 million "project" of various American media houses and companies, the Olympics, are - just coincidentally - happening at the same time.

Zanimiva pa je tale objava na spletni strani od Dela, iz leta 2006. Pripenjam samo delček.
Delo, ned, 12.11.2006: Tbilisi - S presenetljivo večino so se volivci gruzijske pokrajine Južna Osetija na današnjem referendumu, ki ga mednarodna skupnost sicer ne priznava, opredelili za neodvisnost od Gruzije.

"Ne gre za simbolični referendum, kot ga skušajo prikazati v več zahodnih državah," poudarja predsednik Južne Osetije Edvard Kokoiti. "Ta referendum bo odgovor tistim, ki ne priznajo želje južnoosetijskega ljudstva po svobodi, in tistim, ki nam želijo vsiliti politiko dvojnih meril," je dejal pred volitvami/.../
in pa:
Referendum o neodvisnosti so tokrat v tej pokrajini izvedli že drugič. Južna Osetija je namreč že leta 1989 glasovala za združitev z rusko republiko Severna Osetija, vendar je odločitev gruzijski parlament preklical. Po razglasitvi neodvisnosti Gruzije leta 1991 so izbruhnili spopadi med južnoosetijskimi silami in gruzijsko vojsko, ki so jih ustavili z mirovnim sporazumom leta 1992.

In naj še kdo reče, da se zgodovina ne ponavlja! Bah.

And just to make it into their logs: kako smešno je, da je Gruzija ravno tako zanimivo pozicionirana ... kar tam, desno in malo nad Turčijo, Azerbajđan, ... o, lej: Iran. Hm hm hm.

NGC 6543

 

Aaaamaaaziing. NGC as in NGC and as in NGC ;) Get it? Probably not, thus a need to explain has become apparent:
NGC usually stands for National Geographic Channel. It also is a nickname we, biology students have devised for our microbiology professor, Nina G Cimerman. And now we see it is also a nebula ... And quite a lovely one, come to that.
Almost in the ranks of the Horsehead nebula and the M42 in Orion. (see links)
So long and thanks for all the fish;)

Salsa! ¿Quieres baillar conmigo?

Salsa! Ah, que bonito! (?) Salsa Caliente, Buba, Soy Cubano (in mednarodna), Palestra, Salsoteca, Salsa Libre Academia, ..., to so šole in stili, ki so vzniknili po izbruhu salse in swinga (+ swingerjev;) iz subkulturnih krogov, iz underground scene bara Lunapark in še pred tem Starega Gleja pri Poljanski cesti v LJ ... Tam se je vse začelo in tukaj lahko preberete (scroll down), kaj Elder Sanchez polaga na srce slovensklim plesalcem in salsa klubom. Zelo prav ima glede lastnikov klubov in "noč je mlada" - treba jim je pustiti več denarja ... Žal, a prav.
Heck! They even made it a festival ... not just one, mind yeh. There are now salsa festivals all over the place (EU) , all through the year. I haven't been to neither one (yet) but perhaps, with a discovery of a potential perfect dancing partner (watch Shall we Dance with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon and you'll know what I mean) perhaps that is on the verge of happening;)

Salsa salsa salsa. You just have to love the afro-american, the cuban, the LATIN dance type of songs. And I don't mean reaggaeton - don't like it that much. It shows to much to fast, it's ... sorry, but, too dirty for me. I like the suspense, the openess, the freedom of salsa, the goodheart, the sun-filled glass of mujito e caipirinha ... mhhh ;)

Fresh from the danceclub - prišel ravnokar iz Salsa club Paprike v Portorose, Portorožu .. mmm;) Super je bilo. Še kelnarca je rekla, da mi sploh ne gre slabo;))

Aja, pa: očitno je v soboto, 9. 8. 2008 zvečer, ob 20.30 Cubismo v portoroškem Avditoriju. I'm taking my mom out for dancing

Aha in tukajle je Rok, ena izmed fac, ki ga poznam že .. uh, 17 let (s presledki). Približno istočasno sva začela plesati, morda on še celo malo prej (ST in LA), nato sem pa jaz nehal (očitno on tudi), potem pa se je začel salsistično udejstvovati. Svaka čast, Rok!

HP & DH

Long time no Harry:)

Ja, na enem forumu HP Slovenija (Health Points?:) sem že oddal komentar in .. ker sem ga že tako lepo napisal (no ja) in ker sem bil ravno jaz (to pa ja), ga bom postal še tukajle. Berem komentarje, za vse, ki bi utegnili kaj poreči.
Je pa odgovor na tole kolumno, kjer je med drugim posrečeno prepisano tudi:

»You sound like Hagrid,« said Ron. »It's a dragon, Hermione, it can look
after itself. It's us we need to worry about.«
»What do you mean?«
»Well, I don't know how to break this to you,« said Ron, »but I think they
might have noticed we broke into Gringotts.«

Uh;) Kar nekaj vode je preteklo ... A naj vam naslikam eno dogajanje, ki se je odvijalo ob mojem branju in zaključevanju le-tega.
Bili smo na svetovnem skavtskem (taborniškem) jamboreeju v Essexu v Angliji, pisalo se je ... no, leto 2007, kaj pa drugega - in v vsakem izmed velikih šotorov, kjer so se dogajale stvari (ativnosti, animacije, itd.) je bila vsaj ena oseba, ki je brala HP in DH. Noro! Veste, ker hud in totalno ne-Harry je zakon!" feeling! In vsi, ki smo brali, smo brali z navdušenjem in med vsemi je stekla takojšnja, tudi nebesedna komunikacija: "Prosim, ne mi povedat nič-" "Ne bom, ker tudi nisem hotel, da bi kdo meni" "Ok"
"ok." ... "Ampak kaj pa"
"Ne, si rekel/-la, da ne smem!"
"Ja. Aja. Ok."
"Ok." ... "Ja, ampak ful je dobr!"
"Ja, sej vem! Pust me, da berem naprej!"
Tako nekako;)

Osebno ... po enem letu, da, skoraj natanko enem letu, mi je knjiga ostala v svojih najbolj svetlih trenutkih: čakanju, da se zgodba "začne", navdušenje nad prizorom' v Gringottsu, The Final Battle al kaj je že, iskanje Horcruxev ... vse to.
Pa še malo o temah, ki jih je izpostavila avtorica - meni je bil tudi konec všeč. Kajti vsaka knjiga je bila narejena tako, da te je pustila malo, vsaj malo v pričakovanju naslednje. Če ne bi JK vsaj nastavila možnosti nekega nadaljevanja ali vsaj vzporedne zgodbe (čeprav menim, da ni tega hotela), je to slabo trženje.
A o trženju pri njej res ne moremo več govoriti. JK je želela končati zgodbo in potešiti še tako naivne/radovedne, zagamane bralce - hotela je zaokrožiti pripoved. In kako to bolje storiti kakor na način, kot se je vedno začenjala knjiga? 9 3/4.
Tonks in Lupin ... Saj je bilo za pričakovati, da bo veliko smrti. "Ampak oba?" Menim, da je spet ena huda pisateljska/zdravorazumska finta: po tem, ko sta sedem knjig "iskala" en drugega in počasi "coming together", s tem, ko cela polovica knjige (?) prikaže, kako je imel Remus "an issue", pa ga je Tonks vseeno hotla ... bi bilo totalno nekonsist- ma ne, bilo bi nefer, da bi SAMO en izmed njiju umrl. Morala sta oba. Saj se njuna kri itak nadaljuje. (Yeah, like that'll help us, right?)
George? (Or was it Fred?) ... Če imaš dva ... identična ... lahko enega izgubiš, tako taktično razmišljanje pač. Charlie je že dolgo neodvisen in sploh ni toliko v zgodbi (preko vseh sedmih knjig), Bill je pa pač prevelik car, s Percyjem so se pa itak komi pobotali, pa je bilo joka že na to temo dovolj. Fotru je že Nagini stregla po življenju, ... Rona ni treba, Molly je tudi že stalno z živci na koncu, ... Fred je bil 'odlična' izbira.
Raws ... za zgodbo (ah, the Sacred Story, right? Ja, sej vem, preveč jo povzdigujem - ampak men je tako huda!!!) je skoraj moral biti dober. Začetek šestke je odločil o D-jevi smrti, ampak da bo potem bežal na tak način in vse ostalo ... pa nisem predvideval. Na koncu je bil prav bogi, nesrečno zaljubljeni stric Severus.
Ma, totalno super knjiga in ena najboljših v mojem življenju. Škoda je za vse, ki so zaradi TOP SHOPA in tečnih reklam na začetku Potter-manije dobili odpor do "all things Leaky" in nočejo in nočejo odpret in prebrat.

Aja, pa - am I the only one who can't wait for the third parts of Cornelia Funke - the Inkspell (II.) oz. Inkdeath al kuko že in pa C. Paolinijev Third book of the Heritage Trilogy pridejo ven?!!!!! ;)))

Kloniranje ljubljenckov

Očitno ljubezen do ljubljenčkov ne pozna niti smrti več. Berite priložene povezave oz. google it.
Zanimivo pa je, kako različni viri predstavljajo neko novico: npr. ameriški timesONline se je odločil z nami prijazno deliti CELOTNO zgodbo (vsaj tako zgleda, nisem bral) O Napadu in Rešitvi, tele tete Ms McKinney, ki je bila očitno nekoč tudi lepotna zmagovalka ... em, pardon - zmagovalka lepotnega tekmovanja.

Tale vir, na BBC-jevi strani od RSS feeda uspe biti bolj nevtralen in tudi pove enega ključnih stavkov in misli, ki pa jo je - vsaj dozdevno - veliki The Times "kar" spregledal:

the best way Dr Lee explained it is we can give him his body, you are going to give him the love and environment to recreate the original Booger's personality."
Professor Lee Byeong-chun, who was part of the team that created the world's first cloned dog - Snuppy the Afghan hound - in 2005. (google search)

No, tale dohtar se mi je ravnokar odkupil.

In v razmislek (ipak je že pozna ura, jutri pa delam): izraz segregacija in diskriminacija bo postal očitno še očitnejši (I just love me;) - a najprej ljubljenčki, then the world, Binky! Ne, a resno: naročite si otroka, z genskim inženiringom, z toliko in toliko IQ-ja, lasmi, "tan-om", muskulturo, itd. Super. Vzgojite ga. Kul (ja, valda). In čez 10, 5 let imate spet keš za novega. Ampak ... trg je "napredoval": zdaj lahko za isti dnar dobite dvakrat pametnejšega, dvakrat bolj atletskega, lepšega, super-otroka. Kul? In če bi bili vi tisti prvi otrok, sedaj vedoč, da ste bili kupljeni in da je vaš brat nova verzija windowsev oz. Linuxa?!!! Halooo? Am I the only one who's bothered by this?! (Stvar je nekako povzeta po dokumentarnem filmu Life running out of control, o GSO-jih. Glejte.) (Mind you, there's a Slovenian version as well.)

Za tiste, ki vas živi svet dejansko zanima, pa še tale, morda zanimiva, a morda tudi spregledana novička:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A U.S. scientist said Sunday he has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically stretching less than 4 inches (10 centimeters) long. Vir.