<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:03:01.614-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Están locos estos Americanos</title><subtitle type='html'>Comentarios sobre algunas de las cosas curiosas que ocurren en Estados Unidos (y en el resto del mundo...)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>67</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-9191358677585718421</id><published>2008-01-20T20:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T20:52:31.762-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Libertad de Culto en USA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chronologyproject.com/thor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://www.chronologyproject.com/thor.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;USA es uno de los países más tolerantes en lo relativo a la libertad de culto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hay de todo: cristianos de varios tipos, musulmanes, judíos, etc. Pero parece que este tío ha llegado al límite: en la cárcel en la que está preso &lt;a href="http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=215f7e5c-06ce-4aff-ad36-585258570744"&gt;no le dejan realizar los rituales propios de su religión&lt;/a&gt;. En concreto, no le permiten tener uno de los elementos básicos para el ritual: el martillo de Thor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;An inmate is suing the Utah Department of Corrections for denying him his right to practice an ancient Nordic religion while behind bars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Polk is serving time for aggravated assault and robbery. He filed a lawsuit against corrections officials in federal court, accusing them of denying him religious items that he says are necessary to practice the Asatru religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The religion worships ancient Nordic gods like Odin, Thor, Tyr and Heimdal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the lawsuit, Polk says he has been a member of the Asatru faith since 2005, and in order to properly practice it he needs items including: a Thor's Hammer, a prayer cloth, a Mead Horn used for drinking Wassail, a drum made of wood and boar skin, a rune staff and a sword. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es que no le dejan ni la espada...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-9191358677585718421?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/9191358677585718421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=9191358677585718421' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/9191358677585718421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/9191358677585718421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2008/01/libertad-de-culto-en-usa.html' title='Libertad de Culto en USA'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-6065173418384415981</id><published>2008-01-12T12:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T12:25:02.206-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Duendes en el CES</title><content type='html'>Durante la semana pasada todo el mundo en la industria de la electrónica estaba en el CES (Consumer Electronics Show) en Las Vegas. Yo también.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CES normalmente es bastante aburrido, pero este año había "duendes" paseandose por el Centro de Convenciones, apagando pantallas de TV. Las "demos" eran más emocionantes, ya que nunca sabías si ibas a llegar al final con la pantalla encendida... :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="373"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICpM3ItIhI0&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICpM3ItIhI0&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-6065173418384415981?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/6065173418384415981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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type='text'>No pongas la XBOX360 al revés</title><content type='html'>El mensaje del anuncio está claro: jugar a la XBOX360 con la consola puesta del revés, con el cable desconectado y bebiendo patatas fritas y soda sin marca, provoca diabetes, enfermedades del corazón y obesidad. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gaming/upside+down-xbox-360-sofas-kill-fat-children-328771.php"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/R1Gs8X0yjOI/AAAAAAAAABk/0JGnxgMNVIg/s400/killer_sofa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139078802994007266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(O a lo mejor es que el chaval se ha vuelto tan vago que ya no es ni capaz de levantarse del sofá para conectar los cables de la XBOX...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puede parecer un rollo al principio, pero es un clip humorístico...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-9139799240721815956?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/9139799240721815956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=9139799240721815956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/9139799240721815956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/9139799240721815956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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title='Thanksgiving'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-7811284299789325502</id><published>2007-11-20T20:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T20:13:22.414-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Listillo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/R0OwTzhL8eI/AAAAAAAAABc/gQrVNgYcZBc/s1600-h/Dont_reinvent_the_wheel-large.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/R0OwTzhL8eI/AAAAAAAAABc/gQrVNgYcZBc/s400/Dont_reinvent_the_wheel-large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135141854425903586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-7811284299789325502?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/7811284299789325502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=7811284299789325502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7811284299789325502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7811284299789325502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/11/listillo.html' title='Listillo'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/R0OwTzhL8eI/AAAAAAAAABc/gQrVNgYcZBc/s72-c/Dont_reinvent_the_wheel-large.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-3463021796291610877</id><published>2007-08-14T17:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T17:11:02.408-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El coste de vivir en el Silicon Valley</title><content type='html'>Estos días hemos estado buscando una nueva casa en Los Gatos, ya que el apartamento que teníamos alquilado desde el 2005 lo dejamos en Mayo. Los precios, en general, son de escándalo, sobre todo comparados con los costes de España.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/technology/05rich.html?em&amp;ex=1187236800&amp;amp;en=63fd64efed9eb978&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;Este artículo del NYT explica por qué&lt;/a&gt;: la "mediana" de precio de una casa en el Silicon Valley es $788.000, casi 4 veces más alto que la mediana en el resto de EEUU ($212.300).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RsJCnNEwPlI/AAAAAAAAABU/b8cGEN3KPeA/s1600-h/cost-of-living.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098710969428754002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RsJCnNEwPlI/AAAAAAAAABU/b8cGEN3KPeA/s400/cost-of-living.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El coste de la vida es tan alto en el Silicon Valley, que muchos "millonarios" (en millones de dólares) se ven obligados a seguir trabajando 60-70 horas semanales para afrontar el ritmo de vida de sus vecinos (coches, casas, colegios, club de golf, etc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million. The $1.3 million house he and his wife own on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean is paid off. The couple’s net worth of roughly &lt;strong&gt;$3.5 million&lt;/strong&gt; places them in the top 2 percent of families in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet each day Mr. Steger continues to toil in what a colleague calls “the Silicon Valley salt mines,” working as a marketing executive for a technology start-up company, still striving for his big strike. Most mornings, he can be found at his desk by 7. &lt;strong&gt;He typically works 12 hours a day and logs an extra 10 hours over the weekend&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-3463021796291610877?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/3463021796291610877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=3463021796291610877' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/3463021796291610877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/3463021796291610877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/08/el-coste-de-vivir-en-el-silicon-valley.html' title='El coste de vivir en el Silicon Valley'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RsJCnNEwPlI/AAAAAAAAABU/b8cGEN3KPeA/s72-c/cost-of-living.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-7848258618833303443</id><published>2007-08-10T14:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-10T14:46:12.537-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El "making of" de uno de los programas más usados</title><content type='html'>Solo para geeks...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El "making of" de una de las aplicaciones más utilizadas del mundo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hxx2KcPWWZg"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hxx2KcPWWZg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-7848258618833303443?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/7848258618833303443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=7848258618833303443' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7848258618833303443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7848258618833303443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/08/el-making-of-de-uno-de-los-programas-ms.html' title='El &quot;making of&quot; de uno de los programas más usados'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-1270328209502380599</id><published>2007-08-08T23:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-08T23:19:47.025-07:00</updated><title type='text'>pipi y caca</title><content type='html'>Para aquellos que tengan niños que aun no sepan ir solitos al cuarto de baño...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QFVoLz88hiU"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QFVoLz88hiU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-1270328209502380599?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/1270328209502380599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=1270328209502380599' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/1270328209502380599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/1270328209502380599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/08/pipi-y-caca.html' title='pipi y caca'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-1447594349985401751</id><published>2007-06-29T14:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T14:21:20.901-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gente haciendo cola en la calle...</title><content type='html'>...para &lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/5th-ave-update/11-hours-remain-for-manhattan-campers-273521.php"&gt;comprar un iPhone&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/06/5th-ave-start2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/06/5th-ave-start2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-1447594349985401751?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/1447594349985401751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=1447594349985401751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/1447594349985401751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/1447594349985401751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/06/gente-haciendo-cola-en-la-calle.html' title='Gente haciendo cola en la calle...'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-7455804205196708975</id><published>2007-06-24T13:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-24T13:44:50.790-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Teoría de Colas</title><content type='html'>En segundo curso de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación había una asignatura que no me acuerdo muy bien como se llamaba ("Redes de Comunicaciones" o algo así) que impartía un profesor que se llamaba &lt;a href="http://personales.upv.es/~jmartine/"&gt;Jorge Martínez&lt;/a&gt;. El profesor no era muy bueno (siempre salía mal parado en las encuestas entre los alumnos), y encima nos hacía comprar un libro que había plagiado de &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Queueing-Systems-Leonard-Kleinrock/dp/0471491101/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2862916-9620012?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1182716192&amp;sr=8-1"&gt;Leonard Kleinrock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Por qué esta introducción?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porque aunque, como digo, el profesor no era muy bueno, estudiar esa asignatura hizo que no se me olvidaran nunca los principios básicos de "teoría de colas" (de eso iba el libro de Kleinrock). Como, por ejemplo, que el tiempo medio de espera en un sistema con N servidores con 1 cola común es menor que si el sistema tiene N colas (una para cada servidor).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.mit.edu/urban_or_book/www/book/chapter4/images/fig4.18.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://web.mit.edu/urban_or_book/www/book/chapter4/images/fig4.18.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este principio lo recuerdo cada vez que hago cola en un supermercado, cada vez que facturo en un aeropuerto español o cada vez que paso por la aduana en USA o en España, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, pues después de todos estos años, la gente sigue re-descubriendo este principio "por si misma", y algunos incluso consiguen que &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23checkout.html?em&amp;amp;amp;ex=1182830400&amp;en=aa33f4df01f28aff&amp;amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;los mencionen en el NYT&lt;/a&gt;. Es el caso de la cadena de supermercados norteamericana "Whole Foods", que está implantando el innovador sistema de "N servidores y 1 cola única" en una tienda de NY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...] But now a relative newcomer to Manhattan is trying to teach the locals a new rule of living: the longer the line, the shorter the wait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For its first stores here, Whole Foods, the gourmet supermarket, directs customers to form serpentine single lines that feed into a passel of cash registers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banks have used a similar system for decades. But supermarkets, fearing a long line will scare off shoppers, have generally favored the one-line-per-register system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By 7 p.m. on a weeknight, the lines at each of the four Whole Foods stores in Manhattan can be 50 deep, but they zip along faster than most lines with 10 shoppers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because people stand in the same line, waiting for a register to become available, there are no “slow” lines, delayed by a coupon-counting customer or languid cashier. And since Whole Foods charges premium prices for its organic fare, it can afford to staff dozens of registers, making the line move even faster.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parece evidente que una cola única es más eficiente, ¿no? Pues parece que a los de Whole Foods les costó meses descubrirlo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Whole Foods executives &lt;strong&gt;spent months drawing up designs for a new line system&lt;/strong&gt; in New York that would be unlike anything in their suburban stores, where shoppers form one line in front of each register.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-7455804205196708975?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/7455804205196708975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=7455804205196708975' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7455804205196708975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7455804205196708975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/06/en-segundo-curso-de-ingeniera-de.html' title='Teoría de Colas'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-5446752054650910014</id><published>2007-06-22T09:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-22T09:46:58.556-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Los mayores son más listos</title><content type='html'>Yo llevaba años sospechándolo, pero parece que se ha confirmado: los hermanos mayores son más listos que los pequeños. &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/science/21cnd-sibling.html?em&amp;ex=1182657600&amp;amp;en=a4b176c013212f41&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;Lo dice el NYT&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The eldest children in families tend to develop slightly higher I.Q.s than their younger siblings, researchers are reporting, based on a large study that could effectively settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-5446752054650910014?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/5446752054650910014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=5446752054650910014' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5446752054650910014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5446752054650910014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/06/los-mayores-son-ms-listos.html' title='Los mayores son más listos'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-8288034961927755899</id><published>2007-06-21T06:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T06:17:31.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Los de Google Maps son unos graciosillos</title><content type='html'>Hoy estaba intentando averiguar la distancia entre un hotel en Madrid y el aeropuerto de Barajas en Google Maps. Al poner "Madrid Airport" (sin especificar "Spain"), Google Maps ha buscado algo que contuviera la palabra Madrid y que estuviera en USA. Por motivos que desconozco, el sitio más parecido es "Madrid Dr, Universal City, TX 78148".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero lo mejor de todo es que Google Maps me sugiere el mejor camino para llegar hasta el hotel de Madrid. Pincha en la imagen y fíjate en el paso 24 del trayecto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rnp6EH1CqOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/6nojrfMPqfg/s1600-h/tx-to-madrid.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078505741053241570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rnp6EH1CqOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/6nojrfMPqfg/s400/tx-to-madrid.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-8288034961927755899?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/8288034961927755899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=8288034961927755899' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/8288034961927755899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/8288034961927755899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/06/los-de-google-maps-son-unos.html' title='Los de Google Maps son unos graciosillos'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rnp6EH1CqOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/6nojrfMPqfg/s72-c/tx-to-madrid.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-5317993312353053568</id><published>2007-05-28T17:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T17:34:28.658-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirk Cameron</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://slantmouth.com/articles/wayOfTheBastard/images/kirk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://slantmouth.com/articles/wayOfTheBastard/images/kirk.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os acordais de Kirk Cameron, el de "Los problemas crecen"? Bueno, pues ya no se dedica a hacer series de televisión para adolescentes. Ahora sale como experto en "teología" en Fox News, el canal de TV conservador en USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí, usando el convincente argumento del "Croco-duck" (alrededor del minuto 2:00) para demostrar que la teoría de la evolución de Darwin es falsa:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oQHCVaYNr9c"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oQHCVaYNr9c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y por si no resulta convincente, aquí sale en un vídeo junto con otro "experto" que utiliza el argumento más demoledor contra Darwin, el del plátano:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2z-OLG0KyR4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2z-OLG0KyR4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os imaginais algo así en un programa de TV en Europa?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-5317993312353053568?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/5317993312353053568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=5317993312353053568' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5317993312353053568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5317993312353053568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/05/kirk-cameron.html' title='Kirk Cameron'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-6057639448097092673</id><published>2007-05-27T15:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-27T15:48:56.145-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El sistema sanitario en USA</title><content type='html'>Michael Moore acaba de sacar una película en la que critica el sistema sanitario en USA y lo compara con el de Cuba, que parece que sale mejor parado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el NYT intentan averiguar si es verdad que la gente goza de mejor salud (en concreto, mejor esperanza de vida y menor índice de mortalidad infantil) en Cuba que en USA, y uno de los expertos consultados &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/weekinreview/27depalma.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;llega a la siguiente conclusión&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Dr. Butler said some of Cuba’s shortcomings may actually improve its health profile. “Because they don’t have up-to-date cars, they tend to have to exercise more by walking,” he said. “And they may not have a surfeit of food, which keeps them from problems like obesity, but they’re not starving, either.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sea, como no tienen coches, hacen más ejercicio. Y como no les sobra la comida, no tienen problemas de obesidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así, claro, no me extraña que estén más sanos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mientras tanto, en USA, los índices de mortalidad infantial no solo no se acercan a los de Cuba, sino que suben, &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/health/22infant.html?ex=1180411200&amp;en=922214c120b9c755&amp;ei=5070"&gt;especialmente entre la población negra en estados del sur como Mississippi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;In Mississippi, infant deaths among blacks rose to 17 per thousand births in 2005 from 14.2 per thousand in 2004, while those among whites rose to 6.6 per thousand from 6.1. (The national average in 2003 was 5.7 for whites and 14.0 for blacks.)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es decir, que un niño negro en USA tiene casi el triple de probabilidades de morir antes de cumplir un año que uno blanco (y más le vale no vivir en un estado del sur...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-6057639448097092673?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/6057639448097092673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=6057639448097092673' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/6057639448097092673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/6057639448097092673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/05/el-sistema-sanitario-en-usa.html' title='El sistema sanitario en USA'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-8730743853767539160</id><published>2007-05-05T22:16:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T22:16:29.780-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tivo</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uDb6UefP32M"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uDb6UefP32M" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-8730743853767539160?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/8730743853767539160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=8730743853767539160' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/8730743853767539160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/8730743853767539160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/05/tivo.html' title='Tivo'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-2760475143986221206</id><published>2007-04-14T00:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T00:09:36.759-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dinero y altura</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RiB9xNGQCzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FAJq6IMt6O4/s1600-h/tall%26short.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053177066192636722" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RiB9xNGQCzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FAJq6IMt6O4/s200/tall%26short.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la hora de conseguir pareja en un servicio de contactos on-line, importa mucho ser alto o bajito? Según &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/science/10tier.html?em&amp;ex=1176436800&amp;amp;amp;en=28ef7d8932a90b31&amp;amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;este estudio &lt;/a&gt;publicado en el NYT, da lo mismo medir 1.72 (5 pies y 8 pulgadas) que 1.82 (6 pies), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;siempre y cuando el que mide 1.72 gane $146.000 al año más que el de 1.82&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;They found that a 5-foot-8 man was just as successful in getting dates as a 6-footer if he made more money — precisely $146,000 a year more. For a 5-foot-2 man, the number was $277,000. [For more of these trade-offs, see &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;nytimes.com/tierneylab&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;.]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-2760475143986221206?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/2760475143986221206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=2760475143986221206' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/2760475143986221206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/2760475143986221206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/04/dinero-y-altura.html' title='Dinero y altura'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RiB9xNGQCzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FAJq6IMt6O4/s72-c/tall%26short.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-4139592974970784421</id><published>2007-04-11T23:18:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T23:18:49.757-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Salir del armario</title><content type='html'>Un chaval "sale del armario" y su madre no se lo toma muy bien...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P8Aq00yJSxo"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P8Aq00yJSxo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-4139592974970784421?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/4139592974970784421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=4139592974970784421' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/4139592974970784421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/4139592974970784421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/04/salir-del-armario.html' title='Salir del armario'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-2830192758011263886</id><published>2007-04-07T23:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T00:03:15.460-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Matrimonio Gay</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RhiTbETRnNI/AAAAAAAAAAc/wp0OYOB-Ep0/s1600-h/Mickey+Mouse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050949075316350162" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RhiTbETRnNI/AAAAAAAAAAc/wp0OYOB-Ep0/s200/Mickey+Mouse.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;En la lucha por el reconocimiento social de los matrimonios entre personas del mismo sexo se han ganado muchas batallas (legalización en España, Bélgica, Holanda, Canadá y Sudáfrica), pero ninguna tan importante como esta: &lt;a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&amp;storyid=2007-04-05T231045Z_01_N05453609_RTRUKOC_0_US-DISNEY-GAYWEDDING.xml&amp;amp;src=rss&amp;amp;rpc=22"&gt;Disneyland&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The Walt Disney Co. has changed its policy to allow same-sex couples to participate in a popular Fairy Tale Wedding program it runs mainly at its two U.S. resorts and cruise line, a Disney spokesman said on Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;"We are updating our Fairy Tale Wedding guidelines to include commitment ceremonies," Disney Parks and Resorts spokesman Donn Walker said. "This is consistent with our policy of creating a welcoming, respectful and inclusive environment for all of our guests." &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con la nueva política adoptada por la compañía Disney, ya cualquiera puede casarse en la carroza de Cenicienta, con trompetas y todo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The Lavish Wedding Option also includes a ride to the ceremony in the Cinderella coach, costumed trumpeters heralding the couple's arrival, and attendance by Mickey and Minnie Mouse characters dressed in formal attire.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-2830192758011263886?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/2830192758011263886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=2830192758011263886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/2830192758011263886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/2830192758011263886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/04/matrimonio-gay.html' title='Matrimonio Gay'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RhiTbETRnNI/AAAAAAAAAAc/wp0OYOB-Ep0/s72-c/Mickey+Mouse.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-4631383748655316033</id><published>2007-03-30T23:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-31T00:04:13.391-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dame un "C", dame una "H"....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rg4FNfuGcEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rWdv0Ajf8to/s1600-h/CaplinCheer19.650.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rg4FNfuGcEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rWdv0Ajf8to/s400/CaplinCheer19.650.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047977961740202050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viendo algunas de las pelis de "high-school" americanas que ponen en España, podría uno pensar que esto de ser cheerleader del equipo del instituto es una inocente actividad para las chicas que quieren ser "populares" entre sus compañeros de clase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pues parece que lo de ser cheerleader &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/sports/31cnd-cheerleader.html?em&amp;ex=1175486400&amp;amp;amp;en=e7dbb85b72aedbd9&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;tiene sus riesgos&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;But today’s young cheerleaders, who perform tricks once reserved for trapeze artists, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;may be in more peril than any female athletes in the country&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Of 104 catastrophic injuries sustained by female high school and college athletes from 1982 to 2005 — head and spinal trauma that occasionally led to death — more than half resulted from cheerleading&lt;/span&gt;, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. All sports combined did not surpass cheerleading.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sea, que más de la mitad de accidentes mortales en chicas de instituto ocurrieron mientras practicaban "cheerleading".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-4631383748655316033?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/4631383748655316033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=4631383748655316033' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/4631383748655316033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/4631383748655316033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/03/dame-un-c-dame-una-h.html' title='Dame un &quot;C&quot;, dame una &quot;H&quot;....'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rg4FNfuGcEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rWdv0Ajf8to/s72-c/CaplinCheer19.650.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-425090967487398734</id><published>2007-03-27T23:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T23:38:11.268-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hold Your Wee for a Wii</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RgoNCvuGcDI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jwWyePoHl2E/s1600-h/pic.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046860673242787890" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RgoNCvuGcDI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jwWyePoHl2E/s320/pic.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al principio no me creí esta noticia cuando me la contó M., pero &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/"&gt;parece que es verdad&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Strange, 28, &lt;strong&gt;was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii”&lt;/strong&gt; contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hay muchas maneras tristes de irse al otro barrio, pero morirse aguantándose el pis para ganar una Nintendo Wii tiene que ser una de las más tristes...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-425090967487398734?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/425090967487398734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=425090967487398734' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/425090967487398734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/425090967487398734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/03/hold-your-wee-for-wii.html' title='Hold Your Wee for a Wii'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RgoNCvuGcDI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jwWyePoHl2E/s72-c/pic.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-6654100242182091894</id><published>2007-03-24T23:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-24T23:53:14.589-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Guarderías en Manhattan</title><content type='html'>En EEUU, los padres modernos solo tienen una preocupación: cómo asegurarse de que sus hijos pueden entrar en las mejores universidades (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc). La teoría dice que para poder entrar en una buena universidad, tienes que haber asistido a una buena "High School". Y para entrar en esa buena "High School", tienes que haber asistido a una buena "Middle School", y así sucesivamente...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La conclusión es que o consigues que tu hijo entre en una buena guardería, o estará predestinado a un mal colegio, mala universidad y mal trabajo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un ejemplo: según &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=aHSG4LwJOFnI&amp;amp;refer=home"&gt;este artículo en Bloomberg&lt;/a&gt;, ya es más difícil ser admitido en algunas guarderías de Manhattan que en Harvard:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;That can be devastating for parents in Manhattan, where an average of 15 applicants vie for every spot in about 200 preschools, Uhry said. According to its Web site, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received 22,754 applications for the freshman class entering in last fall and admitted 2,124 -- 11 applications per admission.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Es decir: una de cada 11 solicitudes en Harvard es aceptada. En las guarderías "pijas" de Manhattan, solo una de cada 15.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En las universidades americanas normalmente tienes que escribir un ensayo contando tu vida, por qué deberían admitirte, etc. En estas guarderías también, solo que el ensayo lo tienen que escribir los padres de los niños de 2 años:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;...painstakingly crafted essays on how a stranger would describe the boy...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-6654100242182091894?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/6654100242182091894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=6654100242182091894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/6654100242182091894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/6654100242182091894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/03/guarderas-en-manhattan.html' title='Guarderías en Manhattan'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-117125634238885068</id><published>2007-02-11T20:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T23:19:59.516-08:00</updated><title type='text'>iPhone</title><content type='html'>En estos momentos, el "gadget" de moda en USA es el iPhone. Parece que hace de todo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1xXNoB3t8vM"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1xXNoB3t8vM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-117125634238885068?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/117125634238885068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=117125634238885068' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/117125634238885068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/117125634238885068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/02/iphone.html' title='iPhone'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-117064831749189175</id><published>2007-02-04T19:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-04T20:05:17.503-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rayos X</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.latimes.com/media/graphic/2006-12/26967935.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.latimes.com/media/graphic/2006-12/26967935.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cuando uno ha viajado mucho en avión, pues es normal que pase por los controles de seguridad de manera casi inconsciente y ponga en las bandejas de las máquinas de Rayos X todo lo que lleve encima: el ordenador portátil, los zapatos, monedas, cinturon, un bebé de un mes, etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baby20dec20,0,6460373.story"&gt;Según esta noticia&lt;/a&gt;, parece que no todo el mundo está de acuerdo en que los bebés deben pasar por los Rayos X, a la abuela de un bebé le echaron una pequeña bronca en el aeropuerto de Los Angeles por someter a su nieto a un poquito de radiación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The early Saturday accident — bizarre but not unprecedented — caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A screener watching the machine's monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward on the conveyor belt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo más interesante de la noticia es descubrir que, al hacer un vuelo de un lado a otro de EEUU, un pasajero recibe aproximadamente la mitad de la radión de una prueba de rayos X en el pecho.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-117064831749189175?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/117064831749189175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=117064831749189175' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/117064831749189175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/117064831749189175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/02/rayos-x.html' title='Rayos X'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116665111169565014</id><published>2006-12-20T13:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-20T13:45:11.716-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bebés e impuestos</title><content type='html'>El gobierno estadounidense da un descuento en los impuestos de $1000 por hijo. El pequeño detalle es que si tienes el hijo el 31 de diciembre de 2006, recibes los $1000 correspondientes al año 2006, mientras que si tienes el hijo el 1 de enero del 2007, pierdes el dinero del 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parece ser que esto tiene un efecto secundario (que cualquier economista podría haber previsto): algunas personas le piden a sus ginecólogos &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/business/20leonhardt.html?em&amp;ex=1166763600&amp;amp;en=304093b593451b1e&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;que les adelanten los partos para asegurarse de que cobran el dinero&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Unless you’re a cynic, or an economist, I realize you might have trouble believing that the intricacies of the nation’s tax code would impinge on something as sacred as the birth of a child. But it appears that you would be wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the last decade, September has lost its unchallenged status as the time for what we will call National Birth Day, the day with more births than any other. Instead, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;the big day fell between Christmas and New Year’s Day in four of the last seven years&lt;/span&gt; — 1997 through 2003 — for which the government has released birth statistics. (The day was in September during the other years; conception still matters.) Based on this year’s calendar, there is a good chance that National Birth Day will take place a week from tomorrow, on Thursday, Dec. 28.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By my calculations, about 5,000 babies, of the 70,000 or so who would otherwise be born during the first week in January, may have their arrival dates accelerated partly for tax reasons.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es decir: que en los últimos años, el periodo en el que más niños nacen es entre Navidad y Año Nuevo, lo cual es consistente con la hipótesis de que la gente lo hace motivada por el ahorro de impuestos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116665111169565014?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116665111169565014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116665111169565014' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116665111169565014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116665111169565014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/12/bebs-e-impuestos.html' title='Bebés e impuestos'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116509444165347868</id><published>2006-12-02T13:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-02T13:20:41.676-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sobrepeso y nivel económico</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1985/2631/1600/81308/02money.graphic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1985/2631/320/356468/02money.graphic.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/business/02money.html?em&amp;ex=1165208400&amp;en=2f92375d568c1ec8&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;Aquí hay un artículo interesante&lt;/a&gt; sobre la correlación entre el sobrepeso de los ciudadanos estadounidenses y su nivel de ingresos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Heavy people do not spend more than normal-size people on food, but their life insurance premiums are two to four times as large. They can expect higher medical expenses, and they tend to make less money and accumulate less wealth in their shortened lifetimes. They can have a harder time being hired, and then a harder time winning plum assignments and promotions.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es decir, las personas con sobrepeso no solo tienen costes de seguro médico entre 2 y 4 veces más altos que el resto, sino que también ganan menos dinero, ahorran menos dinero durante su vida (que es más corta) y además tienen más problemas para ser contratados y para conseguir promociones en sus empleos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1985/2631/1600/34138/s-p1030800.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1985/2631/320/517038/s-p1030800.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otro análisis interesante:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;This year, two nutritional scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rachel N. Close and Dale A. Schoeller, took a unique twist on the calculations to determine what “supersizing” a fast-food meal costs society. Paying 67 cents to supersize an order — 73 percent more calories for 17 percent more money — adds an average of 36 grams of adipose tissue. The future medical costs for that bargain would be $6.64 for an obese man and $3.46 for an obese woman. “The hidden financial costs associated with weight gain from upsizing a value meal may help convince people it is not a bargain,” Mr. Schoeller said.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es decir, cada vez que se pide una hamburguesa "supersize" en vez una normal en un establecimiento de comida rápida, los gastos médicos esperados se incrementan en $6.64 para un hombre obeso y $3.46 para una mujar obesa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116509444165347868?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116509444165347868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116509444165347868' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116509444165347868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116509444165347868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/12/sobrepeso-y-nivel-econmico.html' title='Sobrepeso y nivel económico'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116432523312214351</id><published>2006-11-23T15:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-23T23:16:57.116-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Musulmanes en Aviones</title><content type='html'>Últimamente, en los aeropuertos norteamericanos, no es buena idea "parecer musulmán".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si no puedes evitar "parecer musulman", por lo menos no te pongas a rezar antes del vuelo, ya que el resto de pasajeros se pueden asustar y puedes acabar expulsado del vuelo y detenido por la policía.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/us/22muslim.html"&gt;Eso es lo que les ha pasado a 6 imanes&lt;/a&gt; que volvían de un congreso en Minneapolis. A un pasajero no le hizo gracia que se pusieran a invocar a Alá, y alertó a la tripulación con esta nota:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1985/2631/1600/995015/22muslim_lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1985/2631/400/168278/22muslim_lg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En un país normal, todo el mundo se escandalizaría y criticaría a la aerolínea (US Airways). Pero EEUU es un pais "especial", y algunos comentaristas aplauden la decisión. Es el caso de &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20061123/cm_ucac/whatcanidotomakeyourflightmoreuncomfortable"&gt;Ann Coulter&lt;/a&gt; (que es la versión norteamericana de Federico Jiménez Losantos):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea that a Muslim boycott against US Airways would hurt the airline proves that Arabs are utterly tone-deaf. This is roughly the equivalent of Cindy Sheehan taking a vow of silence. How can we hope to deal with people with no sense of irony? The next thing you know, New York City cab drivers will be threatening to bathe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come to think of it, the whole affair may have been a madcap advertising scheme cooked up by US Airways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It worked with me. US Airways is my official airline now. Northwest, which eventually flew the Allah-spouting Muslims to their destinations, is off my list. You want to really hurt a U.S. air carrier's business? Have Muslims announce that it's their favorite airline.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que resumido, y en español, sería algo así como:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Seis imanes piden al resto de musulmanes que boicoteen a US Airways. Si consiguieramos que todos los musulmanes boicotearan a todas las aerolíneas, ya no harían falta medidas de seguridad en los aeropuertos.&lt;br /&gt;Que los musulmanes amenacen con no volar es como que los taxistas de NY amanazaran con bañarse.&lt;br /&gt;Quizá es una campaña de marketing de US Airways, para que más pasajeros vuelen con ellos, una vez que sepan que los musulmanes la boicotean. Según Ann Coulter, con ella ha funcionado: US airways es su nueva aerolínea favorita.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116432523312214351?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116432523312214351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116432523312214351' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116432523312214351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116432523312214351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/11/musulmanes-en-aviones.html' title='Musulmanes en Aviones'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116431362000024841</id><published>2006-11-23T12:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-23T12:27:00.013-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Más televisores que personas</title><content type='html'>Según &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/opinion/22moranis.html?em&amp;ex=1164430800&amp;amp;amp;en=8085c748075081e4&amp;amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;un informe de Nielsen Media research citado en NYT&lt;/a&gt;, el hogar americano medio tiene más televisores (2.73) que personas (2.55):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The average American home now has more television sets than people ... according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El autor del artículo en NYT, Rick Moranis (famoso por su papel en "Cariño, he encogido a los niños") da su versión personal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I HAVE two kids. Both are away at college.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have five television sets. (I like to think of them as a set of five televisions.) I have two DVR boxes, three DVD players, two VHS machines and four stereos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have nineteen remote controls, mostly in one drawer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have three computers, four printers and two non-working faxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have three phone lines, three cell phones and two answering machines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no messages. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116431362000024841?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116431362000024841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116431362000024841' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116431362000024841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116431362000024841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/11/ms-televisores-que-personas.html' title='Más televisores que personas'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116339394117032114</id><published>2006-11-12T20:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-12T20:59:01.433-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Richard Dawkins en South Park</title><content type='html'>Como ya he comentado alguna vez en este blog, muchos colegios americanos tienen "problemas" a la hora de enseñar la teoría de la evolución de Darwin a los niños...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí tenemos la versión de Mr. Garrison (o Mrs. Garrison, tras su operación de cambio de sexo), el profesor de &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_park"&gt;South Park&lt;/a&gt;, con una aparición especial de Richard Dawkins:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2qeDWr--ZZ0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2qeDWr--ZZ0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y aquí los subtítulos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It goes something like this...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the beginning we were all fish, okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day, a couple of fish had a retard baby and the retard baby was different so, it got to leave. So retard fish goes on to make more retard babies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then, one day a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with it's "mutant fish hands," and it had buttsex with a squirrel or something, and made this, retard frog-squirrel. And then, that had a retard baby which was a monkey-fish-frog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then this monkey-fish-frog had buttsex with that monkey and that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey, and that made you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there you go. You're the retarded offspring of 5 monkeys having buttsex with a fish-squirrel, congratulations!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116339394117032114?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116339394117032114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116339394117032114' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116339394117032114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116339394117032114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/11/richard-dawkins-en-south-park.html' title='Richard Dawkins en South Park'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116328679379242677</id><published>2006-11-11T14:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-11T15:14:02.090-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Más curiosidades sobre el sistema electoral en EEUU</title><content type='html'>Como comentaba hace unos días, los partidos políticos en EEUU tienen muy clara la composición demográfica de cada zona, y son capaces de predecir con bastante exactitud el porcentaje de votos que cada partido va a obtener en cada distrito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A partir de información estadística sobre la gente que vive en un distrito (ingresos medios, procedencia étnica, nivel de estudios, etc) se puede estimar qué partido va a ganar.&lt;br /&gt;Por ejemplo, según información del &lt;a href="http://www.census.gov/"&gt;US Census Bureau&lt;/a&gt;, la ciudad de &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Gatos#Demographics"&gt;Los Gatos, CA&lt;/a&gt; (donde vivo) se caracteriza por:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The racial makeup of the town was 86.68% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_%28U.S._Census%29" title="White (U.S. Census)"&gt;White&lt;/a&gt;, 0.79% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_%28U.S._Census%29" title="African American (U.S. Census)"&gt;African American&lt;/a&gt;, 0.30% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Native American (U.S. Census)"&gt;Native American&lt;/a&gt;, 7.60% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Asian (U.S. Census)"&gt;Asian&lt;/a&gt;, 0.07% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islander_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)"&gt;Pacific Islander&lt;/a&gt;, 1.28% from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28United_States_Census%29" title="Race (United States Census)"&gt;other races&lt;/a&gt;, and 3.27% from two or more races. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)"&gt;Hispanic&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Latino (U.S. Census)"&gt;Latino&lt;/a&gt; of any race were 5.21% of the population.&lt;br /&gt;The median income for a household in the town was $94,319, and the median income for a family was $119,194. Males had a median income of $89,420 versus $57,596 for females. The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income"&gt;per capita income&lt;/a&gt; for the town was $56,094. About 3.1% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_line" title="Poverty line"&gt;poverty line&lt;/a&gt;, including 4.4% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;San José, qué está a 5 minutos en coche, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose%2C_California#Demographics"&gt;tiene una composición distinta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The racial makeup of the city was 47.49% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_%28U.S._Census%29" title="White (U.S. Census)"&gt;White&lt;/a&gt;, 3.50% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_%28U.S._Census%29" title="African American (U.S. Census)"&gt;African American&lt;/a&gt;, 0.77% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Native American (U.S. Census)"&gt;Native American&lt;/a&gt;, 26.86% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Asian (U.S. Census)"&gt;Asian&lt;/a&gt;, 0.40% &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islander_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)"&gt;Pacific Islander&lt;/a&gt;, 15.94% from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28United_States_Census%29" title="Race (United States Census)"&gt;other races&lt;/a&gt;, and 5.04% from two or more races. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)"&gt;Hispanic&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_%28U.S._Census%29" title="Latino (U.S. Census)"&gt;Latino&lt;/a&gt; of any race were 30.17% of the population.&lt;br /&gt;The median income for a family was $74,813. Males had a median income of $49,347 versus $36,936 for females. The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income"&gt;per capita income&lt;/a&gt; for the city was $26,697. About 6.0% of families and 8.8% of the population were below the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_line" title="Poverty line"&gt;poverty line&lt;/a&gt;, including 10.3% of those under age 18 and 7.4% of those age 65 or over.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Teniendo información tan detallada sobre el nivel de ingresos y la composición étnica de cada ciudad, era de esperar que los partidos políticos intentaran utilizar esta información en su beneficio. Es por eso que en EEUU es muy común una práctica conocida como "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering"&gt;Gerrymandering&lt;/a&gt;", que consiste en que el partido gobernante intenta redibujar los límites de los distritos electorales para intentar asegurarse los resultados en las siguientes elecciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La idea se basa en el hecho de que las elecciones se hacen a nivel de distrito. Si en un distrito el 51% de la gente vota Republicano y el 49% vota Demócrata, se elige un representante Republicano, y el número de votos Demócratas ya no cuenta para nada. De la misma manera, si en un distrito el 90% vota Republicano, el efecto es el mismo que si solo el 51% vota Republicano. El 39% de diferencia entre 90% y 51% "se desperdicia".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El truco entonces consiste entonces en lo siguiente: agrupar a un gran número de votantes de un color en un solo distrito, para minimizar su influencia en otros distritos. El siguiente gráfico lo explica bien. Se empieza con una región con 4 distritos; en cada distrito hay el mismo número de votantes rojos y azules (8 de cada tipo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Gerrymandering_Comparison.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Gerrymandering_Comparison.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si redibujas los distritos de manera que pones a 14 votantes rojos en uno de ellos, el resultado es que uno de los distritos estará dominado por los rojos, mientras que tres distritos estarán dominados por los azules. El resultado final es que sale elegido un representante del partido rojo y tres representantes del partido azul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puede parecer un poco artificial el dibujar los distritos con esas formas tan raras, en vez de hacerlos más o menos cuadrados. Pero parece que los americanos no tienen ningún problema con esto, como se puede apreciar en mapas como estos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Illinois_District_4_2004.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Illinois_District_4_2004.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/AZ-districts-109-02.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/AZ-districts-109-02.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/California_District_38_2004.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/California_District_38_2004.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/CA_11thCD_clip.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/CA_11thCD_clip.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A veces se producen casos "curiosos" como estos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Sometimes this process creates strange bedfellows interested in securing reelection; in some states, Republicans have cut deals with opposing black Democratic state legislators to create majority black districts. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;By packing black Democratic voters into a single district, these districts essentially ensure the election of a black Congressman&lt;/span&gt; or reelection of a black state legislator; however, due to the packed concentration of Democratic voters &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the surrounding districts are more safely Republican&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es decir, redibujar los distritos "empaquetando" a los votantes negros en un mismo distrito, de manera que por un lado los Demócratas negros se aseguran que sale elegido un representante negro, mientras que los Republicanos se aseguran que en el resto de distritos solo habrá votantes blancos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116328679379242677?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116328679379242677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116328679379242677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116328679379242677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116328679379242677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/11/ms-curiosidades-sobre-el-sistema.html' title='Más curiosidades sobre el sistema electoral en EEUU'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116219394407856264</id><published>2006-10-29T22:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T17:56:30.920-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Election Day</title><content type='html'>En EEUU, "Election Day" se celebra el Martes posterior al primer Lunes de Noviembre, y este año cae el 7 de Noviembre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo curioso de EEUU es que los partidos políticos, en vez de hacer campaña para que les voten sus partidarios, a veces hacen campaña para convencer a los contrarios de que no vayan a votar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/yfrenw"&gt;Este artículo del NY Times&lt;/a&gt; lo explica muy bien. Parece que los expertos en estas técnicas son los Republicanos, que se saben todos los trucos para desmovilizar al electorado contrario, en particular a los votantes negros, que tradicionalmente apoyan al partido Demócrata:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;For Democrats like these in tight races, black voter turnout will be crucial on Election Day. But despite a generally buoyant Democratic Party nationally, there are worries among Democratic strategists in some states that blacks may not turn up at the polls in big enough numbers because of disillusionment over past shenanigans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como los Demócratas ya se saben los trucos que se gastan los Republicanos, tienen que organizar equipos de abogados para detectar irregularidades:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;This will be the first midterm election in which the Democratic Party is mobilizing teams of lawyers and poll watchers, to check for irregularities including suppression of the black vote, in at least a dozen of the closest districts, Ms. Brazile said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democrats’ worries are backed up by a Pew Research Center report that found that blacks were twice as likely now than they were in 2004 to say they had little or no confidence in the voting system, rising to 29 percent from 15 percent.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El 29% de los votantes negros piensan que sus votos ni siquiera serán incluidos en el recuento final:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;And more than three times as many blacks as whites — 29 percent versus 8 percent — say they do not believe that their vote will be accurately tallied.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Voting experts say the disillusionment is the cumulative effect of election problems in 2000 and 2004, and a reaction to new identification and voter registration laws.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque parezca increíble, algunos partidos se dedican a distribuir panfletos con información equivocada en ciertos barrios, para intentar que la gente no acuda a votar, bajo la amenaza de que si lo hacen pueden ser detenidos si tienen multas pendientes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Long lines and shortages of poll workers in lower-income neighborhoods in the 2004 election and widespread reports of fliers with misinformation appearing in minority areas have also had a corrosive effect on confidence, experts say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[…]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;She traced her own skepticism to one afternoon two months before the last presidential election when she overheard several young black men saying &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;they were not going to vote because they feared being arrested at the polling station for their unpaid parking tickets&lt;/span&gt;. The neighborhood had been flooded with fliers from the Milwaukee Black Voters League, a fictitious group, saying that even minor infractions like parking tickets disqualified people from voting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El mejor de todos es este caso, en el que hicieron a la gente creer que los republicanos votaban en martes y los demócratas en miércoles:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The type of misleading letter sent this month to 14,000 Hispanic immigrants in Orange County, Calif., threatening them with arrest if they tried to vote, was hardly a first. In 2004, similar fliers appeared in predominantly black neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area, on official-looking letterheads. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The fliers said that because of unusually high voter registration, Republicans were to vote on Election Day, and Democrats were to vote the next day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque, bien pensado, si alguien se traga ese timo, casi mejor que no vote ...   ;-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116219394407856264?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116219394407856264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116219394407856264' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116219394407856264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116219394407856264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/10/election-day.html' title='Election Day'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116131761540303065</id><published>2006-10-19T20:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-19T21:15:01.746-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Vivir sin subjuntivo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Zhongwen_yufa_tc%2Bsc.jpg/150px-Zhongwen_yufa_tc%2Bsc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Zhongwen_yufa_tc%2Bsc.jpg/150px-Zhongwen_yufa_tc%2Bsc.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debido a que el 99.9% de los productos electrónicos usados en el mundo occidental se fabrican en China o Taiwan, en mi trabajo nos vemos obligados a tratar mucho con chinos (conocidos entre nosotros con el cariñoso apelativo de "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Charlie"&gt;los charlies&lt;/a&gt;").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desde hace años, siempre me ha parecido que los problemas de comunicación con los chinos eran debidos a su mal dominio del inglés. Pero según un libro que estoy leyendo (&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Language-Instinct-Creates-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060958332/sr=8-1/qid=1161317256/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3005784-7189743?ie=UTF8"&gt;The Language Instinct&lt;/a&gt;, de Steven Pinker), parece que el problema es más profundo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;English grammar ... provides its speakers with the subjunctive construction: "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;If John were to go to the hospital, he would meet Mary&lt;/span&gt;". The subjunctive is used to express "counterfactual" situations, events that are known to be false but entertained as hypoteticals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese, in contrast, lacks a subjunctive and any other simple grammatical construction that directly expresses a counterfactual. The thought must be expressed circuitously, something like "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;If John is going to the hospital ... but he is not going to the hospital ... but if he is going, he meets Mary&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagino que esa falta de familiaridad con algunos conceptos que sí existen en los &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages"&gt;idiomas Indo-europeos&lt;/a&gt; explican porque las "conference calls" con los chinos suelen acabar con un "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;me %$&amp;* en los $#%@$&amp;amp;$% charlies!&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116131761540303065?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116131761540303065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116131761540303065' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116131761540303065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116131761540303065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/10/vivir-sin-subjuntivo.html' title='Vivir sin subjuntivo'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116120924327729373</id><published>2006-10-18T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-18T15:07:23.290-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Caín y Abel</title><content type='html'>El Génesis según Ned Flanders...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Riu6EouMdk0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Riu6EouMdk0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116120924327729373?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116120924327729373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116120924327729373' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116120924327729373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116120924327729373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/10/can-y-abel.html' title='Caín y Abel'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116120184353012122</id><published>2006-10-18T12:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-18T13:04:03.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Más Dawkins</title><content type='html'>Otro vídeo de Richard Dawkins, esta vez en uno de mis programas favoritos (&lt;a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/index.jhtml"&gt;The Colbert Report, en Comedy Central&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RA9EiSJaXww"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RA9EiSJaXww" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;[RD] Usually they say they were expecting a man in a wheelchair who can't talk.... They confuse me with Stephen Hawking&lt;br /&gt;[SC] Oh ... Stephen Hawking? Is he going to hell too?&lt;br /&gt;[RD] I reckon so...&lt;br /&gt;[SC] Yeah, God doesn't like black holes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[SC] You say that there is no god, that god is a myth, that religion is corrosive.&lt;br /&gt;[RD] I say that God is very, very improbable...&lt;br /&gt;[SC] RIGHT! Because it EXISTS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116120184353012122?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116120184353012122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116120184353012122' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116120184353012122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116120184353012122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/10/ms-dawkins.html' title='Más Dawkins'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116029066009285526</id><published>2006-10-07T23:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-08T00:17:31.623-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sobre el Limbo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/photo/vale_07_06/images/prevs/prev49.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/photo/vale_07_06/images/prevs/prev49.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He encontrado esta noticia en &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5406552.stm"&gt;BBC News&lt;/a&gt;, y he visto que &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20061007/sociedad-religion/vaticano-propone-abandonar-concepto_200610070324.html"&gt;ABC &lt;/a&gt;también la menciona:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="grouphead"&gt; &lt;div class="headline"&gt; &lt;div class="ln"&gt; &lt;h3&gt;El Vaticano propone abandonar el concepto de limbo porque los niños son acogidos por Dios&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;La prudencia de la Iglesia a la hora de adentrarse en parajes ultraterrenos prevaleció ayer sobre el deseo de anunciar cuanto antes una clarificación sobre el destino de los niños que mueren sin bautizar. Hace exactamente dos años que Juan Pablo II encargó a la Comisión Teológica Internacional actualizar la doctrina de la Iglesia sobre el limbo -imaginado a veces como una especie de «sala de espera» hasta el juicio final-, pero la reunión de la Comisión terminó ayer sin ningún comunicado formal y sólo con la promesa de que habrá un documento el próximo año.&lt;/blockquote&gt;O sea, que parece que se van a cargar el concepto del Limbo, pero que siguen trabajando en ello...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo interesante es que el concepto del Limbo estaba ahí por una buena razón: por lo visto, hasta el siglo XIII, la posición oficial de la Iglesia era que los niños que morían sin bautizar, o las personas que habían tenido la mala suerte de haber vivido antes de la época de Jesucristo, se iban derechitas al infierno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09256a.htm"&gt;La teoría del Limbo corregía la aparente injusticia&lt;/a&gt;: los niños no bautizados se iban al "Limbus Infantium" mientras que los muertos antes de JC se iban al "Limbus Patrum". Si desaparece el concepto del Limbo, a dónde van todas esas almas?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Según la última versión del Catecismo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;[El Catecismo] es muy claro y extenso respecto al cielo, el infierno y el purgatorio, pero a la hora de abordar el problema de los niños muertos sin el bautismo afirma tan sólo que «&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;la Iglesia los confía a la misericordia de Dios&lt;/span&gt;».&lt;/blockquote&gt;Qué quiere decir esto? Se van al cielo o no? Si se van al cielo, significa que el sacramento del bautismo no es estrictamente necesario. Pero, claro, nadie quiere que se vayan al infierno...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Quien conozca el lenguaje vaticano o la profusión sin límites de la misericordia de Dios sabe que esa expresión significa un «final feliz» para todos los niños, pero sin decirlo de modo explícito para evitar el riesgo de minusvalorar la importancia del sacramento del bautismo. En esa línea, incluso el padre Luis Ladaria -que, como responsable de la Comisión, está obligado a la prudencia- manifestó ayer que «&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;todos estamos a favor de los chiquillos&lt;/span&gt;».&lt;/blockquote&gt;Menos mal que el padre Ladaria está "a favor de los chiquillos".... Me quedo mucho más tranquilo por ellos. Los suspenden en Junio, pero "los confían a la misericordia de Dios" a ver si tienen suerte y aprueban en Septiembre...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116029066009285526?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116029066009285526/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116029066009285526' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116029066009285526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116029066009285526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/10/sobre-el-limbo.html' title='Sobre el Limbo'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115993261118886845</id><published>2006-10-03T20:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-03T20:42:35.360-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cómo parecer importante</title><content type='html'>Parece que algunos españoles se creen más importantes al venirse a vivir a USA (y no, no me refiero a mí.... yo ya era importante antes...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por alguna razón, desde que Rodrigo Rato (ex ministro de Economía de Aznar) se ha mudado a Washington y lo han nombrado "Managing Director" del Fondo Monetario Internacional, ha decidido cambiarse el nombre a "Rodrigo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;de Rato&lt;/span&gt;", como si fuera el heredero de los Duques de Rato "de toda la vida".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al principio pensé que eso de "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;de Rato&lt;/span&gt;" era una equivocación del &lt;a href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=rodrigo+rato&amp;srchst=nyt"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;, que es donde lo leí por primera vez:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rodrigo de Rato&lt;/span&gt;, said yesterday that world economic growth may be turning down, and prodded policy makers to revive stalled global trade talks. If an agreement ''does not materialize, prospects are for lower growth,'' &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mr. de Rato&lt;/span&gt; said yesterday in Singapore...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Como me picó la curiosidad, me fui a la web del FMI (&lt;a href="http://www.imf.org"&gt;http://www.imf.org&lt;/a&gt;) para ver qué nombre usaban ahí, y cuál fue mi sorpresa al ver que &lt;a href="http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2006/pr06207.htm"&gt;en el FMI también se refieren a él como "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rodrigo de Rato&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Mr. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rodrigo de Rato&lt;/span&gt;, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today in Singapore1:&lt;br /&gt;"We are following the situation closely. Thailand's economy is fundamentally strong and financial market reactions have been limited. Regional financial markets have also been little affected thus far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Lo que no entiendo es por qué el ex-presi, en sus clases en Georgetown, no se hacía llamar &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;José María de Aznar&lt;/span&gt;... Aunque quizá no lo necesite, teniendo en cuenta su título en la universidad:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;José María Aznar, the outgoing prime minister, will join the faculty at Georgetown University in Washington [...] His new title will be &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;distinguished scholar in the practice of global leadership&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115993261118886845?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115993261118886845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115993261118886845' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115993261118886845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115993261118886845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/10/cmo-parecer-importante.html' title='Cómo parecer importante'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115978285033656185</id><published>2006-10-02T02:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-02T02:54:10.346-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Quién es más estúpido?</title><content type='html'>Quién es más estúpido?: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;la TSA estadounidense &lt;/span&gt;por prohibir líquidos y geles en los vuelos a EEUU, o &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;los turistas españoles que hacen caso omiso de la prohibición&lt;/span&gt; y se empeñan en pasar por los controles de seguridad de la terminal internacional de Barajas con sus bolsas llenas de botellas de agua, tubos de pasta de dientes, colonias, etc, con lo que consiguen que la cola de entrada al Madrid - Miami, en vez de tardar una hora, tarde dos?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115978285033656185?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115978285033656185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115978285033656185' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115978285033656185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115978285033656185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/10/quin-es-ms-estpido.html' title='Quién es más estúpido?'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115961478017414460</id><published>2006-09-30T03:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-30T04:14:03.080-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Richard Dawkins</title><content type='html'>Una entrevista con &lt;a href="http://www.richarddawkins.net/"&gt;Dr Richard Dawkins&lt;/a&gt; (autor de libros como "The Selfish Gene", "The Ancestors Tale", "Climbing Mount Improbable", etc) sobre su nuevo libro "&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkins/dp/0618680004/ref=bxgy_cc_text_a/102-3005784-7189743?ie=UTF8"&gt;The God Delusion&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gWL1ZMH3-54"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gWL1ZMH3-54" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un momento gracioso está en el "2:00", cuando le preguntan:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chronologyproject.com/thor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px;" src="http://www.chronologyproject.com/thor.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/FSM_himself.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/FSM_himself.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Entrevistador:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; [The book says]... "God &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;almost &lt;/span&gt;certainly does not exist"...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;You are leaving open the possibility that he does?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Dawkins:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; Of course, any scientistist would leave open that possibility.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;You cannot absolutely disprove the existence of anything.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;So, just as we cannot disprove the existence of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor"&gt;Thor&lt;/a&gt; [...] or the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster"&gt;Flying Spaghetti Monster&lt;/a&gt;... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;We cannot be dogmatic and say it is certain that God does not exist. We can say &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;it's &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;as unlikely as &lt;/span&gt;Thor with his hammer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;I could call myself an "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;athorist&lt;/span&gt;" to give the idea of that...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115961478017414460?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115961478017414460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115961478017414460' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115961478017414460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115961478017414460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/09/richard-dawkins.html' title='Richard Dawkins'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115847256398689809</id><published>2006-09-16T22:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-16T22:56:04.013-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dr. House en "Friends"</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sXNd99IhdmA"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sXNd99IhdmA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115847256398689809?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115847256398689809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115847256398689809' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115847256398689809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115847256398689809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/09/dr-house-en-friends.html' title='Dr. House en &quot;Friends&quot;'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115843279365771196</id><published>2006-09-16T11:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-16T11:53:13.670-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Es que el alemán es muy complicado, con tanta declinación</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/The_Father_The_Son_and_the_Holy_Guest_Star.jpg/800px-The_Father_The_Son_and_the_Holy_Guest_Star.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/The_Father_The_Son_and_the_Holy_Guest_Star.jpg/800px-The_Father_The_Son_and_the_Holy_Guest_Star.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Después del &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115830944223148988"&gt;comentario de Marcos&lt;/a&gt;, parece que nos queda más claro qué dijo exactamente Ratzinger. De todas maneras, parece que muchos periodicos serios siguen sin haber leído el discurso original (es que el alemán es muy complicado).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/opinion/16sat2.html?_r=1&amp;amp;amp;ex=1158552000&amp;en=cf1ca3f07184a39c&amp;amp;ei=5087%0A&amp;oref=slogin"&gt;Editorial del New York Yimes de hoy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Editorial: The Pope’s Words&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is more than enough religious anger in the world. So it is particularly disturbing that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pope Benedict XVI has insulted Muslims&lt;/span&gt;, quoting a 14th-century description of Islam as “evil and inhuman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es curioso que no dice "los musulmanes se han sentido insultados", sino "el Papa ha insultado a los musulmanes", atribuyéndole intención.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De todas maneras, a los periódicos estadounidenses les encanta aprovechar la mínima oportunidad para criticar a la Iglesia Católica, así que no me extraña. Aquí todos son Anglicanos, o Luteranos, o Evangélicos, o Presbiterianos, o Baptistas, o Metodistas, o Episcopalianos... cualquier cosa con tal de no ser Católicos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ejemplo: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Father%2C_The_Son%2C_and_The_Holy_Guest_Star"&gt;el capítulo de los Simpsons en que Bart y Homer se convierten al catolicismo&lt;/a&gt;, y Marge, Ned Flanders y el cura de Springfield se dedican a convencerlos de que vuelvan a "la auténtica fé":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;On the road, Marge and Lovejoy try to bring Bart back to the "one true faith": &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115843279365771196?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115843279365771196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115843279365771196' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115843279365771196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115843279365771196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/09/es-que-el-alemn-es-muy-complicado-con.html' title='Es que el alemán es muy complicado, con tanta declinación'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115830944223148988</id><published>2006-09-15T01:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T01:37:22.243-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Oooops!</title><content type='html'>Parece que &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091500136.html"&gt;Benedicto XVI se ha pasado de sincero&lt;/a&gt; con su opinión sobre el Islam:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;In his speech at the University of Regensburg on Tuesday, Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who wrote that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;everything Mohammad brought was evil and inhuman&lt;/span&gt;, "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.elpais.es/elpaismedia/ultimahora/media/200508/21/internacional/20050821elpepuint_3_I_LCO.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.elpais.es/elpaismedia/ultimahora/media/200508/21/internacional/20050821elpepuint_3_I_LCO.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Viendo como se las gastan los seguidores de la "Jihad", va a tener que reforzar el "Papamóvil".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115830944223148988?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115830944223148988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115830944223148988' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115830944223148988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115830944223148988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/09/oooops.html' title='Oooops!'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115804299504638190</id><published>2006-09-11T23:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-11T23:36:35.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Outsourcing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/09/09/weekinreview/10mcgrath.190.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/09/09/weekinreview/10mcgrath.190.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cada vez más, los ejecutivos de las empresas estadounidenses recurren al "outsourcing" a países como India o China para reducir sus costes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Según &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/weekinreview/10mcgrath.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113754697326149204-NKFrIswaO84O8r41rKK3Y9RKYVg_20070117.html?mod=blogs"&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/a&gt;, los hijos de esos ejecutivos están siguiendo el ejemplo de sus padres, y ahora se dedican a hacer oursourcing de sus "deberes escolares".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;At $9.95 a Page, You Expected Poetry?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;THE Web site for an outfit called Term Paper Relief features a picture of a young college student chewing her lip.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;“Damn!” a little comic-strip balloon says. “I’ll have to cancel my Saturday night date to finish my term paper before the Monday deadline.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Well, no, she won’t — not if she’s enterprising enough to enlist Term Paper Relief to write it for her. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;For $9.95 a page she can obtain an “A-grade” paper that is fashioned to order and “completely non-plagiarized.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;How good are the results? [...] an editor ordered three English literature papers from three different sites on standard, often-assigned topics: one comparing and contrasting Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Orwell’s “1984”; one discussing the nature of Ophelia’s madness in “Hamlet”; and one exploring the theme of colonialism in Conrad’s “Lord Jim.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Según el reportero del NYTimes, un profesor de Harvard calificó uno de los "papers", pero no quedó muy impresionado por el contenido:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;... I would probably give it a D+ ...&lt;/blockquote&gt;(Pero, como dice el título del artículo, a $9.95 la página, no puedes pedir poesía.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115804299504638190?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115804299504638190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115804299504638190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115804299504638190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115804299504638190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/09/outsourcing.html' title='Outsourcing'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115794499372825590</id><published>2006-09-10T20:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-10T20:23:13.746-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Los interrogatorios de la C.I.A.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/rhcp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/320/rhcp.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10detain.html?ei=5090&amp;en=9d400ae2a8931eb7&amp;amp;ex=1315540800&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all"&gt;New York Times de hoy&lt;/a&gt; trae un artículo con información detallada sobre las técnicas que utilizaba la C.I.A. para interrogar a sospechos de terrorismo en sus cárceles clandestinas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para obligarles a confesar, primero les ponían el aire acondicionado al máximo, y si eso no funcionaba, empezaba la verdadera tortura:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;He stood or lay on the bare floor, sometimes with air-conditioning adjusted so that, one official said, Mr. Zubaydah seemed to turn blue. At other times, the interrogators piped in deafening blasts of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;music by groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115794499372825590?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115794499372825590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115794499372825590' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115794499372825590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115794499372825590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/09/los-interrogatorios-de-la-cia.html' title='Los interrogatorios de la C.I.A.'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115755597901436149</id><published>2006-09-06T08:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-06T08:19:39.066-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Islam vs Christianity</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XgHfq0epSJg"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XgHfq0epSJg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115755597901436149?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115755597901436149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115755597901436149' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115755597901436149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115755597901436149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/09/islam-vs-christianity.html' title='Islam vs Christianity'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115738663946401491</id><published>2006-09-04T09:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-04T09:17:19.486-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Snakes on a Plane</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.ucomics.com/comics/wpswi/2006/wpswi060820.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; 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float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/320/ex.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta noticia no es de EEUU, pero me ha parecido suficientemente graciosa, así que la pongo en el blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Según &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=402602&amp;in_page_id=1770"&gt;el padre Gabriele Amorth, "Exorcista Jefe" de Benedicto XII&lt;/a&gt;, parece ser que:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hitler y Stalin estaban poseídos por el demonio&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El Papa Pío XII intentó un "exorcismo a distancia" para sacarles el demonio del cuerpo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Parece ser que los exorcismos a distancia no acaban de funcionar bien del todo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Según la noticia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Father Gabriele Amorth who is Pope Benedict XVI's 'caster out of demons' made his comments during an interview with Vatican Radio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father Amorth said: "Of course the Devil exists and he can not only possess a single person but also groups and entire populations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am convinced that the Nazis were all possessed. All you have to do is think about what Hitler - and Stalin did. Almost certainly they were possessed by the Devil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to secret Vatican documents recently released wartime pontiff Pope &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pius XII attempted a "long distance" exorcism of Hitler &lt;/span&gt;which failed to have any effect.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando Pío XII comprobó que el exorcismo no tenía mucho efecto en la conducta de Hitler, no se le ocurrió pensar que a lo mejor el Demonio no estaba relacionado con todo esto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, la explicación era claramente otra:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Father Amorth said: "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;It's very rare that praying and attempting to carry out an exorcism from distance works&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Of course you can pray for someone from a distance but in this case it would not have any effect&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"One of the key requirements for an exorcism is to be present in front of the possessed person and that person also has to be consenting and willing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Therefore trying to carry out an exorcism on someone who is not present, or consenting and willing would prove very difficult.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El padre Amorth también opina sobre literatura, en concreto sobre las influencias demoníacas de los libros de Harry Potter:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;In the past Father Amorth has also spoken out against the Harry Potter books, claiming that reading the novels of the teen wizard open children's minds to dabbling with the occult and black magic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father Amorth, who is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;president of the International Association of Exorcists&lt;/span&gt;, said of the JK Rowling books:"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said that Rowling's books contain innumerable positive references to magic, "the satanic art" and added the books attempt to make a false distinction between black and white magic, when in fact, the distinction "does not exist, because magic is always a turn to the devil."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y no olvidemos que este señor es un autentico experto en estos temas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Father Amorth is said to have carried out &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;more than 30,000 exorcisms&lt;/span&gt; in his career and his favourite film is, according to Italian newspapers The Exorcist.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115712375968775386?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115712375968775386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115712375968775386' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115712375968775386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115712375968775386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/09/el-exorcista-y-harry-potter.html' title='El Exorcista y Harry Potter'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115704249604331296</id><published>2006-08-31T09:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-31T09:41:36.100-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pues sí que están locos....</title><content type='html'>Acaba de conocerse la noticia de que hace unos días &lt;a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15399528.htm"&gt;impidieron a una persona embarcar en un avión en NY porque llevaba una camiseta con un texto en árabe&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;An Arab human rights activist says he was prevented from boarding a plane at Kennedy International Airport while wearing a T-shirt that said "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The incident happened Aug. 12 when Raed Jarrar was preparing to board a JetBlue flight from Kennedy to Oakland, Calif.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Four officials from JetBlue or from a government agency stopped him at the gate and told him he couldn't get on the plane wearing his shirt, Jarrar said in a telephone interview Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the officials told him, "&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Going to an airport with a T-shirt in Arabic script is like going to a bank and wearing a T-shirt that says 'I'm a robber.'&lt;/span&gt;" he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jenny Dervin, a spokeswoman for JetBlue, acknowledged that the dispute occurred and said the airline was investigating it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jarrar, who directs the Iraq project for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights organization, said he asked what law he was breaking by wearing the shirt. The officials didn't answer, he said, but suggested that he turn the shirt inside out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;the officials gave Jarrar another shirt to put over the offending T-shirt and he put it on rather than miss his flight&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/003523.html"&gt;En este blog dan una posible explicación&lt;/a&gt; sobre por qué no le dejaron embarcar hasta que se cubrió la camiseta:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;[...] the only sense that I can make of this is that &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;the officials concerned attributed to the words some sort of magical power that could be contained by covering them up&lt;/span&gt;. There have been societies in which people held such beliefs, but I wasn't aware that the United States in the 21st century was among them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115704249604331296?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115704249604331296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115704249604331296' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115704249604331296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115704249604331296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/08/pues-s-que-estn-locos.html' title='Pues sí que están locos....'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115692702688194260</id><published>2006-08-30T01:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-30T01:39:01.776-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La vaca esférica</title><content type='html'>El otro día encontré &lt;a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/003493.html"&gt;en un blog sobre lingüística&lt;/a&gt; algo que me recordó a los chistes que hacía mi profesor de cálculo de primero de carrera (&lt;a href="http://personales.upv.es/vmontesi/"&gt;Vicente Montesinos&lt;/a&gt;). Solo le van a ver la gracia mis compis de carrera, pero bueno...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Seriously, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to update the old joke about the out-of-work physicist who took a job as a consultant to a dairy cooperative, and produced a report that began "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Consider a perfectly spherical cow, radiating milk isotropically.&lt;/span&gt;" I have an agent-based model for social convergence on shared word pronunciations that I've been meaning for a while to extend to cover dialect development. "Consider a herd of markovian cows, generating moos randomly..."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115692702688194260?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115692702688194260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115692702688194260' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115692702688194260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115692702688194260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/08/la-vaca-esfrica.html' title='La vaca esférica'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115692253104119896</id><published>2006-08-30T00:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-30T00:22:11.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cómo acabar con la sequía</title><content type='html'>Esto salía en primera página del &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/us/29drought.html"&gt;NY Times del martes 29&lt;/a&gt;. Parece que en South Dakota están teniendo una sequía tan dura, que el gobernador del estado ha tenido que tomar medidas radicales. Restricciones de agua? No. Trasvases Tajo-Segura? Tampoco. Algo todavía mejor:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;Gov. Michael Rounds of South Dakota, who has requested that 51 of the state’s 66 counties be designated a federal agricultural disaster area, recently sought unusual help from his constituents: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;he issued a proclamation declaring a week to pray for rain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Se ve que el gobernador Rounds aun no se ha enterado de que &lt;a href="http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/parece-que-rezar-no-funciona.html"&gt;rezar no funciona&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115692253104119896?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115692253104119896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115692253104119896' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115692253104119896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115692253104119896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/08/cmo-acabar-con-la-sequa.html' title='Cómo acabar con la sequía'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115579876360443765</id><published>2006-08-16T23:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T00:14:19.810-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Memorizando el Corán</title><content type='html'>El NY Times de ayer traía esta noticia sobre cierto tipo de escuelas islámicas privadas que empiezan a verse en NY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/nyregion/16koran.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Memorizing the Way to Heaven, Verse by Verse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;The children, ages 7 to 14, are full-time students, in class 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, even in the summer. But they are not studying math, science or English. Instead, they are memorizing all 6,200 verses in the Koran, a task that usually takes two to three years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/16/nyregion/koran0.190.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/16/nyregion/koran0.190.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claro, al leer esto, uno se pregunta qué puede llevar a los padres a meter a sus hijos de 7 años en una escuela donde se dedican a memorizar el Corán (y nada más que el Corán) durante 2 o 3 años, sobre todo en una sociedad tan competitiva en el tema educativo como Estados Unidos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Más abajo está la explicación:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;The students who finish memorizing the Koran earn the title hafiz, an exalted accomplishment in the Muslim world that is relatively rare in the United States. A hafiz plays an important role during Ramadan, when the entire Koran must be recited over 30 days to mosque members. But becoming a hafiz is also believed to bring rewards in the hereafter, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;guaranteeing the person entrance to heaven, along with 10 other people of his choosing&lt;/span&gt;, provided he does not forget the verses and continues to practice Islam.&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los padres mandan a sus hijos a las escuela para que se saquen el título de Haziz y así ellos (los padres) puedan entrar "gratis" en sala VIP en el grupo de 10 que acompaña al titular de la "tarjeta Islam Plus Platino".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por si no estaba claro el lado "materialista" del tema, esta es la opinión de uno de los chavales que acaba de terminar el curso:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;“It’s almost like a bank account for the afterlife,” said Zawar Ahmed, 11, who recently became a hafiz through the Muslim Center and brought in sweets for his classmates to celebrate.&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115579876360443765?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115579876360443765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115579876360443765' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115579876360443765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115579876360443765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/08/memorizando-el-corn.html' title='Memorizando el Corán'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115579793990724523</id><published>2006-08-16T23:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-30T00:22:56.863-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Upgrade"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/textoibplus_spanish.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/320/textoibplus_spanish.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se ve que Iberia sabía que hoy era mi cumpleaños y ha decidido felicitarme con un "upgrade" a Primera Clase en el vuelo Chicago - Madrid. Asientos que se tumban como camas... solo falta que venga una azafata a arroparte con la manta para dormir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y luego la gente se mete con Iberia.... Si son los mejores! Los azafatos (sobre todo ellos) no sabrán hablar inglés, pero mientras a mi me pasen a Primera Clase...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115579793990724523?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115579793990724523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115579793990724523' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115579793990724523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115579793990724523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/08/upgrade.html' title='&quot;Upgrade&quot;'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115550818230785463</id><published>2006-08-13T15:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-13T15:30:03.530-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Código Naranja: Nada de líquidos en aviones</title><content type='html'>Desde que han descubierto a los terroristas super-malvados que querían cargarse unos cuantos aviones que volaban desde UK a USA, todos los aeropuertos en USA están en Código Naranja, y ya no se puede entrar al avión con ningun tipo de líquido, gel o similares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_0976.xml"&gt;TSA&lt;/a&gt; is immediately implementing the following changes to airport screening procedures:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;No liquids or gels of any kind will be permitted in carry on baggage. such items must be in checked baggage. This includes all beverages, shampoo, sun tan lotion, creams, tooth paste, hair gel, and other items of similar consistency.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Exceptions: Baby formula and medicines, which must be presented for inspection at the checkpoint.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Beverages purchased in the boarding area, beyond the checkpoint, must be consumed before boarding because they will not be permitted onboard the aircraft.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Passengers traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States will be subject to a more extensive screening process.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;ul style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Peor están en UK, donde no te dejan entrar en el avión con equipaje de mano. Sólo de pensar en hacer las 11 horas de un vuelo Londres - San Francisco sin portátil ni iPod me dan escalofríos.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este anuncio está en la TV estadounidense desde hace meses. Ya antes era gracioso, pero ahora lo es todavía más:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3BMDPKtnNQ"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3BMDPKtnNQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115550818230785463?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115550818230785463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115550818230785463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115550818230785463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115550818230785463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/08/cdigo-naranja-nada-de-lquidos-en.html' title='Código Naranja: Nada de líquidos en aviones'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-115541149490187907</id><published>2006-08-12T12:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T12:38:33.500-07:00</updated><title type='text'>EEUU al nivel de Turquía en conocimientos de biología</title><content type='html'>El último número de Science (Agosto, 2006) incluye un artículo ("&lt;a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/313/5788/765"&gt;Public Acceptance of Evolution&lt;/a&gt;") donde se analiza el nivel de aceptación de la Teoría de la Evolución de Darwin en diferentes países como EEUU, Japón o el grupo de la Unión Europea (incluyendo miembros actuales y países candidatos).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando se les pregunta si la afirmación &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; era cierta o no, esta es la respuesta media en cada país:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2006/08/public_acceptance_of_evolut.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2006/08/public_acceptance_of_evolut.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EEUU aparece abajo del todo, justo entre Chipre y Turquía...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La razón, &lt;a href="http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/el-debate-sobre-la-educacin-cientfica.html"&gt;como ya he mencionado alguna vez&lt;/a&gt;, es que una gran parte de los estadounidenses prefiere explicaciones del origen de ser humano como las de este vídeo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E_EXqdJ4L7I"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E_EXqdJ4L7I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Más información en &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/put_the_blame_where_it_belongs.php"&gt;Pharyngula&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-115541149490187907?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/115541149490187907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=115541149490187907' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115541149490187907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/115541149490187907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/08/eeuu-al-nivel-de-turqua-en.html' title='EEUU al nivel de Turquía en conocimientos de biología'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114884822921029354</id><published>2006-05-28T13:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-28T13:30:29.233-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Barbacoas para cocinar bisontes</title><content type='html'>Este lunes 29 de Junio es "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_day"&gt;Memorial Day&lt;/a&gt;" en EEUU. Parece ser que muchos norteamericanos aprovechan Memorial Day para "inaugurar la temporada de barbacoas".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En muchas familias de Valencia, la paella es la única ocasión en la que el hombre cocina. En EEUU ocurre algo similar con las barbacoas: parece ser una actividad exclusivamente masculina. Como es de esperar en algo típicamente masculino, en seguida aparece el elemento competitivo, y &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/fashion/sundaystyles/28GRILLS.html?ei=5070&amp;en=61e06cd8fe09e005&amp;amp;ex=1148961600&amp;pagewanted=all"&gt;la barbacoa se convierte en un símbolo de estatus&lt;/a&gt; como el coche:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;As Memorial Day marks the official beginning of grilling season, many men will find themselves almost genetically drawn to throwing hunks of raw meat onto a fire and poking them with tongs. It's a pull that some will spend almost any amount of money to satisfy, said Pantelis A. Georgiadis, the owner of Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet, the grill manufacturer based in Michigan. "There is a market segment we call the 'man cook with fire' types," he said.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Parece ser que hay gente a la que no le importa gastarse $6500 en una barbacoa:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last fall, Dave and Allison Petrullo of Commack, N.Y., installed a custom-built Cal Spas grill on their patio with an outdoor refrigerator. They spent more than $100,000 renovating their backyard with a new synthetic deck, masonry, a whirlpool and a pool waterfall, so &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;$6,500 more for Mr. Petrullo to have a brick sanctuary&lt;/span&gt; with a Cal Spas grill as its central altar seemed like nothing. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"I told him to just go for it," Ms. Petrullo said. "And get your dream barbecue."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Though they have actually cooked on the grill only three times since they installed it, it has been a hit with Mr. Petrullo's friends&lt;/span&gt;, who congregate around it at parties and give it a going-over like a pack of high school boys around a Corvette, Ms. Petrullo said. "They like to lift up the hood and play with the knobs," she said. "They open the doors underneath, and they open the fridge next to it to check it out."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;¿Qué importa el hecho de haberla usado sólo 3 veces, si te conviertes en la envidia de tus amigos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/28grill.arge5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/200/28grill.arge5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Además, $6500 no es tanto, comparado con los $35000 que cuesta la de la foto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;But the Queen Mary 2 of outdoor cooking is the $35,000 Talos Outdoor Cooking Suite sold by Frontgate, a luxury goods catalog retailer.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114884822921029354?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114884822921029354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114884822921029354' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114884822921029354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114884822921029354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/05/barbacoas-para-cocinar-bisontes.html' title='Barbacoas para cocinar bisontes'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114866640444081826</id><published>2006-05-26T10:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-26T11:11:36.060-07:00</updated><title type='text'>American Idol</title><content type='html'>Parece ser que en USA &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2198487,00.html"&gt;la gente está más interesada en votar a su cantante favorito en "American Idol" que en votar a su presidente en las elecciones&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A PREMATURELY greying bar singer from Birmingham, Alabama, has been named 2006’s American Idol after viewers of the talent show cast nearly 64 million votes in one night — more votes than any US president has received.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Algunos números:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nearly 64 million votes cast for American Idol final&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;In the 2004 presidential elections President Bush received 62,040,610 votes; in 2000 he received 50,456,002. Bill Clinton got 47,402,357 votes in 1992&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Y eso que, segun los jueces del consurso, parece que no canta muy bien (&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zLyIQPtJ20"&gt;podeis ver un vídeo suyo aquí&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Taylor Hicks, 29, won despite being compared to a “&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;drunken father singing at a wedding&lt;/span&gt;” by Simon Cowell, the British music executive who was one of the show’s three judges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Thank you America! I’m living the American dream!” shouted Hicks at the end of Wednesday’s two-hour show, held in the Kodak theatre in Hollywood. Hicks, whose routine includes leaning to one side and shouting “Whoo!” — as well as a much-derided Elvis-style tiptoe dance — built up a huge following of Southerners. Even before winning he was being satirised by the comedy show Saturday Night Live.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114866640444081826?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114866640444081826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114866640444081826' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114866640444081826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114866640444081826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/05/american-idol.html' title='American Idol'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114823919914182532</id><published>2006-05-21T11:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-21T12:19:59.163-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La verdad sobre "El Código Da Vinci"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7050000/7053060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7050000/7053060.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No sé como será en España, pero durante las dos últimas semanas, uno de cada cuatro anuncios en la TV en EEUU es sobre la nueva película basada en el libro de "El Código Da Vinci".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En todos los periódicos se debate sobre si los hechos que describe el libro son reales: que si el Opus Dei es tan malo como lo pintan, que si María Magdalena tal o cual, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al principio, el Opus Dei consideró demandar a Dan Brown (autor del libro) o a Sony Pictures (productores de la peli), pero &lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060522fa_fact"&gt;parece que al final está sacando ventaja de la publicidad&lt;/a&gt;: el número de personas interesadas en unirse al Opus Dei aumenta, parece que atraídas por el rollo "mortificación corporal":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;As it happens, the “Da Vinci Code” experience has provided Opus Dei itself with a valuable marketing tutorial. After initially considering a lawsuit against Brown or Sony, the prelature decided instead to take advantage of the publicity. The red brick building at Thirty-fourth and Lexington has been opened to reporters, and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;so many tourists stop by that the prelature began leaving recruitment literature by the front entrance&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Web site has received more than three million visitors, and Peter Bancroft, Opus Dei’s national communications director, says that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;some of the curious have now become members&lt;/span&gt;. The Silas wannabes are generally screened out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It’s odd, really,” Bancroft says. “&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Every once in a while, we get an e-mail from somebody who’s really fascinated by the cilice and the discipline, and says he would like to join up if he can use them&lt;/span&gt;. And that’s not the kind of person that we’re looking for.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://holyoffice.livejournal.com/80533.html"&gt;Esta página web&lt;/a&gt;, escrita por (creo) un periodista católico que suele cubrir noticias de tipo religioso, aclara algunas de las dudas sobre el libro:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Q: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;What does all this have to do with Jesus? Or, for that matter, Leonardo Da Vinci?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;A: The premise of the book is that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and that the two had children, who passed along Jesus' bloodline through generations of French people. Leonardo was the member of a secret brotherhood of painters who protected this secret by painting pictures of men that look like ladies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Q: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Okay, explain this whole "painting pictures of men who look like ladies" thing. What does it have to do with Leonardo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;A: In 1099, a reggae group called the Priority of Zion was founded to hush up the truth about Jesus' French children. It was felt at the time that if word got out that Jesus had lived in France, it would drive up real estate costs beyond what the knights were willing to pay. So the Priority of Lion was formed to keep the secret. Throughout the centuries, every time someone became prominent in Europe - Botticelli, Sir Isaac Newton, Tintin - they would be enrolled into the Prior of Zionism to help keep the secret.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Q: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Doesn't it seem more sensible, if they wanted to keep a secret, not to enroll high profile Europeans?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;A: Yes, except that it was hard for many years to avoid famous Europeans. From 1755 to 1914, everyone in Europe was either an author, inventor, or executed king.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Q: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Why are Christians so upset about this book, if it's true?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;A: Christians are dedicated to covering up The Truth about Jesus and the society of lady/man painters. What Brown uncovered in his research is the shocking truth of Christianity: Jesus was a regular dude, and a regular dude who wanted Mary Magdalene to be the first pope. Christians don't want that to come out, because the central tenet of Christianity is oppressing women. That, and getting Republicans into office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Q: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;That's another question. Why, in the book, is the Catholic Church the only Christian body in the world? Doesn't Brown realize there are countless different Christian denominations, often with widely varying views on Jesus? Where, for the love of Pete, are the Orthodox?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;A: Look, can you imagine a Lutheran synod or a group of Orthodox bishops commissioning a mad albino monk to hunt down an inquisitive Harvard professor? Do the Lutherans even have monks, let alone mad, albino ones? So there you go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Q: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Well, that kind of brings me to my next point. Why is the main character described as a professor of religious symbology at Harvard? Is there such a thing as "symbology"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;A: Not in a narrow, Western sense, no. But in the sense that there is a Santa Claus who brings toys to all the Christian children of the world, yes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Q: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The book also claims that the Council of Nicea decided for the first time that Jesus was divine. Is that an accurate representation of the council?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;A: Yes, except Brown left out a few things. The Council of Nicea also voted to decide that Homer wrote "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" but not "Strawberry Fields Forever"; that vanilla is the best ice cream flavor; that rap music started to decline in creativity around 1993; and that George Sisler is the best pure hitter in the history of baseball.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;[...]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Q: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Why does the dialogue in the book which is supposed to be in French include French words alongside the English translation, like, "Pain is good, monsieur" and "Le capitaine is happy you decided to stay overnight"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;A: That is how the French speak. There is no French language per se, just a few words they throw into English sentences to make themselves seem superior to Americans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114823919914182532?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114823919914182532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114823919914182532' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114823919914182532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114823919914182532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/05/la-verdad-sobre-el-cdigo-da-vinci.html' title='La verdad sobre &quot;El Código Da Vinci&quot;'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114819959514678132</id><published>2006-05-21T00:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-21T01:27:38.470-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Star-Spangled Banner</title><content type='html'>Leyendo los periódicos y viendo la TV estos días en EEUU, uno de los temas que produce más controversía &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-19-english-immigration_x.htm"&gt;es si se debe obligar a los emigrantes a cantar el himno nacional de EEUU en inglés&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En este momento hay un debate político sobre si se debe legalizar a los 12 millones de inmigrantes ilegales que hay en EEUU, y uno de los temas más "calientes" es cómo asegurarse de que esos inmigrantes realmente se "integran" en la sociedad norteamericana antes de legalizarlos. Por lo visto, obligarles a cantar el himno en inglés es una parte fundamental de ese proceso de integración.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Varios Senadores han presentados enmiendas para convertir el inglés en idioma "nacional" (ya que, a diferencia de la mayoría de países, EEUU no tiene una idioma nacional u oficial).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para "fastidiar", varios cantantes de origen latino publicaron el 28 de Abril (justo a tiempo para las manifestaciones pro-inmigración del 1 de Mayo) una versión del himno en español. Atención a la letra:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;    Amanece:­ ¿lo véis a la luz de la aurora&lt;br /&gt;Lo que tanto aclamamos la noche al caer?&lt;br /&gt;sus estrellas, sus franjas flotaban ayer,&lt;br /&gt;en el fiero combate en señal de victoria.&lt;br /&gt;Fulgor de lucha, al paso de la libertad,&lt;br /&gt;por la noche decían: «¡Se va defendiendo!»&lt;br /&gt;¡Oh, decid! ¿Despliega aún su hermosura estrellada,&lt;br /&gt;sobre tierra de libres, la bandera sagrada?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sus estrellas, sus franjas, la libertad, somos iguales.&lt;br /&gt;Somos hermanos, es nuestro himno.&lt;br /&gt;En el fiero combate, en señal de victoria,&lt;br /&gt;fulgor de lucha… (Mi gente sigue luchando.)&lt;br /&gt;…al paso de la libertad (¡Ya es tiempo de romper las cadenas!)&lt;br /&gt;Por la noche decían: «¡Se va defendiendo!»&lt;br /&gt;¡Oh, decid! ¿Despliega aún su hermosura estrellada,&lt;br /&gt;sobre tierra de libres, la bandera sagrada? &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como podeis apreciar, el autor de la letra merece cadena perpetua o pena de muerte, que (afortunadamente para estos casos) es legal en 38 de los 50 estados de EEUU. Por si os interesa, aquí teneis el principio de la versión original. Como podeis ver, la versión en español no tiene nada que ver...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,&lt;br /&gt;What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?&lt;br /&gt;Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,&lt;br /&gt;O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming!&lt;br /&gt;And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,&lt;br /&gt;Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:&lt;br /&gt;O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave&lt;br /&gt;O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El presidente Bush se opone totalmente a que la gente cante el himno en español. Lo gracioso es que cuando le preguntan a su mujer, no sabe muy bien qué decir: primero dice una cosa y luego todo lo contrario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gVjMGNursAo"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gVjMGNursAo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opinión del "Presi":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opinión de la "Primera Dama":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I do not think there is anything wrong with singing it in Spanish&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorprendido, el periodista le responde:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Is that an issue in which you disagree with your husband? He said it should be sung in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lo que Laura Bush, tras darse cuenta de que ha metido la pata, responde:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Well, I think it should be sung in English, of course&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Si alguien duda de que el autor merece la pena de muerte, &lt;a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/audio/national/himno.mp3"&gt;aquí puede escuchar el himno en MP3&lt;/a&gt;, para terminar de convencerse).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114819959514678132?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114819959514678132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114819959514678132' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114819959514678132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114819959514678132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/05/star-spangled-banner.html' title='The Star-Spangled Banner'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114819616680189417</id><published>2006-05-20T23:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-21T01:31:51.526-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Denominaciones</title><content type='html'>La primera enmienda de la Constitución de Estados Unidos garantiza la libertad de religión y prohibe el establecimiento de una religión como religión nacional:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los norteamericanos se han tomado esto tan en serio que lo han llevado al extremo. Según un estudio realizado en el 2001, esta es la distribución estadística de las principales "denominaciones" (que es como los americanos llaman a los diferentes tipos de cristianismo) en EEUU:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cristianos (79.8%), de los cuales:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Católicos (25.9%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Baptistas (17.2%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Metodistas (7.2%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cristianos sin Denominación (7.2%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Luteranos (4.9%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Presbiterianos (2.8%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Protestantes sin Denominación (2.4%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pentecostales/Carismáticos (2.2%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Episcopalianos/Anglicanos (1.8%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mormones/Santos de los Últimos Días (1.4%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Iglesias de Cristo (1.3%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Congregacionales (0.7%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Testigos de Jehova (0.7%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otras religiones (5.2%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sin religión/ateos/agnósticos (15%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Una de las cosas buenas de EEUU es que tienen estadísticas detalladas de todo, incluída la distribución geográfica de las diferentes denominaciones. Por ejemplo, estos mapas muestran la distribución de Católicos, Baptistas y Mormones en cada condado de EEUU:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/catholic.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/catholic.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/baptist.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/baptist.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/mormon.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/mormon.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claro, con tantas religiones, algunos se lían y no acaban de tener claras las diferencias entre unas religiones y otras. &lt;a href="http://holyoffice.livejournal.com/80073.html"&gt;Esta página web intenta aclarar estas diferencias&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;To be fair to these perplexed and terrified people, Christians are not easy to understand. To begin with, there are roughly 2,000 years of history to grasp, and certainly more denominations and subdivisions than that to take on board. For people who were raised secular, I imagine it's like trying to understand an opera after coming in halfway before the end: the stage is crowded with people, two of them seem to be dead, a woman is wearing a hat with horns, and everyone is making a terrible racket.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Aquí aclara el origen histórico del cisma entre Catolicismo y Protestantismo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Protestant Reformation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the name historians give to a major labor dispute that erupted in Germany in 1517 when a group of monks hammered a proposed union contract to the door of the pope's house, requesting a 95 percent pay raise. The pope refused to negotiate with the monks union until it agreed to pay to have the door fixed, and the result was the world's longest-running strike. For nearly 500 years, a huge portion of Christians have been on strike from being Catholic, saying they are "justified" in their work stoppage because the pope won't expand the number of indulgences they get per year. Currently, the matter is in arbitration.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y aquí el origen del Calvinismo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Calvinism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This theory was worked out by the French theologian and fashion designer John Calvin Klein, who argued that some people are predestined to be glamorous while others are doomed to be plain. America was founded by Calvinists, who sought to establish a country where they could pursue their belief that buckled hats were fashionable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Las diferentes denominaciones tienen diferentes opiniones sobre si el bautismo tiene efectos "iniciáticos" reales o sólo simbólicos, o sobre quién puede realizar un bautismo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Baptism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]"Baptism" is also the term used to describe a key Christian ceremony, in which prospective members of the church are either initiated actually (Catholics, Orthodox, confused Protestants) or symbolically (Protestants, confused Catholics, religious studies professors). Catholics believe that anyone can perform a valid baptism, Orthodox believe that any Christian can, while Baptists, paradoxically, believe that only they can.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También hay diversidad de opiniones sobre la Trinidad:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Trinity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Christian expression of God, who Christians say is personified by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Not all Christians accept this: Unitarians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and some Pentecostals reject trinitarianism, as do Muslims. Interestingly, while this does not mean Pentecostals are Muslim, it does mean that Muslims are Jehovah's Witnesses. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otro día escribiré sobre las religiones más "divertidas" de EEUU: los mormones y los practicantes de la cienciología...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114819616680189417?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114819616680189417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114819616680189417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114819616680189417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114819616680189417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/05/denominaciones.html' title='Denominaciones'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114590039569076932</id><published>2006-04-24T10:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-24T10:39:55.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bailando</title><content type='html'>Por si no os creíais que &lt;a href="http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/por-una-juventad-sin-mcula.html"&gt;"Amo a Laura" es el nuevo vídeo favorito de Javier&lt;/a&gt;, aquí teneis la demostración:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B_GGI0TQTG0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B_GGI0TQTG0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114590039569076932?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114590039569076932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114590039569076932' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114590039569076932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114590039569076932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/bailando.html' title='Bailando'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114583989946621688</id><published>2006-04-23T17:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-23T18:36:31.503-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Purity Ball</title><content type='html'>El vídeo de "Amo a Laura.... pero esperaré hasta el matrimonio" es de cachondeo (un montaje publicitario de la MTV), pero en USA hay un movimiento muy serio de promoción de la abstinencia, que tiene páginas web mucho más divertidas que la de Nuevo Renacer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por ejemplo, hay grupos "pro-abstinencia", como "&lt;a href="http://www.abstinence.net/"&gt;Abstinence Clearinghouse&lt;/a&gt;", que organizan periodicamente los "Purity Ball", o "Fiestas de la pureza".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En estos "Purity Balls" (podeis ver fotos de algunos eventos &lt;a href="http://www.abstinence.net/photos/index.php?id=3b46e1da3e1772ef5a258c5471b16ce0&amp;category=2005+Purity+Ball"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://generationsoflight.myicontrol.com/generationsoflight/index.cfm?ID=C7D9C98F-F39B-4721-82312665A131C364"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://www.purityball.org/"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;), parejas de "padre e hija" realizan una especie de "promesa de pureza". &lt;a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114537999061146139"&gt;Primero el padre dice&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/187/1525/400/purity%20ball%2025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/187/1525/400/purity%20ball%2025.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;I, (daughter’s name)’s father, choose before God to cover my daughter as her authority and protection in the area of purity. I will be pure in my own life as a man, husband and father. I will be a man of integrity and accountability as I lead, guide and pray over my daughter and as the high priest in my home. This covering will be used by God to influence generations to come.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Lo cual está muy bien por parte del padre.... pero lo mejor es lo que le contesta la hija (algunas, como la de la foto, de 9 o 10 añitos):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I pledge to remain sexually pure...until the day I give myself as a wedding gift to my husband.&lt;/span&gt; ... I know that God requires this of me.. that he loves me. and that he will reward me for my faithfulness.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Y qué pasa con los que ya han caído en la tentación y han perdido la "pureza"? No pasa nada, en &lt;a href="http://www.gravityteen.com/abstinence/virgin.cfm#2"&gt;esta página Web han inventado el concepto de "Secondary Virginity"&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What is Secondary Virginity?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondary Virginity is a fresh start for you if you've already had sex. It means, no more sex until marriage. Secondary virginity is a chance to change risky habits and heal past wounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though you cannot physically become a virgin again, sex is much more than just a physical act. It’s an attitude, a frame of mind. It’s manifested in the way you look at yourself and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How do I start over if I'm not a virgin anymore?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make a firm commitment to save yourself for marriage from now on, and believe you can do it. (Because you can!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get away from people, places, things and situations that weaken your self-control. Sometimes the healthiest thing we can do is avoid people who tempt us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Avoid intense hugging, passionate kissing and anything else that leads to lustful thoughts and behavior. Anything beyond a brief, simple kiss can quickly become dangerous.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find non-physical ways to show your love and appreciation. Remember that anyone can start over. Including you! When you focus on commitment and self-discipline, you can control your impulses.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No he encontrado una versión americana del "Amo a Laura...", pero este vídeo puede valer. Es una especie de anuncio para adolescentes, para que vean los riesgos de la falta de abstinencia (embarazos y enfermedades de transmisión sexual):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DnwAAADtFJxkRwCMF9BGWCQflfR4Q-FRrwZD0BRJoN3Gh0NI4P8aZwQk_yBPVMtW9lmdFmJnTyaljRKlXNx2QwOoZzsrMWWO6dg_bNUKWQGBUht6ltuGbYODjvd_NCc3PoGQtoc9iunWKF9Bu01J5juVtoNImosxnFET85ccLHvcDgSPZoZvqSJGvCjU6WJCJvcJ2MZTD9pSB9ANgZ4na37tXGag%26sigh%3Da3uQU_qZ6dwgGsE6r1QsiEZDnI4%26begin%3D0%26len%3D30300%26docid%3D-22634614552288690&amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fapp%3Dvss%26contentid%3Df4357ca71b3cbf33%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1145842304%26sigh%3DKa9ZH6ey12nfTpObI2PPQn2Uwbg&amp;playerId=-22634614552288690" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" wmode="window" salign="TL"  FlashVars="playerMode=embedded"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;              &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo mejor es cuando los dos chavales discuten:&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chica: You are the one that got me pregnant....&lt;br /&gt;Chico: Well, you gave me an STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114583989946621688?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114583989946621688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114583989946621688' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114583989946621688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114583989946621688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/purity-ball.html' title='Purity Ball'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114578679435130119</id><published>2006-04-23T03:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-23T03:06:34.360-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Por una juventad sin mácula</title><content type='html'>No solo los Americanos están un poco locos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PryxbjffY88"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PryxbjffY88" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nomiresmtv.com"&gt;De la Asociación Nuevo Renacer, Por un Juventud sin Mácula&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este vídeo lo encontró Mónica por Internet y ahora es el vídeo favorito de Javier. Ya no quiere Teletubbies ni Abeja Maya, sólo "Amo a Laura".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114578679435130119?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114578679435130119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114578679435130119' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114578679435130119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114578679435130119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/por-una-juventad-sin-mcula.html' title='Por una juventad sin mácula'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114570093984813787</id><published>2006-04-22T02:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-22T04:09:38.493-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Spelling bee</title><content type='html'>Algo raro ocurre en un idioma cuando la gente encuentra interesante organizar concursos de deletreo. En un idioma bien "diseñado", la ortografía de una palabra sería evidente a partir de su pronunciación (o sea, como en el español, dejando aparte anomalías como "b/v", "h", etc.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En USA estos concursos, llamados "spelling bee", son muy populares, y casi todos los colegios los organizan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los ganadores de cada colegio pasan a una competición regional, luego estatal, nacional, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí teneis un ejemplo. Al principio las palabras son fáciles ("rat", "hat", "near"), pero luego parece que la niña se atraganta con "ocean"...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/stpk96ySD8g"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/stpk96ySD8g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una de las cosas curiosas de los "spelling bees" es que en general, suelen estar dominados por hijos de familias inmigrantes (en particular, por niños de familias emigradas desde la India).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El &lt;a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14259428.htm"&gt;Miami Herald publicaba un artículo sobre este tema&lt;/a&gt;, resaltando que los seis ganadores del "spelling bee" en Broward County (Florida) eran hijos de inmigrantes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;When the others faltered, misspelling words that would gag an etymologist, all the trophies belonged to children of immigrants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Six for six. I should have grabbed Vincent Medina, the young spelling whiz who also is a young math whiz, to calculate the unlikely odds -- all things being equal -- that in a county with foreign-born adults comprising about a fourth of Broward households, their children would claim six of the six honors in the Broward spelling bee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The elementary school trophies went to kids whose parents came from the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Philippines, China and Pakistan&lt;/span&gt;. Among the middle school winners, the parents hailed from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ecuador, India and India&lt;/span&gt; again. Those last kids standing on the stage Monday gave fresh evidence to the disconcerting notion that ''their'' children are working a hell of a lot harder than the slacker kids of families here for generations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Y claro, algunos americanos "de toda la vida" están preocupados de que tantos inmigrantes les vayan a quitar el trabajo a sus hijos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Washington crowd, going jingo lately, seems obsessed with the notion that immigrants and their children are grabbing ''American'' jobs. I suppose the logic goes that spelling champ Allion Salvador, who at age 11 has firm career goals, will snatch away someone's neurosurgeon job. When Paul Ponmattam becomes a cardiologist, that means one of ''our'' offspring goes to work at the car wash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;El cómico Jon Stewart, del programa de TV Comedy Central, cree haber descubierto la razón por la que los indios siempre ganan estos concursos. En un programa en el que hablaba sobre el reciente acuerdo entre USA y la India sobre intercambio de tecnología nuclear decía:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The deal between US and India is: "We'll help India build nuclear reactors if their children stop crushing us in Spelling Bees. For God's sake, your names already have like 20 letters, that's a huge advantage. That's always gonna win over the Bobs Smith!"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kawjtO0KTOI"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kawjtO0KTOI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114570093984813787?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114570093984813787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114570093984813787' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114570093984813787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114570093984813787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/spelling-bee.html' title='Spelling bee'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114435275123613718</id><published>2006-04-06T12:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-06T13:20:21.260-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sobre lo de los rezos</title><content type='html'>Ya sabía yo que &lt;a href="http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/parece-que-rezar-no-funciona.html"&gt;este tema de los rezos y los pacientes del corazón&lt;/a&gt; iba a levantar polémica. Os encanta discutir y meteros con los pobres americanos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A mi también me parece que al experimento le faltan ciertas "sub-casos" que merecen ser estudiados:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo habría añadido:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Una congregación de haitianos haciendo vudú a un grupo de enfermos, para ver si "empeoraban". Además, habría informado a un grupo de pacientes de que estaban siendo sujetos al vudú. (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;¡Eso sí que tiene que generar stress!&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La sugerencia de Marcos (decirle a un grupo que alguien rezaba por ellos, aunque fuera mentira). No me parece poco ético, es parte del experimento. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;En el caso de los católicos (ya que creo que los protestantes no tienen costumbre), creo que habría que haber especificado si estaban rezando a alguna Virgen en particular, ya que seguro que unas son más efectivas que otras, y aquí simplemente están sacando resultados promedios. Me parece injusto que los resultados de las Vírgenes con resultados buenos queden ocultos por los resultados mediocres de Vírgenes menos efectivas en medicina cardiovascular.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contestando a Ana, seguro que los rezos eran con velas. En USA, a la mínima que pueden, salen a la calle con velitas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De todas maneras, si alguien está interesado en saber todos los detalles del estudio, &lt;a href="http://www.ahjonline.com/article/PIIS0002870305006496/abstract"&gt;puede acceder al "paper" original&lt;/a&gt; ("Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer") publicado por el "American Heart Journal", aunque creo que requiere subscripción. A lo mejor los que accedeis desde una universidad teneis una suscripción.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114435275123613718?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114435275123613718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114435275123613718' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114435275123613718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114435275123613718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/sobre-lo-de-los-rezos.html' title='Sobre lo de los rezos'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114428105630907099</id><published>2006-04-05T16:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-05T18:23:04.976-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mascotas diabéticas</title><content type='html'>Una de las cosas curiosas que noté la primera vez que di un paseo por el pueblo donde vivo (Los Gatos, CA), es que había más "hospitales para mascotas" que centros médicos para personas. En EEUU la gente se gasta cantidades enormes de dinero en sus mascotas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, pues lo último de lo último es hacerle test de azucar en sangre a las mascotas, si sufren de diabetes (¿alguna vez habeis visto en España un perro con diabetes?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo curioso es que los aparatos para hacer análisis de azucar en sangre para humanos no funcionan del todo bien en perros y gatos, así que &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,70498-0.html?tw=rss.index"&gt;una empresa ha sacado al mercado un aparato especificamente diseñado para mascotas&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;p&gt;For diabetics, checking blood sugar levels a few times a day is crucial, and it's equally important for the approximately 500,000 dogs and cats that also suffer from diabetes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Plenty of glucose meters are available for people. Testing sugar levels at home is a pinprick away -- a drop of blood on the meter's testing strip gives an accurate reading within minutes. But it's not so easy for our furry friends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pet owners usually make frequent, expensive veterinarian visits to get accurate glucose readings. Or, they use human meters, which are often inaccurate for animals.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So, two companies have developed glucose meters especially for pets. Abbott Laboratories recently launched &lt;a href="http://www.abbott.com/news/press_release.cfm?id=1062"&gt;AlphaTRAK&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.animaldiabetes.com/"&gt;Animal Diabetes Management&lt;/a&gt;, a small private company in Janesville, Wisconsin, sells a meter calibrated specifically for pets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;¡Medio millón de perros y gatos con diabetes! ¿Qué les dan de comer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parece que los usuarios del nuevo aparato están muchos más tranquilos desde que lo utilizan:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Margo Hupe, diabetic herself, used her own meter on her diabetic dog, but found the results were significantly different from lab tests done by her vet's office. So she switched to Animal Diabetes Management's device.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;"It made me a lot more comfortable because I wasn’t guessing any more," she said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo también me quedo mucho más tranquilo por su perro... ;-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114428105630907099?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114428105630907099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114428105630907099' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114428105630907099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114428105630907099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/mascotas-diabticas.html' title='Mascotas diabéticas'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114403213174391028</id><published>2006-04-02T19:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-02T19:42:11.766-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pacientes que pesan 150 kilos</title><content type='html'>Otro de los problemas que tienen en EEUU es el de la obesidad. El problema está tan generalizado que obliga a muchas empresas a adaptar el tamaño de sus productos para poder ser utilizados por personas obesas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy he leído en &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-03-31-obesity-hospital_x.htm"&gt;USA Today&lt;/a&gt;, sobre un hospital que ha tenido que comprar camas nuevas, adaptar los quirofanos, adaptar las máquinas de tomografía o comprar sillas de ruedas especiales para tratar al elevado número de pacientes obesos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Today Henk helps Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis find better ways to deal with the growing number of very obese patients, an issue for many U.S. hospitals. Barnes-Jewish is replacing beds and wheelchairs with bigger models, widening doorways, buying larger CT scan machines, even replacing slippers and gowns.&lt;/blockquote&gt;El problema es que aproximadamente un tercio de los pacientes pesaba 158 kg o más:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Last year, patient care director Colleen Becker decided to check the numbers. She looked at a daily hospital census — about one-third of the 900 patients weighed 350 pounds or more. Startled, Becker checked another date, then another. The numbers were consistent. On some days, half the patients were obese. Some weighed 500 pounds or more.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Además de instalar camas más grandes y poner poleas para levantar a los pacientes, han tenido que agrandar la mesa de operaciones porque los pacientes se salían y han tenido que comprar jeringuillas más largas porque las de 4 pulgadas (10 cm) no conseguían penetrar la grasa:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="inside-copy"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Issues extend beyond the patient's room. Operating tables have been widened because the girth of some patients was lapping over the table, in some cases all the way to the floor, Becker said. CT scan machines weren't wide enough. Syringes with the longest available needles — 4 inches — couldn't penetrate the fat. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114403213174391028?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114403213174391028/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114403213174391028' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114403213174391028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114403213174391028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/pacientes-que-pesan-150-kilos.html' title='Pacientes que pesan 150 kilos'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114395539220604605</id><published>2006-04-01T21:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T23:11:16.616-08:00</updated><title type='text'>El debate sobre la educación científica en los colegios</title><content type='html'>Uno de los temas que más discusión produce en este momento en EEUU es cómo debe enseñarse (¡y si debe enseñarse!) a los escolares la Teoría de la Evolución de Darwin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto, que jamás provocaría ningún tipo de discusión en el resto de países civilizados del mundo, es motivo de debate continuo en EEUU, en periódicos, radio, televisión e Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En parte, el fenómeno se explica por los resultados de una encuesta que hace Gallup todos los años, en la que sondean la opinión de los estadounidenses sobre el origen del ser humano. &lt;a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002154704"&gt;Los resultados publicados en 2006 dicen&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The most recent poll, last September, posed the question this way: "Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This produced the 53% who chose "God created man exactly how Bible describes it," the 31% who said man did evolve but "God guided," and the 12% who backed evolution with God playing "no part."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Es decir, el 53% de los estadounidenses creen en una interpretación "literal" del Genesis, el 31% creen que ha habido algún tipo de evolución guiada por Dios (en línea con la teoría del Diseño Inteligente) y solo el 12% creen en una teoría de la evolución en la que Dios no ha estado involucrado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los "creyentes" en la Teoría de la Evolución aumentan a medida que aumenta su nivel educativo, aunque el número de personas con estudios universitarios que no creen en la Teoría de la Evolución sigue siendo alto (25%):&lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Support for this Bible view rises steadily with age: from 43% for those 18 to 29, to 59% for those 65 and older. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;It declines steadily with education, dropping from 58% for those with high school degrees to a still-substantial 25% with postgraduate degrees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; Con razón se produce el debate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114395539220604605?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114395539220604605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114395539220604605' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114395539220604605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114395539220604605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/el-debate-sobre-la-educacin-cientfica.html' title='El debate sobre la educación científica en los colegios'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-114395327942198778</id><published>2006-04-01T20:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T23:10:48.966-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Parece que rezar no funciona</title><content type='html'>Estados Unidos es un país especialmente religioso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto llega a tal extremo que algunos científicos han llegado a organizar un experimento, que ha costado varios años y 2.4 millones de dólares, para intentar comprobar si el hecho de que alguien rece por ti tiene algún efecto en la salud de un enfermo del corazón al que se le acaba de colocar un "by-pass". El estudio incluyó 1800 pacientes de diferentes hospitales de EEUU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La noticia se publicó en el &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html"&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt; (requiere subscripción), y en &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/30/prayer.study.ap/index.html"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;. También hay disponible un &lt;a href="http://rhosgobel.blogspot.com/2006/03/prayer-doesnt-heal.html"&gt;análisis del artículo en este blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al menos parece que el experimento estaba bien diseñado:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patients were randomly assigned to each treatment group.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patients were informed of their treatment group via a sealed letter; hospital staff were not informed of the patient's treatment group, and patients were told not to inform hospital staff of their assigned treatment.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Data collection and analysis were conducted without knowledge of the treatment group of the patients.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The treatment groups were sized to be able to statistically detect 10% changes in outcomes between the groups.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The authors collected a tremendous amount of data about all participants (e.g., age, religion, cardiovascular history statistics, operation time) and showed that "[t]here were no important differences in baseline or operative characteristics across the 3 groups."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Standard statistical analyses were used to analyze all the data.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The statistical comparisons to be made appear to have been decided before the study commenced (a procedure that prevents data fishing).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Dividieron a los pacientes en tres grupos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Grupo 1: alguien rezaba por ellos, sin que ellos lo supieran.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Grupo 2: nadie rezaba por ellos, sin que ellos lo supieran.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Grupo 3: alguien rezaba por ellos, y estaban informados de este hecho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Como era de esperar (incluso antes de gastarse los 2.4 millones de dolares), el resultado es que aquellos pacientes por los que se rezó no tuvieron mejores resultados que los del grupo de control (por los que nadie rezó).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Prayer had no significant effect on the number of patients experiencing complications after surgery (comparing groups 1 and 2, 52% vs. 51% of patients respectively; P=0.67). In other words, prayer did nothing.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Los que peor lo tuvieron son los pacientes a los que se les dijo que alguien estaba rezando por ellos. Parece que el saber que alguien está rezando por ti "aumenta el stress", lo cual no es bueno cuando te acaban de colocar un bypass:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Patients who knew they were being prayed for had significantly more complications after surgery than patients who were prayed for but weren't sure they were being prayed for (comparing groups 1 and 3, 52% vs. 59% of patients respectively; P=0.025). In other words, knowing you were being prayed for appeared to hurt, not help.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Un aspecto que queda sin aclarar (mejor dicho, queda como área de investigación para futuros estudios), es qué habría pasado si las personas encargadas de rezar fueran de otras religiones:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Those patients who were prayed for had their names sent to three different congregations (two Catholic and one Protestant), where congregants were instructed to pray for the patients for 14 days.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Imagino que en el siguiente estudio probaran con congregaciones de otras religiones, a ver si los resultados son más efectivos. :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-114395327942198778?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/114395327942198778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=114395327942198778' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114395327942198778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/114395327942198778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/04/parece-que-rezar-no-funciona.html' title='Parece que rezar no funciona'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1985/2631/1600/Imagen%20039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry></feed>
