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The library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum

ccc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:23:00 -0400

Lying to the northwest of ancient Herculaneum, this sumptuous seaside mansion was buried beneath 30m of petrified volcanic mud during the catastrophic eruption of Mt Vesuvius on August 24, AD79. Tagged by ccc under ingles, lecturas,

The Permission Problem: Financial Page: The New Yorker

ccc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:15:00 -0400

The commons leads to overuse and destruction; the anticommons leads to underuse and waste. In the cultural sphere, ever tighter restrictions on copyright and fair use limit artists’ abilities to sample and build on older works of art. Tagged by ccc under ingles, lecturas,

The Neurological Roots of Genius. Researchers are finding clues to the basis of brilliance in the brain

ccc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:07:00 -0400

Most studies show that smarter brains are typically bigger—at least in certain locations. Tagged by ccc under ingles, lecturas,

Facial Frontier. The human face can reveal much about a person-- whether they like it or not

ccc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:04:00 -0400

In ordinary life, what people want when they stare at the faces of others is acknowledgement. We want a sense that we exist. Tagged by ccc under ingles, lecturas,

Superbugs - The new generation of resistant infections is almost impossible to treat.

ccc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:01:00 -0400

A decade ago, only a few microbes in Southern Europe had multidrug resistance; now some fifty to sixty per cent of hospital-acquired infections are resistant. Tagged by ccc under ingles, informacion, lecturas,

The Other Darwin

ccc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:54:00 -0400

Darwin’s time has come again. Heralded by new biographies and editions of his works, a dual anniversary looms: 2009 will mark 200 years since his birth, and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Tagged by ccc under ingles, lecturas,

Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture

ccc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:49:00 -0400

Every reader of this magazine is likely to have heard of the "Sokal hoax," the most celebrated academic escapade of our time. Tagged by ccc under ingles, lecturas,

Gone, and Being Forgotten - ChronicleReview.com

ccc — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:13:00 -0400

How is it that Freud is not taught in psychology departments, Marx is not taught in economics, and Hegel is hardly taught in philosophy? Nowadays Freud is found in literature departments, Marx in film studies, and Hegel in German. Tagged by ccc under ingles, lecturas,

Re-Improved Colbert transcript.

ccc — Wed, 03 May 2006 09:28:00 -0400

I've taken the existing transcripts I've seen of Stephen Colbert's brilliant monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and the actual footage, and edited the transcripts (correcting spelling and punctuation, adding mistakenly omitted words, etc.) to produce the following improved transcript. I have now also transcribed all of Colbert's Press Secretary "audition video." Tagged by ccc under ingles, lecturas, humor,

Como ser un buen blogger 2.0

ccc — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 07:27:00 -0400

En mi afán de ganar enlaces y visitas, y ganar puestos en las listas de tops –aunque ya sé que nunca llegaré a ser un A– he escrito lo que creo es un buen manual para ser un blogger moderno y de éxito. Por supuesto esto es una versión beta, aunque muy seria y ajustada a severos y estrictos análisis y estudios, y sujeta a ser empeorada. Tagged by ccc under castellano, lecturas, humor, bitacoras, memelinks,

El estado de la WEB 2.0

ccc — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:51:00 -0400

Completo artículo en Wall Street Journal Tagged by ccc under ingles, informacion, lecturas, memelinks,

Silmarillion de Tolkien completo y con buscador

ccc — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:48:00 -0400

La obra de Tolkien, El Silmarillion, completa en castellano y equipada con un buscador. Obra que relata los inicios de la mitología tolkiniana a modo de Génesis. Tagged by ccc under lecturas, castellano,

Alan Turing Code-Breaker

ccc — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:08:00 -0500

Artículo en inglés en el que recorren la vida y peripecias de Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954): "No sólo salvó incontables vidas al ayudar a descifrar el código nazi de la máquina Enigma, sino que ideó el concepto de ordenador y replanteó la naturaleza de la mente". Tagged by ccc under números, lecturas, tecnologia, seguridad, ingles,

Cómo se fabrica un chip (diseña uno)

ccc — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:48:00 -0500

Explicación básica de qué es, de qué se compone y cómo se fabrica un microchip. Asimismo, puedes intentar diseñar uno y ver cómo se comporta, buscando siempre la mayor velocidad y el menor calentamiento -> http://www.appliedmaterials.com/products/assets/transistor_challenge/index.html Tagged by ccc under lecturas, tecnologia, ingles, electronica,

Todos los hacks

ccc — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:45:00 -0500

Página con todos los hacks que podías imaginar, los que vienen en los libros de O'Reilly y los que han enviado los usuarios. Tagged by ccc under util, lecturas, ingles, informacion,

Cómo se consiguió el .cat

ccc — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:33:00 -0500

Cuenta cómo se consiguió que el dominio .cat fuera el primer "top-level domain" asignado a una lengua y cultura concreta (la catalana). El artículo desvela el verdadero cerebro en la sombra, Amadeu Abril i Abril, uno de los dos únicos miembros españoles que ha habido en el ICANN, y cómo se replanteó la estrategia ante la imposibilidad de conseguir el TLD .ct para Cataluña. El reportaje en toda su extensión fué publicado por First Monday: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_1/gerrand/index.html Tagged by ccc under lecturas, ciberderechos, ingles, informacion, castellano,

Rootkit Guru: AntiVirus Makes Me Do It

ccc — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:42:00 -0500

Hacker Defender and other rootkit projects force security companies to care about the core of the problems, to develop better and better products. Tagged by ccc under lecturas, seguridad, ingles,

From Seattle to Hong Kong

ccc — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:08:00 -0500

If poor countries need tariffs for social spending and risk losing out with free trade, the World Bank should help them. Tagged by ccc under ciberderechos, lecturas, ingles, informacion,

On the hunt for a conspiracy theory

ccc — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:06:00 -0500

The simplistic worldview of conspiracy thinking helps fuel suspicion and mistrust toward the domain of politics. Tagged by ccc under lecturas, memelinks, ingles, informacion,

How Christianity (and Capitalism) Led to Science

ccc — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:03:00 -0500

Free labor was essential to the rise of capitalism, since free workers can maximize rewards by working harder. Christian reason made it happen.. Tagged by ccc under lecturas, memelinks, ingles, informacion,