Archive for the 'Digressions' Category

The list of lists for 2006

December 30, 2006

If you were sleep in 2006, you can catch up with practically anything by just looking at this list of lists. It takes seconds to look at it, but hours to digest it properly. Cool!

Enjoy!

50 million blogs

August 8, 2006


There are now over 50 million blogs
as the blogosphere continues to double every six months. Remarkably blogs in Spanish are only 3% of all blogs, barely edging blogs in Italian, despite the much larger Spanish speaking population.

The Pope Blog

April 19, 2005

Where else can you learn about the election of the Pope and the new Pope himself? Obviously, go to : The Pope Blog , a sign of the times!

More movies and videos of the Tsunami wave disaster

December 29, 2004

More movies and videos of the scary Tsunami waves  here and here. In this link you can find a horrific video from a home in Indoensia. Animation of the tsunami wave can be found here. And here you can find more than a dozen videos of the tsunami wave and its afftereffcts. I am just in awe of this disaster, not much I can say, pictures and videos simply tell the whole story better than words.

More movies and videos of the Tsunami wave disaster

December 29, 2004

More movies and videos of the scary Tsunami waves  here and here. In this link you can find a horrific video from a home in Indoensia. Animation of the tsunami wave can be found here. And here you can find more than a dozen videos of the tsunami wave and its afftereffcts. I am just in awe of this disaster, not much I can say, pictures and videos simply tell the whole story better than words.

Amazing video of tsunami wave

December 27, 2004

This video of the tsunami wave in Thailand is pretty amazing. Never underestimate the forces of nature. Imagine, beaches and towns 3,000 miles away from the epicenter were hit. Caracas is only 1,500 miles from Miami.

Iraqi blogger dies

March 17, 2004

Bob Zangas who was blogging from Iraq was killed in an ambush last week. Here is his last entry with pictures. I had read his blog sporadically. Shakes me up. May he rest in peace. (Via Instapundit)

Iraqi blogger dies

March 17, 2004

Bob Zangas who was blogging from Iraq was killed in an ambush last week. Here is his last entry with pictures. I had read his blog sporadically. Shakes me up. May he rest in peace. (Via Instapundit)

Iran and the studpity of some traditional media

February 23, 2004

 


Sometimes traditional media outstounds me, like this report in CNN with their reporter in Iran, explaining why the reformers lost:


 


They lost a good deal of credibility with the Iranian public because they failed to initiate many of the reforms they had promised.


 


But at the end of the day, they failed to deliver on important issues. And in some cases when many people expected them to stand up to the hardliners’ excesses outside parliament, they proved feeble.


 


Is this guy stupid or what? Two thousand of their reformist candidates are banned from running, including 87 members of the current Parlamient, two major newspapers which are pro-reformist are shutdown, the reformists call for a boycott of the election and they lost because they failed to deliver?  And they call this anlysis? Let’s hope they don’t send this guy to Venezuela now.

Iran and the studpity of some traditional media

February 23, 2004

 


Sometimes traditional media outstounds me, like this report in CNN with their reporter in Iran, explaining why the reformers lost:


 


They lost a good deal of credibility with the Iranian public because they failed to initiate many of the reforms they had promised.


 


But at the end of the day, they failed to deliver on important issues. And in some cases when many people expected them to stand up to the hardliners’ excesses outside parliament, they proved feeble.


 


Is this guy stupid or what? Two thousand of their reformist candidates are banned from running, including 87 members of the current Parlamient, two major newspapers which are pro-reformist are shutdown, the reformists call for a boycott of the election and they lost because they failed to deliver?  And they call this anlysis? Let’s hope they don’t send this guy to Venezuela now.