Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Robot ("Endhiran" TeztigoMix_Part 02) ***Kollywood(Tamil)***
This is so weird I just had to include it here.
Begins as a combo between Terminator and Matrix and then it gets weirder and weirder...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthiran
Thx b3ta for the link:
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Bollywoods_version_of_The_Matrix_Terminator
For those interested here is Wikipedia's description of the scene:
Vaseegaran establishes remote communication with Chitti via holographic projection and instructs Chitti to return to his lab. But Chitti refuses to oblige and disconnects the transmission. Calling himself "Version 2.0" now, Chitti begins to create replicas. Dr. Bohra is killed by Chitti. Soon Chitti's army of robots cause mayhem in the city, and take over AIRD. Vaseegaran undertakes the responsibility to stop Chitti. Disguised as one of the robots, he successfully infiltrates the AIRD headquarters. Vaseegaran instructs the police to cut the power supply in the entire city and Sana distracts Chitti from the problem by pretending that she had finally fallen in love with him. When Chitti and his army are about to run out of power, they find an alternate solution: they seize vehicles on the road and use their batteries to recharge themselves.
Chitti finds Vaseegaran, but as Chitti is about to kill him, the police force strikes AIRD. The robots assemble themselves into a sphere, snake, tower, and drill bit formations to defend themselves. One of the robots is immobilized by a grenade explosion, and is taken into custody by Vaseegaran. He uploads a computer worm into Chitti's network which temporarily brings down the robot army. Chitti identifies the source of the worm and sends a "self-destruct" command to the robot. The robots assemble in the shape of a giant and chase Vaseegaran's armoured bus. Vaseegaran uses the data he had backed up from the destroyed robot to de-magnetise the robot army, collapsing the giant formation. Chitti is pulled into the bus by a huge magnetic wall, allowing Vaseegaran access to Chitti's internal control panel, through which he instructs all the other robots to self-destruct. He then removes the red chip.
In a court hearing, the jury rules capital punishment for Vaseegaran citing the large number of casualties and damages to public property caused by the robot army. Chitti, explaining to the court that the law allows it to be treated as material evidence, if not as a witness, explains that it was Dr. Bohra who caused Chitti's deviant behaviour. He shows the court, using his eyes as 3D projectors, the video footage of Dr. Bohra installing the red chip inside him. The court decides to drop all charges against Vaseegaran, while concluding that Chitti should be dismantled in order to avoid further mishaps of the same kind in future. Back at the lab, in the presence of bureaucrats and police officials, an emotional Vaseegaran tells Chitti to dismantle itself. While taking off its parts one by one, Chitti apologizes to Sana and Vaseegaran for the problems it caused.
Twenty years later, in 2030, students in a science museum are escorted by a guide towards a showcase that has Chitti's body parts arranged. The guide tells the students that Chitti was the most advanced humanoid robot created, but it was dismantled due to "certain reasons". A curious student (Shriya Sharma) asks why, to which Chitti's head responds, "I started to think."
Begins as a combo between Terminator and Matrix and then it gets weirder and weirder...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthiran
Thx b3ta for the link:
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Bollywoods_version_of_The_Matrix_Terminator
For those interested here is Wikipedia's description of the scene:
Vaseegaran establishes remote communication with Chitti via holographic projection and instructs Chitti to return to his lab. But Chitti refuses to oblige and disconnects the transmission. Calling himself "Version 2.0" now, Chitti begins to create replicas. Dr. Bohra is killed by Chitti. Soon Chitti's army of robots cause mayhem in the city, and take over AIRD. Vaseegaran undertakes the responsibility to stop Chitti. Disguised as one of the robots, he successfully infiltrates the AIRD headquarters. Vaseegaran instructs the police to cut the power supply in the entire city and Sana distracts Chitti from the problem by pretending that she had finally fallen in love with him. When Chitti and his army are about to run out of power, they find an alternate solution: they seize vehicles on the road and use their batteries to recharge themselves.
Chitti finds Vaseegaran, but as Chitti is about to kill him, the police force strikes AIRD. The robots assemble themselves into a sphere, snake, tower, and drill bit formations to defend themselves. One of the robots is immobilized by a grenade explosion, and is taken into custody by Vaseegaran. He uploads a computer worm into Chitti's network which temporarily brings down the robot army. Chitti identifies the source of the worm and sends a "self-destruct" command to the robot. The robots assemble in the shape of a giant and chase Vaseegaran's armoured bus. Vaseegaran uses the data he had backed up from the destroyed robot to de-magnetise the robot army, collapsing the giant formation. Chitti is pulled into the bus by a huge magnetic wall, allowing Vaseegaran access to Chitti's internal control panel, through which he instructs all the other robots to self-destruct. He then removes the red chip.
In a court hearing, the jury rules capital punishment for Vaseegaran citing the large number of casualties and damages to public property caused by the robot army. Chitti, explaining to the court that the law allows it to be treated as material evidence, if not as a witness, explains that it was Dr. Bohra who caused Chitti's deviant behaviour. He shows the court, using his eyes as 3D projectors, the video footage of Dr. Bohra installing the red chip inside him. The court decides to drop all charges against Vaseegaran, while concluding that Chitti should be dismantled in order to avoid further mishaps of the same kind in future. Back at the lab, in the presence of bureaucrats and police officials, an emotional Vaseegaran tells Chitti to dismantle itself. While taking off its parts one by one, Chitti apologizes to Sana and Vaseegaran for the problems it caused.
Twenty years later, in 2030, students in a science museum are escorted by a guide towards a showcase that has Chitti's body parts arranged. The guide tells the students that Chitti was the most advanced humanoid robot created, but it was dismantled due to "certain reasons". A curious student (Shriya Sharma) asks why, to which Chitti's head responds, "I started to think."
Monday, January 24, 2011
Speculative Fiction 01 - 2205
Tuve un largo periodo de reflexion este fin de semana mientras le hacian unas reparaciones al carro. Estuvo tan lento que me dio tiempo para leer, dibujar y hasta para entrar en discusiones filosoficas. En este caso un concepto que pudiese servir para algo como una pelicula de television o por lo menos un comic de varios capitulos.
Le llamo a este tipo de historias Ficcion Especulativa. Una exploracion de lo que pasaria en el futuro cercano. En este caso en particular pensaba en la vida en Puerto Rico en el 2205. En este caso las cosas no han cambiado mucho, todavia a esta fecha estamos tratando de definir un status. Los ultimos dos plebiscitos los ha ganado una opcion anexionista, pero no han sido ejecutables porque no han logrado una mayoria absoluta de por lo menos 51 porciento. Seguimos hablando espa/nol, esto porque el espa/nol y el chino son los idiomas oficiales del Washington.
En la epoca particular de esta historia el nivel del mar ha subido unos 4 metros, por lo que las areas bajas como el Condado, Isla Verde y buena parte de Levittown estan sumergidos como a 2 metros bajo agua. La gente tuvo que ser expropiada mediante un programa de estimulo de FEMA. De repente la gente habla de ir a la Plaza Rio Hondo y su bello paseo lineal con acceso a la playa.
Los dominicanos, tecatos y gente humilde e indigente han invadido los lotes de las antiguas casas de Levittown para hacer casuchas en el techo. Viven auscultando los tesoros que quedaron debajo y han tenido que improvisar nuevos sistemas para llevar agua potable a las casas. Las aguas sanitarias se almacenan en pozomuros hechos de 'totebins' y cisternas abandonadas. A falta de ayuda municipal usan tecnologias de osmosis inversa de baja presion para purificar agua
Almas con vision usan peque/nos botes para recolectar esas aguas. Con ellas generan cienos que usan para generar un suelo que tiran encima del terreno que reclaman al mar. Algo como lo que hacen para rescatar terrenos del Ca/no Martin Pe/na en Cantera:
Por su parte, Ortega Rodríguez, quien mantiene vivas las memorias de los tiempos en que tenía 6 años, detalló cómo los vecinos se unieron para rellenar el caño, construir las viviendas y ubicarlas en terrenos sin que las agencias gubernamentales se enteraran:
“Los camiones dejaban el relleno en la avenida y mi papá lo bajaba con la gente. Cogíamos drones, se les hacían unos rotos en el medio y los amarrábamos como una balsa y los llevábamos hasta un punto límite del caño. Ahí, le echábamos piedra al dron pa’ que se fuera al fondo. Eso lo rellenábamos.
“Entonces, las casas se hacían por partes y se juntaban. Después, las traíamos acá y las empujábamos con bambúas hasta donde se iban a dejar. A lo que se les llamaba los guardabosques, pa’ que no prohibieran hacer las casas, los emborrachábamos con ron caña.
“La gente se unió en agrupaciones. Entonces, entre todos, un día trabajaban con una casa y la montaban en dos días o tres. Luego, trabajaban por la noche, porque de día había vigilancia”.
“La gente se unió en agrupaciones. Entonces, entre todos, un día trabajaban con una casa y la montaban en dos días o tres. Luego, trabajaban por la noche, porque de día había vigilancia”.
Años más tarde, rememoró Ortega Rodríguez, intentaron sacarlos:
“Vinieron y nos pintaron las casas con unas marcas negras para desalojarnos. Pero en ese tiempo mi papá, José A. Ortega Meléndez, formó una cooperativa que dio acceso y derecho de la comunidad a tener su título de propiedad y la escrituras de donde residimos”.
Mas del Santurce de anta/no aqui:
Un desvio puede ser los aspectos legales de quien es el due/no de esas propiedades inundadas. Deberia ser el Gobierno de Puerto Rico, una vez ejecutada la hipoteca o expropiado por alguna agencia. Una divergencia aqui:
Este caso del Tribunal Supremo implicó propiedades frente al mar a lo largo del Golfo de México en la ciudad de Destin, Florida. Luego del paso reciente de varios huracanes a lo largo de la costa del golfo, el Departamento de Protección Ambiental de Florida emprendió varios proyectos de relleno para agregar arena en áreas frente al mar que se habían erosionado significativamente. Dragaron la arena de áreas distantes a la costa y la depositaron a lo largo del frente de mar, agregando aproximadamente 23 metros (75 pies) a la playa más allá de la línea de marea alta promedio.
Debido a que el estado de la Florida posee, como patrimonio público, todo aquello que se encuentre en áreas afuera de la costa que esté dentro de la línea de marea alta promedio, el tribunal concluyó que los 23 metros (75 pies) de playa adicional también les correspondían. Esta acción hizo que toda propiedad privada que anteriormente se encontraba frente al mar ya no tuviera ese derecho. Además, agregó una franja de aproximadamente 23 metros (75 pies) de ancho de área pública de playa entre la línea de marea alta promedio anterior y la nueva.
Los propietarios afectados entablaron una demanda para reclamar que sus derechos de litoral le habían sido expropiados y buscaron compensación bajo la le y de dominio eminente. Citaron específicamente dos derechos: (1) el de recibir los aumentos en área correspondientes a sus propiedades y (2) el que sus propiedades mantengan intacto su derecho al contacto con el agua.
En particular base mis conjeturas en las proyecciones de 1 a 2 metros de elevacion del mar por el calentamiento global. Para discusiones del tema aqui:
Las zonas sujetas a bajos niveles se pudiesen inundar con facilidad.
La mayoria iria a tierras mas altas, abandonando estructuras viejas. Estas serian invadidas por indigentes o extranjeros.
Areas como condado, Levittown u otras tierras bajas estarian sujetas a inundacion. Practicas como las de Venecia harian sentido:
Nuevos desastres, como los de las Filipinas pudiesen pasar en periodos de Huracanes:
Recuerdan al Huracan Hortense? El que no soplo, pero inundo muchas comunidades:
O Georges?
En fin, segui expandiendo la idea de construir sobre terrazas y botes. Casas flotantes. Unidas por poleas. Entonces hice este priimer esquematico. Termine con un monton de ideas, especulando. Quien sabe, uno de estos dias me de un arrebato y haga una historia corta.
Cierro con varios articulos con comics aqui:
Visualizar Evolucion de Generos Musicales
En Puerto Rico clasificamos la musica genericamente como Salsa, Rock, Merengue o Regueton. Sin embargo, al profundizar en los generos hay muchas divisiones, segun se innova en la musica. Ejemplo, no es lo mismo Maelo que Eddie Palmieri, de la misma manera que Brain Eno es completamente distinto a Roots Manuva. En los sistemas grandes nos gusta clasificar los generos musicales, de la misma manera que la taxonomia sirve para clasificar sisstemas biologicos.
Me gusto como Details presento la evolucion del hip hop hace como 10 a/nos atras. Lastima que la perdi.
http://digitalmusiccollector.wordpress.com/category/music-genre-tree/
Aqui hay una buena introduccion al tema.
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
Este otro enfoca en rock:
http://gigdoggy.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/what-musical-genre-defines-this-past-decade/
Recien tropece con esta gran idea para la visualizacion de generos usando controles de Wii y 2 proyectores:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/electronic-music-synclost-visualization-wii-wiimote
http://www.3bits.net/synclost/descrip.html
http://www.3bits.net/synclost/index.html
In Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, 1970, the Italian Ferruccio Busoni proposes the use of electricity and other new sound forms as a source of inspiration for a so called “music of the future”. Therefore, electronic music has always been associated with the production of sounds generated by electronic components and instruments since 1960. Today it includes many forms and varieties, ranging from experimental music to dance music.
The popularization of the instruments and computers, allied to the broad and easy reachable information through the internet, enabled the appearance of countless rhythmic structures, giving rise to new styles and sub styles within contemporary electronic music.
SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.
The project's objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. The choice is individual and leads to a collective consequence in the spatial visualization of information.
3bits Lab
Simplemente curioso, y me quede sin encontrar el diagrama...Pero encontre un alma afin que le gusta presentar visualizaciones graficas de musica:
http://www.verysmallarray.com/
Me gusto como Details presento la evolucion del hip hop hace como 10 a/nos atras. Lastima que la perdi.
http://digitalmusiccollector.wordpress.com/category/music-genre-tree/
Aqui hay una buena introduccion al tema.
While researching several sources for building up the initial phases of the music genre tree, I have found several good sources that I plan to reference. These are a few of the most interesting sites in no particular order:
- Rate Your Music: A Social network revolving around music. I haven’t tried their core site, but their genre tree is public and quite good.
- Wikipedia’s Representation of a Complete Music Genre Tree: Not the greatest user interface for looking at this data, but very complete and accurate.
- Wikipedia’s Geneology of Cuban Music: Shows a subset of the complete music genre tree. It is just interesting to see how you can represent genres while taking in consideration region and period of time.
- A Taxonomy of Music Genres: A research paper presented at Content-Based Multimedia Information Access Conference in April 2000. A great, and educational, read for anybody interested in music genres.
- last.fm’s genre-related tags: Paul Lamere, a music researcher at Sun Labs has compiled a clickable list of genres generated from tags given to songs on the last.fm web site.
- . . . and finally, a comedic and educational video on music genres by benpatton.com
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
Este otro enfoca en rock:
http://gigdoggy.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/what-musical-genre-defines-this-past-decade/
The 1950s invented rock and roll and be-bop. The 1960s invented modern rock, blues rock, jazz rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, soul, hard-bop and free jazz. The 1970s create stadium rock, disco, funk and punk. The 1980s created the music video and many metal-related genres. The 1990s had grunge, Britpop, boy/girl bands and hip-hop. So what’s our decade’s claim to fame?
The one new style of music that could be called original is danceable rock and roll. I have yet to hear it given a proper name but what I am referring to is the current guitar bands that incorporate elements of dance and rave music. Examples would be Franz Ferdinand, The Klaxons, The Killers, Hot Hot Heat, Kasabian, and the Kaiser Chiefs. These bands wear their influences on their sleeve but have managed to create something relatively new. You can hear everything from the Bee Gees to The Jam and Joy Division up to Pearl Jam and The Stone Roses. I don’t necessarily like all these bands — I thoroughly dislike the Klaxons — but at least they are doing something slightly original.
The one element of the 2000’s that will be remembered is the utilization of the internet. Online music communities are forming without any influence from the corporate music world. That is a truly exciting occurrence in new music.
UPDATE:Recien tropece con esta gran idea para la visualizacion de generos usando controles de Wii y 2 proyectores:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/electronic-music-synclost-visualization-wii-wiimote
http://www.3bits.net/synclost/descrip.html
http://www.3bits.net/synclost/index.html
In Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, 1970, the Italian Ferruccio Busoni proposes the use of electricity and other new sound forms as a source of inspiration for a so called “music of the future”. Therefore, electronic music has always been associated with the production of sounds generated by electronic components and instruments since 1960. Today it includes many forms and varieties, ranging from experimental music to dance music.
The popularization of the instruments and computers, allied to the broad and easy reachable information through the internet, enabled the appearance of countless rhythmic structures, giving rise to new styles and sub styles within contemporary electronic music.
SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.
The project's objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. The choice is individual and leads to a collective consequence in the spatial visualization of information.
3bits Lab
Conception, creation and coordination: Herbert Rafael.
Creation, technique coordination and production: Ricardo Wagner.
Programming and design: Pedro Miguel Cruz.
Technical support: Helder Robalo, Jonathas Sampaio e Lucas Cancela.
http://www.verysmallarray.com/
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Calculadora Celestial y el Nuevo Zodiaco
Siempre me han fascinado las maneras en que dividimos el tiempo. Uno de estos metodos es el uso de signos zodiacales. En occidente dividimos el a/no en 12 partes o 4 estaciones divididas en 3. De ahi salen los meses y nuestro sistema numerico, que tiene raices en el conocimiento de los mesopotamios y el imperio persa.
Como fuimos de una astronomia seria a los juegos de ni/nos de predecir el futuro con los signos zodiacales no lo se. Debe ser parecido al camino de la quimica primitiva y la alquimia.
De una ciencia seria a esto a lo de los signos astrologicos y como las estrellas dirigen nuestro destino hay un gran trecho. Clasicamente los doce signos se basan en estaciones y solsticios como este poema resume:
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/web-images/man-universe.gif
Me entro la curiosidad, como se distribuyen los signos zodiacales? Ironicamente han hecho aproximaciones basadas en el censo de Estados Unidos y Canada. Se las despacho al costo, parece haber una distribucion bastante pareja. Miren las dos tablas debajo para que las vean.
Mas estadisticas curiosas aqui:
http://books.google.com/books?id=sCxvvTIOulAC&lpg=PA4&ots=4ezCROlzi8&dq=census%20distribution%20by%20zodiac%20sign&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false
Esta pone la mayoria de la poblacion en la segunda mitad del a/no:
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Reference/tech_rep/age_sex/table2.cfm
Estas graficas salieron de una discusion relacionada a la composicion del Congreso de los Estados Unidos. Aqui lo dejo:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379449
Estupideces, si me preguntan a mi.
Comence este articulo pensando en como reaccionar a la presencia del nuevo signo zodiacal del cargador de serpiente (Ofiuco). El signo no es nada nuevo y no debe cambiar toda una tradicion de pseudo ciencia. Creemos lo que queremos creer. Como toda moda, comienza cuando un periodista que da copy y paste a comunicados de prensa de la web repite un articulo de Minnesota que reprodujeron las principales telecadenas estadounidenses.
ENadie lee ni investiga. Hoy es dia de aclaraciones, comencemos con el diario de Minnesota que revolco el avispero. Veamos de ENDI.com:
http://www.elnuevodia.com/sorprendelaatencionalzodiaco-865258.html
Aqui Walter Mercado defiende su finca:
http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2011/01/13/868568/walter-mercado-niega-que-haya.html
Aqui algo de Rukmini, que tambien resta importancia a este tema:
http://zodiacco.blogspot.com/2011/01/dilema-entre-los-seguidores-del.html
En realidad los signos son arbitrarios y creados en folklore mas que logica. Por ejemplo, kottke reporto esto desde 1999:
http://kottke.org/99/03/the-new-zodiac
los escepticos lo reducen a un juegho. Un tipo de muletilla mental:
http://skepdic.com/astrology.html
Y quizas algunos animaniacos recordaran a Los Caballeros del Zodiaco:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Seiya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saint_Seiya_characters
Hay mas de un sistema astrologico, y mas de una manera de ver las cosas. Desde el punto de vista serio me voy gaga con imagenes de libros antiguos. Asi que aqui incluyo links de manuscritos persas y arabes de los sistemas astrologicos, cortesia de Bibliodessey:
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/03/kitab-al-bulhan.html
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/12/persian-zodiac.html
En temas relacionados los orientales tienen su propio sistema de constelaciones que es distinto al de los animales que vemos cada vez que comemos pepper steak con arroz frito y papitas. Aqui una introduccion al tema:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_star_maps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_constellations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Symbols_%28Chinese_constellation%29
El tema es fascinante y le tome interes viendo una serie japonesa llamada Fushigi Yuugi (Mysterious Play). Era empalagoso como novelon mejicano, pero tenia una animacion y dibujo excepcional. Mas del sistema astrologico debajo.
http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/charts.htm
El anime toma muchos elementos mitologicos orientales y los convierte en personajes de series. Por ejemplo, el sistema celestial oriental se basa en cuatro animales protectores (o dioses) que incluyen el ave de fuego, la tortuga, el dragon y el tigre. Algo del tema de los cuatro dioses del sistema sideral aqui:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFourGods
Y una sinopsis de Fushigi Yuugi aqui:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FushigiYuugi
El punto es que la base de ambos sistemas es comun. Sistemas Persas basados en sabios hindues. La ruta de interpretacion tuvo muchas vertientes, que incluyen hasta la presencia de los Padres Jesuitas y sus teorias geocentricas. Algo discutiendo ese tronco comun y su influencia en la astrologia china aqui:
http://www.mazzaroth.com/Introduction/ManazilDefined.htm
The development of Astronomy is believed to come from Babylonia around 1400-1000 B.C. with the Ea-Anu-Enlil tablets. Then came the records of celestial events and algebraic tables of celestial motions. The zodiac of Babylonia evolved around 420 B.C., before Berossos, Kidinnu, Naburiannu, and the Seleucid Babylonians appeared.
China projects 1400 B.C. for the beginning of eclipses, then comet records, Calendars, and star catalogues. Some propose that they influenced Mexico.
Astronomy in Europe began around 600 through 300 B.C. with the pre-Socratic speculations, then Aristarchus (heliocentric theory), Eratostenes, Hipparchus and Ptolemy.
Ptolemy and Babylonia influenced the Arabs and India which led to the term manazil. The term manazil is an Arabic expression derived from an ancient Akkadian word that literally means 'Mansion'. In Antiquity it was used in reference to the so-called 'night residences' of the Moon and these 'signs' formed the Semitic Lunar Zodiac consisting of 28 manazils, each one being 12 degrees and fifty-one minutes wide.
Mansion or mansions also see house as any one of the 28 divisions of the moon's monthly path [Middle English, a dwelling, from Old French, from Latin mansio, mansion-, from mansus, past participle of manere, to dwell, remain].
The names of the stars date back hundreds or even thousands of years, and after the collapse of the Greco-Roman civilization, this knowledge was preserved by the Arabs. During the Renaissance, the Europeans adopted many of these names and terms from the Arabic sources, which is why a majority of star names are Arabic in origin. In 1603, German astronomer Johann Bayer (1572-1625) instituted a system of assigning Greek letters to stars (Bayer designation), consisting of a lowercase Greek letter followed by the genitive name of the constellation. The letters are usually assigned to the stars in the order of their brightness within a given constellation.
Por aquello de ser inclusivo, un poco del sistema egipcio aqui:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_astronomy
Tecnologias antiguas fueron necesarios para desarrollar toda esta ciencia. El astrolabio, cuadrante y otros instrumentos fueron desarrollados para calcular la posicion exacta de los planetas, el sol y las estrellas. Los persas eran los unicos que tenian el grado de conovimiento necesario para desarollar los engranajes de tan alta precision. Les hago referencia a un articulo que salio recientemente discutiendo el mecanismo antikythera. Una calculadora de posiciones astrales basados en un sistema analogo de discos y bielas. Un regalo de los sabios Griegos al mundo.
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
(articulo de Nature aqui, detras de un paywall)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7204/full/nature07130.html
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/node/35
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=decoding-an-ancient-computer
An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots
WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made the greatest impression on him. He returned to the surface, removed his helmet, and gabbled that he had found a heap of dead, naked women. The ship's cargo of luxury goods also included jewellery, pottery, fine furniture, wine and bronzes dating back to the first century BC. But the most important finds proved to be a few green, corroded lumps—the last remnants of an elaborate mechanical device.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2d8p07k&s=5
Cierro con la introduccion de la serie Fushigi Yuugi...
Como fuimos de una astronomia seria a los juegos de ni/nos de predecir el futuro con los signos zodiacales no lo se. Debe ser parecido al camino de la quimica primitiva y la alquimia.
De una ciencia seria a esto a lo de los signos astrologicos y como las estrellas dirigen nuestro destino hay un gran trecho. Clasicamente los doce signos se basan en estaciones y solsticios como este poema resume:
- The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins,
- And next the Crab, the Lion shines,
- The Virgin and the Scales.
- The Scorpion, Archer, and the Goat,
- The Man who holds the Watering Pot,
- And Fish with glittering scales.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/web-images/man-universe.gif
Me entro la curiosidad, como se distribuyen los signos zodiacales? Ironicamente han hecho aproximaciones basadas en el censo de Estados Unidos y Canada. Se las despacho al costo, parece haber una distribucion bastante pareja. Miren las dos tablas debajo para que las vean.
The unofficial U.S. census
By Tom HeymannMas estadisticas curiosas aqui:
http://books.google.com/books?id=sCxvvTIOulAC&lpg=PA4&ots=4ezCROlzi8&dq=census%20distribution%20by%20zodiac%20sign&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false
Esta pone la mayoria de la poblacion en la segunda mitad del a/no:
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Reference/tech_rep/age_sex/table2.cfm
| Table 2. | Population Distribution Born Between 1979 and 2000 by Month of Birth and Period of Birth, in Percentage, Vital Statistics and 2001 Census, for Canada – 20% Sample Data |
| Month and Period | Vital Statistics | 2001 Census |
| January | 7.94 | 7.88 |
| February | 7.63 | 7.59 |
| March | 8.72 | 8.70 |
| April | 8.63 | 8.63 |
| May 1 to May 14 | 4.08 | 4.11 |
| January 1 to May 14 | 37.01 | 36.90 |
| May 15 to May 31 | 4.87 | 4.89 |
| June | 8.57 | 8.58 |
| July | 8.76 | 8.75 |
| August | 8.50 | 8.45 |
| September | 8.54 | 8.56 |
| October | 8.19 | 8.20 |
| November | 7.70 | 7.71 |
| December | 7.86 | 7.95 |
| May 15 to December 31 | 62.99 | 63.10 |
| Total | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Note: | The 20% data were used for this table in order to select only those persons who were born in Canada. |
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Estas graficas salieron de una discusion relacionada a la composicion del Congreso de los Estados Unidos. Aqui lo dejo:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379449
Estupideces, si me preguntan a mi.
Comence este articulo pensando en como reaccionar a la presencia del nuevo signo zodiacal del cargador de serpiente (Ofiuco). El signo no es nada nuevo y no debe cambiar toda una tradicion de pseudo ciencia. Creemos lo que queremos creer. Como toda moda, comienza cuando un periodista que da copy y paste a comunicados de prensa de la web repite un articulo de Minnesota que reprodujeron las principales telecadenas estadounidenses.
ENadie lee ni investiga. Hoy es dia de aclaraciones, comencemos con el diario de Minnesota que revolco el avispero. Veamos de ENDI.com:
http://www.elnuevodia.com/sorprendelaatencionalzodiaco-865258.html
MINNEAPOLIS - Un profesor de astronomía de Minneapolis dijo estar sorprendido por la atención que generó su comentario de que los signos del zodíaco están equivocados.
El profesor Parke Kunkle había dicho en una entrevista con un diario que la órbita cambiante de la Tierra significa que el planeta ya no está alineado con las estrellas en la misma posición que cuando los signos fueron creados.
Aqui Walter Mercado defiende su finca:
http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2011/01/13/868568/walter-mercado-niega-que-haya.html
Aqui algo de Rukmini, que tambien resta importancia a este tema:
http://zodiacco.blogspot.com/2011/01/dilema-entre-los-seguidores-del.html
En realidad los signos son arbitrarios y creados en folklore mas que logica. Por ejemplo, kottke reporto esto desde 1999:
http://kottke.org/99/03/the-new-zodiac
los escepticos lo reducen a un juegho. Un tipo de muletilla mental:
http://skepdic.com/astrology.html
Y quizas algunos animaniacos recordaran a Los Caballeros del Zodiaco:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Seiya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saint_Seiya_characters
Hay mas de un sistema astrologico, y mas de una manera de ver las cosas. Desde el punto de vista serio me voy gaga con imagenes de libros antiguos. Asi que aqui incluyo links de manuscritos persas y arabes de los sistemas astrologicos, cortesia de Bibliodessey:
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/03/kitab-al-bulhan.html
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/12/persian-zodiac.html
En temas relacionados los orientales tienen su propio sistema de constelaciones que es distinto al de los animales que vemos cada vez que comemos pepper steak con arroz frito y papitas. Aqui una introduccion al tema:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_star_maps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_constellations
The Twenty-Eight Mansions
The zodiac is listed below,| Four Symbols (四象) | Mansion (宿) | |||
| name | pinyin | lit. translation | vicinity in western sky | |
| The Azure Dragon of the East (東方青龍) Spring | 角 | Jiǎo | Horn | Spica (α Vir) |
| 亢 | Kàng | Neck | Virgo | |
| 氐 | Dī | Root | Libra | |
| 房 | Fáng | Room | Libra | |
| 心 | Xīn | Heart | Antares | |
| 尾 | Wěi | Tail | Scorpius | |
| 箕 | Jī | Winnowing Basket | Sagittarius | |
| The Black Tortoise of the North (北方玄武) Winter | 斗 | Dǒu | Dipper | Sagittarius |
| 牛 | Niú | Ox | Capricornus | |
| 女 | Nǚ | Girl | Aquarius | |
| 虛 | Xū | Emptiness | Aquarius | |
| 危 | Wēi | Danger, Rooftop | Aquarius/Pegasus | |
| 室 | Shì | Room, Encampment | Pegasus | |
| 壁 | Bì | Wall | Algenib/Pegasus | |
| The White Tiger of the West (西方白虎) Fall | 奎 | Kuí | Legs | Andromeda |
| 婁 | Lóu | Bond | Aries | |
| 胃 | Wèi | Stomach | Aries | |
| 昴 | Mǎo | Hairy Head | Pleiades | |
| 畢 | Bì | Net | Taurus | |
| 觜 | Zī | Turtle Beak | Orion | |
| 參 | Shēn | Three Stars | Orion | |
| The Vermillion Bird of the South (南方朱雀) Summer | 井 | Jǐng | Well | Gemini |
| 鬼 | Guǐ | Ogre/Demon, Ghost | Cancer | |
| 柳 | Liǔ | Willow | Hydra | |
| 星 | Xīng | Star | Alphard | |
| 張 | Zhāng | Growth, Extended Net | Crater | |
| 翼 | Yì | Wings | Corvus | |
| 軫 | Zhěn | Strongly (as of emotion), Chariot | Corvus | |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Symbols_%28Chinese_constellation%29
El tema es fascinante y le tome interes viendo una serie japonesa llamada Fushigi Yuugi (Mysterious Play). Era empalagoso como novelon mejicano, pero tenia una animacion y dibujo excepcional. Mas del sistema astrologico debajo.
http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/charts.htm
In many ways, these associations reflect the mirror or "shadow" relation of earth to sky... human to nature... nature to cosmos... that was so prominent in pre-scientific cosmologies in this part of Asia. At times we are looking at earth from the perspective of the emperor; that is, we are in the North, South is opposite, East is to the left, and West is to the right. At other times, we are looking toward the North, from the earth, and reading the signs of stars relative to our previously defined "earthly" directions.
Like myths and traditions in Western cultures, these views still wield influence in the daily life of people in China, Korea, and Japan... this despite quite prominent scientific literacy. However, it should be pointed out that astrological divination in China, Korea and Japan was and is rather complex. It took and still takes into account many "elements" of sky and earth, an elaborate geomancy including but certainly not limited to the position of some celestial body within a given constellation at a person's birth. It is difficult to argue that the system is not intellectually rich, and it no doubt had pragmatic use in both affairs of state and "common" person. However, it is somewhat sad that in the long history of China, not to mention the curious but rather isolated Japan, such concentration on astrological matters held attention much longer than in the West, thus retarding at times significant scientific advances in astronomy (see Calendar Reform in Japan). Many gifted minds were and perhaps still are wasted in such divination.
That said, lore related to moon stations is one of the most interesting aspects of Asian Ethnoastronomy. Somewhat similar to Chinese but perhaps even more, Japanese interpretations of these associations tended to revolve around agricultural needs and animistic views of nature. Unlike many Western myths and traditions, there were few if any perceptions in the myths of "active" god(s) creating or wreaking good or bad on the cosmos and/or humankind. Rather, especially in Japan with its Shinto base, gods like the talismanic animals were seen as manifestations of nature... stars and celestial events were signs of change in season, life, politics, etc... perhaps most often portending "bad" but sometimes "good" as well.
El anime toma muchos elementos mitologicos orientales y los convierte en personajes de series. Por ejemplo, el sistema celestial oriental se basa en cuatro animales protectores (o dioses) que incluyen el ave de fuego, la tortuga, el dragon y el tigre. Algo del tema de los cuatro dioses del sistema sideral aqui:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFourGods
Y una sinopsis de Fushigi Yuugi aqui:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FushigiYuugi
El punto es que la base de ambos sistemas es comun. Sistemas Persas basados en sabios hindues. La ruta de interpretacion tuvo muchas vertientes, que incluyen hasta la presencia de los Padres Jesuitas y sus teorias geocentricas. Algo discutiendo ese tronco comun y su influencia en la astrologia china aqui:
http://www.mazzaroth.com/Introduction/ManazilDefined.htm
The development of Astronomy is believed to come from Babylonia around 1400-1000 B.C. with the Ea-Anu-Enlil tablets. Then came the records of celestial events and algebraic tables of celestial motions. The zodiac of Babylonia evolved around 420 B.C., before Berossos, Kidinnu, Naburiannu, and the Seleucid Babylonians appeared.
China projects 1400 B.C. for the beginning of eclipses, then comet records, Calendars, and star catalogues. Some propose that they influenced Mexico.
Astronomy in Europe began around 600 through 300 B.C. with the pre-Socratic speculations, then Aristarchus (heliocentric theory), Eratostenes, Hipparchus and Ptolemy.
Ptolemy and Babylonia influenced the Arabs and India which led to the term manazil. The term manazil is an Arabic expression derived from an ancient Akkadian word that literally means 'Mansion'. In Antiquity it was used in reference to the so-called 'night residences' of the Moon and these 'signs' formed the Semitic Lunar Zodiac consisting of 28 manazils, each one being 12 degrees and fifty-one minutes wide.
Mansion or mansions also see house as any one of the 28 divisions of the moon's monthly path [Middle English, a dwelling, from Old French, from Latin mansio, mansion-, from mansus, past participle of manere, to dwell, remain].
The names of the stars date back hundreds or even thousands of years, and after the collapse of the Greco-Roman civilization, this knowledge was preserved by the Arabs. During the Renaissance, the Europeans adopted many of these names and terms from the Arabic sources, which is why a majority of star names are Arabic in origin. In 1603, German astronomer Johann Bayer (1572-1625) instituted a system of assigning Greek letters to stars (Bayer designation), consisting of a lowercase Greek letter followed by the genitive name of the constellation. The letters are usually assigned to the stars in the order of their brightness within a given constellation.
Por aquello de ser inclusivo, un poco del sistema egipcio aqui:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_astronomy
Tecnologias antiguas fueron necesarios para desarrollar toda esta ciencia. El astrolabio, cuadrante y otros instrumentos fueron desarrollados para calcular la posicion exacta de los planetas, el sol y las estrellas. Los persas eran los unicos que tenian el grado de conovimiento necesario para desarollar los engranajes de tan alta precision. Les hago referencia a un articulo que salio recientemente discutiendo el mecanismo antikythera. Una calculadora de posiciones astrales basados en un sistema analogo de discos y bielas. Un regalo de los sabios Griegos al mundo.
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
(articulo de Nature aqui, detras de un paywall)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7204/full/nature07130.html
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/node/35
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=decoding-an-ancient-computer
Bypasses aqui:
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_4.htmAn ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots
of modern technology
WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made the greatest impression on him. He returned to the surface, removed his helmet, and gabbled that he had found a heap of dead, naked women. The ship's cargo of luxury goods also included jewellery, pottery, fine furniture, wine and bronzes dating back to the first century BC. But the most important finds proved to be a few green, corroded lumps—the last remnants of an elaborate mechanical device.
The Antikythera mechanism, as it is now known, was originally housed in a wooden box about the size of a shoebox, with dials on the outside and a complex assembly of bronze gear wheels within. X-ray photographs of the fragments, in which around 30 separate gears can be distinguished, led the late Derek Price, a science historian at Yale University, to conclude that the device was an astronomical computer capable of predicting the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac on any given date. A new analysis, though, suggests that the device was cleverer than Price thought, and reinforces the evidence for his theory of an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology.
Michael Wright, the curator of mechanical engineering at the Science Museum in London, has based his new analysis on detailed X-rays of the mechanism using a technique called linear tomography. This involves moving an X-ray source, the film and the object being investigated relative to one another, so that only features in a particular plane come into focus. Analysis of the resulting images, carried out in conjunction with Allan Bromley, a computer scientist at Sydney University, found the exact position of each gear, and suggested that Price was wrong in several respects.
In some cases, says Mr Wright, Price seems to have “massaged” the number of teeth on particular gears (most of which are, admittedly, incomplete) in order to arrive at significant astronomical ratios. Price's account also, he says, displays internal contradictions, selective use of evidence and unwarranted speculation. In particular, it postulates an elaborate reversal mechanism to get some gears to turn in the right direction.
Since so little of the mechanism survives, some guesswork is unavoidable. But Mr Wright noticed a fixed boss at the centre of the mechanism's main wheel. To his instrument-maker's eye, this was suggestive of a fixed central gear around which other moving gears could rotate. This does away with the need for Price's reversal mechanism and leads to the idea that the device was specifically designed to model a particular form of “epicyclic” motion.
The Greeks believed in an earth-centric universe and accounted for celestial bodies' motions using elaborate models based on epicycles, in which each body describes a circle (the epicycle) around a point that itself moves in a circle around the earth. Mr Wright found evidence that the Antikythera mechanism would have been able to reproduce the motions of the sun and moon accurately, using an epicyclic model devised by Hipparchus, and of the planets Mercury and Venus, using an epicyclic model derived by Apollonius of Perga. (These models, which predate the mechanism, were subsequently incorporated into the work of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD.)
A device that just modelled the motions of the sun, moon, Mercury and Venus does not make much sense. But if an upper layer of mechanism had been built, and lost, these extra gears could have modelled the motions of the three other planets known at the time—Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. In other words, the device may have been able to predict the positions of the known celestial bodies for any given date with a respectable degree of accuracy, using bronze pointers on a circular dial with the constellations of the zodiac running round its edge.
Mr Wright devised a putative model in which the mechanisms for each celestial body stack up like layers in a sandwich, and started building it in his workshop. The completed reconstruction, details of which appeared in an article in the Horological Journal in May, went on display this week at Technopolis, a museum in Athens. By winding a knob on the side, celestial bodies can be made to advance and retreat so that their positions on any chosen date can be determined. Mr Wright says his device could have been built using ancient tools because the ancient Greeks had saws whose teeth were cut using v-shaped files—a task that is similar to the cutting of teeth on a gear wheel. He has even made several examples by hand.
How closely this reconstruction matches up to the original will never be known. The purpose of two dials on the back of the device is still unclear, although one may indicate the year. Nor is the device's purpose obvious: it may have been an astrological computer, used to speed up the casting of horoscopes, though it might just as easily have been a luxury plaything. But Mr Wright is convinced that his epicyclic interpretation is correct, and that the original device modelled the entire known solar system.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2d8p07k&s=5
Cierro con la introduccion de la serie Fushigi Yuugi...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Twilight Zone Boricua 01
Decidi comenzar el 2011 con algo para variar la monotonia. Hice esta peque/na historia tipo Twilight Zone inspirado en las fincas de criollos y como toda buena idea puede ser convertido en un regimen totalitario. Comence con este tema puesto que el tema del estadista criollo que encuentra que los anglos son unos canallas para los que no son suyos es un tema trillado en Puerto Rico.
Luego revisito el tema. Hay muchos otros temas que presentar.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Caos en el Dia de Reyes
Estoy tan molesto con la estupidez de la reparticion de regalos de Reyes de Fortaleza. Mi opinion corta, me la da Mr. Freeman:
Mr Freeman, part 58 [ENG annotations]
Para el que no sepa lo que paso...se formo un motin durante la reparticion de regalos en el centro ubicado en el Coliseo Roberto Clemente. El Encuevao da mas detalles. Javier Omar, concuerdo contigo.
http://encuevao.blogspot.com/2011/01/por-un-puto-regalo-puerto-rico-lo-hace.html
Si se fijan, no menciono ni los estupidos twitters de MannyNews. El gobierno ha hecho esto mal por decadas. Pura politiqueria. Pero la gente esta, a falta de otra palabra, del carajo.
[Update - Lo pense mejor. Lei mejor el articulo de Prometeo]
http://poder5.blogspot.com/2011/01/manny-news-y-el-dia-de-reyes-en-el.html
Spoof news es una cosa, otra es
'Mataron a Fortuno con espuma de la nieve artificial'
- De verdad?, esta brutal.
-mira no paso na, pero impresiona verdad?
Que credibilidad le voy a dar a esos tweets? Son verdad o son broma?
Recuerdan los anuncios del Ganster y KFC? Los auspiciadores?
Eso no es prensa seria.
[y ya estoy divagando, volviendo al tema...]
Por que insistimos en torturarnos con esta misma estupidez a/no tras a/no...Si estas mismas estupideces pasaban en San Juan, o cada vez que abren un Krispy Kreme.
La Epifania celebra el Regalo de la Salvacion del Hombre al mundo entero. Mientras nuestros Reyes Magos Juanadinos e Isabelinos visitan el mundo, preservando la tradicion centenaria. Estas personas hacen filas con sus familias por mas de un dia, con hambre, sed y sereno. Para que? vale la pena. Que mensaje se llevaron estos ni/nos hoy?
Pensaron en Melchor, Gaspar y Baltasar? En Jesus y la Santa Presencia en la Eucaristia?
O en que Fortu/no es un mentecato por decir que iban a regalar laptops?
Mi sugerencia es sencilla. Deleguen esa tarea a los municipios y que los repartan a todas las Parroquias, organizaciones juveniles e iglesias evangelicas y pentecostales. Mi iglesia repartio regalos austeros y no belicos a los ni/nos tras completar la misa de Epifania. Fue una grata sorpresa para mi hijo, que no esperaba nada. La ilusion de la Epifania y la Promesa de Reyes perdura. Hasta para el, que es el primer a/no donde me dijo abiertamente que no creia ni en Santa Claus ni en los Reyes Magos (me dice Rey Papi y Santa Mami a su madre).
http://www.prfrogui.com/home/costumbr.htm
http://www.primerahora.com/promesadereyes-460183.html
Me quedo con la tradicion y la promesa de Reyes. Ya estoy harto del 'I'm Entitled to This". O, dame mi laptop de Reyes ya (bitch).
By the way...ya habia discutido eso antes:
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2010/01/la-humanidad-desechable.html
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2009/10/un-camino-frente-la-crisis-repost.html
Mr Freeman, part 58 [ENG annotations]
Para el que no sepa lo que paso...se formo un motin durante la reparticion de regalos en el centro ubicado en el Coliseo Roberto Clemente. El Encuevao da mas detalles. Javier Omar, concuerdo contigo.
http://encuevao.blogspot.com/2011/01/por-un-puto-regalo-puerto-rico-lo-hace.html
Si se fijan, no menciono ni los estupidos twitters de MannyNews. El gobierno ha hecho esto mal por decadas. Pura politiqueria. Pero la gente esta, a falta de otra palabra, del carajo.
[Update - Lo pense mejor. Lei mejor el articulo de Prometeo]
http://poder5.blogspot.com/2011/01/manny-news-y-el-dia-de-reyes-en-el.html
Spoof news es una cosa, otra es
'Mataron a Fortuno con espuma de la nieve artificial'
- De verdad?, esta brutal.
-mira no paso na, pero impresiona verdad?
Que credibilidad le voy a dar a esos tweets? Son verdad o son broma?
Recuerdan los anuncios del Ganster y KFC? Los auspiciadores?
Eso no es prensa seria.
[y ya estoy divagando, volviendo al tema...]
Por que insistimos en torturarnos con esta misma estupidez a/no tras a/no...Si estas mismas estupideces pasaban en San Juan, o cada vez que abren un Krispy Kreme.
La Epifania celebra el Regalo de la Salvacion del Hombre al mundo entero. Mientras nuestros Reyes Magos Juanadinos e Isabelinos visitan el mundo, preservando la tradicion centenaria. Estas personas hacen filas con sus familias por mas de un dia, con hambre, sed y sereno. Para que? vale la pena. Que mensaje se llevaron estos ni/nos hoy?
Pensaron en Melchor, Gaspar y Baltasar? En Jesus y la Santa Presencia en la Eucaristia?
O en que Fortu/no es un mentecato por decir que iban a regalar laptops?
Mi sugerencia es sencilla. Deleguen esa tarea a los municipios y que los repartan a todas las Parroquias, organizaciones juveniles e iglesias evangelicas y pentecostales. Mi iglesia repartio regalos austeros y no belicos a los ni/nos tras completar la misa de Epifania. Fue una grata sorpresa para mi hijo, que no esperaba nada. La ilusion de la Epifania y la Promesa de Reyes perdura. Hasta para el, que es el primer a/no donde me dijo abiertamente que no creia ni en Santa Claus ni en los Reyes Magos (me dice Rey Papi y Santa Mami a su madre).
http://www.prfrogui.com/home/costumbr.htm
http://www.primerahora.com/promesadereyes-460183.html
Me quedo con la tradicion y la promesa de Reyes. Ya estoy harto del 'I'm Entitled to This". O, dame mi laptop de Reyes ya (bitch).
By the way...ya habia discutido eso antes:
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2010/01/la-humanidad-desechable.html
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2009/10/un-camino-frente-la-crisis-repost.html
Monday, January 3, 2011
Hitler Youth, La Superaza y Algo Gnostico Para Hoy
Este articulo busca dar un poco de historia de la necedad de la humanidad y como, con la motivacion correcta volvemos a repetir las mismas estupideces vez tras vez. Solo le cambiamos los nombres a los protagonistas.
Comienzo esta discusion con los siguientes dos articulos que fuesen publicados recientemente. El tema comun, la segregacion racial de todo lo que suene PNP o anti independentista (del independentismo de los collares de longaniza, ropa fina y buenos cheques de programas federales de la isla).
http://enjustaperspectiva.blogspot.com/2010/12/algunos-trucos-para-detener-la.html
http://irreverentementeserio.blogspot.com/2011/01/plan-para-un-nuevo-puerto-rico.html
Somos rapidos en llamar a todo lo que no nos gusta Nazismo, Fascismo o cualquier otro -ismo que suene despectivo. Leemos par de libros que nos atragantaron en la Universidad y somos unos intelectuales refinados...aunque se nos ve la costura con nuestras profundas discusiones que centran en La Comay, Sexo, Gajos y Dominicanos de Mierda.
No pretendo cambiar la direccion de la rueda. Ese es el mundo en que vivimos.
A lo que vine, todas las sandeces que discutieron en esos dos articulos fuerno llevados a cabo por hombres de mentalidad corta buscando el Supermensch.
http://hnn.us/articles/1796.html
Comenzaron tratando de emular las teorias de Darwin y le llamaron Eugenesia ('Eugenics' ). El origen comenzo en Estados Unidos...
Dicho de otra manera, esta estupidez la comenzaron en California, aunque la demonizacion selectiva de grupos ha sido presentada antes con cosas como la Pheronologia o los perfiles raciales que estan tratando de resurgir ahora con el TSA.
..
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm#Posters
La idea de Serio e Irreverente no es de Platon. Es de algo mas nefasto, el Hitler Youth, donde separaban los jovenes de sus familias para reproducirlos comovacas. Las mujeres mercancia, los varones padrotes. Mmm, justo el futuro que quiero para mis hijos.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-boy-soldiers.htm
Aqui un poco de las historias de horror de estos campamentos...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/europe/07nazi.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/europe/07nazi.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
http://hubpages.com/hub/Lebensborn-Breeding-the-Master-Race
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/mar2007/eugenics.html
http://boingboing.net/2009/07/27/american-eugenics-mo.html
Solo expongo este punto, no cometamos este error de nuevo, aunque sea en broma.
R Crumb preparo un comic sobre ese periodo de Philip K Dick y se puede conseguie en linea. Les incluyo algunos links aqui.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2010/04/valis_and_later.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2008/02/geniustendrilsj/
http://www.adherents.com/people/pd/Philip_K_Dick.html
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2008/02/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick/
Para cerrar, saben que tengo debilidad por buenas peliculas de ciencia ficcion y animaciones profundas con temas religiosos. Al parecer no soy el unico, aqui unas disertaciones sobre el Gnosticismo en series animadas. En particular con Neon Genesis Evangelion, una serie que le han hecho mas cambios que una pelicula de George Lucas...
http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/eva/eva1.html
http://www.examiner.com/gnosticism-heretical-spirituality-in-national/gnostic-themes-japanese-anime
http://www.examiner.com/gnosticism-heretical-spirituality-in-national/gnostic-themes-japanese-anime-part-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_(anime)
El mito del Demiurge...sufre Dan Brown. Relacionado: The Demiurge -Aeon Flux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taOvIAnAW5g
Cerrando: Where is my mind?
http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/mind_control/battle_for_your_mind.htm
With the flock dear...
Comienzo esta discusion con los siguientes dos articulos que fuesen publicados recientemente. El tema comun, la segregacion racial de todo lo que suene PNP o anti independentista (del independentismo de los collares de longaniza, ropa fina y buenos cheques de programas federales de la isla).
http://enjustaperspectiva.blogspot.com/2010/12/algunos-trucos-para-detener-la.html
http://irreverentementeserio.blogspot.com/2011/01/plan-para-un-nuevo-puerto-rico.html
Somos rapidos en llamar a todo lo que no nos gusta Nazismo, Fascismo o cualquier otro -ismo que suene despectivo. Leemos par de libros que nos atragantaron en la Universidad y somos unos intelectuales refinados...aunque se nos ve la costura con nuestras profundas discusiones que centran en La Comay, Sexo, Gajos y Dominicanos de Mierda.
No pretendo cambiar la direccion de la rueda. Ese es el mundo en que vivimos.
A lo que vine, todas las sandeces que discutieron en esos dos articulos fuerno llevados a cabo por hombres de mentalidad corta buscando el Supermensch.
http://hnn.us/articles/1796.html
Comenzaron tratando de emular las teorias de Darwin y le llamaron Eugenesia ('Eugenics' ). El origen comenzo en Estados Unidos...
Eugenics was born as a scientific curiosity in the Victorian age. In 1863, Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, theorized that if talented people only married other talented people, the result would be measurably better offspring. At the turn of the last century, Galton's ideas were imported into the United States just as Gregor Mendel's principles of heredity were rediscovered.
Hitler's struggle for a superior race would be a mad crusade for a Master Race. Now, the American term "Nordic" was freely exchanged with "Germanic" or "Aryan." Race science, racial purity and racial dominance became the driving force behind Hitler's Nazism. Nazi eugenics would ultimately dictate who would be persecuted in a Reich-dominated Europe, how people would live, and how they would die. Nazi doctors would become the unseen generals in Hitler's war against the Jews and other Europeans deemed inferior. Doctors would create the science, devise the eugenic formulas, and even hand-select the victims for sterilization, euthanasia and mass extermination.
Dicho de otra manera, esta estupidez la comenzaron en California, aunque la demonizacion selectiva de grupos ha sido presentada antes con cosas como la Pheronologia o los perfiles raciales que estan tratando de resurgir ahora con el TSA.
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http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm#Posters
La idea de Serio e Irreverente no es de Platon. Es de algo mas nefasto, el Hitler Youth, donde separaban los jovenes de sus familias para reproducirlos comovacas. Las mujeres mercancia, los varones padrotes. Mmm, justo el futuro que quiero para mis hijos.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-boy-soldiers.htm
Aqui un poco de las historias de horror de estos campamentos...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/europe/07nazi.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/europe/07nazi.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
http://hubpages.com/hub/Lebensborn-Breeding-the-Master-Race
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/mar2007/eugenics.html
http://boingboing.net/2009/07/27/american-eugenics-mo.html
Solo expongo este punto, no cometamos este error de nuevo, aunque sea en broma.
En otros temas, decidi ponerme al dia leyendo de las ultimas novelas de Phillip K. Dick, nuestro paranoico en jefe. Si no lo conoces como autor, quizas has visto algunas de las peliculas basadas en su obra como Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall o Minority Report. Bueno, ahora leo la trilogia de Valis, basada en sus experiencias pseudoreligiosas de las ultimas novelas que hizo.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2010/04/valis_and_later.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2008/02/geniustendrilsj/
http://www.adherents.com/people/pd/Philip_K_Dick.html
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2008/02/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick/
Para cerrar, saben que tengo debilidad por buenas peliculas de ciencia ficcion y animaciones profundas con temas religiosos. Al parecer no soy el unico, aqui unas disertaciones sobre el Gnosticismo en series animadas. En particular con Neon Genesis Evangelion, una serie que le han hecho mas cambios que una pelicula de George Lucas...
http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/eva/eva1.html
http://www.examiner.com/gnosticism-heretical-spirituality-in-national/gnostic-themes-japanese-anime
http://www.examiner.com/gnosticism-heretical-spirituality-in-national/gnostic-themes-japanese-anime-part-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_(anime)
El mito del Demiurge...sufre Dan Brown. Relacionado: The Demiurge -Aeon Flux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taOvIAnAW5g
Cerrando: Where is my mind?
http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/mind_control/battle_for_your_mind.htm
With the flock dear...
Saturday, January 1, 2011
New Year With Old Clips
Happy New Year to you all. Here are some videos I didn't know where to post them.
Slim Pickings
Slim Pickings Fat Chances from Cartoon Brew TV on Vimeo.
Something else from the Cartoon Brew vault:
Then some vintage Queen:
Slim Pickings
Slim Pickings Fat Chances from Cartoon Brew TV on Vimeo.
Something else from the Cartoon Brew vault:
Then some vintage Queen:
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