Sociedad
The It Crowd
Todos tenemos algún amigo apasionado de los ordenadores, frikis creo que les llaman. todos los que trabajamos en alguna empresa de cierto tamaño tenemos que lidiar a diario con ciertos especímenes que conforman uno de los departamentos más odiados de una compañía: el departamento informático »
“Kindle 2″, La hoja de periódico digital ya está aquí
Muchos pensábamos que era un sueño que se haría realidad en un futuro más o menos cercano pero lo cierto es que ya está aquí, existe desde el año 2007. Su creador es Amazon y acaba de sacar la nueva versión del “Kindle”. Este dispositivo de lectura tiene un grosor de menos de una… »
HOLLYWOOD
Louis B. Mayer was one of the original founders of MGM; here are one or two things said about Mr Mayer, and by whom:
“They say Louis B. Mayer is his own worst enemy. Not while I’m still alive”.
Jack Warner, one of the original founders of Warner Bros.
“A bastard’s bastard”.
Garson Kanin, famed screenwriter.
“He charms the… »
Tortilla Francesa
“Debido a la falta de alimentos sufridos por la población isleña (San Fernando -Cádiz-) durante el asedio francés, se dieron multitud de casos en los que el ingenio supo sobreponerse a la carencia que la guerra provocaba.
Uno de estos ejemplos culinarios fue la invención de lo que se vendría a conocer posteriormente como tortilla… »
No fear
During the German occupation of tiny Norway in the II World War, Scandinavia’s greatest classical actor was appearing in an important play in Oslo’s biggest theatre. One snowy evening the front eight rows of the auditorium were filled with German officers in full uniform, among them plenty of SS. Everyone applauded when Norway’s greatest… »
Those Celluloid Bonds
Cinema is history too, and hace muchos días two pushy American film producers called Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli persuaded author Ian Fleming to sell them the rights to the titles of his highly successful James Bond thrillers. They couldn’t make their movies directly from the original stories, but they could use all names… »
Chesterton and Churchill
G.K. Chesterton was an internationally famous historian, journalist, novelist and wit. At the peak of his powers around 1906, his novels about the Catholic priest/private detective Father Brown sold in thousands. He was an enormously fat man, given to sitting in his London club by himself, and not encouraging any other member to approach. »
The Scottish Parliament
Sometimes when you are new in a city, like me in Edinburgh, you are surprised when you see somethingh like this building “The Scottish Parliament”. The issues surrounding its construction may still be under scrutiny. The Spanish architect Enric Miralles has been applauded as much as critized by many. In fact, the controversy brings… »
The oracle myth
Greeks of antiquity believed in every kind of myth. They created a religion based on fantastic stories and with time these stories became history. The Greek mythology tells that destiny was weaved by three old witches called “Parcas”, and only the god´s could change it. That is the cause for the existence of the… »
Diana Clunt!
Diana Fluck was born in Swindon in 1931. When she became England’s answer to France’s Brigitte Bardot and America’s Marilyn Monroe, as a sex bomb on the cinema screen, her agents thought her name was in such obvious danger of mispronunciation that they changed it to Diana Dors.
After she had become super-famous in Britain,… »
