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• nonsense, politics

  Microsoft’s Vision of the future and Obama’s Nobel

  10.10.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Image by FJTU (de viaje) via Flickr

  All mimsy were the borogoves
  And the mome rath outgrabe
  If I recall well, this is the first nonsensical verse from the Jabberwocky, Lewis Carrol’s poem within Alice in Wonderland.
  All mimsy are today’s borogoves, too, in Microsoft’s vision of the future. In the video below. So beautiful, so pure, so uncontaminated [...]

• nonsense, politics

  Semana de los libros prohibidos

  09.14.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Varias obras de literatura puertorriqueña y la novela Aura de Calors Fuentes han sido prohibidas por el Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico. ¿Prohibidas?Sí, todavía existen las listas de libros que se prohiben para la lectura. Invito por tanto a todos a que

  Descarguen y lean la obra “Aura” de Carlos Fuentes (y traten de entender [...]

• nonsense, twitter

  Hey, Gutenberg tweeting?

  06.02.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Historical Tweets
  This is absolutely great. Viva Twitter!

• nonsense

  British idiotic answers?

  03.25.09 | Permalink | Comments

  ****</> Just dug from “Dumb Britain: the funniest and most idiotic answers given on quiz shows“!
  Fresh but true humo(u)r from our British friends: some are really knowledgeable about the world!
  Alex Trelinski (Late Show, BBC Midlands): What is the capital of Italy?
  Contestant: France. Alex: France is another country.
  Try again. Contestant: Oh, um, Benidorm.
  Alex: Wrong, sorry.
  Let’s try [...]

• education, nonsense

  Canada’s science minister is a creationist?

  03.17.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Canada’s science minister is a creationist – Boing Boing, also from a Tweet by Stephen Downes.
  Canada’s science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won’t say if he believes in evolution.
  “I’m not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don’t think anybody asking [...]

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