Sonnet XXX // „Fatal Interview" by Edna S. Vincent Villay

Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink

Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,

Nor yet floating spar to men that sink

And rise and sink and rise and sink again.

Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath

Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;

Yet many a man is making friends with death 

Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.......................................................

Sources:

Edna S. Vincent Millay, Sonnet XXX (fragment) from "Fatal Interview" (1931),

Photo: "Spring in Japan" by ©Kimochi Yoshiaki in www.WAYN.com

No te rindas, Mario Benedetti // Do not surrender

                                                                                                                                        

No te rindas, 

aún estás a tiempo de abrazar la vida y comenzar de nuevo, 

aceptar tu sombra, liberar el peso y retomar el vuelo.

No te rindas, 

que la vida es éso, continuar el viaje, perseguir los sueños, 

abrir las esclusas, destrabar el tiempo, 

correr los escombros y destapar el cielo.

  

No te rindas, por favor, no cedas.

Aunque el frío queme,

aunque el miedo muerda, 

aunque el sol se ponga y se acalle el viento, 

aún hay fuego en tu alma, 

aún hay vida en tu seno.

Porque la vida es tuya y tuyo también el deseo,

porque lo has querido y porque yo te aprecio, 

porque existe el vino y el amor es cierto, 

porque no hay herida que no cure el tiempo.

Abrir las puertas, quitar los cerrojos, 

bajar el puente y cruzar el foso, 

abandonar las murallas que te protegieron, 

volver a la vida y aceptar el reto.

Recuperar la risa, 

ensayar un canto, 

bajar la guardia y extender las manos, 

desplegar las alas e intentar de nuevo, 

celebrar la vida, remontar los cielos.

Mario Benedetti

THE FEMININE IDEAL: AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS

This collection of pictures at Christie's in New York is wonderful and can be seen online as well. On 7th. April begun the sale and it is a good investition for those who can afford to buy some of them.

There are wonderful works from America, Europe, Asia... and from this photographs: Man Ray, William Klein, Guy Bourdin, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Henry Clarke, Irving Penn, Jeanloup Sieff, Robert Mapprlthorpe, Helmut Newton, Jerome Albertini, Brett Weston, Frances Maclaughlin-Gill, Kurt Markus, Arthur Elgort, Bert Stern, Paolo Roversi, Philippe Halsman, Lillian Bassman, Bruce Weber, Norman Parkinson, David Bayley, Victor Skrebneski, Edward Steichen, Tomio Seike, Horst P.Horst, Matther Rolston, Bettina Rheims and Jacques-Henri Lartigue.

Enjoy them!

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?action=search&intSaleID=23444#action=refine&intSaleID=23444&sid=6b23f1fa-7343-4630-a24d-96e84e74fc4a

The Daily Mash - iPhone barricades itself in motel with drugs and whores

If you want to have a laugh try this 

Link

Picasso y el Guernika

En 1940, con París ocupada por los nazis, un oficial alemán que contemplaba una foto del Guernica, le preguntó a Picasso si era él el que había hecho eso.

La respuesta del pintor fue:

-No, han sido ustedes.

Visualizing Friendships // Paul Butler

"Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.

When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued my curiosity was the locality of friendship. I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them.

I began by taking a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Apache Hive, our data warehouse. I combined that data with each user's current city and summed the number of friends between each pair of cities. Then I merged the data with the longitude and latitude of each city.

At that point, I began exploring it in R, an open-source statistics environment. As a sanity check, I plotted points at some of the latitude and longitude coordinates. To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world. Next I erased the dots and plotted lines between the points. After a few minutes of rendering, a big white blob appeared in the center of the map. Some of the outer edges of the blob vaguely resembled the continents, but it was clear that I had too much data to get interesting results just by drawing lines. I thought that making the lines semi-transparent would do the trick, but I quickly realized that my graphing environment couldn't handle enough shades of color for it to work the way I wanted.

Instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line's color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world.

After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life.

Later I replaced the lines with great circle arcs, which are the shortest routes between two points on the Earth. Because the Earth is a sphere, these are often not straight lines on the projection.

When I shared the image with others within Facebook, it resonated with many people. It's not just a pretty picture, it's a reaffirmation of the impact we have in connecting people, even across oceans and borders".

Paul Butler on Tuesday, 14, December 2010 at 05:54

Paul is an intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team.

Source:

Visualizing Friendships

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919&id=9445547199

MERRY CHRISTMAS

May your wishes come true!

May this season brings Peace...

Afrikaans: Geseënde KersfeesAfrikander: Een Plesierige KerfeesAfrican/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-LedeatsAlbanian:Gezur Krislinjden

Arabic: Milad MajidArgentine: Feliz Navidad

Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari GaghandAzeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun

Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari NatalBasque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!

Bohemian: Vesele VanoceBrazilian: Feliz Natal

Bengali: Shubho borodinBreton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh matBulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo

Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!

Chile: Feliz Navidad

Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw SunChinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan 

Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito

Columbia: Feliz Navidad y próspero Año NuevoCornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth

Corsian: Pace e saluteCrazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo

Cree: Mitho Makosi KesikansiCroatian: Sretan Bozic

Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok

Danish: Glædelig Jul

Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma MobarakDutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast

English: Merry Christmas and Happy New YearEskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon

Estonian: Ruumsaid juulup|hiEthiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet BeaalEritfean/ Tigrinja: Rehus- Beal- Ledeats

Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashadFinnish: Hyvaa joulua

Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar

French: Joyeux NoelFrisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!

Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!

 

Galician: Bo Nada

Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!German: Fröhliche Weihnachten

Greek: Kala Christouyenna! 

Greenlandic: Juullimi Pilluaritsi!

Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato BrichtoHausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!

Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova

Hindi: Baradin ki shubh kamnaayeHausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!Hawaian: Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!

Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket

Icelandic: Gledileg JolIndonesian: Selamat Hari Natal & Selamat Tahun BaruIraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnatIroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.

Italian: Auguri di un Buon Natale e di un Felice Anno Nuovo

Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu OmedetoJiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags

Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha

Lao: souksan van ChristmasLatin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!

Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe letoLettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus

Lithuanian: Linksmu KaleduLow Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar

Macedonian: Sreken BozhikMaltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb

Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noaMaori: Meri KirihimeteMarathi: Shub Naya Varsh

Navajo: Merry Keshmish

Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul

Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado

Papiamento: Bon PascoPapua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu

Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!

Peru: Feliz Navidad y un venturoso Año NuevoPhilipines: Maligayan Pasko!Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego NarodzeniaPortuguese: Feliz Natal

Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha

Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua

Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onnRomanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!Romanian:  Craciun Fericit

Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom

Sami: Buorrit JuovllatSamoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga FouSardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou

Serbian: Hristos se rodiSlovakian: Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoceSamoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou

Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibhSerbian: Hristos se rodi.

Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak VewaSlovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok

Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo letoSpanish: Feliz Navidad y próspero Año NuevoSwedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År

Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong TaonTami: Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal

Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas

Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym or Z RIZDVOM HRYSTOVYM

Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho

Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh

Welsh: Nadolig Llawen

Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!Yugoslavian: Cestitamo Bozic 

Source:  
Watcharit's photo from november 2010 http://watgun.multiply.com/   and Handpainted tree from India found in WAYN

P.S: If you press the indian tree at the beginning...you will see this pic in original size... The magic of virtual tecnology!  

Si le dáis al arbolito indio del principio.... aparece esta foto en su tamaño original... La magia de la tecnología virtual! 

Julian Assange kommt auf Kaution frei //Julain Assange granted bail// Libertad bajo fianza para Julian Assange

(GERMAN)

Wikileaks-Gründer Assange kommt auf Kaution frei

"Wikileaks-Chef Julian Assange ist am Dienstag freigelassen worden. Die Kaution soll 200.000 britische Pfund (rund 240.000 Euro) betragen. Er muss nach Angaben der britischen Zeitung "Guardian" seinen Pass abgeben, elektronische Fußfesseln tragen und steht unter Hausarrest. Richter Howard Riddle setzte einen weiteren Anhörungstermin auf 11. Januar fest."

Weiter lessen kann man bei der Financial Times hier:

 Wikileaks: Assange kommt auf Kaution frei | FTD.de

(ENGLISH)

Julain Assange granted bail

"Mr Assange, who had been held in Wandsworth prison since he was denied bail last week in connection with alleged sexual offences in Sweden, was granted conditional bail for £240,000 on Tuesday. He also has to surrender his passport, wear an electronic tag and report daily to local police. The next hearing was set for January."

You can read the full article fronm Financial Times here:

FT.com / Europe - WikiLeaks founder Assange granted bail

( SPANISH)

El juez concede la libertad bajo fianza a Julian Assange

"La Fiscalía puede recurrir la decisión en representación de Suecia, lo que obligaría al fundador de Wikileaks a permanecer en prisión hasta 48 horas más"

La noticia de El País la podéis leer aquí:

El juez concede la libertad bajo fianza a Julian Assange · ELPAÍS.com