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I was reading a report about 2005’s events. And, like the previous years, no event was happy.
2005 started with a terrible catastrophe, the worst of all the times! Earthquakes in Iran and Pakistan, Katrina, Rita and Stan make the Hurricane Troika for a great disaster in the United States…
But, what did human do?
Iraq […]

Meryl Streep is one of the best actresses I have ever watched. I have already seen a movie of her with Robert de Niro (Falling in Love, 1984), Al Pacino (Angels in America, 2003) and Denzel Washington (The Manchurian Candidate, 2004); so I thought how a movie with Nicole Kidmann can be?
I was […]

In success you deserve it, and in defeat you need it.
Winston Churchill

Soldats de la Libre pensée,
Debout à son salut veillons :
Contre nous l’Église insensée
Lève encore ses noirs bataillons ! (Bis)
Entendez-vous leurs voix étranges ?
Leurs anathèmes furieux ?
Et leurs défis audacieux,
À nos généreuses phalanges ?
 
Allons, libres penseurs, à l’œuvre ! Travaillons !
Luttons ! (Bis) Contre l’infâme […]

Ya conozco la canción cantada al estilo del flamenco por Camarón y escrita por Federico García Lorca, pero no sabía que era extraida de una obra teatral.
Pueden ustedes notar que la continuación (la he encontrado en un foro) no es menos interesante que la canción tan famosa.
 
ARLEQUIN:
El Sueño va sobre […]

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يا ابن أمي

وحرا كنور الضحى في سماه
 
خلقت طليقا كطيف النسيم

وتشدو بما شاء وحي الإله

تغرد كالطير أين اندفعت

وتنعم بالنور أنى تراه

وتمرح بين ورود الصباح

وتقطف ورد الربى في رباه

وتمشي كما شئت بين المروج

وألقتك في الكون هذي الحياة

كذا صاغك الله يابن الوجود

وتحني لمن كبلوك الجباه

فمالك ترضى بذل القيود

وتسكت في النفس صوت الحياة القوي إذا ما […]

I released a cool PHP script that generates a wish card.
You can both use it and hack on it.
For users
Point your browser to http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org/wp-content/lab/card/?from=Sender&to=Receiver
&msg=Your_Message&wish=Your_Wish, and change the following parameters:

from: your name
to: receiver name
msg: your message, eg. “Happy_New_Year_2006“
wish: your signature, eg. “Sincerely,“

Note that you should replace whitespaces by underscores ( _ ) and separator […]

If you are looking for an extremly pathetic drama, I would suggest Requiem for a Dream.
Sara is an old woman who dreams to appear in a show tv but has to lose weight in order to wear her best dress; her son, his girlfriend and his friend are drug addicted who would pay […]

One of topics I’m interested the most is looking for the word origin, the scientific word is “etymology”. It’s amazing how starting to look for a word, then wondering, searching in a dictionary, finding out that it comes from a foreign language, trying to learn some words from that language in order to understand […]

Credo quia absurdum
“I believe it because it is absurd.” Tertullian
 
Audi, vide, tace, si tu vis vivere (in pace).
“Hear, see, be silent, if you wish to live (in peace).” Roman proverb
 
Fluctuat nec mergitur
“Shaken by the waves, but it will not sink”.
 
Ira furor brevis est.
Translation: “Anger is brief insanity” Horace, epistles I, 2, 62.
 
Non omnia possumus […]

Ah, my friends, from the prison, they ask unto me,
“How good, how good does it feel to be free?”
And I answer them most mysteriously:
“Are birds free from the chains of the sky-way?”
Bob Dylan Ballad in Plain D

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
 
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
 
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
 
G is for grep, a clever detective, […]

Ever wondered where did the word “assassin” come from?
A persian missionary who converted a community in the late XIth century in the heart of the Elburz Mountains of northern Iran called Hassan-i-Sabbah had a secret sect that used to commit “religious” crimes under the influence of the hashish; this sect was called al-hashashin (الحشاشين) […]

En la madrugada del 27 de septiembre de 1975, cinco antifascistas eran fusilados en Madrid, Barcelona y Burgos, en cumplimiento de las penas de muerte dictadas en los correspondientes consejos de guerra sumarísimos, celebrados muy pocos días antes, entre el 28 de agosto y el 19 de septiembre.
  Todos los fusilados fueron brutalmente torturados durante […]

Yesterday I read Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil that I retrieved from the Gutenberg Project.
I picked some interesting paragraphs from the chapter APOPHTHEGMS AND INTERLUDES.
 
68. “I did that,” says my memory. “I could not have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually–the memory yields.
 
72. It is not the strength, but […]