Review

In one great scene of the film The Invention of Lying, Mark Bellison (played by Rick Gervais) addresses a crowd in front of his home and millions around the world following his speech through TV.

Mark lives in a world were nobody has ever told a lie, but has discovered that he is able to tell lies. After telling her dying mother that she was going to a "better place", people push him to tell them everything he knows about afterlife. He makes up an explanation in the form of a list of 10 things that he writes in two pizza boxes.

Number one: there is a man in the sky who controls everything.

Number two: ...

Man 1 [interrupts]: what does he looks like?

Mark: tall, big hands for making stuff, good head of hair.

Man 2: what ethnicity?

Mark: he is a new ethnicity, he is a mixture of all our ethnicities.

Man 3: does he live in the clouds?

Mark: no

Man 1: can we see him?

Mark: no, he is high in the clouds, too high to see him.

Man 3: so he lives in space.

Mark: no, not that high.

Man 2: so he is in the thermosphere?

Mark: sorry people, we have a lot to get through here. Man lives in the sky, you can't see him, controls everything ...

Number two: when you die, you don't disappear into an eternity of nothingness. Instead, you go to a really great place.

Number three: in that place, everyone will get a mansion. (the crowd cheers).

Man 4: what kind of mansion?

Mark: the best mansion you can think of.

Man 5: damn!, I was thinking of a horrible mansion.

Mark: no, no, it is the best mansion ever. Not the one you are thinking of right now, but whatever the best mansion that you like, that is the one you gonna get.

Tejedores del Web comenzó en 1995 como un proyecto personal dentro de un curso que tomé que era dictado por José Flores y Andrés Benavides. Inicialmente el hosting era provisto por la dirección de informática y comunicaciones de la Universidad de Chile.

El sitio fue el primer sitio en habla hispana sobre desarrollo Web, y el más visitado en el tema durante varios años. Contenía información principalmente sobre HTML incluyendo una guía de la sintaxis de cada elemento HTML. Más tarde incorporaría Javascript y otros temas.

Desde el 2002 me dediqué principalmente a la investigación y dejé un poco de lado el tema del desarrollo Web y el sitio Tejedores del Web. Continué agregando algunos artículos relacionados con recuperación de información y bases de datos.

El sitio ha sido transformado en el 2008 en una wiki y el objetivo es crear un sitio libre creado colectivamente, con contenidos de alta calidad sobre temas relacionados con desarrollo web. Comenzamos con los artículos que contenía Tejedores del Web en el pasado y que todavía estaban vigentes, y construiremos desde ahí.

I wanted to recommend a couple of funny books for Sunday afternoons or sleepless nights. The first one, "The Deeper Meaning of Liff" written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd in 1983, is a dictionary for things that have no name (yet)". In "Liff", for instance, a "Fring" is defined as "the noise made by a light bulb that has just shone its last", and "Ahenny" is "the way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves": The second is about"101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions, written in 1998 by Kenki Kawakami, and it is devoted to the Japanese art of Chindogu. It describes invented gadgets that seem to solve a problem perfectly, but that turn out to be absurd and unusable. One of these devices is this knife with markings at different angles to obtain a high precision when dividing a cake or pie:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a musical from 1998 and a film that opened in 2001. Both were written, directed and starred by John Cameron Mitchell. The history is about a German transgender, Hedwig who tours the USA with his Glam Rock band The Angry Inch. The band plays a series of concerts in low-profile venues, trailing Tommy Gnosis, whom them accuse of stealing all their songs.

"¿How did some slip of a girlyboy from Communist East Berlin become the internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you?" begins Hedwig. And then tells how during the Cold War he fell in love with an american soldier, and to be able to marry him, he underwent a sex change operation that didn't work as planned:

My sex operation got botched // my guardian angel fell sleep on the watch // now all I've got is a Barbie doll crotch // ¡I have an Angry Inch!

There are funny situations during the movie, mostly caused by the type of show of Hedwig's band, which is rock with very explicit lyrics that clash with the prosaic patrons of the ice cream shops and restaurants where they perform. There are also deeply touching moments, such as a history about the origin of love based on a tale by Aristophanes.

The music of the film is excellent and the songs are made right for the voice of the main character. If you liked "Transamerica", "Priscilla, queen of the desert", and in general gay and bizarre films, you can' t miss this art piece.

See also: Wikipedia: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Bicing is a new component of the public transportation system in Barcelona. The system consists in a series of over 100 stations all over the city, each one with approximately 15-20 bicycles that you can borrow automatically using a card. To obtain this "bicing card", you must register through the Web and pay an anual fee of 24 euros ($33 USD).

The system is very simple. By approaching the card to the station's base, one of the bicycles is freed and the screen shows the number of that bicycle. Then the user can use the bicycle for 1/2 hour and return it to any of the stations. Each extra hour costs 0.30 euro ($0.40 USD). This extra is paid through the credit card that you must use to obtain your bicing card.