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Después de visitar el "Walk of Fame" en Hollywood Boulevard, una cosa me quedó clarísima. Hay estrellas que brillan más que otras. Bueno, eso no es nada nuevo, pero siempre es interesante experimentarlo en primera persona.Paseando por delante del Teatro Kodak o del Teatro Chino de Mann, iba buscando en que estrella me haría una foto (como no, la cuota de fetichismo que tenemos todos los humanos

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It's obvious that our society needs heroes. A model for our kids. Long ago the figure of the Hero was represented by the oral tradition and later immortalized in written manuscripts. Today the landscape is extremely different, our heroes are provided by the mass media. Today's heroes are soccer professionals that are immortalized in matches and championships that are shown every day in the TV of

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Last sunday I went to the cinema. I booked the tickets in advance, went to the theater 10 minutes before the film started, enjoyed the film and went back home. No queues, no need to wait. Everything was perfectly optimized! Wonderful!Or not?Several (ca. 15) years ago, when Internet was not present in our daily lives, ticket pre-booking barely existed. Also, large cineplexes were neither as common

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In looking at the first film of the Matrix trilogy, I am amazed by the influence that this film has exerted on modern culture. Specially taking into account the fact that the core idea of the film is not entirely new (actually the film could be called "Plato's Cave Myth revisited"). Most probably, the success of the film "The Matrix" resides in the way that the Greek philosopher's allegory is

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Last weekend I had the chance to participate in the iWeekend event, which is an event for entrepreneurs. The idea is simple: suggest an idea to the rest of participants (ca. 50 people), gather enough resources and implement it in two days.In my case I was proposing the Semantic Event Bot (SEB): an internet bot that finds events that are scattered in the web, avoiding the hassle of having to look

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Almost everyone may agree, more or less, that superheroes are a mirror of our society. You may think that because of the situations and problems they have to solve, political situation that affects our favorite hero, etc... But I am saying so because of the type of superpowers the spuerheroes/villains have. I wonder if there is any sociology-related PhD thesis dealing with this issue. I couldn't

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Last sunday I had the chance to see again the film "Men in Black". To me, the best part of this film is its brilliant ending (spoiler alert!) in which, after the good guys get rid of the bad ones, the camera moves far away from the protagonists, showing us first The Earth, then the Solar System, then the Milky way, etc... finally the conclusion of this trip is to show us that our Universe is

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The answer is Paris, France. And its popularity almost doubles the second of the list: Berlin.This answer, which seems rather intuitive (how many times have we heard “la cité de l'amour”, “let's escape to Paris”, and similar?) can be proven using several methods. The one that I have tried here is using a quite popular approach these days: Application Programming Interfaces (API) and Mash-ups.

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Ahir dissabte era dia de compres. Tot i així la Monica i jo vam aprofitar per llevar-nos tard i menjar l'esmorzar tranquilament. Després vam anar al centre de Munich.El temps era assoleiat i feia una temperatura més que agradable. Les tendes tenien els expositors al carrer i havia molts quioscos de fruita i verdures exposant cireres més temptadores que les sirenes d'Ulisses. Hi havia molta gent

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Assistir a congressos internacionals li dona a un la gran oportunitat de conèixer una mica de món. És com anar construint un gran puzle a base de peces minúscules: Un parell de dies a Copenhaguen, una jornada a Tokio, una estada a Trieste o una setmaneta a Sao Paulo. Depenent de l'activitat científica d'un mateix, aquesta llista pot arribar a ser molt llarga. El problema és que el puzle no té un

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3. Deberás coñecelas todas e deberás ter, en cada cata, aleutos todos os sentidos para avaliar os matices de sabor, cor e textura de cada unha e poder contrastalos en cada proceso de producción particular, sobre todo nos chamados artesanais. ... 9. Nunca deberás bebela só. A cervexa é compañeira tanto na alegría como na tristura e catalizador nas aproximacións de amizade incipiente.

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Que hi farem si d'aquí a poc el fred comencarà a fer acte de presència a Munich. És probable que ahir fos l' últim dia d'estiu per aquests paratges, i això significa també que els Biergarten tancaran aviat per fer la seva hivernació. Enrera queden innumerables gerres de litre de mil i un tipus de cervesa diferent, degustades entre dialectes bàvars, Brezels gegants i la música dels boscos i rius

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Ha costat, i molt! pero he aconseguit llevar-me a les 6 i mitja del matí per anar a correr al WestPark (Munich). Havia de marxar abans, pero els llencols pesen, i més a aquesta hora del matí.En arribar al Westpark m'esperava un espectacle de pel.licula. Evidentment no hi havia ningú, excepte els 4 pirats i pirades de torn que estan tan bojos com jo de llevar-se tant aviat. Pero ha valgut la pena.

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Hola a tots!Avui m'estreno amb el tema dels weblogs, a veure que tal surt l'experiencia. Intentare anar escrivint impressions pels que tingueu curiositat!Una abracada i fins aviatTryskele

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