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Los de La Coctelera han tenido la idea de animar al público internauta a que suba vídeos de menos de un minuto en plano secuencia para un concurso en el que se puede ganar, agarraos los machos…
UN iPOD.  Sí amigos, un dispositivo multimedia de última generación en el que podrás disfrutar de tu música favorita sin tener que transportar incómodos CDs. A pesar de su reducido tamaño, en su interior caben miles, millones de canciones gracias a la alta capacidad de su disco duro interno de varios gigas de memoria. Un iPod. Muchachos, que sé que alguno me lee, os estirais menos que Zubizarreta. Para mostrar mi coherencia, que mi palabra es ley y que no dejo puntada sin hilo, aquí va el vídeo con el que he participado en tan colosal evento.  Este vídeo, como Quique bien recordará, lo grabamos en las fiestas de Barajas de hace 2 años. Sabía que algún día lo usaría para algo… Como con cualquier documento de este tipo, poco se puede comentar. Mi único mérito fue aguantar con la cámara a que la speaker dijera algo memorable y luego, lo más difícil,  seleccionar una entre todas ellas. Para votarlo teneis que tener usuario en La Coctelera. En el caso de que así sea podeis entrar aquí, os logueais primero que si no no vale y votais. Y Curro ha vuelto de Londres… ACTUALIZACIÓN IMPORTANTE PARA MI, INTRASCENDENTE PARA EL RESTO DE LA HUMANIDAD: He visto el primer episodio de la 5ª temporada de The Shield. No puedo más.

Boy, we have some catching up to do, so let’s get started, shall we!

Is it possible that the real key to the success of Toyota and Honda in challenging Detroit is the fact the two Japanese automakers designed their products to appeal to women? The Car Blog thinks so. My wife told me I could say I don’t know.

If you are thinking about buying a used vehicle, Mike Willis of Carsopia, a new entry in the Carnival of Cars, has some tips for you. Here’s Part 1. Welcome to the Carnival of Cars, Mike!

Another new entry is from GolbGuru, a “twentysomething grad student,” who offers some interesting observations about the relationship between safety and value in used vehicles, including this:

“I have deliberately avoided the use of the words ‘cheap car.’ Once you go through the ratings, you will realize that expensive is not necessarily safe and cheap is not necessarily unsafe.”

Hmmm.

Ah, the glories of a thumper! Dorrington Williams at If it’s got an engine … loves his Suzuki 650 Savage and wonders if the same powerplant configuration could be applied to larger vehicles:

“What I propose is a hybrid single-cylinder engine. Couple a large single-cylinder engine up to an electric motor/generator. The electronics controlling the motor/generator would have to be fast enough to switch from motoring to generating every other engine revolution.”

Another Hmmm.

From across the pond, comes All Tips and Tricks with advice on how to get the most out of your tyres. Don’t forget the one in the boot. Welcome to the Carnival of Cars, All Tips and Tricks.

My goodness, the carnival is stuffed with advice this week! Jeff Neilan at Car Buying Tips explains the mysteries behind that dreaded icon of the auto biz, the dealer invoice.

Bet you didn’t ever expect to see a reference in the Carnival of Cars to the need to join the Ferret Fanciers Club. Mad Kane’s Humor Club combines useful advice on how to plan for a really good weekend getaway with tips on how to maintain your sanity when nothing goes as planned.

Big doin’s north of the border as CASCAR becomes the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series. The Garage Blog assesses the assessables.

And while we’re at the The Garage Blog, find out which GM “high-end production facility is predetermined to produce crap.”

Perhaps it was a bad day at the garage.

Chuck at Car Buying Tips notes that there is a certain fragrance in the air, something having to do with “New Car Model Selling Season.” You will know what to do.

They’re coming out of the woodworks over there at Car Buying Tips! James Raia does the Weekly Driver review and he likes the Passat as an alternative to the usual Camry or Accord purchase. James is also rather taken by the Honda Fit.

Kevin, Denny, both Jeffs, Matt, Tony, Dale, Mark, Jimmie and Kyle might as well give up now cauz when all the rubber and oil has cleared, it’s gonna be Kasey Kahne sittin’ purty in the Nextel Cup Season Championship. Hey, Brian at Racedriven.com said it, so it must be true!

Joe Sherlock peers at The View Through the Windshield and can’t stop asking if the world really needs Mercury:

“Today’s Mercury is the poster child for ‘Badge Engineering’ and is an almost-clone of its Ford-badged sibling. Mercury is a virtually unknown brand outside of North America; Ford stopped selling it in Canada a couple of years ago. “

It’s a tough question and Joe has some solid thoughts on it. No, that’s not Joe in the photo above, but it is the Mercury Milan Voga concept in the background. Wonder what she’ll do if Mercury goes under?

Gas is headed back towards the $2 per gallon neighborhood, at least for now, but it’s still important to get the most mileage possible out of your vehicle. Unless, that is, your last name states with a G and ends with an S and you happen to have started a very successful computer business in the garage. Ann Mattinatt at Ask Patty has gas-saving tips for those of us who didn’t.

Speaking of Asking Patty, Jody DeVere is scheduled to speak at a Six Apart affair in Deetroit come Oct. 30, along with the folks from GM Fast Lane Blog. Makes me wish I could hop a 737 and head west that day.

How do you know when a friend has completely gone bonkers? When they start talking about getting a job in the auto industry! If you can’t persuade them to do something a little saner - like being a safety inspector in a dynamite plant or doing live-ammo tests of bullet-proof vests - The Garage Blog has some suggestions to pass along to your unforunate acquaintance.

And in the continuing fall-out from El Presidente’s hilarious stand-up routine at Turtle Bay, The Auto Prophet suggests an anatomically difficult exercise for the Venenzuelan chief executive. Remarkably similar to the sage advice being offered over at Tapscott’s Copy Desk, I might add.

Yes, please feel free to steal the above photo and post it everywhere!

Finally, That’sRacin’ has the scoop on allegations of cheating in the engine room at RCR. This has Ugly written all over it.

And on a personal note:

Don’t miss the Fast Forward reviews of Marcus MacFarland now being posted regularly on Tapscotts behind the Wheel. The first two are here and here. MM is, of course, my son and I dare say he is a natural-born auto writer.

He attended his first manufacturers’ ride and drive yesterday - the GMer for Saturn and Chevy in Virginia - and came away with loads of valuable information and interesting insights about the industry, its people and processes. Not bad for a rookie, huh!

Yes, I am proud of him! See ya next week.

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The Indian R&D sector is booming and so are salaries even as companies struggle to find scientists. The boom is being led by the pharmaceuticals sector with both Indian companies and multinationals expanding their R&D units to take advantage of India’s scientific talent.

This report in the Business Standard says salaries in the range of Rs10-40m ($240,000-$975,000) are being paid to leading scientists in pharmaceutical companies. Salaries are steadily heading to international levels.

At this rate, how long will India enjoy the cost advantage? Not many years, I suspect. India cannot, in the future, rely only on cheap talent to draw R&D business from the West or even China.

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A federal judge in Colorado has handed the industry a big win in its protracted legal battle against a handful of small companies in Utah, Arizona and Colorado that offer sanitized versions of theatrical releases on DVD. The case encompasses two of Hollywood’s biggest headaches these days: the culture wars and the disruptive influence of digital technologies.

Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch came down squarely on the side of the DGA and the major studios in his ruling that the companies must immediately cease all production, sale and rentals of edited videos. The summary judgment issued Thursday requires the companies — Utah-based CleanFlicks, CleanFilms and Play It Clean Video, Arizona-based Family Flix USA and the separate entity CleanFlicks of Colorado — to turn over all existing copies of their edited movies to lawyers for the studios for destruction within five days of the ruling.

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Snow Day Today, well more like an early dismissal. I actually had to get up, wait for the bus, and go to school for 2 hours, but we played Balderdash for a while. I used to get afraid that we would get snowed in and not be able to leave the school. Actually, that might be cool and fun in a way. But it was and still is really bad out. Anyway, I went to my first hockey game about 2 weeks ago, totally awesome! Fun experience. I went in a car with some people from church, it was bascially for the youth group. We went to the Pepsi Arena in Albany, the city is so beautiful at night. It’s all like lit up! So we got there, really cold, and we wait where everyone else is waiting to get in. We already brought tickets that they were supposed to hold for us. We were waiting a long time to get in, so me and some friends went to ask the pastor what was up, because it was almost game time! The people in the booth can’t find the tickets and it’s time for the game! NO! Can’t get in without tickets! So we wait, they finally find them at about 7:00 when the game is supposed to start. So pastor hands out the tickets all for the first 2 rows. We get in and have to find our section, as luck would have it, our seats were on the other side of the stadium, so we were walking, some of us running, to our section, some woman was singing the National Anthem. We finally get to our section, at first the guy wasn’t going to let us in because they had just started, but he did after about a minute. I didn’t really know anyone from the youth group but I still wanted to go. So we go down to my seats and my ticket was for the second row. When we sit down a guy bangs right into the glass, I was feeling brave and wanted to sit in the front row. I asked the pastor if he and his wife would switch places with me, he said okay, I tried not to feel bad about it because they have been in the front row at games before, I asked the 12 year old girl next to me to move up to the front with me. It was so fun, a lot of the times the guys banged against the glass I wasn’t looking, being stupid we would even touch the glass for like a brief second. It’s always the cute players that get hurt! Oh, forgot to say it was the Binghamton Patriots vs. Albany River Rats. We had these annoying Patriots fans right in back of us shouting for the 1st quarter. I sometimes cheered for the wrong team because It was so hard to follow. I would be like “What just happened?”. When the first quarter was over I went to get myself a pretzel, Twizzlers, Skittles, and a Dr. Pepper. They hide the bathrooms in these places, there will be a sign, but then you realize that you got to go down the stairs and make a right, go on like on a field trip, but it was easy to find this time, compared to some places. Anyway, end of the game came around, Patriots were winning by one point and it’s like the last minute in the game and the Patriots score, you know why? Because the dumb River Rats took their goalie out and replaced him with a player on offense! They had a chance to tie the game and they blew it! The goalie for the River Rats was no that good, but it still wasn’t to smart. Sure they could have scored because they put another player in, but still, don’t trade the goalie! Everyone was yelling because they had no idea were he was, he came back after the shot was made. So the Patriots won 5 to 2 , they were good. I don’t have a favorite team because I don’t know the teams or the game to well, but I do know that when the puck goes into the net, that’s a point. I had a great time, hope I can go again sometime. Glad I didn’t get hit with a puck or anything, some kids were worried about that, but when you sit in front of the glass chances are that you won’t. Oh my gosh, It is so windy out! You can’t see or breathe out there, very cold, snow is blowing all over the place! Garbage can lid won’t stay down without a couple of heavy bricks. Hope it will end soon.

Planned Parenthood is not having a good year at the box office.

First “Waitress,” then “Knocked Up,” and now “Juno,” which just opened at the Toronto Film Festival. In a rave review, Reuters’ Kirk Honeycutt writes of “Juno”:The film, the second directed by Jason Reitman and first written by stripper-turned-writer Diablo Cody, detonates wisecracks every step of the way yet never completely disguises the fact that this is a comedy from a couple of moralists determined to portray the great human values in love and friendship. …

Juno MacGuff (Page) is a supersmart, cool 16-year-old (named after Zeus’ wife) whose single experimentation with sex with her best male friend, Paulie (a touching Michael Cera), results in pregnancy. After visiting an abortion clinic “to procure a hasty abortion,” she thinks better of the idea and falls back on Plan B.

She decides to have the baby and place it with a family through private adoption. She finds the perfect couple in the local Penny Saver, right next to exotic pet adoptions. They are Vanessa (Jennifer Garner) and Mark (Jason Bateman). All this leg work comes before reporting her situation and solution — at the urging of best friend, Leah (Olivia Thirlby) — to her parents.

That scene is a perfect example of how Cody defies expectations. Juno’s gruff yet kind dad (J.K. Simmons) takes the news with equanimity, even saying of the father-to-be, “I didn’t think he had it in him.” Stepmom Bren (Allison Janney) had rather hoped the bad news would be that Juno was into drugs or expelled but goes to work to support her stepdaughter with a program of prenatal vitamins.Like “Waitress” and “Knocked Up,” the film, with its raunchy language and situations, doesn’t sound ripe for an endorsement from Focus on the Family. Still, it’s always refreshing to see Hollywood admitting that a woman’s “choice” is that of whether she will let her baby live.

When you are dating, Do not prey upon each other.Know that you each share The need for love, And that need is sacred.Explore, but do not invade. Look, but do not project. Act, but do not be afraid.Live your own self and being. You have nothing to lose But your isolation, so relate!What is a date, then, But jumping up and down On a springboard, Then jumping in?What is a date then But the playing around With needs and The stroking of desire?Don’t do what you think You want, do what you feel. Be responsive and real.Don’t waste money. Spend it wisely.Don’t make love, Yet love the making Of Desire.Talk but leave Little silences. And when you are Finished with each other?Kiss and go somewhere. Or say goodbye.Because goodbye Is forever, and You are looking for The right one.The right one? Is it you! Or, isn’t it?MemoryAs a former dater I do remember the fears at meeting someone, expected much, for love is much to expect.I remember the excitement because I was going to be with this person and get real and intimate, or so I hoped.I remember the need I had not to be alone, but to share a daily life together because I am a talker and a relator.I don’t like being alone all the time, so I am a natural dater. And what about you?I learned also to tease around a bit, to ask questions, to reveal things about myself that were always a bit wild, a bit weird. Then come back to center so as not to scare anyone!I think I was seeing if the other person could be an adventurer with me, if the other person could smile at my jokes, if the other person could make counter jokes or serious remarks in return.It had to be high adventure. Nothing. No movement, no engagement, would be out of the question and I would be bored.Then I thought sexual thoughts. I thought, how can I salvage this evening? I thought maybe if we make love we will have something to say also together?See how weird it can become, this dating? For in truth, it should be the other way around, shouldn’t it?We should be making love because we have interacted well. We have opened to each other and want to go further. We have matched each other, but each from our own selves. We are still different, after all! Yet, able to unite!What do you remember after? What do you remember, even for years? It’s not the success you had, like having intercourse. It is the failure you make together. How you met yet didn’t meet. Know what I mean?Yes, you both failed together, yet you take it personally. What if? What if I had been a little more forward, a little more real, what would have happened with this person? Would we have connected?And so life goes on. You miss the opportunity for connecting. You had energy for each other and you did not both open up in the right way. You missed your chance.Eventually you make it somewhere. Eventually you stop just dating and you start just relating. Eventually you try and get what you want but also have to take what you get.Eventually you settle down with someone, or you retreat all together. Eventually is eventually now. Remember, you say to yourself, it all counts for something.But what is that something, you ask yourself? What is it you really want from that other person, and do you get it?And then your life is over. Then you have been with someone, at least part of your growing years. Then the dating is over and maybe you have lost that freshness that is life.Remember how it used to be? Remember how you used to date and expected anything and everything? Remember how you used to date and ask, is this the one?Remember, and it is always so. It is always you in the encounter with this other person who started a perfect stranger? Remember those days?And did you ever get what you wanted? Did you ever have hopes realized? Goals set? You silly fool. It was not them you were after. It was yourself. It was you you were after! It was you and what you were doing with your life!You must find yourself first, and then you can find another!Remember, remember that it doesn’t last forever. Not this date. Not the next and the next. Not your life either, and not the other person’s.You must make a choice. You must be as real as you can. You must make a choice now, or at least soon.Are we going out again? Are we going out forever? Or at least as long as life lasts? You ask yourself these questions, and then you have to act.This is what a date is. This is what a date really is, isn’t it?And then your life is over.Strephon is a spiritual writer and teacher who has helped people sometimes to help them better fulfill themselves. He has worked as a psychologist and dreamwork therapist. He writes books and teaches others how to write. He may be found through his podcasts at http://www.strephonsays.com, http://www.dreamwork2000.com and his new site: http://www.thewritersinterface.comArticle Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Strephon_Kaplan-WilliamsStop Sweating Bullets
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A Gamasutra article by Ben Schneider about placing game players into defeat situations has sparked an interesting question.

Why is it so hard to plan for gamers to fail and present them with meaningful gameplay from that point?

I’m guessing a lot of it is the branching path effect. There are simply too many variables, too many ways for a player to fail.

Thinking about WoW, you die and you are a ghost. You can run to your corpse and rez or resurrect at the graveyard with a stiff time-limited penalty to your stats. This isn’t a bad way to handle it. The player is presented with a meaningful choice, there is a penalty to death whichever case you choose (some people pshaw over a corpse run, but it’s still a stretch of time where you aren’t earning xp or honor). But it’s hardly dramatic.

Maybe on death you’d have a random chance to enter a different narrative section. Let’s say you’re fighting in a humanoid camp. You get killed. Instead of ghosting your screen fades to black. You wake up in an instanced cave and have to fight or sneak your way out. Dying at this point ghosts you and you can only rez outside the instance.

It would be something different, at least. Yetis could drag you deep underground try to sacrifice you to a crazed merman.

Let’s start making lose conditions interesting.

Prey handled that aspect pretty well. There’s no death, just a strange mesa world with floating spirits. If you arrowed the spirits they would recharge your health and spirit (naturally), giving you an advantage when you resurrected. It wasn’t really fun, but better than quickloading.

One of Ben Schneider’s final paragraphs is a keeper:

“What is needed is the creation of a language of game drama, in the academic sense: a set of established conventions that will allow the player to read a setback as good storytelling, and not a slip-up on their part. A grammar of subtle cues to create the distinction. In any game with a story, where the player has sufficiently broad control of their character, those controls can be used to participate in story events as well as in gameplay. You can run madly to help a friend on the battlefield, only to arrive at the moment of his death; or desperately pull your troops back the moment you recognize that it’s an ambush; or struggle vainly as magical tendrils grab at your ankles and wrists, resulting in inevitable capture. In each of these examples, the player could read the failure as a skill failure or a dramatic twist. How are they going to know the difference? The answer is a coherent, consistent grammar. The cues are ours to invent. A change in camera angle. A musical motif and a change in the lighting. Excessive motion blur. Voice over, either inside the character’s head or from a narrator. A gentle slowing down of time.”