hace un click

Click, as in a mouse click, has been directly taken from english in Argentina, so I see "hace un click" all the time in ads (make one click). Also, all the words they import from english are automatically masculine, just as a side note.

I'm taking a breif break from studio work and I just wanted to show you some of my favorite websites, for those of you have some time or are mildly curious.

BBC News -These guys are great for having news from all around the world, up to the minute, and they've got everything very well organized on thier website. It's published by a company managed by the British Government, so it does have a bit of a lean to it, but at least its an alternative outside viewpoint to things happening in the U.S, and occationally I'll see eyebrow raising items that never made it to the US news until several days later.

And just for fun, the North Korean official news -for the just-a-little-off translation to English, for the rabid rhetoric, and for the laughable lunacy of the content. Today's issue has a condemnation of US imperialism claiming that we're attempting to take over China and Russia, several breifs extolling the virtues of the Great Leader, and party notes about the Ambassador of Such and Such having lunch at the Palace of the Magnificient Victory of the Working People.

I typically don't follow blogs outside of Mom's great blog, but the guy who writes this blog is a maritime navigator who works on scientific research vessels and he travels all over the world, writing about what he's seeing and what he's doing. He's a bit political, but he's always someplace different and he usually posts pictures.

Woot.com is fun to visit not only because they have insanely good deals on electronics, but also because they work really hard to come up with a story about the item they're selling (they only sell one thing a day, changing at midnight) and those are always fun to read.

It may not be the Encylopedia Britannica but Wikipedia is a great cultural resource and general encyclopedia. It doesn't have an exhuastive knowlege of the barrios of Buenos Aires, but it has a few things to say about them. Really, its a much more impressive and exhaustive compendium of common knowlege, popular culture, new words and phenomena. It's written by the users, so its fun to see the posted debates they have about entries. I'll go on looking for one thing, and then let the site lead me to other words and topics since its all linked and cross referenced.

Worth1000 is a pixelpushers paradise. Professional photophop manipulators compete against each other daily to come up with the cleverest, more realistic, most funny photomanips. I especially love the contests related to Movies, like Mate a Movie where you combine two movies, like "There's Swampthing About Mary" but then I love visual gags.

If you're into the interplay of technology, and society, and culture, then Wired News is great with its collumns, news articles, scoops, and features.

For great streaming music on the internet, Pandora lets you pick an artist or a song and them streams similiar music and artists that it pulls from a massive collection of old and contemporary music.

Lastly, for the pure whoa factor, check out J-track 3D. It loads an applet window which shows you, in real time, a 3d map of the earth and all of the satellites orbititing it.

OK ten sites should take you awhile to explore and enjoy, so its back to work for me.