A Capodanno Londra.

Ho sempre rinviato il capodanno a Londra. Gli ultimi capodanni, Roma (2006), Parigi (2007), Istanbul (2008), Marrakesh (2009), Edimburgo (2010) erano proprio il tentativo di fuggire dallo "scontato" capodanno nella city, che devo dire la veritá non mi attrae. Londra é talmente grande che non si lascia conquistare facilmente, meno che meno se in canna avete da spararvi solo un giorno di festa. Tuttavia trovandomi di stanza a Cambridge, ad un tiro di schioppo dalla capitale inglese, stavolta non ho alternative. Londra (2011). Ho messo in ricarica la camrecorder.

Ho visto cose che voi umani...centinaia di film sottotitolati in inglese su megaupload, il magazzino del futuro.

A Cambridge per incrementare l'apprendimento della lingua inglese tra le altre cose guardo film in inglese sottotitolati in inglese. In questo senso mi é venuto in soccorso un sito http://www.siestamovies.com/ che annovera decine e decine di film in inglese visibili in streaming o scaricabili (opzione preferibile), molti dei quali sono ospitati su Megaupload, tra i più diffusi siti web di file hosting internazionale, il magazzino del futuro.

Ads on their faces to pay off their student debts. New Economy or the end of the logic?

Ross Harper, left, and Ed Moyse have sold their face to pay off their student debts.

The pair, who graduated from Selwyn College in July, came up with the idea of charging businesses to paint a different logo on their faces each day for the next year to pay off their student debts. Source: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Face-space-duo-will-donate-days-profit-20122011.htm

The War on Cancer. Fight together.

Tom Whiteley’s last school photograph.

Tom Whiteley’s last school photograph tells a thousand words. Wearing a striped blazer and the most beautiful smile, it shows a carefree little boy; with a shock of blonde hair and a golden suntan, he looks handsome, happy, out-going. Not long after that photo was taken, Tom returned from a school trip complaining of a headache. Within 10 days he’d been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Seven months later, aged 9, he died. To see his smiling face in that school picture, it seems impossible that Tom grew so ill so fast – and totally unreal that he’s died.

A passionate animal lover, he had always wanted to go on safari – so Debbie and Andrew decided to take the whole family on a luxury trip to South Africa. Getting flights and insurance for such a sick child was far from easy but, just six days after learning Tom was terminal, they flew off on the holiday of a lifetime.

“It was an amazing 10 days. There were moments when we actually forgot he was dying, then we cried ourselves to sleep at night. The girls didn’t know it was the last holiday we’d have as a family – even now, saying that doesn’t seem real – and we did so many wonderful things. Tom even got to ride on an elephant. Source: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Health-and-Beauty/Family/Our-tribute-to-Tom-05122011.htm

Andiamo con la musica araba.