15 cosas que (probablemente) no sabías de 'Matrix' 15 cosas que (probablemente) no sabías de 'Matrix' Tal día como hoy, en 1999, se estrenó en España el mayor 'blockbuster' del cambio de milenio. Celebramos la ocasión con una lista de datos que pueden ser verdad... o una ficción de las máquinas. Trece años ya. Por un puñado de ciberdólares Con todo su lujo y su poderío digital, Matrix estuvo a pique de salir a los cines como un filme de bajo presupuesto. “Queremos que sea así, pero en acción real” El empuje visual de la primera escena de la película no fue suficiente para convencer al productor Joel Silver para que aflojase la pasta. ¿Quién inventó el ‘tiempo-bala’? La verdad es que tiene su mérito: con 200 planos de efectos especiales, que ocupan el 20 por ciento de su metraje, Matrix puede alardear de haber popularizado esta técnica que combina la imagen ralentizada con movimientos de cámara extremadamente rápidos. Se busca mesías. El casting de Matrix no tuvo muchas complicaciones, salvo en dos casos. “Un trágico error, señor Smith”
Another 20 games that make you think about life First we gave you five. Then we gave you ten. Now we are giving you 20 games that make you think about life. As with our previous lists, we have focused mainly on free games that you can play in your browser. 1 Elude Developed by Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab, Elude is a dark, atmospheric game that aims to shed light on the nature of depression. The forest that you start the game in represents a normal mood. This is a gloomy underground cavern, with a sticky muddy base that sucks you down. 2 Air Pressure You will have to play through Air Pressure - a Flash port of an interactive novel by Bentosmile - more than once to truly understand the characters and themes in this game. 3 Symon Another impressive production by Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab, Symon is a point-and-click adventure game with a difference. You also get to solve a lot of puzzles. 4 Ulitsa Dimitrova The Russians have never been the most cheery people. 5 Ute I am not quite sure what to make of this game. 6 Aether 8 Yet One Word
Your Morning Adorable - L.A. Unleashed At the Parken Zoo in Eskilstuna, Sweden, the birth of a rare pygmy hippopotamus is a big deal. The baby, a male named Oliver, was born Feb. 15 to mother Krakunia. As a newborn, Oliver had a bit of a close call because Krakunia, a first-time mother, didn't allow him to nurse. Parken Zoo staff found an interesting way around this problem, as the Telegraph explains: So desperate were the zookeepers to keep Oliver alive that eventually one of them managed to milk Krakunia, thus allowing them to feed the youngster by hand. Now that's a dedicated zookeeper. Pygmy hippos, which were classified as endangered in 2006, are native to parts of western Africa, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. See more photos and video of Oliver after the jump!
Movie Facts Click Here For More Fun Movie Facts About the author: Prasad View all posts by Prasad Heckling Hitler: 15-plus attempts to make the Führer funny | Film | Inventory 1. The Producers (1968)Adolf Hitler was a madman, a bigot, a dictator, and a cautionary example of how one man can induce a genocidal mass hysteria. So what, we can’t laugh at the guy? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. [pagebreak] 9. 10. 11. “8 Simple Rules For Buying My Teenage Daughter,” Family Guy (2005)When Meg becomes fed up with babysitting, Lois hires a lovely young thing named Liddane to serve as Stewie’s occasional caretaker. 12. 13. 14. 15-plus. 11 Funny Facts I Learned From The Movies For More Fun Movie Facts, Click HERE About the author: Prasad View all posts by Prasad
The 7 Greatest (True) Johnny Depp Stories Ever Told Somehow Johnny Depp always seems to commits the weirdest crimes. Even when the guy is doing something "wrong", he does it with style. He's never been arrested for doing anything outside of the realm of what you'd expect from him, even with all his money. In 1994, Depp was staying at a fancy New York hotel and completely wrecked his room. When police arrived at the scene, there was a smashed glass coffee-table and other destroyed, mangled furniture in the $1200-a-night suite. The alleged creature was never found. Johnny Depp's cavalier attitude about his brushes with the law and incarceration make him even more awesome. The other crime Depp was caught committing is just as unexpected, and pretty damn awesome (not including that paparazzi brawl he had, because really, who could stand those people). The billboard featured Depp holding a gun with the slogan, "Other Kids Pack Lunch," underneath it. Source
Viral Video Chart As of 11 August 2015, data from the Unruly Viral Video Chart will only be available to subscribers of Unruly Analytics™ and via partnerships with our press partners, including Campaign, Werben & Verkaufen, Horizont, Contagious magazine, Campaign Asia and Mumbrella Australia. If it’s deeper insight into branded video trends you’re after, head across to our Insights page for video data and analysis that will blow your mind! 'Coalgate' scandal a hard blow to Indian government | Asia | DW.DE | 23.08 Proceedings of India's lower and upper houses of parliament were adjourned for the third consecutive day on Thursday after opposition parties insisted that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resign over a coal mining scandal involving the allocation of coal blocks to private companies. India's state auditor, the Comptroller Auditor General (CAG), last week said that the lack of transparency in the distribution of coal blocks to private companies had cost billions of dollars to the exchequer since March last year. However, the CAG report did not directly blame Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but said that the allocations had been made between 2005 to 2009, when Manmohan Singh was in charge of the energy ministry. The scandal is a new development in a string of corruption scandals to hit Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government in the past two years. The 'Coalgate' scandal The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called the 'Coalgate' scandal the "mother of all scams." Storm in a teacup?
10 Dumbest Moments In Movies | Interesting Movies - StumbleUpon I’ve seen a lot stupid movies in mi life, but some moments are just too stupid. I’m sure it happened to you too. Well, i I have right, take a look, and i am sure that you will recognize some really stupid moments in movies. Take a look, and enjoy Compromised FBI agent, Keanu Reeves, is forced to help in escape of robber, Patrick Swayze. Code breaker, scientist Scott and his assistant in form of Kate Winslet, grab a part of German code machine, Enigma. Writer Charlie Kaufman is imprisoned in a swamp by John Laroche and Susan Orlean, subject and author of his adaptation “The Orchid Thief”. You got to admit, pretty good beginning of a movie. Stallone in a pretty good story, on a very unusual place. Cameron Diaz and her jubilant friends Christina Applegate and Selma Blair, are in a restaurant and talk about… well mostly they talk about male geitalia. 7. xXx (2002) Modern version of 007, Vin Diesel is in bad situation. Great begining of Victor Salva movie. Master of suspense, M.
Indian mining 'out of control' | Asia | DW.DE | 26.06 Mining is a very lucrative business in India. When it comes to iron core and coal production, India is number three worldwide. But a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has linked mining in India to human rights abuses and environmental issues. It says, "because of a dangerous mix of bad policies, weak institutions, and corruption, government oversight and regulation of India's mining industry is largely ineffectual. Currently in India there are many controversial mineral mining projects, especially in central India. An increasing number of protests have been taking place in India, for example in Kalinganagar, a small town in the Jajpur district of coastal Orissa - where locals are protesting for not being compensated adequately for land taken away from them for the construction of steel plants. "It has been observed that cases of mining of natural resources are directly related to violations of Human Rights. Poverty, violence and human rights abuses The adivasi question
Maslow's hierarchy of needs Maslow's hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom[1] Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review.[2] Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms "physiological", "safety", "belongingness" and "love", "esteem", "self-actualization", and "self-transcendence" to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through. Maslow's theory was fully expressed in his 1954 book Motivation and Personality.[5] The hierarchy remains a very popular framework in sociology research, management training[6] and secondary and higher psychology instruction. Hierarchy Physiological needs Safety needs Safety and Security needs include: