A lawyer becomes a LEGO artist

I have always been fascinated by Legos, apparently Nathan Sawaya too!

He does crazy things out of Lego Bricks

In the Article you have a link to a gallery with a few examples of his works. (I love the giant pencil): http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/05/31/lego.artist/index.html

They played, they lost!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/23/coca.cola.sentencing/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Some former Coke Employees were sentenced to Prison Terms after their plot to sell Coca Cola Co.'s Trade Secrets to Pepsi was revealed last year.

I'm sure you have already asked yourself...

This SF Gate reporter asks himself why there are so many people in SF that are just chilling or hanging out on week days, he went around town o investigate

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/21/onthejob.DTL

Who will be in The Governement?

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-823448,36-910448@51-907099,0.html

The last rumors about the composition ofthe future governement.

Francois Fillon's wikipage:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois_fillon

Frank Romano in San Francisco

Our Nanterre/GGU Teacher Mr. Romano is going to come to San Francisco for a signing of his book "Storm Over Morocco"

Here is the presentation sheet:

Storm Over Morocco is a true story of a young man’s search for God among militant Moslems, transformed into a desperate struggle for survival when he is accused of sabotage.




Frank Romano discusses his new memoir:

STORM OVER MOROCCO

His book relates his tumultuous, yet powerful, experiences living with a fundamentalist religious group in Morocco in the 70's.

Wednesday, May 23rd
12:30 pm

Talk, Discussion and Book Signing
Alexander Book Co.
50 Second St.
San Francisco, CA


“Torn between physical and psychological hardships, the book reveals how the author did find his spiritual truth amidst fanatics. Not only is Storm over Morocco an interesting story but is also a deep, thought-provoking work that addresses humanistic concerns like universality, peace, tolerance, and freedom”. Review by Ernest Dempsey, World Audience Publishers, www.worldaudience.org, New York, March, 2007.

More Info: www.frankromano363.com

The situation involved poor judgment...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/05/13/faked.attack.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

A few eeks after the massacre at Virginia Tech, some elementary school teachers in Tennessee had a brilliant idea... fake a gunmen attack on terrified 6th graders!
Creepy

Where do emoticons come from?

There was an interesting post on the Meebo blog this morning about the origins of emoticons, of course, as usual, wikipedia helps us solve the "mystery" with a really complete article about those little things that invaded our lives (for those who say LOL when they talk :) ). It is interesting to see that emoticons were used way before the boom of IM!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

Just one of those things you would never think you would need to know...

Bill Maher on France

some really really funny comments although some facts would be disputed by the most chauvinistic of french people!!

Sarko president

ok so it appears that France has a new president
while we re waiting impatiently to see who is going to be in the Government etc.. there is a tool that allows you to check the results by town, which is pretty interesting (to me at least lol)
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/minires/recherche/1,0-0@2-823448,1-0,0.html


so now we just have to wait and see
for those who are interested, the video of Sarkozy's speech yesterday

http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/elections-2007/0,,3442707,00-sarkozy-vous-decevrai-pas-.html

Human Rights Watch on Walmart

Human Rights Watch issued a report on walmart's "anti union" practices. they of course encourage their employees not to particpate in unions statingt hat they don't need unions when they have managers and store directors that listen to them and are available for them

here are some training videos, an example illustrating those practices:

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/walmart/video.htm

the letter from Walmart to HRW:

http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0507/15.htm#_Toc164069768

the report (210 pages)

http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0507/