“Honorable” diputado

¿Quiéren que me lo saque para que le tomen fotos?

– Franz Wever

Talvez en otra ocasión, lamentablemente dejamos los tele zooms en el estudio…

Beijing Olympics

Reporters Sans Frontiers is calling for demonstrations outside China’s embassies in London, Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Washington and Stockholm on 8 August, when the Olympic Games opening ceremony will be taking place in Beijing. The aim of these demonstrations is to call for the release of Chinese journalists and human rights activists who have been imprisoned. Reporters Without Borders is also organising a cyber-demonstration at this web address http://www.rsfbeijing2008.org

Two demonstrations will be organised on 7 August in Rome and Ottawa. A rally is also planned outside the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne.

In Paris, those wanting to take part should meet at 1 p.m. at the corner of Avenue George V and Rue de la Trémoille in Paris’ 8th district. Reporters Without Borders will distribute “Beijing 2008″ T-shirts to participants, as well other material for a peaceful demonstration.

Here are the times and venues of the demonstrations in the other cities:
- Berlin: in front of the Chinese embassy (Jannowitzbrücke) from 1 p.m. onwards on 8 August.
- Washington: near the Chinese embassy (2300 Connecticut Ave) from 8 a.m. onwards on 8 August.
- Stockholm: outside the Chinese embassy (Lidovägen 8 ) at 1 p.m. on 8 August.
- Lausanne: outside the Olympic Museum (Quai d’Ouchy 1) from 5 p.m. onwards on 8 August.
- Rome: outside the 4th district town hall at noon on 7 August.
- Ottawa: outside the Chinese embassy (515 St. Patrick Street) from noon onwards on 7 August.
- London: outside the Chinese embassy (49-51 Portland Place) from 1 p.m. onwards on 8 August.
- Madrid: outside the Chinese embassy (Calle Arturo Soria, 113) from 1 p.m. onwards on 8 August.

I-Doser: DRG to SBG (New version)

This is a small post just to let you know that I released a new version of drg2sbg, drg2sbg is a program based on Stealth’s DRG Author tool. It provides a way to convert drg files (from i-doser.com) into sbg files than can be played with open source software sbagen and converted to .wav and/or any format you may like.

You should be aware that binaural beats needs full stereo channels, so if you plan to make an mp3 out of the wav (provided by sbagen) please make sure you are not using any joint-stereo or similar features. I recommend you to convert the wavs to mp3 only after you have achieved 100% success rate with wavs.

Without further ado here is the link: http://code.google.com/p/drg2sbg/

… time to finish my vodka and lime… and get some sleep, I just love weekends!

GET THE TOKYO TWO OUT OF JAIL!

Greenpeace activists in Japan have been arrested for exposing a stolen whale meat scandal involving the Japanese government-sponsored Southern Ocean whaling programme.

Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki are charged with stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence of a whale meat smuggling operation. The activists requested a Japanese government investigation into the scandal, and the Tokyo public prosecutor agreed there was sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. His investigation has now concluded. The only persons charged are the Greenpeace activists who presented the evidence.

The activists are innocent of any crime. They have been arrested for returning whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers, and exposing a fraud that may reach high into the Japanese government agencies that run the whaling programme.

Please write to the Japanese Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and demand the activists’ immediate release.