Archive for October 10th, 2006
Mexico’s Teotihuacán to “communicate with E.T.s”
5:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture| history| mexico · Comments Off
10 Oct 2006
Mexico’s famed archeological site, Teotihuacán, is ready to speak to alien life forms, and will do so by sending a message into space with the help of web company Yahoo! and their “time capsule” project:
Starting on Tuesday, whomever is interested can send text, images, video or sounds that reflect humanity to be included in the message.These contributions — part of Yahoo!’s “Time Capsule” project will be digitized and shot into space through a laser on October 25 from the Pyramid of the Sun.
Sounds like a huge PR stunt for Yahoo!, which capitalizes on the “exotic” image of the pyramids and the public’s endless fascination with aliens. If anything, I hope Yahoo! is paying the INAH something for this.
Via / 20 Minutos
Image via addicted Eye’s Flickr page
Mexican-American Iraq War Veteran Facing Court Martial Today
2:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Politics · Comments Off
10 Oct 2006
Mexican-American Army Spec. Agustin Aguayo faces a court court-martial today in Germany, accused of being a deserter because he refused to return to Iraq for a second tour of duty. The medic, a U.S. citizen who was born in Guadalajara said:
…he was not anti-war when he enlisted in 2002. But his military experiences changed his mind. He applied for conscientious objector status in February 2004 before he was sent overseas.
He served a year as a combat medic in Tikrit, Iraq, in 2004 after the military turned down his request.
He then jumped out of a window of his base housing in Germany on Sept. 2 rather than be forced to ship out for a second tour with the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment.
Almodovar: Dating Cruise Wasn’t Good for Pe’s Career
1:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Chismes| Spain · 3 Comments
10 Oct 2006
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar shocked a few reporters in New York when he decided to comment on the relationship Penelope Cruz (known as Pe and one of Pedro’s muses) had with Tom Cruise:
Almodóvar said in a meeting with reporters that the actress’ career was damaged by the long relationship she maintained with the polemic Tom Cruise, current partner of Katie Holmes.The director also said that the roles that Cruz gets in the U.S. aren’t on par with her talent as an actress, and that in general she is offered scripts that cast her as “the pretty girl” instead of letting her develop all of her potential.
Penelope was Cruise’s faithful compaion for years, right after he divorced from actress Nicole Kidman. For Almodóvar, that relationship made the press “see Penelope in a bad light”. He thinks that many people, not only in the U.S., saw her as an opportunist, when that wasn’t the case and that Nicole Kidman could take advantage of her relationship to get good roles, but Penelope could not since “they saw her as the other woman”.
If Katie Holmes is reading this, I bet she’s saying “amen”. Tom Cruise is more a career liability than a help these days.
Meanwhile, Pe seems to be over all of that, happily dating Orlando Bloom and getting hit on by “drag kings”.
Via / El Semanal Digital
Reading (and Racism) is Fundamental
9:43 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books| Education| children| history · 8 Comments
10 Oct 2006
Nothing teaches the message of Hispanic/Latino Heritage month and Colombus Day for children quite like a book I came across the other day. The Angry Aztecs is part of a larger Scholastic Book series titled Horrible Histories , which attempt to teach elementary age children about different historical ethnic groups and nationalities using stereotypical humor. Because of the fact that the series contains such titles as The Terrible Tudors and the The Cut-throat Celts some will say the series is not racist and is just trying to appeal to children’s natural love of the gross.
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