Has Google acquired Digg for 200 millions dollars? Michael Arrington has written a post on TechCrunch saying that both companies have reached an agreement for around 200 millions dollars. The popular social bookmarking site would become part of Google News property.

This is a High Dynamic Range time-lapse from Goblins State Park in Utah (USA). It is very nice

Te voy a escribir lo más bonito que he escrito en mi vida, porque simplemente eres lo más bonito que me ha pasado. Desde aquella noche en que me besaste, no ha habido ningún día en el que no haya pensado en ti. Eres mi pasado, mi presente y mi futuro, te llevo en mi mente y corazón a todas partes.

Pienso en ti cuando estoy triste y cuando estoy feliz, cuando me siento arropado y cuando me siento solo, cuando río y cuando lloro, cuando gano y cuando pierdo, tú siempre estás ahí. Eres la estrella que me guía, mi razón de ser, el motivo por el cual merece la pena vivir.

Cuando no estoy contigo me siento perdido, necesito tu presencia. Echo de menos los pequeños detalles que me das cada día; el latido de tu corazón, los abrazos de media noche, el aliento de tu boca cuando me besas cada mañana, el brillo de tus ojos verdes, cuando me dices I love you baby, tu dorada melena al caer el sol, tu bella sonrisa, y es que echo de menos hasta el aire que respiras. Aunque tal vez no puedas enteder todas estas palabras, no te preocupes cariño, que yo te las explico con el lenguaje de mis besos.

Plurk is a new microblogging based application. It lets to publish from texts (140 characters) to multimedia files such as pictures and videos. The most revolutionary feature that Plurk brings to us is the original timeline. When you take up using it, it can be a bit confusing, but you can get used quickly. I like how the system let the user knows new updates as well. I think Plurk could be a nice alternative to Twitter, but I have some questions:

• Why don’t they make a search engine for users? When you start using Plurk, it’s complicated to find friends
• Why don’t they let upload ours own files directly onto the system?

You can follow me on http://plurk.com/user/alfonsojimenez

Ladies and gentlemen, the doors are opened on the Neon project. Neon is no more than a new service by Amarok, which offers nightly builds to the users who want to try the lastest available version. It should be noted that is not a stable version, but it’s intended to be used by everyone who wants to help find bugs or to join development for Amarok.

If you are using Kubuntu Hardy Heron and you are interested on installing it, just add this line to /etc/apt/source.list and install the amarok-nightly package:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main

More information | Official Amarok site

People are ignorant, but we already know that. As usual, I’ve read something really stupid on Twitter this morning. It said: I hope Apple will develop for everyone [every OS]. I think it would be one of the worst things to ever happen. Why do people want to install non-free software on free systems? If we want a truly free system, we cannot accept non-free software in our system. If people keep installing, running or developing non-free components, GNU/Linux will be turned into a fuzzy combination of free and non-free software. And we also could find free software which depends on non-free packages. The freedom movement would have failed if this happens.

People wants to install non-free software on free systems because they have not idea. They have not been educated using the free software principles. They don’t understand why the software should be free. They are confused between the free software and the open source movement. The universities doesn’t teach anything about the free software principles, even many teachers don’t know anything about free software. People wants to install non-free software on free systems because they don’t know what the free software is.

The insistence of running Adobe Photoshop on GNU/Linux is a good example of this. I’m not going to talk about the Photoshop/The Gimp challenge, although I manage well myself using The Gimp. Each user should know that Adobe Photoshop has a horrible license which it doesn’t allow the freedom to run, modify and redistribute it. The Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), so we have the freedom to run, copy, change, study, distribute, improve the software and release our improvements. That’s how the community gets benefits. The Gimp, like free software, contributes to human knowledge, whilst Adobe Photoshop, like non-free software does not.

I read a message in a mailing list that could not have shocked me more. It said: Google also sponsored some work by Codeweavers to improve [Wine] support for Photoshop (’cause so many people want it) What a bad news for the free software! That’s not what people want, that’s not what GNU/Linux was made for. Why don’t Google support The Gimp instead of a Wine support for Adobe Photoshop?

FC Barcelona are gonna play the most important match of the year tonight. The rivals, Manchester United, will return to the stadium where one of the most glorious night of history was lived They beat Bayern Munchen in the most dramatic European Cup final victory of all-time nine years ago. The city of Barcelona will have the chance to host one of the most attractive matchs of the old continent. Barça will try to hold United to stop their winning streak.

It should be noted aswell that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo (probably the two best players in the whole world) will be face to face tonight in Barcelona. Manchester United will try to get a good result to get through to the next round, whilst FC Barcelona will want to arrive at Old Trafford with an advantage. If the Catalans lose tonight, they will say good bye to the season. There is a lot at stake.

I’ve seen on Entre tuxes y pepinos a curious lettuce with the Ubuntu Logo! The company is called El corral de los niños (The children’s farmyard) and it has been seen in Badajoz. And from what I have read, I would like to advise that it can contain bugs

Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German journalist and photographer. He was born in 1898, however he moved to the United States in 1935. He has been one of the best photographers of the 20th century. He took several portraits of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Adolph Hitler, Albert Einstein, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, among others. Many of them appeared on the cover of the famous Life magazine.

Each Eisenstaedt’s picture tells a story. Once he took a picture of Joseph Goebbels, the leader of the NSDAP’s propaganda machine and later the minister in charge of all Nazi Propaganda. Eisenstaedt wrote later: Here are the eyes of hate. I have been asked how I felt photographing these men. Naturally, not so good, but when I have a camera in my hand I know no fear. It’s curious aswell that this picture was taken by a Jewish.

By far his most known picture is V-J day in Times Square. It was taken on August 14th 1945, all the nation was overcome with joy and euphoria, the war came to a close. The picture shows a young American sailor kissing a nurse in a memorable scene.

Eisenstaedt once explained the magical moment: I saw a sailor running along the street grabbing every girl in sight. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder. Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse. I took exactly four pictures. It was done within a few seconds.

Alfred Eisenstaedt died in 1995 and he’s still in memory of many people.