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If you?re looking for content for your site but don?t want to create it yourself or pay money for it, there are a lot of options available to you. Whether you are looking for images, articles or multimedia, there are many sites on the Web that make available a library of work available for you to use.

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Quote by Art: Bomomo Makes Abstract-ish Art Simple

Webapp Bomomo is a drawing application that’s slick enough to make random squiggles seem elegant, but also lets you fine-tune your design. Whether you’re looking for a change of desktop wallpaper, wrapping paper that’s really unique, or just an intriguing background, Bomomo’s results almost always look pretty decent. And while the colors are randomly generated, they tend to come in complementary waves. Bomomo is a free to sign up for and use.

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PowellsBooks.BLOG – Of Myths and Pisteutics (or when the waves of faith crash against the rocks of reason)

But stories are more interesting when they can manipulate the mode, break into new territory and redefine previously understood ideas. The Oceanic 6 have certainly returned home, but they’re not quite the O6. They’re more like the O62, and they couldn’t tell the homefolk what they’ve been through even if they wanted to. (Who would believe them, and how would they explain the lack of an island?) In most monomythic stories, the person returns somewhat more than she or he was before leaving; the O62 are both more and less, in some ways exaggerations of their strengths and weaknesses. What’s more, those strengths and weaknesses seem to be the reverse of what they were on the island: Sayid, the man who walked away from torture, is now Ben’s hired assassin. Jack, the social leader and healer, is verging on a heavy case of delirium tremens and can barely manage himself, let alone a scalpel. Hurley (with the help of Libby) went from finding an inner strength and confidence in his own mental stability to playing chess with dead Nigerian warlords in the Santa Rosa mental hospital. Sun has gone from a near-shrinking violet who was looking for a back door out of her marriage to a corporate titan living for the memory of her husband. Kate, always on the run and making just the wrong choice at the right time, has become a pillar of stability in her role as surrogate mother. Ben has gone from a kind of island shaman-king to a permanent state of exile, stuck in a cycle of vengeance and samsara out in his own private Land of Nod. We don’t yet know about Desmond or Lapidus, but we do know something about another islander, Locke. The news isn’t good.

Atención, contiene spoiler de la cuarta temporada de Lost.

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Por fin, la Momia Rosa

En cualquier caso, es una de esas pequeñas joyas que necesita el cine español, una película original y diferente de lo que se hace habitualmente en estos lares, con un guión cuidado al milímetro en el que encajan todos los detalles (incluso aquellos que apenas te habías fijado que estaban allí) y con una de las imágenes icónicas más impactantes del cine español reciente, una Momia Rosa armada con unas tijeras, que construyen una de las mejores películas posibles sobre viajes en el tiempo, en una línea muy diferente a la de las referenciales Regreso al futuro o Primer, que más parece remitir a los Límites de la Realidad o a Robert A. Heinlein. Una pena que la dirección de actores no esté demasiado inspirada, porque la película se queda en notable cuando podría haber optado a matrícula.

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Master Your Digital Media with VLC

Cross-platform media player VLC is often referred to as the «Swiss Army knife of media applications» for good reason: Not only does VLC play nearly any file you throw at it (you even voted it the best desktop media player), but it can do so much more. From ripping DVDs to converting files to iPod-friendly formats, let’s take a look at the four coolest things you can do with VLC and start you on your way to becoming a VLC ninja.

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Cita de Libro de Notas: No parecerse a casi nada

Más de cien años después del nacimiento del cine y con una montaña de películas vistas no deja de ser un acontecimiento poder ver una película como Los Cronocrímenes ( Nacho Vigalondo, 2007 ), tan poco parecida a casi nada que haya visto antes, al menos estructuralmente. No es que el director cántabro haya descubierto una nueva forma de filmar ni tampoco es que trate temas que nadie más ha osado abordar, no. La auténtica virtud de esta película es la de saber contar con muy pocos elementos una historia de ciencia ficción pura, algo inaudito en el cine español. Dicho de otro modo, Nacho Vigalondo consigue crear una película casi minimalista dentro de un género, la CF, que es casi por definición ampuloso y recargado.

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Caspa.tv: Ya llegó el verano a los medios

En algunos medios, el periodismo hace tiempo que abandonó el barco y cuando llega esta época se nota más aún la falta de criterio y selección. Como ejemplo, una selección divertida de no-noticias de portada de algunos medios:

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