2006 3
Jesus and God in Family Guy
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I was thinking about the Danish Cartoon incident and I remembered Family Guy. a cartoon that I saw with my 12 year old son the other day. Watching that even this agnostic Jew was shocked. Is this what kids watch on TV now? Where did Roadrunner go? What´s clear to me is that Western societies have tremendous tolerance on how they treat their own religious figures and it is that principle that clashes with the much less tolerant vews prevailing in Muslim societies when humour is at stake.
2006 2
Demo on the New Nokias with GPS
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2006 1
Nokia N series vs iPod
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The other day I was in a debate organized by Nokia in which we were asked by Om Malik about mobile phones and their likelyhood to dethrone the iPod as the music device that people carry around. What follows is a very personal analysis of the comparison of this week´s test of alternatively walking around with an N80 vs walking around with an iPod.
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This is my amateur clip of part of the Nokia event yesterday in NYC made with my N80.
The N95 was one of the stars of the launch. A group of us were the panelists moderates by Om Malik of Gigaom.
Another highlight of the event was the launch of a community of music influencers managed by David Bowie supporting models N70, N73 y N91 that are especially designed for music with 8GB of memory. Are these phones going to be iPod killers or will Apple reply with the Apple phone?
2006 22
Richard Branson’s Committment
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Here´s the video that shows committing to reinvest the profits of his transportation companies that he estimates in $3bn in businesses that are enviromentally friendly. Or at least that is what I think I understood.
2006 22
Who Are The Donors?
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This is me walking down the streets of Manhattan talking about the Clinton Conference.
2006 21
Al Gore: Global Warming, USA and China.
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2006 21
Desmond Tutu Speaks About Religious Conflicts
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In this video President Hamid Karsai speaks about Afghanistan, while Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan speaks about the Middle East in General.
2006 21
HIV Testing Committment
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During the 80’s a group of scientists at McGill University and I started a company called Medicorp in Montrea,l who became known for being one of the first makers of AIDS tests and who also developed and AIDS treatment called Passive Immunotherapy.
At that time, it was very hard to promote massive HIV testing, because there were no treatments for HIV AIDS. Now with new treatments there´s hope for HIV infected patients and at the Clinton Global Initiative actor Chris Tucker and others announced a program to promote HIV testing.