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Dropbox

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If you haven’t heard about Dropbox, let me give you a quick summary:

You open an account with them, then install a small piece of software on all your computers. The software creates a “Dropbox” folder on each of your machines that gets magically synchronized via the internets so that any file you drop in one machine in the folder appears on all the other machines. All synchronization happens transparently in the background. It’s quite seamless. They have a version for Windows, a version for Mac (which is very good) and even an iPhone app.

But it’s also useful if you have only one computer: Any file you add to your dropbox is accessible through the website… with the added bonus that the file is now backed up! So you can use your dropbox to store important documents that you don’t want to lose if your hard drive crashes.

Even better: You can, through the website, “share” a folder with another Dropbox user. So if you drop a file in your dropbox, it appears on someone else’s dropbox. This is a great tool for sharing large files, such as *ahem* your home videos.

So why am I talking about this Dropbox thing? Because if you open your account using the referral link below, they give me additional space on top of my 2 GB, which I could use. Open your account using the link below:

By opening a Dropbox account using this link, Marcos gets 1/4 extra GB.

Keep Austin Weird

Beer and cheese tasting

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Austin food blogger and friend Jodi Bart organized a beer and cheese tasting together with Amy Cartwright of local beer company Independence Brewing Co. and John and Kendall Antonelli of upcoming Antonelli’s Cheese early in the morning last Saturday (1 PM).

Fortunately, beer is one of my favorite things, and cheese is somewhere high up in the list as well;  so I could not miss it. Read more if you dare…

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Falafel and more

Edgar in Israel

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Edgar in Israel
Edgar in Israel

In May of 2006, a Mexican kid with a potty mouth and a strong regiomontano accent took the world by storm with his infamous YouTube video that recorded his fall for posterity.

In late 2009, his fame is yet to subside. The MKX® correspondent in Tel Aviv, Amit Safir, sends the photo above, showing Edgar “El que se cae” (“The one who falls”) starring in Israeli TV. You can tell because of the Hebrew and Russian subtitles. As our multilingual readers can attest, there is no good direct translation for his trademark phrase “¡Ya güey!‘.

The MKX has covered Edgar before.

Life of Marcos

Water damage

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Today, right before I headed out to my weekly life drawing studio, I opened the trunk of my car in order to throw some stuff in it. That’s when I realized that I had left a cooler full of (now melted) ice in there, together with my sketchpads containing about two years worth of drawings. The cooler fell to its side and everything got soaked. Unlike my digital files, I don’t have hourly + offsite backups of my hand drawings.

I quickly drove home, in order to examine how bad the damage was and to try to rescue as much as possible. I laid most of the drawings flat for them to dry out. Turns out I got lucky: the sketch pad that got most of the water got soaked on the back, where there’s a hard cardboard cover and about 30 blank sheets of paper between the water and the drawings.

Here’s a photo of my floor right now:

Wet drawings

I do take digital photos of the drawings. They are fully backed up and available for your pleasure in The MKX® Photo Central, if you care.

Jogo Bonito

Preparing for the World Cup

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In order to be at their best possible level, several soccer stars all over the world are transferring to different clubs ahead of the World Cup:

Oy.

Separated at birth

Lenirvana

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This is what the baby looks like today, about 18 years after Nirvana’s Nevermind album originally shipped. The photo shoot took forever because we wanted to capture the dollar bill just right and the model had to hold his breath for a while.

I call the photo: “Lenirvana”. Click on it for a slightly larger version.

Leny Kirsch

Reality Distortion Field

Operation Chokehold

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Fake Steve Jobs is angry at AT&T‘s poor network performance and all their excuses. Dropped calls, falling back to EDGE, slow data rates, poor voice quality, etc. So he called for Operation Chokehold through his blog:

Subject: Operation Chokehold
On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every iPhone user (or as many as we can) turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments. THe idea is we’ll create a digital flash mob. We’re calling it in Operation Chokehold. Join us and speak truth to power!

Since this post, there has been a lot of discussion about it: on the blog, on the web in general, even on Twitter. Everyone is all over it.

This all started as a joke and now sort of took a life on its own. The Facebook page has about 2000 fans. The Facebook page against it only 22 as of this writing.

According to latest estimates by The MKX® Department of Cyber-Risk Assessment, nothing will come out of this. But following all the commotion is kind of fun. Will you join Operation Chokehold?