May 2007
54 posts
“Possibly the first and only cliche in history I’ve wanted to bang,...”
– Maddox, 9 things I learned about the world from anonymous stock photo models.
April 2007
57 posts
La Blogothèque →
Mais uma dica enviada pelo nosso leitor Fábio “Morena”, que escreve: “Excelente blog de música francês. Ótima sessão CONCERT A EMPORTER (concertos à delivery, com o perdão da tradução horrível), em que vários artistas tocam suas músicas pelas ruas de Paris.”
“Who do you want to nuke?”
– Mike Gravel, senador americano, mantendo honesto o debate entre os democratas.
sumotori dreams →
A little but very serious game in 96k. This is the game where beginners can beat hardcore players, and even girls can beat boys. Um jogo divertido, elegante e com soluções ótimas. Luta de sumô para um ou dos jogadores.
Brains! Slate's special issue on mind science and... →
Taqwacore →
From Boston to Lahore and beyond, Islamic punk rock is spreading. O Taqwacore é um novo movimento de punk-rock influenciado pelo Islã. O termo tem origem na ficção.
“I felt Islam was so black and white and there were no grey areas. These Muslim...”
– Michael Muhammed Knight.
Classic Short Stories →
Saki, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Gabriel García Marquez, H. G. Wells, Roald Dahl, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens, William Carlos Williams and Katherine Mansfield.
math pi piano solo →
“Despite the existence of cinema classics such as Citizen Kane, The Godfather,...”
– The Onion
Um de nossos estimados leitores envia uma sugestão de link. Fábio “Morena”, no clima de um post anterior sobre produtividade: Sei que você é fascinado por produtividade pessoal, então achei interessante mandar um link sobre esse caras: http://www.37signals.com/. Eles fizeram o framework para programação web mais comentado da atualidade. Além disso eles tem inúmeros projetos super bem...
“If you round too many corners, you lose your edge.”
– Thomas de Monchaux, What If Apple Is Bad for Design?
New York Magazine — The Sex Diaries of Six Real... →
Six real New Yorkers, seven days of longing glances on the subway, text-message hookups, and hot marital romps.
The Most Expensive Movie Ever Made →
Com marketing e promoção incluídos, o preço total de Spider-Man 3 será próximo de meio bilhão de dólares. (via Kottke.org) O review da Variety considerou o filme pior do que os anteriores.
Donald Knuth, Computing's Philosopher King; post... →
Inclui um artigo no Salon sobre esse sujeito.
“If four people jump out at you in a dark alley, you don’t want to be...”
– David Allen. Entrevista com o guru do Getting Things Done no site da CNN.
When a Brain Forgets Where Memory Is →
Every so often, seemingly normal people suddenly walk out of their lives and disappear, with no recollection of who they are, where they are from or what their previous life was like. It is the stuff of fiction, but it happens in real life too.
The wave that destroyed Atlantis →
The legend of Atlantis, the country that disappeared under the sea, may be more than just a myth. Research on the Greek island of Crete suggests Europe’s earliest civilisation was destroyed by a giant tsunami.
StarCraft + origami →
Gil Scott-Heron →
vai sair da prisão em 2007. You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution will not be televised.
Looking for Mr. Adorkable →
Pulitzer 2007 Winners →
Anunciados os ganhadores do Pulitzer Prize de 2007. Entre eles, a batalha de uma mãe e seu filho contra o câncer, em vinte fotos. Outros destaques: International Reporting, National Reporting, Editorial Cartooning e Breaking News Photo.
Better Gmail →
O Greasemonkey é uma extensão para o Firefox que permite adicionar funções à sites específicos, através dos chamados scripts. Alguns dos scripts mais interessantes funcionam em sinergia com Gmail, e foram copilados em uma extensão própria, o Better Gmail. A invenção é cortesia de um dos blogs mais interessantes que eu conheço, o Lifehacker. Se você ainda não usa o Gmail como uma ferramenta pessoal...
"Paths are made by walking" →
“O corpo é apenas um estágio para o espírito. Estou interessado é em comer a alma...”
– Millôr, na entrevista da Playboy
Cat Killing? →
By now I’m sure you’re familiar with the age-old adage, “Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten.” When my doctor said this to me the other day, it made me think: can the statement really be true? Although the idiom implies a causal link, let’s take it at face value and assume that it is merely observing a correlation between the kitten mortality rate and the...
Can There Be a "Just Tax"? →
For centuries before the science of economics was developed, wrote Murray Rothbard, men searched for criteria of the “just price.” Gradually it came to be realized that there is no quantitative criterion of justice that can be objectively determined. The only possible objective criterion for the just price is the market price. Why do not economists abandon the search for the...
“If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a...”
– Miles Davis
Contardo Calligaris: Pequenos furtos, manchas e... →
Imagine conviver com a sensação de um divórcio permanente (que é, de qualquer forma, inevitável) entre a visão idealizada que os outros têm de você e a visão, bem menos lisonjeira, que você tem de sua pessoa. Imagine a tensão incessante para estar à altura de uma imagem pública da qual você só pode, honestamente, sentir-se indigno: a visibilidade, o respeito e a admiração dos outros se tornam um...
Vitor in Brazil →
Brazilian who spent a year in Germany talks about his experience there and back in his home country.
“Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars — but...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American... →
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84.
WatchDeath of a Nation: Fifteen years after the fall of Communism, Marcel Theroux goes on a personal journey through Putin’s Russia. He discovers a country that’s literally dying.
Einstein & Faith →
The rebellion part comes in at the beginning of his life: he rejected at first his parents’ secularism and later the concepts of religious ritual and of a personal God who intercedes in the daily workings of the world. But the awe part comes in his 50s when he settled into a deism based on what he called the “spirit manifest in the laws of the universe” and a sincere belief in a...
wildcard.jp.org →
So what finally tamed the Great Seducer? →
Hollywood’s most reliable seduction machine of the past half-century has just celebrated his 70th birthday. Not that reaching three score years and ten is quite the inconvenience to venerable lotharios that it once was in this age of hip replacements, cosmetic surgery and Viagra. Even so, I know that Warren Beatty will not exactly be giddy with excitement at the prospect of becoming a...
The Memory Hacker - Popular Science →
Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts.
Who killed more people in the Bible? →