February 2009
63 posts
4 tags
“For the bored, weird and strong of stomach:... →
Fotos do cadáver de Lênin tomando seu banho anual numa sopa de formol. (via defixiones,bebelestrange, pleasedontsqueezetheshaman)
3 tags
“How will Obama's presidency change hip-hop?” →
(via aleatorio)
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
“Clint Eastwood thinks political correctness has... →
1 tag
“4085 square mile natural mirror” →
3 tags
Neil Gaiman sobre Alan Morre: “From Before He Was... →
1 tag
1 tag
Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone →
3 tags
“Obama today, after criticizing “chaotic capitalism,” said it was...”
– Lew Rockwell
1 tag
simple.wikipedia.org →
1 tag
2 tags
4 tags
3 tags
“Pictures from Old Books” →
1 tag
2 tags
"Reading The Watchmen: Ten Entrance Points Into... →
(via laugharne, comicbooks, jbacardi)
2 tags
O animal imortal →
(via jmdrw)
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
Roberto Romano: “Na política, sensação é de... →
4 tags
Fazendas de brancos são desapropriadas no Zimbábue →
Via Mises Blog: “Property rights, not democracy, is the mark of a free society.”
3 tags
2 tags
3 tags
Will you perceive the event that kills you? →
“The bullet travels faster than sound. It will be in your brain before you can hear it. To hear it you will need a frontal lobe and things with names like colliculus and temporal gyrus and you won’t have them anymore. They’ll just be soup.” (via laugharne, suddenly, cousas)
3 tags
Why the Oscars don’t matter →
Hollywood spends nearly all its money and energy working out what teenagers want and cravenly giving it to them. Then, once a year, it pauses to ask: “But is it art?”. It is hardly surprising that its conclusions are often so dismal. (via aleatorio)
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
“O ideal naturalmente seria abolir todos os monopólios, para se obter exposição...”
– Roberto Campos
3 tags
“Você poderia voltar pelo menos até Aristóteles e sua dissecação da filosofia do...”
– Roger Kimball
3 tags
“The dictatorship of relativism” →
It wasn’t that long ago that a responsible educated person in the West was someone who entertained firm moral and political principles.
1 tag
1 tag
6 tags
“Freedom imperilled” →
Tocqueville famously warned about that infantilization in the celebrated paragraphs about “democratic despotism” in Democracy in America, that “tutelary” despotism which “extends its arms over society as a whole [and] covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass...
5 tags
“A lot of people who voted for Obama probably thought he would be different from...”
– Roderick T. Long
2 tags
V is for Veidt: a Watchmen guide →
Análise minuciosa do Watchmen de Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons.
3 tags
3 tags
Escavação no México encontrou cova coletiva que... →
4 tags
Sobre a Origem das Espécies →
2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species.” As with many original sources, it is known mostly by reputation but Darwin’s writing can still offer surprises, insights and pleasures. It can be sampled here, with selections by prominent scientists of their favorite passages.
2 tags
Ensaio fotográfico sobre cuteleiros japoneses... →
2 tags
2 tags
“Portrait of my Father” →
Exactly how long the prostitute, unbeknownst to my father, stayed at our house and slept in my bed is hard to gauge.
3 tags
O que Eminem estava fazendo nestes últimos três... →
Gravando muitas músicas. Cerca de 300, segundo o artigo, um ótimo perfil. Entre outras coisas, descubro que um ganhador do Nobel em literatura já louvou Eminem como o salvador da poesia moderna.
4 tags
“Em geral, em nossos dias, o sistema protecionista é conservador, enquanto o...”
– Marx, Miséria da filosofia
4 tags
“As businesses go, blogging is a lot like shining shoes. There are going to be...”
– Kottke
3 tags
“Imagine spending two decades warning that government policy is leading to a...”
– John Hasnas, (via Roderick Long)
2 tags
Entrevista com Ron Jeremy →
3 tags
Samuel Huntington morreu como um pária entre os... →
Samuel Huntington passed away on Christmas Eve. He is assured a place in the pantheon of modern “big idea” thinkers, alongside his student Francis Fukuyama. But few in this group were as controversial, or as consistently unpopular among their peers. Huntington was accused of everything from militarism to nativism. Why did he raise such hackles? Certainly, he was politically difficult...