Monday, December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas!

São autênticos presentes para mim as vossas visitas e comentários (mesmo não sendo só neste dia, mas o Natal é quando quisermos, certo?).

Espero que as pérolas que encontro a explorar a net q que aqui partilho convosco sejam também pequenos presentes que alegrem o vosso dia, vos façam pensar, ou apenas faça surgir um sorriso.

 

*** Feliz Natal!!! ***

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Monday, December 18, 2006

A Velhice

“Os jovens querem ser fiéis e não podem. Os velhos querem ser infiéis e não podem.”

Oscar Wilde

“É triste chegar à idade em que todas as mulheres nos agradam e não podemos agradar a nenhuma delas.”

A. Valdés

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

3d on the web

“When information in 2D becomes so dense that searching requirements are choked then they’ll rethink in 3D space or 4D space how to reimplement solutions that can break these enormous amounts of information into sets of uniquely grouped blocks of desired information that are more easily visualized in 3D than in 2D.”

“General utilization of 3D concepts in computing is slowly becoming more understood. Except for a few sentimental reasons, no one is arguing that 2D games are superior to 3D counterparts.

Being able to orient oneself in 3-space is a natural experience despite the fact that visual capability is limited to 2D, perception of the world is in fact 3D.”

from: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13101

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Monday, December 11, 2006

Humor Subtil

“A diferença entre o engraçadinho e o engraçado é que o engraçadinho goza com os outros, enquanto que o engraçado goza consigo próprio.”

My own

Update: acabo de ler no blog Corporativismo Feminino (o qual subscrevi ontem por causa deste post que me enviaram por email) a seguinte frase: “a diferença do palhaço é que você ri dele e não com ele”… não é exactamente o mesmo que o acima mas é parecido :) — eis o link para o post completo.

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Monday, December 4, 2006

Nerdcore Rap

Did you know there was a “nerdcore” rapper called MC++?

Some quotes from his site:

“The new MC Plus+ album Chip Hop has finally been released”

“act now to get a limited edition copy of Algorhythms before it is no longer available.”

See also: [[Nerdcore hip hop]] in Wikipedia

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