<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243</id><updated>2009-10-14T15:40:22.717+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bloguinho Portuga</title><subtitle type='html'>This blog's purpose is to help me consolidate my thoughts about science, politics and social issues, whatever. Past entries all in Portuguese, current ones either in English or Portuguese. Depends on context.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>333</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-1052018432207583685</id><published>2009-10-11T23:51:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T00:18:41.690+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oeiras'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corrupção'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Felgueiras'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autárquicas'/><title type='text'>Autárquicas: o Yin e o Yang compostos pela corrupção e pela Justiça</title><content type='html'>Sentia-me triste com a re-vitória do Isaltino em Oeiras. Palavra, Portugal é um país de gente curiosa. Tenho a certeza de que a maior parte das pessoas que votou no Isaltino deve ter participado em conversas de café em que se terão repetido ao autarca como corrupto, que se anda a encher às custas da Câmara e dos negócios com os construtores. Durante anos e anos isto não passava de conversa de café apimentada pelos "casos verídicos" que uns iam contando aos outros por via do tio da sobrinha do cunhado de um amigo da senhora do talho que é conhecida do senhor das castanhas cujo primo é homem de confiança de um construtor e que sabe muito bem que o Isaltino terá recebido um apartamento pela licença de construção de um bloco de 4 edifícios. Durante anos e anos isto não passou de conversa de café e Isaltino lá foi ganhando e trabalhando e ficando mais rico. E fez de Oeiras um dos melhores concelhos para se viver em Portugal, é bem verdade. Durante anos e anos os eleitores de Isaltino vociferaram contra os corruptos que nunca vão a julgamento e os que vão mas que obviamente nunca são condenados. Porque em Portugal só os pobres vão presos. Mas em 2009 há um grande que finalmente é condenado. E é condenado a pena de prisão efectiva, de nada mais nada menos que 7 anos, suspensa apenas por interposição de recurso. Agora que podemos todos dizer que Isaltino é corrupto sem o risco de sermos processados por difamação, o que faz o eleitorado Oeirense? Volta a eleger o corrupto. Porquê? Porque o Isaltino pode ser corrupto, mas é o nosso corrupto. Nós, os de Oeiras, graças a esta condenação temos um luxo que muitos outros não têm. Temos a certeza de quem temos à frente do nosso Município. Temos um corrupto que tem feito obra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curiosamente, a Fátima perdeu a Câmara de Felgueiras. E isto é tanto mais curioso quanto, ao contrário do que aconteceu com Isaltino, a Fatinha conseguiu uma clara absolvição no processo do saco azul. Não faço ideia da competência da Dª Fátima como autarca, será que não é grande? Será que após todo o folclore do julgamento, da fuga à prisão preventiva, do regresso, recandidatura, reeleição e absolvição a Fátima perdeu a inspiração autárquica e o amor dos felgueirenses? Ou será que depois de absolvida deixou de ser elegível? Afinal, quem é que quer um autarca que não é corrupto? Sobretudo um que não foi condenado a pena de prisão efectiva?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: Faço questão de esclarecer que não votei no Isaltino. Caso ainda não fosse evidente.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-1052018432207583685?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/1052018432207583685/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=1052018432207583685&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/1052018432207583685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/1052018432207583685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/10/autarquicas-o-yin-e-o-yang-compostos.html' title='Autárquicas: o Yin e o Yang compostos pela corrupção e pela Justiça'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-3136839391775068911</id><published>2009-09-03T15:13:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-03T16:34:35.060+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Just waterboard them all!</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1579920046" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=20047560001&amp;amp;playerId=1579920046&amp;amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;amp;domain=embed&amp;amp;autoStart=false&amp;amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="312" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/techsassy/status/3733525361"&gt;Techsassy's twit&lt;/a&gt; on a &lt;a href="http://patdollard.com/2009/04/playboy-reporter-lets-himself-be-waterboarded/"&gt;Playboy video&lt;/a&gt; where a reporter let's himself be waterboarded, a thing or two came to mind. First, by reading the comments made by most of the readers of that post, I get the distinct impression that the possibility that at least some of the waterboarded guys are not necessarily terrorists (as in "innocent of the accusations"), never even crosses their minds. The reason why there is a judicial system is because civilized societies have developed this expensive and (in the case of Portugal, at least) time consuming process to determine the guilt of people accused of crimes. In the Middle Ages, which some people for some reason call the "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages"&gt;Dark Ages&lt;/a&gt;" (imagine ominous music playing while you read those two words), they had a much more expedite process to determine the guilt of people. The suspects' arms and legs would be tied and they would be thrown into a lake. The guilt or innocence would be determined by capacity of  the accused to float. Their investigation methods must have been very good at that time because that process usually confirmed the suspicions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thing which came to mind is that what the video demonstrates is, and I can only imagine, a very soft version of the waterboarding technique. For one thing, the reporter had the control of the situation. He could stop whenever he wanted to, which, in that case, was something like after 6 seconds. For some reason I don't think that the nice interrogators in the US Armed Forces would stop after just 6 seconds. Another thing that comes to mind is that only a bit of the process is shown. Terrorism suspects are waterboarded for the acquisition of intel. So I'm going out on a limb here and risk saying that the technique (torture) will be restarted as many times  as needed until the subject babbles something that might be of interest to the tort... I mean, "intel acquisition specialists". So, for this demonstration to be closer to reality what should have been done was to try to get him to confess something. And I'm particularly curious to know how many times they would have to waterboard the reporter before getting his confession that he was the guy on the grassy knoll. Not so curious that I'm willing to let myself be waterboarded, mind due. I'm also left wondering how do the interrogators decide that they have the wrong guy. Because both the terrorist and the innocent will surely start by saying they don't know the answers to the questions. Maybe the trick is to see who keeps saying he doesn't know the answers after, let's say, twenty plunges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people argument that waterboarding is not a form of torture because it doesn't inflict physical pain. Without even going into that, I would point out that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Torture" title="United Nations Convention Against Torture"&gt;United Nations Convention Against Torture&lt;/a&gt;'s definition of torture includes severe mental suffering. I'm only guessing here, but I'd say that if the process is repeated over and over, severe mental suffering is more or less guaranteed. Again I'm guessing, but I'm pretty convinced that the subjects of real waterboarding will almost certainly suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I don't want to be unfair to the reporter. His aim was not to replicate the conditions under which terrorism suspects, or any other, are subject to waterboarding. He just wanted to be able to explain as best as possible what does  a person who is waterboarded feel. So my own aim with these words is only to debunk the arguments of those who would use this video to argument that waterboarding is not torture.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-3136839391775068911?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/3136839391775068911/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=3136839391775068911&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/3136839391775068911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/3136839391775068911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/09/just-waterboard-them-all.html' title='Just waterboard them all!'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-6474023950644196551</id><published>2009-09-02T14:22:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-02T14:41:28.525+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life hack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ubiquity'/><title type='text'>Note to self on GMail</title><content type='html'>I recently added some very simple filters to GMail that will help me use it as a memory enhancer in a much better way then just simply sending mails to myself. GMail's filters allow you to automatically execute a number of tasks. So what I did was to create a filter which will add a "Book" tag to any mails received with "Book:" on the subject, mark the message as read and archive it. Mails that I send to myself with mentions of books are not for immediate action. I just want to register somewhere that I found an interesting book that I may want to buy someday. So it's ok just to archive those mails with a tag. For notes to self or tasks I have a simpler filter. It just adds the corresponding tag but the mail stays in the Inbox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I'm thinking about this simple hack it starts to make sense to create an &lt;a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/blog/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/"&gt;Ubiquity &lt;/a&gt;command to extract the relevant information from an Amazon page and send the message  to myself. Have to relearn how to program Ubiquity commands since there were changes to the parser engine.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-6474023950644196551?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/6474023950644196551/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=6474023950644196551&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/6474023950644196551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/6474023950644196551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/09/note-to-self-on-gmail.html' title='Note to self on GMail'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-4641835704924963776</id><published>2009-09-02T11:19:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-02T12:32:55.551+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Gotta stop multitasking. You should too.</title><content type='html'>Yesterday I was listening to the excellent &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/scia/"&gt;BBC Science in Action podcast&lt;/a&gt; and on of the pieces was with an investigator who is writing a paper about multitasking. If I remember it correctly, the study started because of his perception as a teacher that many people, including his under-graduate students, are pressed into multitasking. Either on their jobs or on their leisure times, people increasingly multi-task through their lives. This was puzzling because every psychology study written on the subject to this day seems to clearly state that the human brain can't multi-task. It's not physiologically prepared for that kind of processing. So he (and a team, I think) started comparatively studying high and low multitasking individuals. He identified three characteristics needed for multitasking and compared the test subjects on them. The characteristics are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ability to filter irrelevant information - this should be one of the main characteristics for a multi-tasker. When provided with different sources of information the perfect multi-tasker should be able to discard irrelevant information and concentrate on the most important data.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;High capacity to change between tasks - changing from one task to the other should be a fast and effortless process.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Using good mental sorting, storage and accessing strategies and capacities - since information is gathered from different sources, the perfect multi-tasker should be able to mentally sort and store that information in "brain cabinets" and should also be able to find and access that information in a fast and efficient way.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Now, funny enough, when comparing the heavy multi-taskers to the serial-taskers, the second group evidenced better ratings at all the three multitasking required characteristics. This means that heavy multi-taskers are terrible at multitasking. And this raises some interesting questions. If people are so bad at multitasking, why do they do it? Since they can't really do things faster by multitasking, do they get some other rewards instead? Do they get pleasure from the constant flow of information without even a reasonable processing of that information? And many more interesting questions he must have thought about, I'm sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After listening to that podcast I thought about how it applies to me. It's true I've been adopting a more multitasking posture. I'm reading mails, twits, looking for articles, following links. Looking back a bit, I think I need to change my stance towards Twitter. Many times I end up reading a number of articles for which I don't really care about. It's like since I've been made aware of a certain article I feel a certain obligation to read it. Which is silly, of course.  Another thing that is worrying me is that I've been feeling a certain degradation on my mental capacities. For instance, last Monday something funny happened to me. I had &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/"&gt;this DVD&lt;/a&gt; to return to the rental club. I should also get the groceries that my wife had left in the car. I take these opportunities without the wife and children to get up-to-date with my podcasts so, before leaving, I set up the headphones on my HTC and started a podcast. Half the way driving to the DVD rental I look down to the passenger seat. Hmm... so where's the DVD I should be returning? I turn back, get the DVD, walk to the rental only to find out that it closes at 2300 hours. Great, not only did I spend the diesel for nothing, now I'll have to pay double for the rental. I drive home, park the car in the garage, take the elevator, open the door.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Didn't you return home a while ago? - asks my wife.&lt;br /&gt;- Yeah (grumble).&lt;br /&gt;- Don't tell me you forgot the DVD?&lt;br /&gt;- Yeah (grumble).&lt;br /&gt;- Oh. I thought you had gone back to get the groceries...&lt;br /&gt;- OH FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I had two tasks to perform and ended up forgetting about them both. I didn't forget about my podcasts, though. I got the impression from the BBC podcast I mentioned, that, not only does multitasking not help in accomplishing more tasks done in less time, it might even hurt our brains. In face of this I think I'll adopt the following measures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Change my current policy on mail checking. This means lowering mail priority;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Really rethink my usage of Twitter. I don't really need a social network and I definitely can get the good articles I get through Twitter by using other, less attention intensive means;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Try to concentrate more on single tasks.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Hopefully I'll be able to increase my short term memory performance, which has been scary for some time now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-4641835704924963776?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/4641835704924963776/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=4641835704924963776&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/4641835704924963776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/4641835704924963776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/09/gotta-stop-multitasking-you-should-too.html' title='Gotta stop multitasking. You should too.'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-5576012767648939821</id><published>2009-06-25T14:42:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T15:36:14.717+01:00</updated><title type='text'>5 year olds know something about economy too</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oyBy3x-wSPk/SkOJ8QB1kHI/AAAAAAAAABA/PWHDtyQ7lDg/s1600-h/trocas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oyBy3x-wSPk/SkOJ8QB1kHI/AAAAAAAAABA/PWHDtyQ7lDg/s320/trocas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351272450434109554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day I arrived at home and my wife says to my 5 year old: "so, tell your father what you have done". And the boy goes "I traded a &lt;a href="http://uk.hotwheels.com/showcase/?productid=N4420"&gt;Hot Wheels&lt;/a&gt; car for this card". I could not believe it! It's the second time he has traded something on his own initiative and both times he was ripped off. By another 5 year old. The first time he traded a &lt;a href="http://www.gormiti.co.uk/gormiti/index.php"&gt;Gormitti figure&lt;/a&gt; for another one of these awful looking &lt;a href="http://www.cardkingdom.com/index.php?sid=195598376&amp;amp;main=product&amp;amp;pid=124494&amp;amp;category_id=110077"&gt;Magic cards&lt;/a&gt; which was an equaly bad deal. And then I was explaining him why that was bad business: the car costs € 2.50 but a card comes in a 5 card package for 1 € or something. He got a bit upset because I think the chip finally fell so he was saying he was going to trash the card and was going to get the car back and so on. We calmed him down and I didn't give it another thought. But apparently he did. So, later on in the day he explains his mum why it was a good deal after all. His reasoning was that he didn't have many of those Magic cards, cause we never bought him any, but he had loads of Hot Wheels. So it made sense to trade something of which he had many for something he had almost nothing. And &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;that &lt;/span&gt;actually makes economic sense... I think.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-5576012767648939821?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/5576012767648939821/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=5576012767648939821&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/5576012767648939821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/5576012767648939821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/06/5-year-olds-know-something-about.html' title='5 year olds know something about economy too'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oyBy3x-wSPk/SkOJ8QB1kHI/AAAAAAAAABA/PWHDtyQ7lDg/s72-c/trocas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-1823529307809934428</id><published>2009-06-24T13:52:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-24T14:17:46.399+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ray Bradbury'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sci Fi Wire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fahrenheit 451'/><title type='text'>Ray Bradbury to Yahoo: "To hell with the Internet!"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://scifiwire.com/"&gt;Sci Fi Wire&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-to-yahoo-to.php"&gt;tells us about&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Ray_Bradbury"&gt;Ray Bradbury&lt;/a&gt;'s reaction to Yahoo's proposal to put a book of his in the net. Apparently his answer wasn't as polite as one could expect, and I quote "To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet." Apparently Mr. Bradbury has very strong feelings about the Internet. It took me some minutes to digest his reaction. Mr. Bradbury sees the Internet as a very real threat to the public libraries system. And perhaps with some reason. But the vehemence of his reaction led me to think a bit more about the subject. Mr. Bradbury is not like some old people who don't really know what the Internet is about. He actually does. I think that, in his mind, the Internet is an incarnation of the fire-fighters in "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Fahrenheit_451"&gt;Fahrenheit 451&lt;/a&gt;". The Internet will ultimately be the match which will set fire to all the books. He seems to be afraid that books in their paper form will be consumed by it. That would explain why he feels so strongly about the subject. Although, and since psychiatry wasn't part of my academic life, I could be completely wrong. There's a very high probability of that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-1823529307809934428?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/1823529307809934428/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=1823529307809934428&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/1823529307809934428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/1823529307809934428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-to-yahoo-to-hell-with.html' title='Ray Bradbury to Yahoo: &quot;To hell with the Internet!&quot;'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-6806731739588525902</id><published>2009-06-17T15:44:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T16:29:00.533+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imagination'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creativity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='immediacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='twitter'/><title type='text'>Immediacy: addendum</title><content type='html'>Something very important I neglected to mention on yesterday's post. One of the insidious aspects of Twitter's immediacy is it's luring aspect. The engine that Twitter so cleverly assembled bombards it's users with a continuous stream of news, thoughts and feelings. It's so easy to just sit there under the pouring letters. Sure, you can retweet (RT) some, tweet back some others. It's like a magnet, like the call of the sirens that led sailors to death by drowning. You're always waiting for the next interesting thing. A new article, a new joke, instant news, whatever. And while you look at this continuous stream of letters you're actually not producing. And I'm not even talking about the work you get payed to do (yes, sure, that's what makes the world go round, but this text is about something else). I'm talking about taking those thoughts out of your head and say your piece, build knowledge, add a new, even if only slightly, point of view of things. I'm talking about releasing your creativity and provide it with a solid bridge to cross over to an humanity-accessible medium. 140 characters is kind of flimsy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-6806731739588525902?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/6806731739588525902/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=6806731739588525902&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/6806731739588525902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/6806731739588525902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/06/immediacy-addendum.html' title='Immediacy: addendum'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-649303786815579926</id><published>2009-06-16T15:49:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-16T17:27:35.153+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='twitter'/><title type='text'>Immediacy</title><content type='html'>This is my first text in English in this blog. My previous policy regarding this blog was to write in Portuguese (PT-PT). When I created my &lt;a style="" href="http://twitter.com/Disputatore"&gt;Twitter account&lt;/a&gt; I decided to follow an language-flexible policy. Portugal related entries I write in Portuguese, otherwise in English. This may not work that well for international readers, but I think it works fine for Portuguese Internet dwellers. And anyway, I'm not exactly trying to captivate a network of followers so I'll do as it damn well pleases me. One thing that has always amused/surprised me was how one so easily falls into a set of self defined boundaries in terms of the published contents. One of the reasons this blog is anonimous is because when I created it I decided that I would write about anything I wished. So I would write about social issues, politics, movies, whatever, as pretty much everyone does, but I would also write the most pornographic stories that came to mind. Well, if you (an eventual reader of this blog entry) cares to take the effort of googling this blog you'll find exactly zero entries with such content. Why? Was it because no pornographic issues crossed my mind in more than 2 years of blogging? Well, nothing couldn't be further from the truth. I think that the main reason is that as time passes and you start getting regular visits from other bloggers you sort of don't feel comfortable showing them that side of your mind. So you unconsciously define a set of rules and just follow them. It seems to me that the best approach if one wants to have a serious blog and still write about such stuff is to build another persona and another blog and with it a newly created freedom will be available. This is just an opinion, of course. People should do whatever feels right for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, look at that. I wanted to write about the immediacy of twitter versus the more thought out stage of blogging and I ended up all that as an introduction. Anyway, better late then never. When I started a Twitter account I was pleased by the freedom it offered. I mean, there's a limited ammount of ignorance you can insert in 140 characters. And that sort of protects you a lot. After all, when I used to blog it took me a lot of time to research stuff so that commentators couldn't simply point out a non-fact or a lie. In twitter you don't really commit that much. There is no space for very elaborated thoughts and it's hard to discuss matters with other people. So the 140 characters are pretty much ok for a "what are you doing?" but not very good for "what do you think about the state of the world?". OTOH, Twitter is very good for "what is happening as we speak" while blogging is better for "what is the background of what just happened?". So, all in all, these two tools of the Web 2.0 are complementary. And Twitter is also a very good as a blog promotion tool, so one ends up working as a percursor of the other.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-649303786815579926?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/649303786815579926/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=649303786815579926&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/649303786815579926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/649303786815579926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/06/immediacy.html' title='Immediacy'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-6838181620713968685</id><published>2009-06-16T15:19:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-16T15:48:04.035+01:00</updated><title type='text'>O despertar de um longo sono</title><content type='html'>Ora aí está. Aproveitando as férias decidi também reactivar o meu blogue que ficou parado no tempo qual Capitão América, suspenso num bloco de gelo. Está tal e qual como quando o deixei, mas sem os efeitos da passagem de 2 anos, 9 meses e 16 dias. Olhando para o blogue quase que esperaria ver os artigos cheios de pó, com espessas teias de aranha unindo os cantos. Mas não. Brilha como se nem um dia se tivesse passado. No entanto o longo sono a que foi forçado trouxe algumas vantagens. As pessoas que o conheciam e me conheciam a mim já se esqueceram que este blogue alguma vez existiu, pelo que posso retomar a minha escrita sem o desconforto de ter, por exemplo, o meu chefe a lê-lo nas minhas costas. Temo no entanto que este despertar seja temporário. A verdade é que, com muita pena minha, fora de férias pouco tempo tenho para escrever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decidi ligar esta minha personalidade webiana à minha &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Disputatore"&gt;personalidade twittiana&lt;/a&gt;. Vou usar a mesma lógica que uso no Twitter. Artigos relativos a Portugal escrevê-los-hei em português. Artigos de carácter internacional, escrevê-los-hei em inglês. Gostaria que o meu próximo artigo neste blogue fosse sobre Israel, mas é um artigo que quero fundamentar muito bem, o que levará algum tempo. Por isso desconfio que não será esse o meu próximo artigo... aliás, enquanto escrevo isto heis que me surge uma ideia alternativa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-6838181620713968685?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/6838181620713968685/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=6838181620713968685&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/6838181620713968685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/6838181620713968685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2009/06/o-despertar-de-um-longo-sono.html' title='O despertar de um longo sono'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115703762617351499</id><published>2006-08-31T16:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-31T16:20:26.670+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Finito</title><content type='html'>Este blogue terminou. Descobri que já não era tão anónimo quanto eu desejaria, pelo que está na altura de procurar outras paragens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fico um pouco triste porque este blogue constrói a minha identidade blogueana. Com mais de 300 textos (parece não existir nenhuma maneira expedita de saber quantos ao certo) a minha própria memória e maneira de pensar estão de certa forma aqui representadas. E porque já tenho mais de 5.800 visitas neste e vai levar muito tempo a atingir tal valor no novo. Por outro lado, na prática só tinha um leitor assíduo e mais importante, que discutia os meus textos. O que me leva a pensar que estes contadores de visitas são um pouco irrelevantes, porque não contam o que é realmente interessa. No meu próximo blogue vou investir um pouco no sentido de arranjar um contador mais realista.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nesta despedida cheguei à conclusão de que existem apontadores para este blogue em 3 outros blogues, o que não deixa de ser interessante. Aparentemente as autoras dos blogues &lt;a href="http://wwwinsular.blogspot.com"&gt;Insular&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://lote5-1dto.blogspot.com"&gt;Lote 5 &amp;ndash; 1º Dto.&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href="http://omeuanel.blogspot.com"&gt;O Meu Anel&lt;/a&gt; acharam que o meu blogue era suficientemente interessante para o incluírem nas suas listas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E pronto, é isso. Vou montar a tenda noutro lado.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115703762617351499?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115703762617351499/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115703762617351499&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115703762617351499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115703762617351499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/08/finito.html' title='Finito'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115651351677512477</id><published>2006-08-25T14:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-25T14:45:17.200+01:00</updated><title type='text'>P'lamor de Deus!!!</title><content type='html'>A CBS achou que seria boa ideia dividir os concorrentes do seu &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;reality show&lt;/span&gt; "Survivor", por tribos étnicas. O que isto quer dizer é que na fase de grupos vamos ter uma tribo de brancos a concorrer contra uma tribo de negros, uma tribo de asiáticos e uma tribo de hispânicos. Em termos de audiências isto deve resultar, mas sempre quero ver o resultado desta linda ideia na paz social dos EUA. Sugiro que na série a seguir façam o programa com tribos religiosas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5284594.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Protests over Survivor 'tribes'&lt;/a&gt;: "Protests over Survivor 'tribes'&lt;br /&gt;Survivor contestants&lt;br /&gt;A lawyer, police officer and guitarist are among the 'castaways'&lt;br /&gt;Officials in New York are campaigning to stop the broadcast of a new series of reality show Survivor which divides contestants into ethnic 'tribes'."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115651351677512477?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115651351677512477/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115651351677512477&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115651351677512477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115651351677512477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/08/plamor-de-deus.html' title='P&apos;lamor de Deus!!!'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115640970894831861</id><published>2006-08-24T09:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-24T09:55:08.950+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Diz o Presidente da Síria</title><content type='html'>"This means creating a state of enmity between Syria and Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, it robs Lebanon of its sovereignty. No single state in the entire world would tolerate deploying foreign troops on its border posts unless there is a state of war with the other state...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second point is that it signals a hostile stance towards Syria. Naturally, it will create problems between Syria and Lebanon."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E para além disso também dificulta imenso a entrega de armas ao Hezbollah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5280592.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Middle East | Syria warns over UN peacekeepers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115640970894831861?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115640970894831861/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115640970894831861&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115640970894831861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115640970894831861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/08/diz-o-presidente-da-sria.html' title='Diz o Presidente da Síria'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115624363645186158</id><published>2006-08-22T11:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-22T11:47:19.296+01:00</updated><title type='text'>E não se podem exterminá-los?</title><content type='html'>A Coreia do Norte é um verdadeiro paiol de dinamite fora de prazo a babar nitroglicerina numa área de grande instabilidade sísmica. Este país é um verdadeiro buraco negro. Quase nada se sabe sobre o que se passa dentro dele. Apenas se sabe que é liderado por um maníaco seriamente afectado pelo síndroma do homem baixo, com um penteado assustador e que detém a bomba nuclear e misseis capazes de atingir  a Coreia do Sul (ok, não é grande coisa, quase que a podiam atirar à mão), Japão, China e a Rússia. É um país tecnologigamente estagnado, sem qualquer tipo de liberdade de imprensa, com uma economia em frangalhos, onde se estima que existam mais de 200.000 presos políticos e em que desde 1990 terão morrido cerca de 2 milhões de pessoas por causa da fome. De resto pouco mais se sabe. Têm medo dos islmitas radicais? Têm medo do Irão? Pelo menos desses ainda se sabe alguma coisa. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5273332.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea condemns US-South drills&lt;/a&gt;: "N Korea condemns US-South drills South Korean special warfare command's soldiers, weapons at the ready, ride on inflatable boats during a sea infiltration drill in Taean, west of Seoul, 17 Aug 2006.&lt;br /&gt;US and South Korean troops hold joint exercises every year North Korea has threatened to take pre-emptive action in response to US-South Korean military drills currently taking place in the region."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1131421.stm"&gt;Perfil da Coreia do Norte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115624363645186158?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115624363645186158/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115624363645186158&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115624363645186158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115624363645186158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/08/e-no-se-podem-extermin-los.html' title='E não se podem exterminá-los?'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115616536875464831</id><published>2006-08-21T13:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-21T14:02:48.783+01:00</updated><title type='text'>San Fernán</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/908/410/1600/P1010039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/908/410/320/P1010039.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115616536875464831?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115616536875464831/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115616536875464831&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115616536875464831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115616536875464831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/08/san-fernn.html' title='San Fernán'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115615791135776840</id><published>2006-08-21T11:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-24T09:47:41.093+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Guerra contra o terrorismo</title><content type='html'>Esta expressão parece-me extremamente enganadora. Quem fala em guerra contra o terrorismo parece querer dar a entender que é uma guerra como as outras, que um dia poderá vir a ser ganha e que depois podemos ir todos para casa, lambem-se as feridas, lamentam-se os feridos, os estropiados e os mortos e entra-se num período de esperança e prosperidade com o desejo utópico de que não volte a acontecer. Mas a guerra contra o terrorismo não é mais que uma variação da luta contra o crime. Alguma vez alguém conseguiu derrotar o crime? Conhecem algum sítio onde este não exista em alguma das suas formas? O terrorismo - o terror - é uma ferramenta que organizações de carácter religioso e/ou político utilizam para conseguir atingir os seus fins. Enquanto existirem organizações desta natureza que aceitem o princípio de que os fins justificam os meios, existirá terrorismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E o resto é conversa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115615791135776840?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115615791135776840/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115615791135776840&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115615791135776840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115615791135776840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/08/guerra-contra-o-terrorismo.html' title='Guerra contra o terrorismo'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115615217918919006</id><published>2006-08-21T10:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-21T10:22:59.400+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dormitório espacial</title><content type='html'>Como já descrevi &lt;a href="http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2004/05/turismo-espacial.html"&gt;num artigo antigo&lt;/a&gt;, a exposição prolongada (semanas, meses) a micro-gravidade causa alterações pouco desejáveis no organismo. Por outro lado, vi uma entrevista a uma astronauta norte-americana em que ela contava algo que eu já desconfiava: o Espaço é o melhor sítio do Universo para dormir. Não há posições desconfortáveis, até porque o corpo humano quando em repouso e na ausência de gravidade assume sempre a mesma posição. É uma posição semelhante à que adoptamos quando estamos de barriga para baixo a flutuar na água sem nos mexermos. As costas tendem a arquear e os braços ficam ligeiramente para a frente. Ao pensar nestes dois aspectos da micro-gravidade lembrei-me que uma hipótese para um futuro não muito longínquo seria que as pessoas trabalhassem na Terra mas tivessem as suas habitações no Espaço. Trabalhar no Espaço é um pouco complicado porque nada se comporta como estamos habituados. O simples facto de pousar uma coisa em cima de uma mesa não faz sentido porque sem gravidade essa coisa não fica pousada, fica a flutuar e pode simplesmente ir-se embora. Como é que as pessoas teriam um secretária? A não ser que esta estivesse coberta de velcro e da mesma foram que todos os objectos. É claro que ter as habitações no espaço também teria os seus problemas. Como é que se cozinhava? Teria de ser tudo no microondas ou no forno. Tachos e frigideiras esqueçam, a comida estaria constantemente a flutuar pela cozinha. Trabalhar com fluídos como azeite e leite seria um pesadelo. Para além disso, para manter a forma física e não sofrer de osteoporose e de perda muscular, as pessoas teriam de passar a maior parte do tempo na Terra, ainda não se arranjou uma maneira de evitar esses efeitos secundários da ausência de gravidade. Acho que não há solução, a única hipótese seria usar o espaço como dormitório e local para a prática de sexo (embora essa também deva ser complicada).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115615217918919006?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115615217918919006/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115615217918919006&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115615217918919006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115615217918919006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/08/dormitrio-espacial.html' title='Dormitório espacial'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115374770511172618</id><published>2006-07-24T14:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T14:30:48.560+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Autodefesa</title><content type='html'>O argumento de Israel para as suas ofensivas contra o Líbano tem sido o de que tem o direito a defender o seu território e os seus cidadãos. Eu reconheço a Israel esse direito, assim como o reconheço a qualquer outro país. Contudo, não reconheço é que o tipo de resposta que Israel tem dado aos mísseis do Hezbollah constitua uma forma de autodefesa. Por duas razões muito simples. Por um lado não parece estar a afectar a capacidade de lançar ataques do Hezbollah, e por outro está a destruir infraestruturas civis e a matar libaneses que nada têm a ver com o Hezbollah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Utilizando a imagem do acidente de trânsito seria algo semelhante ao seguinte:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;O membro do Hezbollah desloca-se a um stand de automóveis e pede para experimentar um carro que está interessado em comprar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Seguidamente dá umas voltas com o carro emprestado e pára num semáforo ao lado de um carro de um israelita&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;O israelita, por achar que o outro está demasiado encostado, abre a janela e grita - "Se me riscas a pintura, parto-te o carro todo"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;O hezbollah, grita por sua vez - "Ai é?!", arranca a chiar os pneus e risca mesmo a pintura do carro israelita&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Após uma perseguição pelas ruas da cidade, o hezbollah estaciona à pressa na entrada do stand e de fugida diz que o carro é interessante e que vai pensar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Entretanto o israelita aparece e começa a partir o carro todo, enquanto o dono do stand grita de mãos na cabeça e o hezbollah se dirige para o stand seguinte&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em que é que a situação do israelita melhorou?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115374770511172618?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115374770511172618/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115374770511172618&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115374770511172618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115374770511172618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/autodefesa.html' title='Autodefesa'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115347828700587010</id><published>2006-07-21T11:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-21T11:38:07.056+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Nova Zelândia: um país tolerante e amigável</title><content type='html'>Ao que parece uma agente da polícia da NZ tinha um segundo emprego como prostituta. Apesar da prostituição ter sido legalizada na Nova Zelândia desde 2003 as chefias acharam que não era adequado que uma agente da polícia pudesse manter uma ocupação como &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;call girl&lt;/span&gt; simultaneamente com o seu posto na polícia. A razão apresentada foi que, apesar de a prostituição ter sido legalizada, o crime organizado ainda detém um poder grande sobre a prostituição, pelo que a agente podia ser alvo de extorsão. Como tal, a trabalhadora neo-zelandesa foi obrigada a demitir-se... do bordel onde trabalhava. E a receber aconselhamento psicológico. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vejo esta notícia com muito interesse porque demonstra o grau de tolerância deste país e sobretudo da polícia. Acho que gostava de viver num país assim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5198934.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | NZ policewoman works as call girl&lt;/a&gt;: "NZ policewoman works as call girl&lt;br /&gt;Man handing money to a prostitute&lt;br /&gt;The officer worked as a prostitute for a 'limited time'&lt;br /&gt;A New Zealand policewoman has been allowed to keep her job, despite moonlighting as a prostitute."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115347828700587010?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115347828700587010/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115347828700587010&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115347828700587010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115347828700587010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/nova-zelndia-um-pas-tolerante-e.html' title='A Nova Zelândia: um país tolerante e amigável'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115347484022646234</id><published>2006-07-21T10:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-21T10:40:40.546+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Morrer de velhice no sono</title><content type='html'>O que é que alguém pode desejar mais na vida? Não é viver uma vida completa e morrer de velho na cama? Aparentemente até os mais brutais genocidas têm direito a esta morte pacífica. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta_Mok"&gt;Ta Mok&lt;/a&gt;, um dos principais responsáveis pela morte de 1,7 milhões de cambojanos enquanto dirigente do &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge"&gt;Khmer Rouge&lt;/a&gt;, morreu esta noite durante o sono. Não morreu em casa rodeado de amigos e familiares, morreu na prisão em que vivia desde 1997, o que torna o facto um pouco menos obsceno. Mas morreu sem nunca ter sido julgado pelas atrocidades em que participou. Tal como &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_pol"&gt;Pol Pot&lt;/a&gt; que morreu escondido nas florestas do &lt;a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodja"&gt;Camboja&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Khmer&lt;/span&gt;), Ta Mok consegue negar aos sobreviventes e familiares das vítimas o único consolo que podiam ainda ter. A Justiça.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5201770.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Khmer Rouge 'butcher' Ta Mok dies&lt;/a&gt;: "Khmer Rouge 'butcher' Ta Mok dies&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ta Mok, one of the main leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, has died in the capital Phnom Penh."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115347484022646234?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115347484022646234/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115347484022646234&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115347484022646234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115347484022646234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/morrer-de-velhice-no-sono.html' title='Morrer de velhice no sono'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115340721716823753</id><published>2006-07-20T15:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T14:09:23.440+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mas quais civis...?</title><content type='html'>Parece-me que o que melhor caracteriza este conflito desesperante é o desrespeito completo e absoluto pelas vidas de civis. Israel ainda tem respeito por alguns civis, nomeadamente os seus. Basicamente a forma como Israel responde aos ataques do Hezbollah é equivalente a alguém que vê o seu carro ser abalroado por outro e não vendo maneira de obter satisfações do culpado ataca indiscriminadamente os donos de carros do mesmo modelo que o atingiu. Se atingir bastantes pode ser que venha ainda a acertar no original.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Hezbollah não só não se preocupa com o que possa acontecer aos libaneses como faz parte da sua estratégia que Israel responda de forma desproporcionada como tem feito e que haja pesadas perdas de vidas inocentes. Porque ninguém acredita que o Hezbollah mantenha os dois soldados israelistas por acreditar que Israel venha a libertar os prisioneiros árabes que o Hezbollah pediu como moeda de troca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas se não é para obter a libertação dos prisioneiros em Israel, para quê manter os soldados cativos? E porquê manter os ataques a Israel com rockets sobre a fronteira? A resposta é simples. Para obrigar Israel a responder, de preferência com ataques aéreos, castigando os civis libaneses. E o que é que o Hezbollah tem a ganhar com o castigo imposto aos libaneses? Basicamente duas coisas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Crescimento na sua base de apoio junto dos libaneses, que ao serem bombardeados por Israel apoiariam quem o combatesse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Um aliviar das pressões internacionais (leia-se EUA e UE) sobre o Irão e a Síria no que diz respeito ao nuclear e ao apoio ao terrorismo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como não me parece que haja alguma força no Líbano capaz de impedir o Hezbollah de continuar esta guerra pelos seus próprios interesses e contra os do Líbano, é bem possível que em próximas eleições, o Hezbollah venha a reforçar a sua posição no Parlamento. Por outro lado, o que me dá alguma esperança são os testemunhos que tenho lido de libaneses no local. Basicamente encolhem-se resignados lamentando serem novamente arrastados para uma guerra que não é deles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5197186.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Middle East | Fighting inside Lebanese border&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115340721716823753?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115340721716823753/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115340721716823753&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115340721716823753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115340721716823753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/mas-quais-civis.html' title='Mas quais civis...?'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115321217730046387</id><published>2006-07-18T09:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T09:42:57.606+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Guerra limpa ou paz podre</title><content type='html'>Não era interessante se fosse possível ver Histórias alternativas? Eu por exemplo tenho uma curiosidade doida em saber o que aconteceria se Israel decidisse finalmente atacar a Síria pelo seu óbvio apoio ao Hezbollah. Mas não tanta curiosidade que me leve a desejar que isso venha de facto a acontecer. Será que a Síria responderia com uma guerra aberta a Israel? Ou encolher-se-ia tal como o Governo Libanês que age como se nada se passasse? Não deixa de ser curioso que o Governo Libanês que tem uma coisa parecida com um exército regular, não só permita que o Hezbollah faça o que bem entende no Norte, como depois ignore as respostas de Israel sobre infraestruturas do país. Mas e o Irão? Será que víria em auxílio do seu aliado como ameaçou? E se estes dois países declarassem guerra a Israel? Os EUA teriam certamente de intervir. Mas com tanta guerra ao terrorismo e com o Iraque e o Afeganistão a darem ainda tanto trabalho, algum lado esse cobertor teria de destapar. O Iraque não conta, mas e os restantes países do petróleo? Certamente não entrariam nessa guerra. A não ser que as suas populações fizessem tal pressão que a isso os obrigasse... mas a ideia de ver a Arábia Sáudita ao lado do Irão e contra os EUA parece-me hilariante. E o Bahrein? Alguém imagina o Bahrein a mexer-se fosse pelo que fosse?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagino que o máximo que possa acontecer seria Israel fazer uma demonstração de força contra a Síria, destruindo por exemplo uma central eléctrica ou algum edificio do Governo, mas durante a noite, ao que a Síria responderia com muitas ameaças que nunca concretizaria. O Irão diria certamente que se Israel voltasse a fazer algo do género iam lá e davam cabo daquilo e depois ficava tudo na mesma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas o mais provável é Israel não atacar a Síria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5188460.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Middle East | All quiet on the Syrian front&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115321217730046387?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115321217730046387/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115321217730046387&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115321217730046387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115321217730046387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/guerra-limpa-ou-paz-podre.html' title='Guerra limpa ou paz podre'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115312503988304642</id><published>2006-07-17T09:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T09:30:40.213+01:00</updated><title type='text'>BBC NEWS | In pictures | Food for thought | Gastronomic journey</title><content type='html'>Sugiro que vejam estas fotos com respectivas explicações. Boa refeição :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/programmes_food_for_thought/html/1.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | In pictures | Food for thought | Gastronomic journey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115312503988304642?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115312503988304642/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115312503988304642&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115312503988304642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115312503988304642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/bbc-news-in-pictures-food-for-thought.html' title='BBC NEWS | In pictures | Food for thought | Gastronomic journey'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115289470898893594</id><published>2006-07-14T17:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T17:31:49.310+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sony Reader Video Review by PC Magazine</title><content type='html'>Um vídeo muito interessante que mostra o leitor de livros electrónicos da Sony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1983663,00.asp"&gt;Sony Reader Video Review by PC Magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115289470898893594?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115289470898893594/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115289470898893594&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115289470898893594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115289470898893594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/sony-reader-video-review-by-pc.html' title='Sony Reader Video Review by PC Magazine'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115288330239521581</id><published>2006-07-14T14:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T14:23:13.190+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Um balão no espaço</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41879000/jpg/_41879080_genesis_ap203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41879000/jpg/_41879080_genesis_ap203.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A empresa &lt;a href="http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/"&gt;Bigellow Aerospace&lt;/a&gt; conseguiu colocar um satélite insuflável no espaço. Este satélite serve de prova de conceito para o que poderá vir a ser um hotel no espaço. A vantagem desta infraestrutura está no tamanho reduzido do pacote a enviar para o espaço, reduzindo os custos de colocação em órbita. O objectivo da empresa é vir a disponibilizar um hotel no espaço composto de vários módulos insufláveis. O transporte dos turistas seria da responsabilidade de outros operadores, como a &lt;a href="http://www.virgingalactic.com/"&gt;Virgin Galactic&lt;/a&gt;. No fundo o mesmo modelo que temos actualmente, mas aplicado ao turismo espacial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5173388.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Technology | Inflatable space module puffs up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115288330239521581?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115288330239521581/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115288330239521581&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115288330239521581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115288330239521581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/um-balo-no-espao.html' title='Um balão no espaço'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009243.post-115286865316210615</id><published>2006-07-14T10:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T10:17:33.380+01:00</updated><title type='text'>BBC NEWS | Middle East | Lebanese fear Israel's offensive</title><content type='html'>Interessantes testemunhos de libaneses sobre as actuais acções de guerra entre Israel e o Hezbollah:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5176582.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Middle East | Lebanese fear Israel's offensive&lt;/a&gt;: "Lebanese fear Israel's offensive&lt;br /&gt;Israel is continuing an air, sea and land blockade on Lebanon as part of a major offensive to press for the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah militants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the bombing of Beirut's international airport, people across the city spoke to the BBC News website about their fears for the future."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7009243-115286865316210615?l=bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/feeds/115286865316210615/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7009243&amp;postID=115286865316210615&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115286865316210615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7009243/posts/default/115286865316210615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloguinhoportuga.blogspot.com/2006/07/bbc-news-middle-east-lebanese-fear.html' title='BBC NEWS | Middle East | Lebanese fear Israel&apos;s offensive'/><author><name>Portuga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01333483804356217607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17777998293148419636'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>