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Complicando a minha vida

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:08:28 -0800

Era o mundo

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:49:34 -0700

Both sides now - Joni Mitchell

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:29:00 -0700

Moons and junes and ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show
You leave them laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

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quebra-cabeça

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:00:55 -0700

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Aniversário

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0700

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How we believe today

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:56:00 -0700

A friend once visited the office of the great physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. He was amazed to find that over Bohr's desk was a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall.

The friend said with a nervous laugh, "Surely you don't believe the horseshoe will bring you good luck, do you? After all, you are a scientist!"

to which Bohr replied, "I believe no such thing, my good friend. Not at all. However, I am told that the horseshoe will bring you good luck whether you believe in it or not."

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Gurias são espertas

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:35:00 -0700

Gurias são muito espertas. Gurias reconhecem um operador de fotocopiadora em poucos segundos. Gurias não sonham em passar a vida ao lado de um operador de fotocopiadora, viajar pelo mundo com um operador de fotocopiadora, ter filhos de um operador de fotocopiadora. Pelo menos eu, até agora, não encontrei nenhuma guria que sonhasse isso.

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Aurelie - Wir Sind Helden

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:49:37 -0700

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Persian Archer - Dan Thompson

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:26:09 -0700

Dan Thompson 2004

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The missing ink

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:53:00 -0700

In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by the censors, he tells his friends: 'Let's establish a code: if a letter you get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it's true; if it's written in red ink it's false.' After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: 'Everything is wonderful here: the shops are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, cinemas show films from the West, there are many beautiful girls ready for an affair - the only thing you can't get is red ink.' [...]

Is this not the matrix of an efficient critique of ideology - not only in 'totalitarian' conditions of censorship but, perhaps even more, in the more refined conditions of liberal censorship? One starts by agreeing that one has all the freedoms one wants - then one merely adds that the only thing missing is the 'red ink': we 'feel free' because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

(Slavoj Zizek in Welcome to the Desert of the Real)

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on political radicalism

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:54:40 -0700

The guillotine has many sins, but to do it justice there is nothing evolutionary about it. The favourite evolutionary argument finds its best answer in the axe. The Evolutionist says, 'Where do you draw the line?' The Revolutionist answers, 'I draw it here: exactly between your head and body.' There must at any given moment be an abstract right or wrong if any blow is to be struck; there must be something eternal if there is to be anything sudden.

(Gilbert Chersterton in Orthodoxy, as cited by Slavoj Zizek in Welcome to the desert of the real)

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Washing

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:13:32 -0700

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Procastinar é viver

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:47:59 -0700

1 mês de existência. Na média, 300 pessoas viram cada post durante o mês. O post mais acessado é a versão de Girl from the north country cantada por Robert Plant.

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two step - Dave Matthews Band

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:52:47 -0700

Two Step by Dave Matthews Band
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02 - Two Step.mp3 (13075 KB)

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"you evolved - but we were created!"

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:50:51 -0700

Whether those facts will persuade the confectioners of falsehood I rather doubt. I have only ever had one useful interaction with such people. Years ago I taught an evolution course at the University of Botswana, a devoutly Presbyterian place with a strong creationist tradition. At the end I asked one of the students how he reconciled what I had said about the immense antiquity of mankind with his belief in a universe 6,000 years old. He gave me the perfect answer: “It is very simple, sir; you evolved – but we were created!”

(Steve Jones on his review of The Greatest Show on Earth)

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we need the eggs

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:18:00 -0700

this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs."
Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; you know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd... but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

(Woody Allen in Annie Hall, 1977)

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Sisters and book - Iman Maleki

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:41:00 -0700

(I've seen this somewhere, but have no clue of the author/name of the painting. If you know, drop a comment.)

Thanks to idthis.org (and to the very nice reader who suggested it), I've found the original author and the painting name.

This nice painting came to life in 1997 by the hands of Iman Maleki, an iranian painter.

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Entre dos aguas - Paco de Lucia

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:12:00 -0700

Entre Dos Aguas by Paco De Lucia
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03 - Paco de Lucia - Entre Dos Aguas.mp3 (11028 KB)

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On taking sides

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:21:37 -0700

When, while at dinner he [Talleyrand] overheard the sounds of a street battle, he commented to his companions at the table: "You see, our side is winning!" Asked "which side?", he answered: "We'll know tomorrow, when we find out who won!"

Slavoj Zizek in Welcome to the desert of the real

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Morena - Tom Zé

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:18:00 -0700

Morena by Tom Zé
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Morena, minha morena
Tira a roupa da janela
Vendo a roupa sem a dona
Eu penso na dona sem ela

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