December 2008
76 posts
Cool Artist
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What's my Perversion - Gameshow
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Worst Album covers of 2008
http://www.gigwise.com/article.php?id=47956
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Awesome Cat
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Ninjas with Guitars
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African Parade - Trailer
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England vs US or Darwin vs God
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"Change" in Engineering Education
Good article by the EETimes http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212500800 Top 10 changes proposed for schools 1. Engineering schools need to develop ”T-Shaped People.” In other words, engineers need to learn their discipline in depth. But they also need to expand and broaden their education in areas beyond math, science and related classes. 2....
In Russia, Stalin is still #1 (almost)
He actually came in 3rd place in a popularity contest http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BR17620081229?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&sp=true We had the same thing in Portugal, and surprisingly most people voted for the fascist dictator Salazar. I seriously doubt most people in Portugal would see Salazar as someone to be chosen as the best Portuguese of all times, so I question...
Physicists prefer Mac OS X
The source is Apple.com, so it might not be a scientific study after all, but it does talk about the LHC, which is always a good thing. http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/briancox/ Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
Ukraine and the path to the West
2 recent articles ont eh Kyiv Post talk about opinion polls of the Ukrainians. In one of them most people favor EU accession, while in the other they are against joining NATO. If I were an Ukrainian, that’s exactly how I’d vote too. Nearly 45 percent of Ukrainians say European Union membership essential 44.7% of Ukrainians polled by the Oleksandr Razumkov Centre for Economic and...
Worst and Best Ads of the year - NYT
The New York Times has an article about the worst and best Ads of 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/business/media/29adcol.html In an election year, there are at least 2 Obama campaign ads Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
Russian expert foresees the demise of the US
Interesting article on the Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html Of course this guy is getting a lot of attention in Russia. Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
Pirates of the Amazon
A Firefox extension that allowed users to browse through Amazon.com and instead of One-Cllick-buy option would give them the “Download for free” option It got pulled down by Amazon http://pirates-of-the-amazon.com/ Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
New Year resolutions
Nice collection of New Year resolutions http://newresolution.tumblr.com/ Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
13 wonders in Time lapse
http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/01/trece-maravillas-en-time-lapse.html It’s worth checking Posted via email from Joao Rei’s web junk | Comment »
Japanese trains
I’ve seen them do it, but not as extreme as this! Posted via email from Joao Rei’s web junk | Comment »
Sites I need to check to keep my "web presence" up
www.posterous.com www.tumblr.com www.soup.io www.jaiku.com www.ping.fm www.twitter.com http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008/11/making-gmail-yo.html Also, some cool Soup.io sites http://ak.soup.io/ http://tim.soup.io/ http://www.soup.io/everyone Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
Forget the movie, watch the titles
I’ve always enjoyed watching movie titles, ending sequences, and specially trailers. Here are a couple of websites that discuss movie titles. http://mmbase.submarinechannel.com/titlesequences/index.jsp http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/19/30-unforgettable-movie-title-sequences/ http://www.artofthetitle.com/ Posted via email from Movies, Videos, Clips, Trailers | Comment »
Reading in bed
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Cool clocks
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Sushi
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Around the world in 116 beers
http://www.sloshspot.com/blog/11-19-2008/Around-the-World-in-116-Beers-80 Beer is by far the most popular beverage in the universe. Well, at least in the world. Have you ever wondered what countries produced beer, and what the most popular domestically produced beers were in these countries? We did. So then we decided to compile a ton of information, pictures, and then we got thirsty and got...
Apple Pie
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Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted
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The 1st ever LOLcat
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The Bible in LOLcat language
Here’s a sample Boreded Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs 1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem. 2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz. 3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh...
This is how Planet of the Apes starts!
Angry monkeys turn on their cruel trainer and beat him senseless with his own stick after he handed out a vicious beating to one of the trio during a performance riding mini bicycles in a market in Sizhou, China Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
Season's changing video
More here: http://eirikso.com/2008/12/27/one-year-worth-of-images-give-some-amazing-videos/ Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
SCRUM in under 10 minutes
Be sure to check out more info on wikipedia http://aboutscrum.com/ Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
Baltic Airlines at a crossroad
3 countries, roughly 7 million inhabitants, and 3 “domestic” airlines. Is this a case to say “In the end there can be only one?” Estonian Air has recently had its share of problems with canceled flights, destinations and laying off staff. Air Baltic has seen support from SAS fade, and has now been forced to buy out the remaining shares that belonged to SAS. And flyLAL is in...
In Estonia - waiting for the crisis to hit
So the New Year is fast approaching, but you look around and you don’t see anyone with a smile on their face (ok, they are Estonians, but still). You get a sense of apprehension on everyone’s faces. As if 2009 has already started with the wrong foot, and there’s not much you can do about it. The coming year will be bad, it is already bad and it hasn’t even started yet! ...
City hit by 'legal to pee' prank
People should ignore signs telling them that it is legal to urinate in certain public places in Nottingham, the city council said. The signs, which were put up by pranksters in and around Nottingham, are designed to look official. They feature a toilet sign and include the words: “Public Urination Permitted After 7.30pm”. Nottingham City Council is now urging the public to ignore...
Will the rest of the EU have to ratify the Lisbon...
On the close of the French presidency of the EU, there were news that the Irish would vote again on the Lisbon Treaty. The Irish were given guarantees that their demands would be met. Namely the fact that they would get to keep their commissioner. Now the question is simple. The Irish are voting again on the Lisbon treaty, so are they voting again on the same treaty or are they voting on a new,...
Ireland and the EU - book review
BOOK REVIEW : Ireland and the European Union By Brigid Laffan and Jane O’Mahony Palgrave Macmillan 303pp, £22.99 ‘MY ONLY counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.” - Tom Kettle, 1910. Kettle’s apparently paradoxical advice goes to the heart of Ireland’s troubled relationship with the EU. Our debates on Lisbon and Nice...
Polish Sausage: The E.U. Fails On New Kyoto Effort
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks at the U.N. climate change talks in Poznan, Poland. Representatives from nearly 190 countries met to work out a new climate change plan to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Europe was supposed to be the Great White Hope for the environmental alarmists, the only credible balancing force against the irresponsible and crass capitalism of the U.S. which refused to...
Oh those crazy Belgians...
And here we are again… Belgium, the heart of Europe, as they so proudly proclaim when you enter Brussels International Airport, suffered another setback. The political crisis that has been going on for at least one year now continues on, and this time the King accepted the resignation of Yves Leterme. The problem now was not only political, but there were allegations of interference from...
Yes We Can - Music Video
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Cats as old women
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How many blogs does the world need?
Good article on TIME.com http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1860888,00.html People had been predicting it for years, and in 2008, it finally happened. This was the first presidential election dominated by the Internet. Those ancient debates about whether the Internet lowers journalistic standards and drags the Mainstream Media into the slime have become irrelevant. For a large...
World Hunger
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Low Cost Airlines in Europe negative trend
Latest available figures for eight of Europe’s biggest LCCs shows that only three of them (easyJet, Norwegian and Ryanair) reported increased passenger numbers in November compared with the previous year. Aer Lingus which had reported growth in its short-haul markets in October saw traffic slip by just over 1% in November. Source: Airline websites, UK CAA SkyEurope, which was still...
Vilnius may no longer be European Capital of...
Due to the recent economic crisis, the government wants to cut back costs, and one of the main cost cutting measures may be the reduction by half of the European Capital of Culture 2009 budget. According to The Baltic Times: VILNIUS- Vilnius may have to give up its title as European Capital of Culture 2009, as parliament may decide to cut funding. The director of the project said she expected...
Latvia receives IMF money - GDP could contract by...
RIGA- International Monetary Fund Managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn detailed a 7.5 billion euro stabilization package agreed between the IMF and the Latvian.A press release from the IMF headquarters said that the plan still needs approval from management and executive boards, but that the 7.5 billion euro is a multinational stabilization package. It also includes a 27 month standby...
Should shopping be a patriotic duty?
Politicians and central bankers in the UK and across the world are battling to get you to spend more money on non-essential items so lack of demand does not send the global economy into freefall. But even in the current hard times there are still dissenting voices who want to use this opportunity to tackle consumerism once and for all. They say our love of stuff we often don’t...
Station bridges Iberian divide - now they just...
It was a problem that set two neighbouring countries - old rivals doing their best to be friends - at one another’s throats. Spain and Portugal both wanted a new high-speed train line to link their capitals, Madrid and Lisbon. They even agreed that one of the handful of stations along the route should be between the border cities of Badajoz, Spain, and Elvas, Portugal, which are just 9...
Anti-Bologna movement spreads in Spain
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Opposition to the Bologna Process, an EU-inspired series of university and college reforms, has expanded substantially across Spain in recent weeks, as students protest, occupy school buildings and even block rail lines. In the last week, demonstrations and occupations have in particular stepped up in Madrid with sit-ins taking over faculties or otherwise protesting at the...
Montenegro Formally Seeks EU Accession
Montenegro has submitted a formal application for European Union membership at a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said in Paris. Montenegro, a nation of around 650,000 people, took its first concrete step towards EU accession during a meeting with Sarkozy on Monday, Dec. 15. “We are aware that we are now facing a phase that will...
Another one bites the dust
Polaroid in bankruptcy protection
Polaroid is best know for inventing instant photography
Camera-maker Polaroid has filed for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid allegations of fraud by the founder of its parent group.
Polaroid has been owned by Petters Group Worldwide since 2005, which was established by Tom Petters.
Mr Petters is now “under investigation for alleged acts of...
Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2008
Dear Friends, Thank you for voting in the Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2008. With your help, we reached over 8,500 votes this year. The Worst Conflict of Interest Award 2008 went to Finnish MEP Piia-Noora Kauppi, who collected 26% of the votes in this category. The Worst EU Lobbying Award 2008 was won convincingly by the agrofuel lobbyists of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, Brazilian sugar...