November 2009
38 posts
Jules et Jim by François Truffaut
My favorite filmmaker of all time. With one of his most iconic movies. Jules et Jim. The story of two bohemian friends and the love they shared for the same woman. Catherine (played by the beautiful Jeanne Moreau)The movie is iconic not only for its story, but certainly for its style, a classic example of Nouvelle Vague French Cinema. This is one of my favorite scenes from the movie. While it does...
The future belongs to the curious
“What do you want to do,” he asked me.I said I wanted to be a diplomat.“Do you have money?”“No.”“Are you related to anyone famous?” “No.”“Then forget about diplomacy!”“But what can I become?”“Curious.”“That’s no career.”“Not yet. Travel, write, translate.Learn to live...
Why is Tallinn Technical University the best
Billy Mays says so… Brilliant video made by some student of TTU. It’s funny, even if you don’t understand all of the Estonian.Thanks to Brigit, I saw it on her facebook page 1st :) Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
[Google Fast Flip] The Big Freak Out
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: The Big Freak Out BY CLAY RISEN | NOVEMBER 11, 2009 Four years ago, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner achieved the rarest of literary feats: Their counterintuitive book Freakonomics became a genuine nonfiction crossover hit, a best-seller beloved in academic departments and hair salons alike, praised by everyone from the Economist...
[Google Fast Flip] Russia's Staged State of the...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Russia’s Staged State of the Nation BY JULIA IOFFE | NOVEMBER 13, 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his second state-of-the-nation address before the Russian parliament on Thursday. The speech’s sternness and substance sounded like a sharp break with Russia’s political and economic stagnation under...
[Google Fast Flip] Jonathan Safran Foer's beef...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Jonathan Safran Foer’s beef with factory farms Jonathan Safran Foer’s beef with factory farms The polarizing author and vegetarian discusses his new book, “Eating Animals,” and the hefty cost of cheap food Jonathan Safran Foer is a strict vegetarian, but his most recent book, is not a screed against meat. It is, rather, an...
[Google Fast Flip] The people of Yala Swamp in...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: The people of Yala Swamp in Kenya dispossessed by American farming interests, from “The End of Poverty.” So here’s the real question about capitalism, the one nobody really wants to face: Does it create gross inequality as an unfortunate byproduct of its energy and dynamism — or is gross inequality itself, between rich and...
[Google Fast Flip] How to Profit off the Poor… and...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: How to Profit off the Poor… and Keep Your Soul by Sarah Lacy on November 15, 2009 “I’ll take you! I live there!” a small boy with a blue shirt and a perfect toothy grin said as he ran ahead of me. His quiet friend in yellow jogged beside him smiling shyly, his jet-black Elvis curl bobbing on his forehead. The boy in blue stopped a few yards in...
[Google Fast Flip] Geocachers find trinkets and...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Geocachers find trinkets and trouble By James Hohmann When the Loudoun County sheriff’s deputy stumbled on the green ammunition can hidden in a Sterling drainage pipe, he did the right thing. He called in the bomb squad. It turned out to be a false alarm. The bomb techs opened the box and found a few small trinkets, a notebook and a pen inside....
Seafood rice (Arroz de Marisco)
During the weekend, we decided to cook something a bit more Portuguese, here’s a delicious recipe that is not that hard to make, and luckily you can find all of the ingredients in Estonia! This is basically a copy past from my friends’ blog about cooking foreign foods in Estonia http://antikartul.blogspot.com/2009/11/seafood-rice-arroz-de-marisco.html If you’re a seafood friend,...
[Google Fast Flip] Think Again: Green China
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Think Again: Green China Is China the green model of the world’s future — or an industrial polluter on a massive scale? BY CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 13, 2009 Two years ago, the New York Times reported that China was “choking on growth,” with rapid economic development ravaging its environment. But in a recent column, the...
[Google Fast Flip] Could This Lump Power the...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Could This Lump Power the Planet? Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab are betting $3.5 billion in taxpayer money on a tiny pellet that could produce an endless supply of safe, clean energy. For some, that’s hard to swallow. This target chamber is 10 meters in diameter and weighs 287,000 pounds. By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK Please fill in...
Love how Brizzly explains trending twitter topics
I’ve been using Brizzly for a while now for all my twitter needs (and now Facebook as well) If you want an invitation, ask me. The one feature I like most is how you see trending topics being explained. Usually, shortly after they appear, someone is going to try to explain the topic, and more people can contribute. It’s really good. Today though, it was loads of fun to read this...
This is a test post from Google Wave
This is a test post from Google WaveTrying the integration of Google Wave and Posterous via google-wave-robot Posted via web from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
[Google Fast Flip] Think Again: God
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Think Again: God BY KAREN ARMSTRONG | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 No. When Friedrich Nietzsche announced the death of God in 1882, he thought that in the modern, scientific world people would soon be unable to countenance the idea of religious faith. By the time The Economist did its famous “God Is Dead” cover in 1999, the question seemed moot,...
[Google Fast Flip] Today's Berlin Walls
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Today’s Berlin Walls The fall of the Berlin Wall united Germany and eliminated the Cold War’s most potent symbol. Here are five barriers that continue to divide nations and disrupt lives today. Part of an FP series, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. BY JOSHUA KEATING | NOVEMBER 5, 2009 What: The Israeli government first proposed...
[Google Fast Flip] The Memory Trap
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: The Memory Trap Why remembrance of past imperial glory holds back Russia today. Part of an FP series, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. BY NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA | NOVEMBER 6, 2009 The dramatic events of 1989 hinged on decisions made in Moscow. Mikhail Gorbachev changed the world when he decided not to send Soviet tanks to Berlin on November 9....
[Google Fast Flip] All for One?
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: All for One? The Lisbon Treaty creates an EU president, sure. But it’s the new foreign policy czar who might really change the world. BY ANNIE LOWREY | NOVEMBER 6, 2009 Something that might augur a truly titanic shift in foreign affairs happened this week. It involves possibly sweeping foreign-policy changes in two of the world’s five...
[Google Fast Flip] Europe After the Berlin Wall: 4...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Europe After the Berlin Wall: 4 Surprises For Europe the effects of the Berlin Wall’s collapse were almost as surprising as the fall itself. Here are 4 of the unexpected consequences that the end of the Soviet Union had for Europe — ones even the experts didn’t see coming. BY MOISÉS NAÍM | NOVEMBER 10, 2009 The fall of the Berlin...
[Google Fast Flip] 'Road trains' get ready to roll
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: ‘Road trains’ get ready to roll The driver’s sat-nav indicates that there is a road train ahead that is following some of his/her planned journey. The driver approaches the road train, which is controlled by a professional driver at the front, and indicates that he/she wishes to join. The road train takes control of the extra car,...
Witty twitter - collaborative tweets with lots of...
Now, here’s something I’d love to do with a group of witty friends. (wink, wink)Check @FakeAPStylebook for some funny and witty remarks on journalism, and stylebooks. It’s a parody of the Associated Press’s very own Style Book. It has some funny tweets like: When covering a flood always include a photo of a dog stranded on a roof. Throw your own dog up there if needed. When...
Estonian women - mhmh...
So true… It may come out as being cold and distant, but maybe, deep down inside, it might just be a bit of insecurity as well… I guess we’ll never know… Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
[Google Fast Flip] File-sharers are big spenders...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: File-sharers are big spenders too File-sharers are big spenders too People who download music illegally also spend an average of £77 a year buying it legitimately, a survey has found. Those who claimed not to use peer-to-peer filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay spent a yearly average of just £44. Almost one in 10 of those questioned aged between...
[Google Fast Flip] Why Are the United States and...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Why Are the United States and Israel at the Top of Human Rights Hit Lists? We ran the numbers and it’s true: the watchdogs have their politics. But that might just be a good thing. BY JAMES RON, HOWARD RAMOS | NOVEMBER 3, 2009 Human Rights Watch and its rights-watching peers have heard it all. They’re quasi-terrorists with an anti-US ax to...
[Google Fast Flip] On - Chris Mooney - Slate...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: On - Chris Mooney - Slate Magazine Thanks for the kind words and cogent questions. It’s nice of you to notice approvingly that I skipped over the climate and evolution “debates” in Denialism. A few people have seen that as a failing—but my intention here was to address issues where there is some common ground and see whether I could...
[Google Fast Flip] What Your Phone Might Do for...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: What Your Phone Might Do for You Two Years From Now By BOB TEDESCHI By now we can probably all agree that the iPhone is the Model T, the Sputnik, the Lawrence Taylor of the mobile technology realm. We are still waiting for the offenses to adapt, the competition to catch up. I have spent the last few weeks speaking with mobile technology researchers...
[Google Fast Flip] Beatles Remasters Heading To...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Beatles Remasters Heading To USB Beatles Remasters Heading To USB pple Corps and EMI Music are issuing remasters on a limited edition apple-shaped USB drive in time for Christmas. The release marks the first time Beatles catalogue has officially been sold as digital files separate from the CDs. Vinyl versions of the reissues are expected soon....
[Google Fast Flip] All Locked UpDid Joe Sullivan,...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: All Locked UpDid Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life at 13, have a fair trial? By Amy BachPosted Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, at 12:35 PM ET Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-and–unusual-punishment clause of the...
[Google Fast Flip] The Basics on Financing Your...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: The Basics on Financing Your Own Business With the unemployment rate hovering near double digits, a growing number of people are viewing job loss as that “karmic kick in the pants” to try something new. In fact, according to the Kauffman Foundation, 7% of those who have recently lost jobs are launching new ventures (compared to 0.3% of the...
[Google Fast Flip] EPA's Porous Pavement Cuts Down...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: EPA’s Porous Pavement Cuts Down on Parking Lot Pollution BY Ariel Schwartz Fri Oct 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM Parking lots have a nasty tendency to harbor all the oil, grease, and antifreeze that leak from vehicles. And after a heavy rain, all those substances mix together and take a trip to the closest porous surface—no matter whether it’s...
[Google Fast Flip] Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway? BY Kit Eaton Mon Nov 2, 2009 at 9:19 AM Pro-copyright activists celebrated while file-sharers cried at rulings on the Pirate Bay’s illegality, and the subsequent attempts to sink the site. But some new data suggests piracy sites tripled in the aftermath, which really...
[Google Fast Flip] A Better Contender in the Quest...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io Ever since social media data started growing like bathroom flora, there have been aggregation tools to make managing your stuff easier. Some are limited in scope; , for example, pulls together just a few services, but does it well. Other...
[Google Fast Flip] German chancellor prods US on...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: German chancellor prods US on global warming By Juliet Eilperin German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress and the Obama administration to take bold steps to address global warming Tuesday, even as Senate Democrats and Republicans feuded over whether to press ahead with their chamber’s version of a climate bill. Speaking at a joint session...
[Google Fast Flip] 12 of the World's Coolest...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: 12 of the World’s Coolest Packaging Designs 12 of the World’s Coolest Packaging Designs Copyright © 2009 Mansueto Ventures LLC. All rights reserved. Fast Company, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007-2195 Fast Company 12 of the World’s Coolest Packaging Designs…Read full story Posted via email from Joao Rei’s...
[Google Fast Flip] Why Dilbert is doomed
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Why Dilbert is doomed By Michael Lind Where are tomorrow’s jobs going to come from? The question is more urgent than ever, with official unemployment hovering around 10 percent and with nearly one in five Americans unemployed, if you count part-time workers who want full-time jobs and people so desperate that they have given up looking for work...
[Google Fast Flip] This Slow Death Is Choking the...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: This Slow Death Is Choking the Oceans This Slow Death Is Choking the Oceans Find out about perilous threats to the marine food chain. Sign up to become a Wavemaker, an Oceana online activist. Become an active voice in our campaigns to stop habitat destruction, overfishing and pollution. Oceana’s Wavemakers have successfully persuaded companies to stop...
[Google Fast Flip] Google Voice User? Get The...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Google Voice User? Get The Quick Reference Card Google Voice User? Get The Quick Reference Card If you’re a Google Voice user like me, you’ll be glad to print out this quick reference card that gives you all the menu options when you call the service to listen to voicemail or change settings, or receive calls. For example, when you receive a call with...
[Google Fast Flip] Best iPhone Augmented-Reality...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Best iPhone Augmented-Reality Apps for Business Best iPhone Augmented-Reality Apps for Business , cyborgs could call up crucial information on an object or person in their field of sight simply by fixing their gaze on a subject. These days a technology called augmented reality is designed to help humans similarly call up virtual information and then...