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Joao is a Portuguese guy living in Estonia</description><title>Joao Rei's random thoughts</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @joaorei)</generator><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/</link><item><title>Great wall under threat</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/great-wall-under-threat_n_1027608.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/great-wall-under-threat_n_1027608.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/great-wall-under-threat_n_1027608.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://joaorei-junk.posterous.com/great-wall-under-threat" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s web junk&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://joaorei-junk.posterous.com/great-wall-under-threat#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/11865476699</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/11865476699</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:07:29 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Happy jaanipaev (Taken with picplz.)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnamg01Sjv1qz7hppo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy jaanipaev (Taken with &lt;a href="http://picplz.com" target="_blank"&gt;picplz&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/6862344750</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/6862344750</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:55:11 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Vem ai o FMI, vale a pena relembrar...</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Um texto que se revela mais actual que nunca…  [FMI foi um texto com música que José Mário Branco gravou num &lt;br/&gt;espectáculo ao vivo em 1982 e que foi publicado na altura em &lt;br/&gt;maxi-single. Foi republicado em 1996 em cd, juntamente com o duplo &lt;br/&gt;álbum Ser Solid/tário.] &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;object height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZUJts90HIHc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="window"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZUJts90HIHc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="opaque" height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;object height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wj7LKI8rIUo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="window"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wj7LKI8rIUo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="opaque" height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Vou… vou vos mostrar mais um pedaço da minha vida, um pedaço um &lt;br/&gt;pouco especial: trata-se de um texto que foi escrito assim, de um só &lt;br/&gt;jorro, numa noite de Fevereiro de 79, e que talvez tenha um ou outro &lt;br/&gt;pormenor que já não seja muito actual. Vou vos dar o texto tal e qual &lt;br/&gt;como eu o escrevi nessa altura, sem ter modificado nada, por isso vos &lt;br/&gt;peço que não se deixem distrair por esses pormenores que possam já não &lt;br/&gt;ser muito actuais e que isso não contribua para desviar a vossa &lt;br/&gt;atenção do que me parece ser o essencial neste texto.  Chama-se FMI. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Quer dizer Fundo Monetário Internacional.  Não sei por que é que se riem, é uma organização democrática dos &lt;br/&gt;países todos, que se reunem, com umas pessoas, em torno de uma mesa, &lt;br/&gt;para discutir os seus assuntos, e no fim tomar as decisões que &lt;br/&gt;interessam a todos… É o internacionalismo monetário! &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; FMI  Cachucho não é coisa que me traga a mim &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Mais novidade do que lagostim  Nariz que reconhece o cheiro do pilim &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Distingue bem o Mortimore do Meirim  A produtividade, ora aí está, quer dizer: &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Há tanto nesta terra que ainda está por fazer  Entrar por aí dentro, analisar, e então &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Do meu ‘attaché-case’ sai a solução  FMI Não há graça que não faça o FMI &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; FMI O bombástico de plástico pra si  FMI Não há força que retorça o FMI &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Discreto e ordenado mas nem por isso fraco  Eis a imagem ‘on the rocks’ do cancro do tabaco &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Enfio uma gravata em cada fato-macaco  E meto o pessoal todo no mesmo saco &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; A produtividade, ora aí está, quer dizer:  Não ando aqui a brincar! Não há tempo a perder! &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Batendo o pé na casa, espanador na mão  É só desinfectar em superprodução &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; FMI Não há truque que não lucre ao FMI  FMI O heróico paranóico hara-kiri &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; FMI Panegírico, pró lírico daqui  Palavras, palavras, palavras e não só &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Palavras para si, palavras para dó  A contas com o nada há que swingar o sol-e-dó &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Depois a criadagem lava o pé e limpa o pó  A produtividade, ora nem mais: &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; celulazinhas cinzentas  Sempre atentas &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; E levas pela tromba se não te pões a pau  Um encontrão imediato do 3º grau &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; FMI Não há lenha que detenha o FMI  FMI Não há ronha que envergonhe o FMI &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; FMI …  Entretém-te, filho, entretém-te, não desfolhes em vão este malmequer &lt;br/&gt;que bem-te-quer, mal-te-quer, vem-te-quer, ovomalte-quer-messe &lt;br/&gt;gigantesca, vem-te-bem, bem te vim, Vim-me na cozinha, vim-me na &lt;br/&gt;casa-de-banho, Vim-me no Politeama, vim-me no Águia D’ouro, Vim-me em &lt;br/&gt;toda a parte… Vem-te filho, vem-te comer ao olho, vem-te comer à &lt;br/&gt;mão, olha os pombinhos pneumáticos como te arrulham por esses cartazes &lt;br/&gt;fora, olha a música no coração da Indira Gandi, olha o Moshe Dayan que &lt;br/&gt;te traz debaixo de olho… O respeitinho é muito lindo, e nós somos um &lt;br/&gt;povo de respeito, né filho? Nós somos um povo de respeitinho muito &lt;br/&gt;lindo: saímos à rua de cravo na mão, sem dar conta de que saímos à rua &lt;br/&gt;de cravo na mão a horas certas, né filho? Consolida, filho, consolida: &lt;br/&gt;enfia-te a horas certas no casarão da Gabriela, que o malmequer vai-te &lt;br/&gt;tratando do Serviço Nacional de Saúde. Consolida, filho, consolida, &lt;br/&gt;que o trabalhinho é muito lindo, o teu trabalhinho é muito lindo, é o &lt;br/&gt;mais lindo de todos, como o Astro, não é filho? O cabrão do Astro &lt;br/&gt;entra-te pela porta das traseiras, tu tens um gozo do caraças, vais &lt;br/&gt;dormir entretido, não é? Pois claro: ganhar forças, ganhar forças para &lt;br/&gt;consolidar, para ver se a gente consegue num grande esforço nacional &lt;br/&gt;estabilizar esta desestabilização filha-da-puta, não é filho? Pois &lt;br/&gt;claro! &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Estás aí a olhar para mim? Estás aí a ver-me dar 33 voltinhas por &lt;br/&gt;minuto, pagaste o teu bilhete, pagaste o teu imposto de transacção e &lt;br/&gt;estás a pensar lá com os teus zodíacos: «este tipo está-me a gozar! &lt;br/&gt;Este gajo quem é que julga que é?» Né filho? Pois não é verdade que tu &lt;br/&gt;és um herói desde que nasceste? A ti não é qualquer totobola que te &lt;br/&gt;enfia o barrete, meu grande safadote, hã? Meu Fernão Mendes Pinto de &lt;br/&gt;merda! Onde está o teu Extremo Oriente, filho? A-ni-ki-bé-bé, &lt;br/&gt;a-ni-ki-bó-bó, tu és Sepúlveda, tu és Adamastor. Pois claro: tu, &lt;br/&gt;sozinho, consegues enrabar as Nações Unidas com passaporte de coelho, &lt;br/&gt;não é filho? Mal eles sabem! Pois é: tu sabes o que é gozar a vida! &lt;br/&gt;Entretém-te, filho, entretém-te! Deixa-te de políticas, que a tua &lt;br/&gt;política é o trabalho! Trabalhinho, porreirinho da Silva! E salve-se &lt;br/&gt;quem puder, que a vida é curta e os santos não ajudam quem anda para &lt;br/&gt;aqui a encher pneus com este paleio de Sanzala em ritmo de pop-chula, &lt;br/&gt;não é filho?  A-one, a-two, a-one-two-three &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; FMI dida didadi dadi dadi da didi  FMI… &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Camóniú, sanóvabiche!Camóne beibi, a ver se me comes! Camóne Luis Vaz, &lt;br/&gt;amanda-lhe com os decassílabos que eles já vão saber o que é &lt;br/&gt;meterem-se com uma nação de poetas! E zás: enfio-te o Manuel Alegre no &lt;br/&gt;Mário Soares! Zás: enfio-te o Ary dos Santos no Álvaro Cunhal! Zás: &lt;br/&gt;enfio-te a Natália Correia no Sá Carneiro! Zás: enfio-te o Zé Fanha no &lt;br/&gt;Acácio Barreiros! Zás: enfio-te o Pedro Homem de Melo no Parque Mayer, &lt;br/&gt;e acabamos todos numa sardinhada à Integralismo Lusitano, a estender o &lt;br/&gt;braço, meio Rolão Preto meio Steve McQueen, ok boss, tudo ok… &lt;br/&gt;Estamos numa porreira, meu, um trip fenomenal, proibido voltar atrás, &lt;br/&gt;viva a liberdade… né filho? Pois, irreversível, pois claro, &lt;br/&gt;irreversivelzinho, pluralismo a dar com um pau, nada será como dantes: &lt;br/&gt;agora todos se chateiam de outra maneira, né filho? Ora que porra! &lt;br/&gt;Deixa lá correr o marfil, homem, andas numa alta, pá, é assim mesmo, &lt;br/&gt;cada um a curtir a sua, podia ser tão porreiro, não é? Preocupações, &lt;br/&gt;crises políticas, pá! «A culpa é dos partidos, pá! Esta merda dos &lt;br/&gt;partidos é que divide a malta, pá!» «Pois, pá, é só paleio, pá, o &lt;br/&gt;pessoal não quer é trabalhar, pá! Razão tem o Jaime Neves, pá!» «Olha: &lt;br/&gt;deixaste cair as chaves do carro!» «Pois, pá!» «O que é essa orelha de &lt;br/&gt;preto que tens aí no porta-chaves?» «Epá, deixa-te disso, não &lt;br/&gt;desestabilizes, pá!» «Eh, faz favor: mais uma bica e um pastel de &lt;br/&gt;nata.» «Uma porra, pá, um autêntico desastre o 25 de Abril! Esta &lt;br/&gt;confusão, pá… a malta estava sossegadinha, a bica a 15 tostões, a &lt;br/&gt;gasosa a sete e coroa… Tá bem, essa merda da pide, pá, Tarrafais e o &lt;br/&gt;carago… mas no fim de contas quem é que não colaborava, hã? Quantos &lt;br/&gt;bufos é que não havia nesta merda deste país, hã? Quem é que não se &lt;br/&gt;calava? Quem é que arriscava coiro e cabelo, assim mesmo, o que se &lt;br/&gt;chama arriscar, hã? Meia dúzia de líricos, pá! Meia dúzia de líricos &lt;br/&gt;que acabavam todos a fugir para o estrangeiro!… Isto é tudo a mesma &lt;br/&gt;carneirada!» Oh sr. guarda venha cá – ah. Venha ver o que isto é – eh. &lt;br/&gt;O barulho que vai aqui – ih. O neto a bater na avó – oh. Deu-lhe um &lt;br/&gt;pontapé no cu, né filho?  Tu vais conversando, conversando, que ao menos agora pode-se falar - &lt;br/&gt;ou já não se pode? Ou já começaste a fazer a tua revisãozinha &lt;br/&gt;constitucional tamanho familiar, hã? Estás desiludido com as promessas &lt;br/&gt;de Abril, né? As conquistas de Abril! Eram só paleio a partir do &lt;br/&gt;momento que tas começaram a tirar e tu ficaste quietinho, né filho? E &lt;br/&gt;tu fizeste como o avestruz, enfiaste a cabeça na areia: «não é nada &lt;br/&gt;comigo, não é nada comigo», né? E os da frente que se lixem… E é por &lt;br/&gt;isso que a tua solução é não ver, é não ouvir, é não querer ver, é não &lt;br/&gt;querer entender nada: precisas de paz de consciência. Não andas aqui a &lt;br/&gt;brincar, né filho? Precisas de ter razão, precisas de atirar as culpas &lt;br/&gt;para cima de alguém, e atiras as culpas para os da frente, para os do &lt;br/&gt;25 de Abril, para os do 28 de Setembro, para os do 11 de Março, para &lt;br/&gt;os do 25 de Novembro, para os do… que dia é hoje, hã? &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; FMI Dida didadi dadi dadi da didi  FMI… &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Não há português nenhum que não se sinta culpado de qualquer coisa, &lt;br/&gt;não é filho? Todos temos culpas no cartório - foi isso que te &lt;br/&gt;ensinaram, não é verdade? «Esta merda não anda porque a malta, pá, a &lt;br/&gt;malta não quer que esta merda ande» - tenho dito. A culpa é de todos, &lt;br/&gt;a culpa não é de ninguém - não é isto verdade? Quer-se dizer: há culpa &lt;br/&gt;de todos em geral e não há culpa de ninguém em particular, hã? Somos &lt;br/&gt;todos muita bons no fundo, né? Somos todos uma nação de pecadores e de &lt;br/&gt;vendidos, né? Somos todos ou anti-comunistas ou anti-fascistas: estas &lt;br/&gt;coisas até já nem querem dizer nada, ismos para aqui, ismos para &lt;br/&gt;acolá, as palavras é só bolinhas de sabão, parole parole parole e o Zé &lt;br/&gt;é que se lixa, cá o pintas é sempre o mexilhão… Eu quero lá saber &lt;br/&gt;deste paleio, vou mas é ao futebol, pronto! Viva o Porto, viva o &lt;br/&gt;Benfica! Lourosa! Lourosa! Marrazes! Marrazes! Fora o árbitro! Gatuno! &lt;br/&gt;Qual gatuno, qual caralho! Razão tinha o Tonico de Bastos para se &lt;br/&gt;entreter, né filho? Entretém-te, filho, com as tuas viúvas e as tuas &lt;br/&gt;órfãs, que o teu delegado sindical vai tratando da saúde aos &lt;br/&gt;administradores; entretém-te, que o ministro do trabalho trata da &lt;br/&gt;saúde aos delegados sindicais; entretém-te, filho, que a oposição &lt;br/&gt;parlamentar trata da saúde ao ministro do trabalho; entretém-te, que o &lt;br/&gt;Eanes trata da saúde à oposição parlamentar; entretém-te, que o FMI &lt;br/&gt;trata da saúde ao Eanes. Entretém-te, filho! E vai para a cama &lt;br/&gt;descansado, que há milhares de gajos inteligentes a pensar em tudo &lt;br/&gt;neste mesmo instante, enquanto tu adormeces a não pensar em nada! &lt;br/&gt;Milhares e milhares de tipos inteligentes e poderosos, com &lt;br/&gt;computadores, redes de polícia secreta, telefones, carros de assalto, &lt;br/&gt;exércitos inteiros, congressos universitários, eu sei lá! Podes estar &lt;br/&gt;descansado que o Deng Xiao Ping está a tratar de ti com o Jimmy &lt;br/&gt;Carter; o Brejnev está a tratar de ti com o João Paulo II! Tudo corre &lt;br/&gt;bem, a ver quem se vai abotoar com os 25 tostões de riqueza que tu &lt;br/&gt;vais produzir amanhã nas tuas oito horas. A ver quem vai ser capaz de &lt;br/&gt;te convencer de que a culpa é tua e só tua se o teu salário perde &lt;br/&gt;valor todos os dias; vão te convencer de que a culpa é só tua se o teu &lt;br/&gt;poder de compra é como o rio de S. Pedro de Moel que se some nas &lt;br/&gt;areias em plena praia, ali a 10 metros do mar em maré cheia, e nunca &lt;br/&gt;consegue desaguar, de maneira que se possa dizer: «porra! Finalmente o &lt;br/&gt;rio desaguou!» Vão te convencer de que a culpa é só tua, e tu sem &lt;br/&gt;culpa nenhuma, estás tu a ver? Que tens tu a ver com isso, não é &lt;br/&gt;filho? Cada um que se vá safando como puder - é mesmo assim, não é? Tu &lt;br/&gt;fazes como os outros, fazes o que tens a fazer: votas à esquerda &lt;br/&gt;moderada nas sindicais; votas no centro moderado nas deputais; e votas &lt;br/&gt;na direita moderada nas presidenciais. Que mais querem eles? Que lhes &lt;br/&gt;ofereças a Europa no natal?! Era o que faltava! É assim mesmo, julgam &lt;br/&gt;que te levam de mercedes, toma: para safado, safado e meio, né filho? &lt;br/&gt;Nem para a frente nem para trás, «e eles que tratem do resto, os &lt;br/&gt;gatunos, que são pagos para isso», né? Claro! «Que se lixem as &lt;br/&gt;alternativas, para trabalho já me chega!» Entretém-te, meu anjinho, &lt;br/&gt;entretém-te, que eles são inteligentes, eles ajudam, eles emprestam, &lt;br/&gt;eles decidem por ti, decidem tudo por ti: se hás-de construir barcos &lt;br/&gt;para a Polónia ou cabeças de alfinete para a Suécia, se hás-de plantar &lt;br/&gt;tomate para o Canadá ou eucaliptos para o Japão… Descansa que eles &lt;br/&gt;tratam disso. Se hás-de comer bacalhau só nos anos bissextos ou hás-de &lt;br/&gt;beber vinho sintético de Alguidares-de-Baixo… Descansa, não penses &lt;br/&gt;em mais nada… que até neste país de pelintras se acha «normal haver &lt;br/&gt;mãos desempregadas» e se acha «inevitável haver terras por &lt;br/&gt;cultivar»… Descontrai, beibi, camóne, descontrai, afinfa-lhes o &lt;br/&gt;Bruce Lee, afinfa-lhes a macrobiótica, o biorritmo, o horoscópio, dois &lt;br/&gt;ou três ovniologistas, um gigante da ilha de Páscoa e uma Grace do &lt;br/&gt;Mónaco de vez em quando para dar as boas festas às criancinhas… &lt;br/&gt;Piramiza, filho, piramiza, antes que os chatos fujam todos para o &lt;br/&gt;Egipto, que assim é que tu te fazes um homenzinho, e até já pagas &lt;br/&gt;multa se não fores ao recenseamento. «Pois, pá, isto é um país de &lt;br/&gt;analfabetos, pá!» Dá-lhe no Travolta, dá-lhe no disco-sound, dá-lhe no &lt;br/&gt;pop-chula! Pop-chula pop-chula, ié, ié! Jó-ta-pi-men-ta-forever!  Quanto menos souberes a quantas andas, melhor para ti! Não te chega &lt;br/&gt;para o bife? Antes no talho do que na farmácia! Não te chega para a &lt;br/&gt;farmácia? Antes na farmácia do que no tribunal! Não te chega para o &lt;br/&gt;tribunal? Antes a multa do que a morte! Não te chega para o &lt;br/&gt;cangalheiro? Antes para a cova do que para não sei quem que há-de vir! &lt;br/&gt;Cabrões de vindouros, hã! Sempre a merda do futuro? E eu que me &lt;br/&gt;quilhe? Pois pá: sempre a merda do futuro, a merda do futuro, e eu, &lt;br/&gt;hã? Que é que eu ando aqui a fazer? Digam lá: e eu? José Mário Branco. &lt;br/&gt;37 anos. Isto é que é uma porra! Anda aqui um gajo cheio de boas &lt;br/&gt;intenções, a pregar aos peixinhos, a arriscar o pêlo - e depois? É só &lt;br/&gt;porrada e mal viver, é? «O menino é mal-criado», «o menino é &lt;br/&gt;pequeno-burguês», «o menino pertence a uma classe sem futuro &lt;br/&gt;histórico»… Eu sou parvo ou quê? Quero ser feliz, porra! Quero ser &lt;br/&gt;feliz agora! Que se foda o futuro! Que se foda o progresso! Mais vale &lt;br/&gt;só do que mal acompanhado! Vá: mandem-me lavar as mãos antes de ir &lt;br/&gt;para a mesa, filhos da puta de progressistas do caralho da revolução &lt;br/&gt;que vos foda a todos! Deixem-me em paz, porra, deixem-me em paz e &lt;br/&gt;sossego! Não me emprenhem mais pelos ouvidos, caralho! Não há &lt;br/&gt;paciência, não há paciência! Deixem-me em paz, caralho, saiam daqui, &lt;br/&gt;deixem-me sozinho, só um minuto! Vão vender jornais e governos e &lt;br/&gt;greves e sindicatos e polícias e generais para o raio que vos parta! &lt;br/&gt;Deixem-me sozinho! Filhos da puta! Deixem-me só um bocadinho, &lt;br/&gt;deixem-me só para sempre! Tratem da vossa vida que eu trato da minha! &lt;br/&gt;Pronto, já chega! Sossego, porra! Silêncio, porra! Deixem-me só! &lt;br/&gt;Deixem-me só! Deixem-me só! Deixem-me morrer descansado! Eu quero lá &lt;br/&gt;saber do Artur Agostinho e do Humberto Delgado! Eu quero lá saber do &lt;br/&gt;Benfica e do bispo do Porto! Eu quero se lixe o 13 de Maio e o 5 de &lt;br/&gt;Outubro e o Melo Antunes e a rainha de Inglaterra e o Santiago &lt;br/&gt;Carrillo e a Vera Lagoa! Deixem-me só, porra, rua! Larguem-me! &lt;br/&gt;Desopila o fígado! Arreda! T’arrenego Satanás! Filhos da puta! Eu &lt;br/&gt;quero morrer sozinho, ouviram? Eu quero morrer! Eu quero que se foda o &lt;br/&gt;FMI! Eu quero lá saber do FMI! Eu quero que o FMI se foda! Eu quero lá &lt;br/&gt;saber que o FMI me foda a mim, eu vou mas é votar no Pinheiro de &lt;br/&gt;Azevedo se ele tornar a ir para o hospital, pronto! Bardamerda o FMI, &lt;br/&gt;o FMI é só um pretexto vosso, seus cabrões! O FMI não existe! O FMI &lt;br/&gt;nunca aterrou na Portela coisa nenhuma! O FMI é uma finta vossa para &lt;br/&gt;virem para aqui com esse paleio! Rua! Desandem daqui para fora! A &lt;br/&gt;culpa é vossa! A culpa é vossa! A culpa é vossa! A culpa é vossa! A &lt;br/&gt;culpa é vossa! A culpa é vossa… &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Oh mãe! Oh mãe! Oh mãe! Oh mãe! Oh mãe… Oh mãe…  Mãe, eu quero ficar sozinho. Mãe, eu não quero pensar mais. Mãe: eu &lt;br/&gt;quero morrer, mãe. Eu quero desnascer: ir-me embora, sem sequer ter &lt;br/&gt;que me ir embora… Mãe, por favor… Tudo menos a casa em vez de mim; &lt;br/&gt;outro maldito que não sou senão este tempo que decorre entre fugir de &lt;br/&gt;me encontrar e me encontrar fugindo… De quê, mãe? Diz: são coisas &lt;br/&gt;que se me perguntem? Não pode haver razão para tanto sofrimento. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; E se inventássemos o mar de volta? E se inventássemos partir, para &lt;br/&gt;regressar? Partir e aí, nessa viagem, ressuscitar da morte às arrecuas &lt;br/&gt;que me deste. Partida para ganhar, partida de acordar… Abrir os &lt;br/&gt;olhos, numa ânsia colectiva de tudo fecundar: terra, mar, mãe… &lt;br/&gt;Lembrar como o mar nos ensinava a sonhar alto. Lembrar, nota a nota, o &lt;br/&gt;canto das sereias. Lembrar o «depois do adeus» e o frágil e ingénuo &lt;br/&gt;cravo da Rua do Arsenal. Lembrar cada lágrima, cada abraço, cada &lt;br/&gt;morte, cada traição… Partir aqui, com a ciência toda do passado… &lt;br/&gt;Partir, aqui, para ficar.  Assim mesmo, como entrevi um dia, a chorar de alegria, de esperança &lt;br/&gt;precoce e intranquila, o azul dos operários da Lisnave a desfilar, &lt;br/&gt;gritando ódio apenas ao vazio, exército de amor e capacetes; assim &lt;br/&gt;mesmo na Praça de Londres o soldado lhes falou: «Olá, camaradas, somos &lt;br/&gt;trabalhadores, eles não conseguiram fazer-nos esquecer: aqui está a &lt;br/&gt;minha arma para vos servir.» Assim mesmo, por detrás das colinas onde &lt;br/&gt;o verde está à espera, se levantam antiquíssimos rumores, as festas e &lt;br/&gt;os suores, os bombos de Lavacolhos. Assim mesmo senti um dia, a chorar &lt;br/&gt;de alegria, de esperança precoce e intranquila, o bater inexorável dos &lt;br/&gt;corações produtores, os tambores. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; «De quem é o carvalhal?» «É nosso!» - assim te quero cantar, mar &lt;br/&gt;antigo a que regresso.  Neste cais está arrimado o barco-sonho em que voltei. Neste cais eu &lt;br/&gt;encontrei a margem do outro lado, «Grândola Vila Morena». &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Diz lá: valeu a pena a travessia? Valeu, pois.  Pela vaga de fundo se sumiu o futuro histórico da minha classe. No &lt;br/&gt;fundo deste mar encontrareis tesouros recuperados, de mim que estou a &lt;br/&gt;chegar do lado de lá para ir convosco: tesouros infindáveis que vos &lt;br/&gt;trago de longe e que são vossos, o meu canto e a palavra. O meu sonho &lt;br/&gt;é a luz que vem do fim do mundo, dos vossos antepassados que ainda não &lt;br/&gt;nasceram. A minha arte é estar aqui, convosco, e ser-vos alimento e &lt;br/&gt;companhia, na viagem para estar aqui de vez. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Sou português, pequeno-burguês de origem. Filho de professores &lt;br/&gt;primários. Artista de variedades. Compositor popular. Aprendiz de &lt;br/&gt;feiticeiro. Faltam-me dentes. Sou o Zé Mário Branco, 37 anos, do &lt;br/&gt;Porto: muito mais vivo que morto. Contai com isto de mim para cantar, &lt;br/&gt;e para o resto.  Ser solidário assim para além da vida &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Por dentro da distância percorrida  Fazer de cada perda uma raiz &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; E, improvavelmente, ser feliz  De como aqui chegar não é mister contar &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; O que já sabe quem souber  O estrume em que germina a ilusão &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Fecundará por certo esta canção  Ser solidário, sim, por sobre a morte &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Que depois dela só o tempo é forte  E a morte nunca o tempo a redime &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Mas sim o amor dos homens que se exprime  De como aqui chegar não vale a pena &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Já que a moral da história é tão pequena  Que nunca por vingança eu vos daria &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; No ventre das canções sabedoria&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/vem-ai-o-fmi-vale-a-pena-relembrar" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/vem-ai-o-fmi-vale-a-pena-relembrar#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/4412505779</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/4412505779</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:02:14 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Linkedin April fools</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;So today is April 1st, and all the sites are trying to one-up each other with funny little jokes. &lt;div&gt;Personally, I don’t like it when news sites do it, unless it’s blatantly obvious. Google usually does a pretty good job at these. So usually I check their joke and avoid news and tech sites as much as possible. But this year I was laughing at Linkedin’s take. Take a look at some of the screenshots. They have made profiles for a number of historical and imaginary figures.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="p_embed p_image_embed"&gt; &lt;a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/joaorei/yCxag1umqE8451a9cHYfNffOjutcmKJJpraKoLj8V3spQrwaz1YllQzihgIs/linkedin1.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Linkedin1" height="520" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/joaorei/yhgE1R2E0IH4FgQ8RKtQkLdmVoaV4UbnNnczv2ULkASuBnIjK2qJtWegdWm2/linkedin1.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/joaorei/9uuTGbY4KJXxheE0iDsRRs4HaYFgGVK7ZH2X5HvDnk2sGfLnLuesIGiOg8cL/linkedin2.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Linkedin2" height="504" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/joaorei/8VJ4QwFvgnpKXdUVbR3mRUUdwiYnAVSIWtZoKpgCRM8zCA2Z1tUlQRGVTpjU/linkedin2.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="p_see_full_gallery"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/linkedin-april-fools" target="_blank"&gt;See the full gallery on Posterous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/linkedin-april-fools" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/linkedin-april-fools#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/4254611620</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/4254611620</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:19:04 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Google celebrates the Estonian Independence day</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you visit Google.com from Estonia today, you’ll get this nice reminder of why you don’t go to work today. It’s the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_War_of_Independence" target="_blank"&gt;Estonian Independence day&lt;/a&gt;. It’s also the first day of e-voting for the national elections! &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;The Google Doodle has the colors of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Estonia" target="_blank"&gt;Estonian flag&lt;/a&gt;, plus the national bird of Estonia, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_swallow" target="_blank"&gt;barn swallow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;I Love Estonia!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img title="Screen shot 2011-02-24 at 12.19.10 PM.png" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;ik=13478d14dd&amp;view=att&amp;th=12e5730c24e49fd5&amp;attid=0.2&amp;disp=attd&amp;realattid=ii_12e572ee491bd7fd&amp;zw" alt="Screen shot 2011-02-24 at 12.19.10 PM.png"/&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-celebrates-the-estonian-independence-d" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-celebrates-the-estonian-independence-d#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/3481019080</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/3481019080</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:24:57 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Facebook innovates, Google stagnates</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Facebook is on a hiring and acquisition spree lately… They’re getting more products out than Google, and are getting ready for an upcoming IPO&lt;div&gt;This week, they’re having a “&lt;a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/facebook-holding-special-mobile-event-this-wednesday/" target="_blank"&gt;Mobile Event&lt;/a&gt;” at their HQ, where we can expect anything from a Facebook phone, to more mobile apps that integrate facebook contacts more deeply into your phone contacts. Robert Scoble thinks that a &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sorry-facebook-heres-why-the-iphone-is-way-out-of-your-leauge-2010-9" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook phone is not in the cards&lt;/a&gt;, at least until Facebook improves its mobile apps and integration&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then, there’s the recent news that &lt;a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/facebook-acquires-drop-io-nabs-sam-lessin/" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook has acquired Drop.io&lt;/a&gt;. A file sharing site, that allows you to share working files with colleagues and friends in an easy way. I’ve used it several times and love the service. It will be interesting to see what happens when they integrate with Facebook. But make no mistake, this is big news! Facebook is moving more towards group collaboration, as the launch of the new Groups feature revealed a few weeks ago. You now can create documents and collaborate with your contacts.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;And that brings us to the big news! &lt;a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/rasmussen-facebook-google/" target="_blank"&gt;Lars Rasmussen, the guy behind Google Wave, has left Google and joined Facebook&lt;/a&gt;! This is like… wow! The guy had been one of the most creative guys in Google (imho), and Wave was a testament to that. It failed, true, but mostly because of the overhype Google PR machine. At its core, Google Wave is amazing, and if Lars brings some of it into Facebook chat, groups, document collaboration… the future is looking interesting for Facebook…&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lastly, and to show that Facebook still caters to Farmville fans… &lt;a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/facebook-weeks-away-from-launching-new-games-portal/" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook is due to launch a new games portal&lt;/a&gt; where casual gamers can find new games and play with their friends. I’m not into that, but it does bring a lot of money in..&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;So there you go… If I had to put my money on a company right now, Facebook would be it, not Google… What about you, what do you think these moves from Facebook can tell us about where the company is headed?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/facebook-innovates-google-stagnates" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/facebook-innovates-google-stagnates#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/1438206759</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/1438206759</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:04:10 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Peter Sarstedt - Blagged</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;       &lt;div style="padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;"&gt;       &lt;div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/joaorei/r4c9eGqznH0Pw0pl0okzQYAgnC1jQ7dizuTwP49LsbaDqXg4tEFU8ZZXVWM3/08_Blagged.mp3" style="color: #bc7134;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" style="border: none;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blagged&lt;/b&gt; by Peter Sarstedt  &lt;br/&gt;Download now or &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/peter-sarstedt-blagged" style="color: #bc7134;" target="_blank"&gt;listen on posterous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;       &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/joaorei/r4c9eGqznH0Pw0pl0okzQYAgnC1jQ7dizuTwP49LsbaDqXg4tEFU8ZZXVWM3/08_Blagged.mp3" style="color: #bc7134;" target="_blank"&gt;08 Blagged.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;"&gt;(4525 KB)&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;br style="clear: both;"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;      &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;Peter Sarstedt - Blagged&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt; And as I blagged a cigarette from her&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;And gazed upon her nakedness&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;She moved her lovely head from side to side&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;and said I was just like the rest&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;“You’ve got what you came for” she said&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;“And that’s what you’re here for” I said&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;“aren’t you?”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;She pulled a sheet across her body and&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;Told me to leave the way I came&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;I gave a ruffled grin and found my clothes&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;and mumbled “yes you’re all the same”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;“I am but a man” I said&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;“I do what I can” I said&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;always, always…&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;there’s a time for deeds and a time for talking words&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;but if I said that I loved you&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;would all your morals then be pacified&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;and the act of love be then more true&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;“oh yes you are smart”, she said&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;“but where is your heart?” she said&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;“you better go now”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;and I as I walked outside and closed the door&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;I wondered if I’d won or lost&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;and if the status quo was still intact &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;and was it worth the time it cost&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/peter-sarstedt-blagged" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/peter-sarstedt-blagged#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/1149642726</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/1149642726</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:17:13 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Colbert Report goes after the Polka Pirates</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;One of the funniest Colbert Report segments  					&lt;table height="353" width="360" style="font: 11px arial; color: #333; background-color: #f5f5f5;"&gt;&lt;tr valign="middle" style="background-color: #e5e5e5;"&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.colbertnation.com" target="_blank" style="color: #333; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Colbert Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr valign="middle" style="height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/341470/july-26-2010/nailed--em---polka-piracy" target="_blank" style="color: #333; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nailed ‘Em - Polka Piracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr valign="middle" style="height: 14px; background-color: #353535;"&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 2px 5px 0px 5px; overflow: hidden; text-align: right;" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #96deff; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.colbertnation.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.colbertnation.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr valign="middle"&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:341470" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="window" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="301" flashvars="autoPlay=false" width="360" style="display: block;"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr valign="middle" style="height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;table height="100%" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tr valign="middle"&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/" target="_blank" style="font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Colbert Report Full Episodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/" target="_blank" style="font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2010 Election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/video/tag/Fox+News" target="_blank" style="font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Fox News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/colbert-report-goes-after-the-polka-pirates" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/colbert-report-goes-after-the-polka-pirates#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/870581732</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/870581732</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:34:30 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Who's afraid of Apple? Not Consumer Reports...</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Interesting article on Business Week on the Consumer Reports magazine, &lt;br/&gt;who test products on behalf of consumers and calls companies on their &lt;br/&gt;bullshit marketing.  &lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_31/b4189058784981.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_31/b4189058784981.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_31/b4189058784981.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; The company started after the great depression, and the start was rocky  “The founders’ mission was considered heretical at the time. Reader’s &lt;br/&gt;Digest branded them dangerous subversives for challenging the veracity &lt;br/&gt;of big business, writing, “They are out to discredit, if not destroy, &lt;br/&gt;the system.” Good Housekeeping went so far as to accuse Consumer &lt;br/&gt;Reports of extending the Depression.”&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/whos-afraid-of-apple-not-consumer-reports" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/whos-afraid-of-apple-not-consumer-reports#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/849652448</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/849652448</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:07:09 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Praising the beauty of a queen</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;When the poet-king, Ucaf Uddaul, celebrates the charms of the queen of &lt;br/&gt;Ahmehnagara, he speaks thus: “Her shining tresses, divided in two &lt;br/&gt;parts, encircle the harmonious contour of her white and delicate &lt;br/&gt;cheeks, brilliant in their glow and freshness. Her ebony brows have &lt;br/&gt;the form and charm of the bow of Kama, the god of love, and beneath &lt;br/&gt;her long silken lashes the purest reflections and a celestial light &lt;br/&gt;swim, as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her &lt;br/&gt;great clear eyes. Her teeth, fine, equal and white, glitter between &lt;br/&gt;her smiling lips like dewdrops in a passion-flower’s half-enveloped &lt;br/&gt;breast. Her delicately formed ears, her vermilion hands, her little &lt;br/&gt;feet, curved and tender as the lotus-bud, glitter with the brilliancy &lt;br/&gt;of the loveliest pearls of Ceylon, the most dazzling diamonds of &lt;br/&gt;Golconda. Her narrow and supple waist, which a hand may clasp around, &lt;br/&gt;sets forth the outline of her rounded figure and the beauty of her &lt;br/&gt;bosom, where youth in its flower displays the wealth of its treasures; &lt;br/&gt;and beneath the silken folds of her tunic she seems to have been &lt;br/&gt;modeled in pure silver by the godlike hand of Vicvarcarma, the &lt;br/&gt;immortal sculptor.”  Around the world in 80 days.&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/praising-the-beauty-of-a-queen" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/praising-the-beauty-of-a-queen#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/776465718</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/776465718</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:05:41 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>[Google Fast Flip] The World's Worst Commutes</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Sent to you by joao.rei via &lt;a href="http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Google Fast Flip&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/07/the-worlds-worst-commutes/59062/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/news/screenshots/LZ4mY-n8EK_yLM-cropped.png" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The World’s Worst Commutes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard Florida - Richard Florida is the author of The Creative Class and founder of the Creative Class Group. Richard Florida is director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto and author of the forthcoming The Great Reset and also Rise of the Creative Class. He is founder of the Creative Class Group. Commuting is among life’s least enjoyable activities, according to research by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and others. The graph below shows the cities with the worst commutes in the world, according to IBM’s Commuter Pain Index (via Wired). The city with the world’s worst commute, according to the IBM study, is Beijing, followed by Mexico City, Johannesburg, Moscow, and New Delhi. London, New York, LA, and my adopted hometown of Toronto also rank in the top 20. Stockholm has the world’s best commute among the 20 cities in the IBM survey. Commuting is a waste of energy and time, and carries with it enormous economic costs. Commuting costs America an estimated $90 billion dollars per year in terms of lost productivity and wasted energy, according to the annual Urban Mobility Report. Our own detailed calculations by Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI) research director Kevin Stolarick find that every minute shaved off America’s commuting time is worth an estimated $19.5 billion dollars. That translates into $97.7 billion for five minutes, $195 billion for 10 minutes, and $292 billion for every 15 minutes saved nationally. The chart below from the IBM study shows the percentage of drivers in each of the 20 surveyed cities who would work more if their commuting time was significantly reduced. The index is comprised of 10 issues: 1) commuting time, 2) time stuck in traffic, agreement that: 3) price of gas is already too high, 4) traffic has gotten worse, 5) start-stop traffic is a problem, 6) driving causes stress, 7) driving causes anger, 8) traffic affects work, 9) traffic so bad driving stopped, and 10) decided not to make trip due to traffic….&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/07/the-worlds-worst-commutes/59062/" target="_blank"&gt;Read full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-fast-flip-the-worlds-worst-commutes" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-fast-flip-the-worlds-worst-commutes#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/774512162</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/774512162</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:40:16 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>[Google Fast Flip] Subway on the Street</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Sent to you by joao.rei via &lt;a href="http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Google Fast Flip&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/67027/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/news/screenshots/iKnjiEb7up6XxM-cropped.png" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Subway on the Street&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The MTA has a simple, not very expensive ticket for improving how the city gets around: Revolutionize the bus. But can even the most sensible ideas get implemented these days? By Robert Sullivan You would never guess it from the dispiriting news coming out of the MTA, but if you want to see the future of New York, then head up to the Bronx and take a bus. This is not the future of New York in which everyone has a solar-powered jet pack that takes them high over the city’s organic farmyards. Nor is this the apocalyptic future in which the final few New Yorkers with health care live just beyond the moat that surrounds what was once called Yankee Stadium. This is the future as seen in a new bus line: the Bx12 Select Bus Service, or SBS, for short. The future highlighted by the Bx12 SBS takes as a very depressing starting point the fact that the New York City subway system, once the envy of the world, is stalled. Not literally—as when we sat on dark, un-air-conditioned cars between stations on the way to Simon and Garfunkel reunion concerts—but still, our subways are strained under a ridership that has grown 60 percent since 1990 and a permanent budgetary crisis that has, over the past two years, only gotten worse. Last month, faced with an $800 million budget gap, the MTA canceled two subway lines and 37 bus lines and dramatically reduced late-night and weekend service. No one is expecting Albany’s fiscal situation to improve anytime soon. If this were, say, Shanghai, one could imagine the federal government sweeping in and not just restoring transit funding but modernizing and expanding our underground tracks. Shanghai didn’t even have a subway system until 1995, and it is now in the midst of dramatically expanding it to 22 lines. But this is not Shanghai; this is New York, where the first subway line was built in 1904 and many lines still use the antiquated (and sometimes dangerous) signal system that was installed about 25 years after Edison patented his lightbulb. The New York subway system’s grandest plan at the moment involves completing one new line on Second Avenue. It was proposed in 1929. It is currently scheduled to open its first branch in 2016. It will stretch 33 blocks, or just under two miles. So the future of movement in New York—how we get from home to work, how we navigate the city—is not going to be about subways. But what about the bus? True, buses are what most people think of when they think of not getting anywhere: senior citizens waiting in lines, guys counting out change, double-parked cars. They are less sexy than subways and tend to be ignored until the MTA announces another round of service cuts. The last time buses were new was in the forties, when they were installed around the city as a cheaper, more flexible alternative to streetcars. To a large extent, flexibility remains the bus’s chief advantage—unrailed, they can go wherever we want them to go—and they’re a relative bargain. But over the last decade, in a few transit-enlightened cities around the world, the bus has received a dramatic makeover. It has been reengineered to load passengers more quickly. It has become much more energy-efficient. And, most important, the bus system—the network of bus lines and its relationship to the city street—has been rethought. Buses that used to share the street with cars and trucks are now driving in lanes reserved exclusively for buses and are speeding through cities like trains in the street. They are becoming more like subways. One city that has transformed its bus system is London, which in 2001 hired a New Yorker named Jay Walder to help overhaul its transit system. At the time, Londontown was gridlocked. Walder looked at the Tube, then carrying about 3 million daily passengers, and then looked at the bus system, which was carrying almost 6 million. “The recognition was that it was virtually impossible to get anything done on the rail system quickly,” Walder recalls. “So we set out to work on the buses. And what you found was that buses were already the backbone, and you had the opportunity in a relatively short time to make them a lot better.” Last summer, Walder was tapped by Governor Paterson to become head of the MTA. This is not a good time to be in charge of a sprawling bureaucracy dependent on Albany money, and it’s a strange time to be doing so as an optimist. But Walder is a hopeful bureaucrat, and he believes that if there’s any way to grow New York transit, it’s through buses. The MTA and the city’s Department of Transportation recently unveiled plans to install dedicated bus lanes on First and Second Avenues this fall and on 34th Street in 2012. These, along with the Bx12 line in the Bronx, are being promoted as trial programs for what Walder hopes will be, by the end of his tenure, a reconfiguration of the city’s streets. “When the city adopts a world-class ‘Bus Rapid Transit’ system, people are going to have a tough time, efficiency-wise, telling a bus apart from a subway—it’s going to be like a subway with a view,” predicts Kyle Wiswall, general counsel for the Tri-State Transportation Campaign….&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/67027/" target="_blank"&gt;Read full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-fast-flip-subway-on-the-street" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-fast-flip-subway-on-the-street#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/774508896</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/774508896</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:39:12 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Portugal, as portrayed by Spanish TV</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Sometimes it takes a stranger or a neighbor to praise your country to &lt;br/&gt;make you feel just a little bit proud of it.  This is a video of a Spanish television hour-long overview of &lt;br/&gt;Portugal. Some pretty stunning images. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;object data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="371" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="clip_id=11903626&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;/object&gt; Of course it could have been done by any Portuguese TV channel, but it &lt;br/&gt;would have raised eyebrows in Portugal. We’re not usually known for &lt;br/&gt;our “pride” or for showing off (except for football I guess). To my &lt;br/&gt;Portuguese friends: Imagine this would have been made by TVI or SIC or &lt;br/&gt;RTP, I can already imagine people calling it tasteless, nationalist, &lt;br/&gt;criticizing it because it missed this or that region/city/area… &lt;br/&gt;maybe I’m wrong, but that’s how I see things. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; This is a very Portuguese “thing”… we like to criticize our country &lt;br/&gt;to the point we’re sometimes unable to see all the good stuff in it.  For my Estonian friends, imagine how it would be, to have YLE make an &lt;br/&gt;hour long documentary about Estonia, where it’s not just about the &lt;br/&gt;cheap alcohol… &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; To everyone else who hasn’t been to Portugal, has an hour to kill, and &lt;br/&gt;understand Spanish, enjoy it!&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/portugal-as-portrayed-by-spanish-tv" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/portugal-as-portrayed-by-spanish-tv#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/628847907</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/628847907</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:29:13 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>To the critics...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the &lt;br/&gt;strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them &lt;br/&gt;better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face &lt;br/&gt;is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who &lt;br/&gt;errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort &lt;br/&gt;without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the &lt;br/&gt;deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends &lt;br/&gt;himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the &lt;br/&gt;triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at &lt;br/&gt;least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be &lt;br/&gt;with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. &lt;br/&gt;-Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne in Paris, France on April 23, 1910.&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/to-the-critics" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/to-the-critics#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/603437480</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/603437480</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 13:47:01 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>[Google Fast Flip] The USA Pavilion Is a Disgrace</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Sent to you by joao.rei via &lt;a href="http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Google Fast Flip&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-05/usa-pavilion-disgrace" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/news/screenshots/TsLn7prLhV62OM-cropped.png" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The USA Pavilion Is a Disgrace&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By John Mahoney Posted 05.06.2010 at 3:00 pm 11 Comments	Many of the pavilions at the 2010 Expo in Shanghai are phenomenal, both inside and out. The USA pavilion, however, is neither. But far worse than being visually unimpressive (which it is), the essence of our representation at the largest World’s Fair carries an even sadder message.	I’ve been inside some pretty mind-blowing pavilions this week, which makes the failings of the USA’s—the world’s largest economy—even more shameful.	The pavilion consists of three eight-minute films shown in three different chambers, dubbed “Overture,” “Act One” and “Act Two.” The first, which visitors watch on a few smallish elevated screens while seated on the floor or standing, mostly consists of non-actors on city streets being coached through basic greetings and welcoming messages in Mandarin while they are filmed. Americans off the street are not the best Mandarin speakers, and this is played up in the film endearingly. Many Chinese folks get a kick out of westerners trying their broken Chinese, so the film’s numerous stumbles are received with some laughs from the audience. OK so far. Celebrity appearances are included amongst the Joe Blow…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-05/usa-pavilion-disgrace" target="_blank"&gt;Read full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-fast-flip-the-usa-pavilion-is-a-disgra" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-fast-flip-the-usa-pavilion-is-a-disgra#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/593413004</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/593413004</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:59:53 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>The Euro - take it or leave it...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;“Deep down, tensions inside the euro-zone involve clashing social contracts and democratic preferences. Post-war German governments have won voters’ consent by offering thrift and monetary stability (a comfort for Germans with a folk memory of life savings lost to hyperinflation), plus an elaborately consensual capitalism. Greek governments have instead spent years buying social peace and votes with public spending, generous pensions, tax breaks, EU money and jobs for life, directed to an array of rent-seeking interest groups. This sort of social contract, lubricated by endemic corruption and lax law-enforcement, has evolved to suit a country emerging from a vile civil war and years of dictatorship in which consensus was painfully absent.” via &lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16060063&amp;fsrc=scn/tw/te/rss/pe" target="_blank"&gt;The Economist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/the-euro-take-it-or-leave-it" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/the-euro-take-it-or-leave-it#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/578565565</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/578565565</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:28:46 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Tip of the day - STS for free postcard delivery (in Europe at least)</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="Mentions_Input" style=""&gt;Tip of the day: If you have one of those days where it just doesn’t feel right to be stuck inside an office, a classroom, your room or whatever other boring place for the whole day, do the following (read it all before you start): a) Go to the city center&lt;br/&gt; b) Hop on to some bars, cafes, art shops, trendy places&lt;br/&gt; c) Grab those free postcards, one or two of each. They are free to take, grab at least 20, not all form the same place&lt;br/&gt; d) Head to a sunny, well ventilated place. Preferably where you can sit down and write (e.g. beach, public garden, patio, esplanade, outdoor bar…)&lt;br/&gt; e) Start writing to all of your friends from all over Europe&lt;br/&gt; f) You should have probably brought a pen with you&lt;br/&gt; g) And you should also have some way of getting their addresses from the internet… (Private Area, Facebook, Address book…) or just get them before leaving the boring place you’re in (I’m sure that boring place has internet… all boring places do)&lt;br/&gt; h) After you’re done writing the postcards write STS where the Stamp should go&lt;br/&gt; i) Enjoy the sunny day&lt;br/&gt; j) Put the postcards into several different post boxes all through the city&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  that’s it… wait a few days / week and we’ll see who gets your postcard. The advantages of this method are that it’s free, you enjoy a sunny day outside instead of being stuck in an boring place, and you send a postcard to all of your friends, which is something I’m sure you keep thinking of doing, but never get around to actually doing…&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/tip-of-the-day-sts-for-free-postcard-delivery" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/tip-of-the-day-sts-for-free-postcard-delivery#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/520584092</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/520584092</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:08:03 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Come down to Cleveland! (we're not Detroit)</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Every city should have promotional videos like these!!&lt;object height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ysmLA5TqbIY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="window"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ysmLA5TqbIY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="window" height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And here’s the second one &lt;object height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oZzgAjjuqZM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="window"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oZzgAjjuqZM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="window" height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://joaorei-junk.posterous.com/come-down-to-cleveland-were-not-detroit" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s web junk&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://joaorei-junk.posterous.com/come-down-to-cleveland-were-not-detroit#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/503107920</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/503107920</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:46:14 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>[Google Fast Flip] The trouble with the Fed's secret bailout - Federal Reserve - Salon...</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;Sent to you by joao.rei via &lt;a href="http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Google Fast Flip&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/04/01/secret_fed_bailout_open2010/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/news/screenshots/P5wgtAnaGDYORM-cropped.png" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The trouble with the Fed’s secret bailout - Federal Reserve - Salon…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The trouble with the Fed’s secret bailout The Federal Reserve has come clean about its covert actions. Now it’s time to look at the worrisome consequences The U.S. Federal Reserve Building in Washington The Federal Reserve has finally came clean. It now admits it bailed out Bear Stearns — taking on tens of billions of dollars of the — in order to smooth Bear Stearns’ takeover by JPMorgan Chase. The secret Fed bailout came months before Congress authorized the government to spend up to $700 billion of taxpayer dollars bailing out the banks, even months before Lehman Brothers collapsed. The Fed also took on billions of dollars worth of AIG securities, also before the official government-sanctioned bailout. The losses from those deals still total tens of billions, and taxpayers are ultimately on the hook. But the public never knew. There was no congressional oversight. It was all done behind closed doors. And the New York Fed — then run by Tim Geithner — was very much in the center of the action. First, only Congress is supposed to risk taxpayer dollars. The Fed is not part of the legislative branch. Its secret deals, announced almost two years after they were done, violate the …&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/04/01/secret_fed_bailout_open2010/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;Read full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-fast-flip-the-trouble-with-the-feds-se" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/google-fast-flip-the-trouble-with-the-feds-se#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px"&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/494310579</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/494310579</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:35:04 +0300</pubDate></item><item><title>Hilarious - Stephen Colbert reviews the iPad</title><description>The Newsweek cover / backcover comparison is just priceless!
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://posterous.com" target="_blank"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/hilarious-stephen-colbert-reviews-the-ipad" target="_blank"&gt;Joao Rei’s ramblings&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.joaorei.net/hilarious-stephen-colbert-reviews-the-ipad#comment" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Comment »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/491319044</link><guid>http://www.joaorei.eu/post/491319044</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:26:00 +0300</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

