(Portuguese) Porquê usar boxers com calções de banho.

The Fourrier Transform

This one is a bit far fetched, so for an explanation: it's a pun on the European military rank Fourier and the mathematical Fourier Transform. Not funny, i know.

Song Translations: doismileoito - Acordes Com Arroz

Inside me something

Keeps me from loving the sun.

I see it merely as light,

Merely as sun.

I want the rain and the cold

So in given time,

I'll value your warmth.

Afraid of the early nightfall.

When I feel the cold,

I fear not feeling at all.

Who cares what's good,

If there is no evil.

Just as faces in a postcard,

Don't want it like this

But I am like this.

I fear the evil, but want it again.

More than a worn shoe,

I feel this is the end.

Bury all the pain and bones in your garden,

Ask the sky for some clouds to harden.

Online Radio - usage and alternatives to last.fm - A guide for Europe

last.fm was a very cool website. It was free, it was hip, it kept getting better.

Add a few years and the free part is dropped out, as it often happens.

What does this wonderful site have that makes it so wonderful and worth me writing about it?

All it did, or its core fuction is to gather information about its users listening habits.  What do you listen to and when do you listen to it. From that it does the following:

• Customized radios: you can pick a genre, friend, yourself or an artist, and it will play either songs that are related to what you picked or simply popular concerning what you picked. This means that with the click of a button you can listen to your friends music collection. Or even, you could listen to a radio composed of your favorites songs. Or even just listen to radio that plays music you don't know,  based on your tastes in regard to other similar users.

• Recommendations: As  mentioned before, last.fm can pickup what you like. It then finds similar users and recommends to you the stuff that they like, and that you don't know about. It's likely that this way you will find new music that you enjoy. Also, it will recommend concerts of band, based on your taste.

And it's basically this that makes last.fm so cool: costumized radios and recommendations.

The Portuguese flag tryout

Was here pondering about this problem. You see, there are these things called flags...

and i was wondering about them. In particular about flags i am familiar with.

Are flags important? You bet they are. As Eddie Izzard puts it, "no flag no country". You can't declare you are a nation without a nation flag or something of the sort.

From here, i could go on and debate (or whatever you do when you talk to yourself) on what exactly is a country. But i'll stick to flags as a symbol of a country.

And since there is a whole scholarly study dedicated to flags, I'll restrict myself and stick to a flag i am familiar with.

Presenting, the Portuguese flag:

Interesting isn't it?

(Portuguese) Kashkabald a Lenda

Boa tarde caros espectadores.

No programa de hoje vamos observar as origens de um personagem famoso. Não é famoso o suficiente para aparecer no wikipedia, mas é famoso o suficiente para merecer um documentário.

E estranho.

No interesse científico, vamos estudar as origens deste personagem historicamente marcante.

Venha, acompanhe-nos numa viagem até à terra mágica de Kashkabald!

Kashkabald:  

a Lenda

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No primeiro episódio, acompanhe-nos enquanto viajamos através do mundo, até à terra natal de Kashkabald: o deserto de Kashkabald.



Tal como várias outras coisas, não se sabe exactamente quem deu o nome a quem. Mas um sítio é sempre um sítio, mesmo sem ter nome.

O interesse foi despertado por documentos históricos recentemente pescados no Mar Morto que apontam como tendo sido este o berço de Kashakabald.

Há gerações que investigadores independentes o suspeitavam , visto que o deserto e a pessoa partilham o mesmo nome.

E é aqui que a nossa história começa. Junte-se à nossa equipa de três investigadores enquanto pesquisamos o habitat de:


Kashkabald:
A Lenda

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Dia 0:

Viajamos há mais de quarenta horas.

A nossa equipa de investigadores está desanimada e com a energia em baixo. A causa não é tanto a viagem.

O problema é que ninguém acompanha o entusiasmo - que gerou uma espécie de comportamento obsessivo-compulsivo - do líder da expedição.

Esse, encontra-se eufórico, e a sua energia não parece ter limites.

Mas esperem! fui informado que nos encontramos no espaço aéreo do nosso objectivo e... sim, julgo que estamos a aterrar...

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Dia 1:

Entrámos no deserto. Pés assentes na terra depois de 2 dias de viagem.

Bem, isto não é bem um deserto. Ou melhor, não é apenas um deserto. Numa singularidade interessante, o deserto de Kashkabald cobre na totalidade a face de uma ilha nos mares do sul.

A nossa investigação começa. O nosso objectivo não esquecido: "descobrir as origens de Kashkabald"

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Dia 8:

A paisagem é estéril.

First post

This is the place where we will post some stuff.

There are a few rules we will use:

1) don't do it for popularity

2) don't post about posts

3) original articles first

4) avoid reviews

5) avoid talking about recent events

6) avoid the hype

new rules will appear