December 2010
12 posts
Ora, não seria esse também o caso do português...
Unlike French – and many other languages including Italian and Spanish – English is inherently unrestricted, lacking a centralized academy or official dictionary. English can grow and change with the world, and can do so organically, getting made as it is spoken. New words are constantly coined, invented at the ever-accelerating rate of new technology and science. Equally important is the tendency...
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
Natividad
Hoje celebramos o nascimento do Cristo, nenhuma outra coisa é mais importante, é bom lembrarmos sempre disso.
Dec 24th
Dec 15th
Data visualisation: A map of friendships | The... →
“I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line’s color depending on its weight. I also...
Dec 15th
“I hate the fact that he’s trading on a myth that We The People have a right to...”
– Everyone at Le Web is Wrong: Wikileaks Should be Condemned not Celebrated (via Instapaper)
Dec 9th
Dec 8th
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Excelente texto de Eco sobre o wikileaks  →
Piratas vingadores e espiões em diligência “Mas vejamos a natureza profunda do que aconteceu. Outrora, no tempo de Orwell, podia-se conceber todo o poder como um Big Brother, que controlava cada gesto dos seus súbditos. A profecia orwelliana confirmou-se plenamente desde que, controlado cada movimento por telefone, cada transação efetuada, hotéis utilizados, autoestradas percorridas e...
Dec 8th
Article: 'Chaos' at WikiLeaks Following Assange...
‘Chaos’ at WikiLeaks Following Assange Arrest http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/wikileaks-reels/ (
Dec 7th
Article: Information Wants to Be Free
Information Wants to Be Free http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/07/minar-free The phrase is a simple observation, like saying “a compass wants to point north”. Information intrinsically has a tendency to spread. Controlling information, bottling it up and keeping it limited, is difficult. There’s a bit of a poetic turn in saying “wants”, since of course information has no agency. The...
Dec 7th
In a world of WikiLeaks, diplomacy would no longer... →
It makes sense. (via Instapaper)
Dec 3rd