24.5.08
A ver, rapidamente
17 Google Maps Mashups To Waste Away Your Day: You might want to hurry browsing through these, though; from our experience, Google Maps mashups tend to die out almost as fast as they appear.
23.5.08
Classe média em baixa
Mom forced to live in car with dogs: Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat. [...]
Harvey was forced into homelessness this year after being laid off. She said that three-quarters of her income went to paying rent in Santa Barbara, where the median house in the scenic oceanfront city costs more than $1 million. She lost her condo two months ago and had little savings as backup.
"It went to hell in a handbasket," she said. "I didn't think this would happen to me. It's just something that I don't think that people think is going to happen to them, is what it amounts to. It happens very quickly, too."
Harvey now works part time for $8 an hour, and she draws Social Security to help make ends meet. But she still cannot afford an apartment, and so every night she pulls into a gated parking lot to sleep in her car, along with other women who find themselves in a similar predicament.
There are 12 parking lots across Santa Barbara that have been set up to accommodate the growing middle-class homelessness.
Mudança
Paris-based newspaper scraps 'dingbat' logo for a cleaner, more modern look: The International Herald Tribune has jettisoned its ornate, 142-year-old logo for a more modern, simpler look.
The detail-rich logo known by staffers as the "dingbat" was removed for good from the Paris-based newspaper's masthead Wednesday, replaced by the phrase, "The Global Edition of the New York Times." [...]
The logo's panorama of symbolic images features pyramids and camels, an ox pulling a plow, a bridge, an hourglass, a soaring airplane and a bald eagle atop a clock showing the time of 6:12 -- for unknown reasons, [Richard Kluger in "The Paper: The Life and Death of the Herald Tribune"] wrote.
The images and whimsical name became the stuff of journalistic folklore for some. The origin of the reference to dingbat -- meaning "a thing, object or contrivance," according to Webster's Dictionary -- is unclear.
Imagens, muitas imagens
Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web: These images won't show up in search engines' image searches
22.5.08
21.5.08
O acordo ortográfico português visto de Inglaterra
Portuguese words to go the Brazilian way: Portugal, once a mighty world power, has given in to its former colony, Brazil, when it comes to spelling. Its parliament voted Friday to standardize the Portuguese language and spell words the Brazilian way. It also added three letters to the alphabet -- k, w, and y. The president is expected to approve the change.
The benefits: easier Internet searches, a uniform language for legal documents and international contracts, and less headache for textbook publishers. The drawback: wounded Portuguese pride.
O desejo de querer sempre mais, muito mais...
Britain mulls plan to store all emails and calls: [A] new Home Office (Interior Ministry) proposal would see Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies handing over records containing billions of e-mails as well as Internet usage and voice-over-Internet calls, media reports said on Tuesday.
Police and security services would be able to have access to the information after seeking permission from the courts. [...]
The draft bill is expected to be released later in the year, but the plan has yet to be discussed by ministers.
It is likely to raise concerns about civil liberties and data protection, especially after recent scandals including the loss of child benefits information.
Autoria da imagem: Vinchen
103 explosões na Lua (2005 a 2008)
100 Explosions on the Moon: A map of the 100 explosions observed since late 2005. A complete list with lunar coordinates is available here.
