Matador Julio Aparicio Gored Through Chin During Madrid Bullfight

Fantastic video. I don't like toradas, but as a security researcher this is a very interesting example in many issues.

See the video here.

The story from Huffington Post.

Tablets, Compared

NYT published this article where five of the principal tablets are compared. Very interesting. My best choice is the Samsung Galaxy Tab. I like Android, which now has a better store with thousands of apps. Its price is much better than the others. See for yourself.

Read the article here.

Smarter Than You Think

A series from The New York Times examining the recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics and their potential impact on society.

See the articles here.

Desagravo do Prof. Igor ao assassinato do Prof. Kássio Vinícius

Retomo meus posts aqui neste blog com um texto em português que comenta a situação da educação no Brasil e o assassinato por um aluno do professor Kássio Vinícius, do Instituto Metodista Izabela Hendrix. Fato lamentável, mas previsível na decandência do processo decisório que controla a educação brasileira.

Postado no blog do professor Alejandro Frery.

Top Twitter Links

This is a post of my friend Mark Shaw, from Ecademy.
It is a very intertesting collection of links for anyone interested in the Twitter service.

Enjoy it.

The original post can be seen here.

The Ultimate Twitter Resource

All Your Tweetdeck Questions Answered

Excellent Video: How To Use Tweetdeck

100 Top Twitter Tools

Make your Twitter Searches Really Specific

How to ReTweet

Hashtags Fully Explained

ALL the info on the new TweetDeck and Facebook integration

How To Change Your Twitter User Name

Twitter For Business eBook

How To Power Up Your Twitter Search Techniques

5 Ways Not to Use Twitter

20+ Great Twitter Tools for Firefox

The top 7 mistakes new Twitter users make

8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter

How To Effectively Follow 15000+ People On Twitter

Finding the Right "Brand Voice" on Twitter

Search Twitter special Terms

How to Attract and Influence People on Twitter

Wave heat is making Internet access difficult in the last days

My town has a strong wave heat in the last 10 days. Temperature is close to 34 C degrees. For me Internet access is difficult in this situation because my ADSL provider is showing technical problems, and my uniiversity also had black-outs in the last days. I can keep my computer online for just a few moments, and it is not enough to keep my blog updated.
You can see the story here.

Surviving on a budget: Times Online's all-time top 60 money-saving links

A very interesting article about personal finances, and how to save money in some important life aspects.

See all them here.

Nasa's first CO2 satellite crashes into ocean after launch failure

A new accident related to NASA satellites. It's a shame because this device had a very interesting task. Now we have to wait for the substitute, as I believe this funcion is a must for now.

See the story here.

Newbies are receptioned with violence in brazilian universities

It's not a good marketing for Brazil, but it is not new news! Each year is the same for newbies reception. The "trote" is a freak tradition reported in the newspapers in a lot of universities for the incredible violence. No matter if the students are from medicine schools, where we suppose they learn to respect the human life, or any other course, as we also suppose that culture, science, and higher study have the benefits to clear the primitive feelings of the mind.

See the story here.

Most Popular Twitter Clients Revealed

Interesting article about Twitter clients. For now I'm using Twit That!, an Internet service that provides a javascript button for my Firefox browser. It's working fine, I don't have to complaint. But if you are interested in some client application, read this!

See the original post here.

Nine-year-old whiz kid writes iPhone app

Last year I had problems with some students. It will be very interesting if some of them read this. Nobody has to wait to learn anything. You learn what you have interest to learn. It's just a matter of to make the subject interesting for yourself.

Read the story here.

Ten Gmail Labs Features You Should Enable

Gmail now has a Labs tab in the settings menu, and it is the path to some interesting new features the users have to improve their email time.
From all the new features I'm using some of them I found very interesting.

I enabled Multiple Inboxes to follow five (should be more!) labels I use to verify frequently.

Tasks is interesting as it is other place to remember things to do.

I enabled Quick Links because the list of links stays at the top of the labels column, and I have about 50! So it is better to use a link to a useful label starting with 'z' than to scroll the page to the end of the labels.

Superstars is a very nice ferature because it allow us to choose between twelve different stars to start the messages. Before that I had to create some labels to define a different star to some messages.

Gmail has other interesting Labs. Just look your settings page.

The original post here.

Why you should lose some Twitter Followers

I have a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/genus). It is an interesting service, as I use it to post movies, and series I'm watching, things I read, news I find interesting. Today I have 40 followers. Some of them I already contacted by email. I'm following 54. I don't worry about what they think when I post something. In fact it is not a real problem because I did not post any controversial matter. But of course Shel is correct. If you are worried about what your followers will think about your post, so you are like a slave of them. They will control your thoughts, even if they don't read your posts.
The advise is very good. Any problem with some follower just unfollow him/her.

See the original post here.

World Whisky Index

I found this service in Epoca Magazine, a weekly magazine from Brazil I subscribe. The WWI is a financial market for investors from all over the world.
In a brief description, WWI works as other financial markets. Investors buy and sell the whisky index, as it varies depending on the market. Buyers can make bids for a bottle in stock at WWI, or even not in stock. WWI works as a storage system for collections, and sellers. All bottles are authenticated by The Whisky Talker, from Lisse, NL. All the expenses to send the bottles to WWI, authentication, and storage are payd by the seller.
The selling fees vary from 0,5% to 10% of the selling price. It depends on the total invested sum, or the origin of the bottle.
The storage fees are charged quarterly, and they start at 2,0% for € 1000.
Buyers can choose to keep the bottles at WWI, or ask to ship them to their addresses.
Any fraud will cause people involved will be prosecuted.
For example, a bottle of Black Bowmore 1964 rised 144% in the last year. All the WWI rised 37,4% in the last january. It is a nice result for any investor!

Visit the site.

How Evolution REALLY Works, Part I

The Darwin's birth is completing 200 years. I found this very interesting video.

How Evolution Works the GAME. A must see!!!

KevinPluck has
turned this simulation into an interactive game. You are the predator
and the squares evolve to avoid you eating them.

See it here.

Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalization; Information Age

I found this video about globalization, information and knowledge evolution, and education.

Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization and The Information Age

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edit; This video was not on youtube during the time I uploaded it, and
now, it has become a very popular topic of comments. I hope you enjoy
the work of these fine gentlemen's video presentation.

Music Credits:
(1992)
"The Last of the Mohicans" off the soundtrack the song is (Elk Hunt/The
Kiss), which appears at the end of the film during the cliff scene. [if
you haven't seen the film, you should watch i.

See the video here.

Information R/evolution

Another video about the new ways information can be managed by people in the Internet.This video explores the changes in the way we find, store,
create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a
conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with
people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness,
evaluate, and create information effectively.

See the video here.

We Think

Intertesting video. It's simple in the form of presentation, but the concepts are profund. A new book by Charles Leadbeater, 'We Think' explores the potential of the latest developments of the interne.

See the video here.

Introduction to Chemical Engineering

I found these 20 videos. They are classes from Professor Channing Robertson of the Stanford University Chemical Engineering Department. They are very nice for anybody interested in this matter as I am.

See the 1st. video here.

Become A Master Twitter With Twhirl

eddale shows another video, about how to use Twhirl, probably the best Twitter client today. It looks like a video course.

See it here.

How To Use Twitter For Business

Another interesting video, about how to use Twitter for business. Looks like a quick seminar.

See it here.

How To Use Twitter

I found this video about how to use Twitter. The general ideas are good, but the video is something large.

See the video here.

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Very interesting video about the Web 2.0, its features, and some of the tools available to the users.

See it here.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I found this interesting website with the complete story. A post for everybody who likes to read.

See the Website here.

Linux Replacements for Your Favorite Windows Apps

This article presents 18 open-source applications to substitute the most known Windows applications. As a Linux user, the substitution is not exactly the same, but as a free platform it is better than use unlicensed software.
Some of the Linux applications pointed in this article are interesting, but some of them not. For example, I don't like Evolution. Of course it depends on the user. Maybe some guys will tell me I'm speaking some herectic statement.

Oirignal post.

Don't Fear the Penguin: A Newbie's Guide to Linux

I found this tutorial to new Ubuntu users. It is interesting, and very useful. The author, Neil McAllister, talks about both principal Linux interfaces: Gnome, and KDE. It remembers some of the principal Linux applications, some system configuration, hardware, patterns, and getting help in the Web.
A nice text.

Original post.

Internet population passes 1 billion

In fact it is already much more than a billion because comScore, the firm responsible for this research, did not consider accesses from public computers nor mobile phones. China is the country with the large population of Internet users (180 million, almost the brazilian population). Brazil is in the 8th. place with 28 million (~ 15% of the total population). It takes 40 years to achieve this number. The actual expectation is that will be necessary much less time to have two billion online.
The same research shows the most accessed websites. All the Google address come in 1st. place, followed by Microsoft sites.

Original post.

Fears grow Steve Jobs may step down from Apple for good

There is a living drama in the technology world about Steve Jobs's health. In my opinion, it's not a real relevant problem, just because Steve is a man, and like everyone else, he is mortal. The real discussion for me is how the share holders alowed this situation to come to this point. Apple needs a succession plan, and it's more important than any divinity some people give to Steve Jobs.
He is important to the history of Apple, and the computer market as well, of course. He is responsible for some of the most interesting cases of innovation in the last years. But some of this cases are not so spetacular as people think. It's just because it's him, and because it's Apple.
For example, iPhone is not such a wonderful gadget. A friend of mine published in his blog an article comparing iPhone to a Nokia, and also to a choko! See the post here.
I'm looking for changes in the Apple policies in the next months, or maybe we will have bad news about it.

Google stays strong amidst the gloom

The world economy is going down, but Google's earnings are going very good. The total of revenue had an increment of 18% on year, and 3% since the previous quarter, a total of $5,7 billion. Not bad!

The original story here!

Microsoft slashes 5,000 jobs as recession hits

The crisis arrived at Microsoft's headquarter. The global crisis reduced the demand for PCs, and it brings down the Windows sales. This is the first wide cut in all its history.
Last night the price of Microsoft's share was $17.35, down 2.03. It is 11% close to its lowest level since January 1998.
The sales of Windows Vista are not very good, antecipating Windows 7 launching.

See the original story here.

Video shows the moment of the Renascer Church falling in SP

The article is in portuguese, but the images and graphics are very understable.

See the original posting here.

Stanford iPhone Class Apps

I saw this interesting text about Stanford students that developed iPhone applications. This site shows some of them:

• Site Saver: it saves websites locally in the iPhone allowing later consults;
• HaveaSec: it alows to start polls to personal contacts;
• iDiscover: it finds articles, videos, and applications specific to the user interests;
• Air Guitas, a guitar simulator;
• Abodi searches Craigslist ans saves interestings results for later access, including on the go;
• Stress Bust, a video of ocean waves and sounds to relax;
• Qingwen, a chinese-english dictionary, and vice-versa;
• Heydar, an application to meet interesting people.

Some of the applications are free and others are payed, some of them waiting approval by Apple.

10 Web Sites That Will Matter in 2009

Mark Sullivan from PC World suggested 10 sites that can make difference in 2009. From these 10 sites, I noted power.com for now. Of course this is an idea.The future belongs to God Himself.

Original post here!

Man was catched by Google Search

Very interesting news. A man had hit a guy with his car, and did not stopped to help. He said he thinked it was a deer, but he did not see anything. Some witnesses said they did not see the driver in the accideent scene. The police found some suspicious tags in Google searches in his computer, like hit-and-run.

Original story here.

Many places to watch Obama's inauguration

How many sites were showing the Obama's inauguration? If you include TVs, cell phones, and cameras, some people is talking about 200 million people watching. But what is the best place to watch videos today? Many people chose CNN + Facebook transmission, as you can see in this post:

Facebook + CNN = Future of TV