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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Premio Nobel da Literatura
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 07 23:01:21 GMT

Ora entao, e apresentado o Premio Nobel da Literatura 2007.

Ganhou uma senhora, Doris Lessing. Os telejornais dao a noticia,
“e uma senhora”, “tem 89 anos”, etc e tal

Entao e escreve o que, importam-se de dizer? E que, do que me
lembro, quando ganham os intelectualoides de esquerda sabemos
logo que e poesia ou drama ou teatro ou romances…

Que tipo de escrita faz Doris Lessing? Nem uma palavra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing

Ah, ja sei! Deve ser porque escreve ficcao cientifica. Que nao
e uma “coisa seria”. Iam la agora os intelectualoides engolir a
seco a sobranceria que poem na fuca quando alguem diz “eu gosto
de ler ficcao cientifica”. Nah…

Vai ser giro e a surpresa que os seguidores dos criticos literarios
intelectualoides de esquerda vao ter quando amanha forem a correr
a FNAC comprar os livros da senhora.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: So You

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Google Billion Dollar Line of Javascript
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 07 22:39:21 GMT

With a single line of Javascript, Google takes in close to
a billion dollars worth of revenue:

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/blog/billion-dollar-javascript/

Now here’s an idea for Google that all the Big Brother
conspirationists wont like (hopefully Google will take 3 or 4
years to do it, like some of my other suggestions): Google should
take Firefox and create its own version where the address bar
would be replaced by the Google searchbox. No more need to type
www.amazon.com, you’d just type “amazon” and get the “I’m feeling
lucky” result (the number 1 search result) or the 10 results
search list.

Instant takeover of IANA and the DNS system and immediate
revenue by selling this new addressing system (ie. keywords).
Immediate destruction of domain registers, domain squatters
and other similar parasites and instant redirection of “microsoft”,
“microsoft.com” or similar addresses/searches to linux.com, gnu.org
or whatever your favorite faction website is.

It has been tried before and failed. But before Microsoft and
MSN were involved, a sure sign for failure.
The world has changed in the last 5 years…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2162611
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2164841

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Architecture Options for Next Generation Web Applications
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 07 22:47:21 GMT

Recommended reading:

http://www.sda-india.com/conferences/jax-india/sessions/Craig_McClanahan/web_2_0_architecture.pdf

Very much inline with my thinking about a future web development
framework.

Also related:

http://webdeveloper.econsultant.com/ajax-frameworks

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: The Cat That Walked by Himself
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 07 00:47:21 GMT

“EAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened
and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals
were wild.
But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked
by himself, and all places were alike to him.”

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Stories-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140183515/

http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/cat.htm

“But the Cat keeps his side of the bargain too. He will kill mice and he will
be kind to Babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull
his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the
moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places
are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees
or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.”

— MV