Deu no HotBits:
Um jogo simples tem chamado a atenção de muitos internautas. O conhecido programa de busca Google virou mote para um desafio online: realizar uma busca, de preferência usando apenas duas palavras, que retorne apenas um link como resposta.
Gary Stock mantém um site sobre o jogo e tem sido responsabilizado invenção da brincadeira. Ele nega. Diz que apenas o nome do jogo, Googlewhacking, é de sua autoria.
As palavras utilizadas na busca (chamadas pelos jogadores de googlefactors) devem ser fazer parte do dicionário de língua inglesa do site dictionary.com. O jogo, cujo nome traz cerca de 200 links se pesquisado no Google, tem suas regras explicadas no endereço www.unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm.
O Jish me pediu pra dar um OI! para os meus vizinhos no webloggers webring.
na minha esquerda: funktrain.
na minha direita: Attic.
Deu no disinformation
"The basic idea is that black holes give rise to new regions of space and time, and that at these events, which resemble our Big Bang, the laws of physics can change. When worked out in detail, this idea leads to a scientific theory which makes predictions which are testable. The basic prediction is that no small change in the masses of the elementary particles or the strengths of the forces would lead to a world with more black holes than ours. So far, although a number of astronomers have tried to find counterexamples, this prediction has held up
...
What for me is most provocative is the possibility that, for this to work, we will have to extend the Darwinian idea that the structure of a system must be formed from within by natural processes of self-organization‹to the properties of space and time themselves."
Lee Smolin, "What is the Future of Cosmology?"
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id461/pg1/
lit.hatori42.com manda avisar:
Check it out, William Gibson reads Neuromancer. The full audiobook (now out of 'print' or whatever they do to mass produce tapes these days) in MP3 format, read by Gibson himself.
http://fenge.net/downloads.phtml
Rudy Rucker mandando bem:
In the night I had a memorable dream. I was flying beside a huge vertical plane with something like a painting on it. The flat round image showed a full-size cross section of planet ‹ glowing red in the center, and with mountains and shallow seas on its rind. I flew towards the disk's top border, driven by an urgent feeling that there was something I had to do.
http://infinitematrix.net/stories/excerpts/spaceland1.html
Piet Hein manda avisar:
Se vc pegar todas as formas irregulares que podem ser formadas combinando não mais que quatro cubos, todos do mesmo tamanho e unidos pelas faces. - Estas formas podem ser combinadas para formar um cubo maior.
"It is a beautiful freak of nature that the seven simplest irregular combinations of cubes can form a cube again. Variety growing out of unity returns to unity. It is the world's smallest philosophical system."
http://home8.inet.tele.dk/bundgard/SOMA/SOMA.HTM
Episódio novo do Xiao Xiao:
http://sa.kungfuchrist.com/dissonance/XiaoXiao-7.swf
Se vc perdeu algum, a série completa está em:
http://sa.kungfuchrist.com/dissonance/xiao.htm
Pen spinning is a form of contact juggling that uses a small object, like a pen or a pencil, to perform different tricks that not only sharpen your skills, but also amaze people.
http://pentix.modenStudios.com/
http://bennyhills.fortunecity.com/candy/441/
http://www.iluvitar.com/sections/pencilspinning/
Piet Hein manda avisar:
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back.
Allegra Geller: So how does it feel?
Ted Pikul: What?
Allegra Geller: Your real life. The one you came back for.
Ted Pikul: It feels completely unreal.
Allegra Geller: You're stuck now, aren't ya? You want to go back to the Chinese restaurant because there's nothing happening here. We're safe. It's boring.
Ted Pikul: It's worse than that. I'm not sure... I'm not sure here, where we are, is real at all. This feels like a game to me. And you, you're beginning to feel a bit like a game character.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120907
Wu Xia is a film genre from Taiwan and Hong Kong. The name is in Mandarin where Wu means martial arts; Xia means heroes. This genre is considered different from Martial arts films. It has its own characteristics.
This genre has been around in the Pacific Rim region since the 1950s or 1960s. The Shaws brothers studio was the forerunner of this type of movies. It was introduced to mainstream Hollywood for the first time in 2000 by Ang Lee's movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wu_Xia_film
"He brought along a very fashionably dressed young woman named Dialta Downes, who was virtually chinless and evidently a noted pop-art historian. In retrospect, I see her walking in beside Cohen under a floating neon sign that flashes THIS WAY LIES MADNESS in huge sans-serif capitals."
The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson