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[Vale a pena explicar-lhes que o futebol era “apenas” um desporto?]
The Global Economics of Soccer: Since 1966, stock markets of developed countries that have won the soccer World Cup have outperformed global indices by 9% on average during the lucky year.
http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/factsheets/2002/06-09-02.shtml
Referees aid Korean miracle after blowing call against Spain: This tournament has descended into farce. FIFA is asking a global audience to accept that human error was to blame for Spain having two legitimate goals disallowed in a match that was an affront to sport.
http://shorl.com/gurelihefrope
Pluck off: If I hear the Irish football team described as plucky, brave or courageous one more time, I’ll spit. […] The squad is made up of bogtrotters and builders who wandered into world-class football by accident.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D93D.htm
Japanese techies accused of bending balls
The hackers believe that the magnetic field was actually used to bend the penalty kick away from the Japanese goal that cost Russia the game.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1132719
“’A Bola’ apresenta hoje aos seus eleitores” [sic] o relatório Boronha
http://www.abola.pt/wdom/wdia.htm
The King is dead cool: Elvis is back at No 1 with a soccer song. [He] never showed much interest in sport.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-328892,00.html
Shaolin Soccer [“Kung Fu Soccer” for the USA release]
http://www.upcomingmovies.com/shaolinsoccer.html
Stop Violence: A government-organized workshop meant to prevent violence among soccer fans ended in a fistfight late Sunday in southwestern Macedonia.
http://shorl.com/hakuprerigeli
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Halting Crime in Advance Has Its Perils: “Minority Report” may be the most adult film Spielberg has made in some time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/movies/21MINO.html
“Minority” Reports Product Placement: You’re about to see the latest and greatest in Hollywood advertainment.
http://shorl.com/doprogrysunomu
This ad’s for you: Spielberg’s new film is set in a future world where people are happy to divulge personal information in return for a crime-free society. The spin-off for advertisers is that they can target individuals. Some of the concepts are already coming true.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,742587,00.html
In Future, Ads Could Rely on Eyes: Much of the technology portrayed in the movie is already being developed and tested
http://shorl.com/fidrejelyraru
Defending the PC invasions
http://zdnet.com.com/2251-1110-939057.html
Assault on the senses: The horror legacy of Dario Argento
http://www.kinoeye.org/index_02_11.html
[Real Life v.] Reel Life: “The Hustler”
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020617.html
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers (Teaser Trailer)
http://www.theonering.net/movie/preview/ttt_teaser_01.html
Star Trek Nemesis (Trailer)
http://nemesis.startrek.com
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html
Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property
http://www.americanassembly.org/PDF/ATIPspreads.pdf
“Ranger” Vs. the Movie Pirates: A piece of software that acts like an Internet search engine. It is the latest, most far-reaching weapon in the movie industry’s constant and escalating battle against movie piracy.
http://shorl.com/femiprebakafi
Hollywood, high-tech battle over digital content - At stake: Hollywood says the very future of its industry. Public advocates say the free-wheeling nature of the Internet. Tech product makers say innovation that benefits consumers.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/06/25/bonus-cover.htm
Every Montage Tells Another Story
Ever since the dawn of photography, people have manipulated images. But digital media has transformed the art of montage to create new fake realities.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53348,00.html
The [Forbes] Celebrity 100… combines earnings with media exposure to calculate the relative status of a vast array of stars
http://www.forbes.com/static_html/celebs/2002.html
ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show
http://artbots.org/2002/
Record Labels Around the World
http://www.lights.com/scott/allrecordlabels/
ECO-TERRORES
Piqué se disculpa por la agresión en la frontera a dos diputados portugueses
http://shorl.com/dagehynipryfro
[Mas porque foi o governo português tão “soft”?]
Fernando Seara Defende Revisão Constitucional a Pensar no Euro 2004
O autarca explicou que não bastará a Portugal suspender o espaço Schengen durante o Euro 2004...
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/06/25/Nacional/P04.html
[Dois dias depois, Durão Barroso confirma:] Portugal Deverá Repor Fronteiras para o Euro 2004
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/06/27/Nacional/P01.html
Schengen Permite a Recusa de Entradas
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/06/25/Nacional/P01CX02.html
EU accused of pooling money for propaganda purpose… with the intention of manipulating public opinion to support the integrationist vision of Europe.
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=6739
Federalist Thought Control: The Brussels propaganda machine
http://shorl.com/bojuvydrufopy
TV to end regime of secrecy… that has surrounded EU ministerial meetings for more than 40 years. Ministers will meet privately when discussing executive, security and defence matters.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-332630,00.html
“Data retention” scheme marches forward in European Parliament
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03691.html
El Congreso aprueba la “Ley de Internet”... que obliga a los proveedores de servicios de Internet a retener en el plazo de un año los datos de tráfico de la Red.
http://shorl.com/datralytebrimu
FBI checking out Americans’ reading habits
8.3 percent of [public libraries] had been asked by federal or local law enforcement officers for information about patrons related to Sept. 11
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/23/MN75593.DTL
Big Brother at the office: Software makes it easy for the boss to spy on your Net usage
http://www.msnbc.com/news/769455.asp
Two Conceptions of Worker Privacy
http://www3.oup.co.uk/indlaw/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_02/310135.sgm.abs.html
Sound to make an army flee [E se o oponente ripostar com a mesma arma?!]
A new sonic weapon being developed for the Pentagon makes use of one of the most fearsome sounds known to humans: a baby crying.
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/paperboy.cfm?id=685942002
Science and Security in the 21st Century Information
http://www.csis.org/css/ExecSummary.pdf
Think Tanks and Other Policy Research Resources
http://www.nira.go.jp/linke/tt-link/
US cartoonists under pressure to follow the patriotic line
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=308068
RIP Order: Sometimes, you win.
http://www.stand.org.uk/weblog/archive/2002/06/19/000199.php
The fax machine uprising
How did a loose collective of internet users force a government U-turn on controversial changes to digital privacy laws? Using simple technology
http://shorl.com/daprygritivubi
Hollering into Cyberspace
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13433
Conspiracy Theory Grips French
Sept. 11 as Right-Wing U.S. Plot: In the book, “L'Effroyable Imposture”, Thierry Meyssan challenges the entire official version of the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/22/international/europe/22FRAN.html
French Author’s Book Slants 9/11 Acts: Thierry Meyssan says he got four death threats on Monday alone - and that’s a normal day for him.
http://shorl.com/hypruvyfruhami
Avec son “Pentagate”, Thierry Meyssan confirme sa thèse sur le 11 septembre
http://shorl.com/dohatragropeny
Disaster for an Obscure Industry: Estimates of the insurance payouts from the World Trade Center attack run from $40 billion to as much as $70 billion. That means that insurance companies are paying out a lot of money. Where are they coming up with all of that cash?
http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/richter/2002/06-20-02.shtml
The Corporate Pyramid Scheme: How WorldCom Lost Billions in the Biggest Pyramid Scheme of All Time
http://www.beyondvalueinvesting.com/articles/worldcompyramidscheme.htm
VITAMEDIAS
RTP pôs no ar notícia falsa sobre a guerra em Angola [em 1992]
http://shorl.com/higebrokibryso
Charge for Your Content? The Three Criteria
Is the content unavailable elsewhere? Are you the premier source of that content? And, can your content help readers make money or advance their careers?
http://www.clickz.com/design/freefee/article.php/1366851
Getting to Know You: Thanks to mandatory registration policies on many online newspaper sites, new data has produced “eye-opening” insights into audiences and indicates future sources of revenue.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1025227718.php
Message to Online Publishers: Unite or Die
Let’s face it, most online mags will never earn a dime if they try to go it alone.
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/print/0,1650,41756,00.html
Board The Weblog Bandwagon Now, Please
Newspapers Missed Most Internet Trends; Isn't It Time To Catch One?
http://shorl.com/hekibytrafasu
Newspapers in good position to offer wireless news
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cybernews/story/0,1870,128035,00.html?
Newspapers eye wireless future: Wireless technology is two years to five years from becoming an everyday function of newspapers’ operations. “It’s not at the point where it justifies the cost but it’s something to keep your eyes on”.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/771262.asp
Slashdot @ Forbes.com [“contaminação” interessante…]
http://www.forbes.com/businesstech/
Memo to: Media Monopolists
So here are your basic choices: You can whine, lobby, sue, and then cripple your product so that it can’t be copied. Or, maybe, just maybe, you can stop thinking like a monopolist long enough to find new business models, new markets, and new strategic plans.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/60/monopolist.html
[The end could be near:] Salon Auditors Doubt Company Can Stay in Business
http://shorl.com/dogipujabrepe
PBS Under Threat From Competition
Critics just don’t believe that taxpayers and corporate partners are getting what they pay for. That’s reflected in the ratings, whether PBS likes it or not.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,55532,00.html
“More Ads, Please” Say Bored [Italian] Viewers
http://shorl.com/gidevymujaka
Journals with Free Archives on the Web
http://www.infotoday.com/fso/protected/freetitles.htm
Personal Home Pages on the Web: A Review of Research
A new object of sociological, psychological, linguistic, and communication studies research
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol7/issue3/doering.html
A Internet e o Mito da Visibilidade Universal
http://www.labcom.ubi.pt/agoranet/ensaios/ensaios_1_pauloserra.html
The Sky Is Falling, Friday At Five [Bush e ambiente]
“The biggest advantage the Bush administration has had is they don't give the reporters enough time to review the stories and try to get an opposing view”.
http://shorl.com/buhomatykeju
Young people Face up to pressing issues: Young people believe the press is running the country, with two out of three claiming they are “ashamed” to be British and a massive 83% declaring they want to leave the country
http://shorl.com/hivedraganela
Playboy’s “Women of Enron” Issue Hits Newsstands
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56344,00.html
TECNO-HOUSE
The Big Secret: An exclusive first look at Microsoft’s ambitious-and risky-plan to remake the personal computer to ensure security, privacy and intellectual property rights. Will you buy it?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp
TCPA/Palladium Frequently Asked Questions
2. What does TCPA / Palladium do? Its obvious application is to embed digital rights management (DRM) technology in the PC. The less obvious implications include making it easier for application software vendors to lock in their users.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Microsoft to reveal Palladium source code… “because people will need to trust this”
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-938973.html
MS to micro-manage your computer
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25843.html
Preparing For The Digital Dark Age
http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2002-08.html
Microsoft’s Secret Plan to Secure the PC
http://www.ntsecurity.net/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=25681
Microsoft security: Will it be different this time?
http://shorl.com/degefofeduhe
All You Need Is Love, $50 Billion, and Killer Software Code-Named Longhorn
http://shorl.com/filosusoprasa
I Told You So - By Robert X. Cringely
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html
Digital media: Will Microsoft win again?
Microsoft is pushing its proprietary Windows Media technologies and its pending successor, dubbed Corona. On the other, RealNetworks, […] is joining Apple Computer and other companies in backing open-standard MPEG-4.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938997.html?tag=fd_lede
Security in Open versus Closed Systems
http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/toulouse.pdf
Don Quixote de la Software
http://shorl.com/gydribigynihe
So whatever happened to Linux [at tech expo]?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/772215.asp
Remember when we had no e-mail? James Gleick, author of “What Just Happened”, explains what he got right, and wrong, over the last ten years.
http://shorl.com/hostepystykyso
Declare E-Mail Independence: In the 21st century, having your own domain name is simple electronic self-defense. Alas, many people find it easier to be sheep.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0702.asp
As quality zooms, photo Web sites snap up business
Digital photography is one of the hottest consumer products
http://shorl.com/desisesogysy
The Languages of the Semantic Web
http://www.newarchitectmag.com/print/documentID=25298
It’s the final reel for the VCR: DVDs are pushing videotapes off retailers’ shelves
http://shorl.com/hyhylilusybru
Is VHS obsolete? 95 million U.S. households have VHS; 30 million have DVD
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/06/25/dvd.vhs/index.html
Zapper War: TV Producers in Quest to Outlaw Device That Allows Consumers to Skip Ads
http://shorl.com/gugrorutavastu
Mitnick Testifies Against Sprint in Vice Hack Case [Bem curioso...]
http://online.securityfocus.com/news/497
Virtual presenter set for face of city council
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_614433.html?menu=news.technology
Story of World War II Navajo “Code Talkers”
http://www.archives.gov/media_desk/press_releases/nr02-64.html
Code Talkers Recognition Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:1:./temp/~c107pdCYZZ::
Roles and Knowledge Management in Online Technology Communities: An Ethnography Study
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/madanmohan2.pdf
Usability and privacy: a study of Kazaa P2P file-sharing
http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/kazaa/KazaaUsability.pdf
Lawmaker: Let studios hack P2P networks
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939333.html?tag=fd_top
Video Games Sales to Top $31 Billion in 2002
http://shorl.com/darasomuvofy
Game Consoles - the Next Hacker Target?
http://shorl.com/dikotrejelelu
Microsoft takes big losses on Xbox… but is prepared to keep supporting its offensive against Sony and Nintendo by launching a version with new features next year.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/772001.asp
Microsoft va lancer une nouvelle console de jeux en 2006
http://shorl.com/hoprogrudobrudry
When Brain Trauma Is at the Other End of the Thrill Ride: Injuries on amusement park rides in the United States increased 60 percent from 1996 to 2000, when 10,580 injuries needed emergency room treatment
http://shorl.com/didyhifristivy
Thumbs up for the Age of the Thumb: In Japan, they have a name for the tweens, teens and twenty-somethings hunched over their cell phones, conversing by thumb. They call them oya yubi sedai: the thumb generation. […] There, cell phones were so pervasive that one subject suggested that young people “even point at things and ring doorbells with their thumbs.”
http://www.msnbc.com/news/771437.asp
CONTAMINANTES
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense: Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy.
http://shorl.com/hedrufrepofoja
Os cinco eixos prioritários para a área da ciência e tecnologia em Portugal
http://shorl.com/hymijypugrasto
Problemas da sociedade devem ter eco na ciência - Ramôa Ribeiro
http://shorl.com/hatymogrebadru
Organismos vão ser reestruturados e não extintos - Ramôa Ribeiro
http://shorl.com/gegagrunotesty
Bank crime data theft on the rise: “Your concern is information walking out the door. That’s the new currency. You’ve got to think: information equals cash.”
http://www.msnbc.com/news/772723.asp
Tech managers targeted by cyber criminals
http://shorl.com/haregragribafry
Hurry Up and Eat! As the $143 billion restaurant industry comes off its slowest year in a decade, it has a new item on the menu: shooing you out the door.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/770451.asp?pne=msn
Big Food Fight: Lawyers struck it rich by taking on Big Tobacco. Now they hope to turn the fast-food industry into their next cash cow.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=256297
Les publicités peuvent nuire à la tranquillité: Très controversée, une campagne choc contre le tabagisme débarque sur les ondes et dans la presse.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=37713
Publicité choc anti-tabac ou l’arme de la peur
http://shorl.com/bohestodraleru
http://www.jeveuxlaverite.com/site/filmtv/film-tv.htm
Saving the History of the Dot-Com Era: [new] Web site that aims to create a permanent record of the late 1990s dot-com era.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1377161
http://www.businessplanarchive.org
Re-engineering the Drug Business [after Sept. 11]
http://shorl.com/darodetrestoky
Friday hospital discharges “most dangerous”: Patients discharged from hospitals on Fridays are more likely to die in the following month than those sent home midweek
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992450
Meetup: Helps groups of people with shared interests to meetup around the world
http://www.meetup.com
Interrobang: A twentieth century punctuation mark
http://www.interrobang-mks.com
Man Not Included: Private Sperm Donor Introductions for Lesbian Couples
http://www.mannotincluded.com
.DE!
Jet-skier’s Atlantic first: A Spanish count has become the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a jet-ski. […] “The most difficult part was the cold”, he said. “Between Rome and Naples, it was really terrible”.
http://shorl.com/fubryliprajeba
Man carrying marijuana plant down street busted by plainclothes cop
“Would you believe I’m walking down the street in the middle of the day with this pot plant”, Daniel Fornash of Canton said as he walked down the street. The passer-by responded, “Would you believe I’m a cop?”
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/24/odds_marijuana.htm
Did adoption lawyer really work 44 hours in one day? Joyce Britton had a busy week in April 2001: On Monday, April 9, she worked 34 hours. On Tuesday, she worked 44 hours. On Wednesday it was 29; 33 on Thursday, 25 on Friday, 42 on Saturday. On Sunday, she took it easy, with only 3.4 hours. Monday it was up to 18 and Tuesday it was 44.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bill25.html
Do You Know Where His Keys Are? McClintock has created a website that attempts to document everything in his house
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53388,00.html
Dad shoots son, 47, with Father’s Day gift
http://shorl.com/forostotradrupo
Vigilante’s ambush collars S.F. suspect: North Beach tax accountant turns to stun gun after police shelve his [four!] requests for arrest in theft
http://shorl.com/bivobripududi
Web site served as pimp, police say: About 50,000 people worldwide paid $129.95 per year to join the Web site
http://www.msnbc.com/news/769319.asp
Dead Man’s Switch: A system that, if not reset by a given time, will automatically carry out a series of tasks, such as posting messages to websites, sending e-mails to loved ones and encrypting or destroying sensitive files.
http://daisyman.arsware.org/dms/
QDB: Top 25 Quotes
http://www.geekissues.org/quotes/?top
Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character
http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html
Morto the Magician
http://shorl.com/hupupubudryki
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe
http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm
"Without Sanctuary" - Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/main.html
TerraFly: virtually “fly” over the United States
http://terrafly.fiu.edu
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Villain Supply: If you are a supervillain, mad scientist, warlord, dictator, or despot, then this is the place for you.
http://www.villainsupply.com
