De onde surgiu a Internet?

An Oral History of the Internet: How the Web Was Won: Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign. Each breakthrough—network protocols, hypertext, the World Wide Web, the browser—inspired another as narrow-tied engineers, long-haired hackers, and other visionaries built the foundations for a world-changing technology.

Coisas que é bom saber (e que não testei ainda...)

Truque para gastar menos cinco cêntimos na Galp: compre o jornal antes de abastecer!

Do ar para o mar e vice-versa

Japan's Spectacular Floating Airports: At present there are four such constructions in Japan (there are also examples in Hong Kong and Macau), each built on its own artificial island offshore and each backed by the community it serves.

1 foto por dia (1979-1997)

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died: Finally my investigation turned up the photographer as Jamie Livingston, and he did indeed take a photo every day for eighteen years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the project “Photo of the Day” and presumably planned to collect them at some point — had he lived. He died on October 25, 1997 — his 41st birthday.

Uma questão de barba

The Quest For Every Beard Type

Outro jogo

10 Gnomes: This is a game created entirely on the idea of finding hidden objects (Gnomes in this case). You have 10 minutes to find 10 Gnomes

Um jogo

Music Catch

Paradinha?

Parece que vai haver algo semelhante a 7 de Junho (na estação do Rossio, em Lisboa?)...

E não se pode exterminá-lo?

Where Spam Is Born: Where does all that malicious Internet content come from?

Um vírus nasce

Scientists Record The Birth of a Virus