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Desinformação sobre identificação no check-in confunde passageiros
via Folha Online - Cotidiano - Principal by (author unknown) on July 07, 2008
Apesar de não haver resolução sobre validade de carteira de identidade, algumas companhias aéreas estão pedindo que o RG do passageiro tenha até dez anos de emissão, mesmo em vôos domésticos.Foi o que aconteceu com o historiador Ricardo Faria, que saiu de Belo Horizonte em direção a Itacaré, Bahia, há três semanas. Sua carteira de identidade foi emitida em 1973 e, apesar de a foto...
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REBAIXADO PARA MATAR
via Jacaré Banguela by rodrigo on July 07, 2008
... alemães - as raças mais agressivas do mundo são dachshund (ou salsicha), chihuahua e jack russell terriers, de acordo com um estudo recente da Universidade da Pensilvânia, nos Estados Unidos.O estudo só não levou em consideração uma regra básica: para se proteger de um salsicha, é só usar uma galocha. Para se proteger de uma mordida de pitt bull… pode ir preparando uma prótese.
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Pioneer's Blu-ray disc hits 400GB across 16-layers
via Engadget by Thomas Ricker on July 07, 2008
Filed under: Storage16-layers -- that's how many layers it takes to the hit the center of a 400GB Blu-ray disc, pops. That's 25GB per layer just like those dual-layer 50GB discs available for retail. Best of all, the technique used by Pioneer is expected to be backward compatible with existing Blu-ray gear since the specs and lenses required for pickup are identical. The prototype is...
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QUE MERDA!
via Jacaré Banguela by rodrigo on July 07, 2008
Dentre várias celebridades na festa junina do Retiro dos Artistas, a cantora (sic) Kelly Keyposou para fotos dentro do camarim antes de subir ao palco.E parece que já sabiam como seria o ’show’. Como diria um amigo: “É o tipo de caso em que a legenda já vem embutida na foto”.Dica da Daniele Rejane por e-mail.
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Second Balloon Man Uses GPS, Kool-Aid To Go Where No Brazilian Priest Has Gone Before [Balloon Man]
via Gizmodo by Jack Loftus on July 06, 2008
Oregon resident Kent Couch finished what our friend the priest could unfortunately not: he got into a lawn chair rigged with huge party balloons, and floated his way to Idaho.Couch brought GPS but he also brought along a satellite phone, altimeter, and a second GPS device attached to his chair for redundancy. Then there was his pole with a hook, for bringing wind-whipped helium balloons into...
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Flying Priest Found Dead in the Atlantic, God Positioning System Still Missing [Rip]
via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on July 05, 2008
Father de Carli, the flying priest who got lost last April, has been found dead in the middle of the Atlantic. In an effort to raise funds for a local charity organization, De Carli planned to stay for more than 19 hours up in the air using a thousand party balloons, taking a GPS with him to communicate his position in case emergency. Unfortunately, the trip ended in disaster.The body of the...
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Warez : quatre pirates de Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis arrêtés
via PC INpact by marc@pcinpact.com (Marc Rees) on July 07, 2008
Nouvelle secousse tellurique après l'opération Cinefox, une opération récente dans le milieu du piratage de film initiée par l'ALPA et qui a permis le démantèlement d'un groupe de pirates spécialisés dans la première mis en ligne de films.
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As If It's Not Hard Enough Selling Translations
via Three Percent by Chad W. Post on July 07, 2008
Michael Orthofer has a great rant over at Literary Saloon about “how not to publish translations.” His piece centers around Serbian Classics Press, a press that I’ve personally never heard of (neither had Michael, so I feel like my ignorance is excusable), but one that is bringing out Mansarda, Danilo Kis’s first novel. The book seems to have been released . . . well, as if printing and...
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Something to check
via READIN by (author unknown) on July 07, 2008
My Name is Red is set in 1591 -- I am reading Pamuk's essay on "Bellini and the East," fro ...
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Adem: Comforting 'Tears' for Yo La Tengo : NPR Music
via www.npr.org by (author unknown) on July 07, 2008
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