It's Groundhog Dayyyy

não sei quando é :-|

Próxima vez a ver se não me esqueço

Mas eu detestei o Starbucks!

«Here's a little secret that Starbucks doesn't want you to know: They will serve you a better, stronger cappuccino if you want one, and they will charge you less for it. Ask for it in any Starbucks and the barista will comply without batting an eye. The puzzle is to work out why.»

Mais na Slate

Pinguim :-)

Não é o do nosso Oceanário, mas é muito fofo!

Ursinhos bebés :-)

Cumé qué possível?

Passo a vida a sonhar com casas... Verdade verdadinha!

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Ultrapassar os Limites

http://www.umbertopelizzari.com/hp-en/index-hp-en.asp

Isto é no Porto :-)

Outros Absolutos Preferidos

Este tresmalhado cuja origem desconheço,
e os seguintes da página



Psycho

Lipoaspiração

Eldorado

Merda, mas não sei porquê, alguém m'explique

Praga

Os Suspeitos do Costume

«We are in Transylvania, and... Transylvania is not England».

«Listen to them... the children of the night. What sweet music they make!»

Lisboa + Informações já um cadinho desactualizadas, enfim...

O Portugalito, que bem precisa que gostem dele

Este parece-me extraordinário


Mais preferidos nos blogues Nepenthe e Já Cheiro o Samádhi

Absolutamente!

Continuando com as fofuras...

Então e que tal um widgetzinho a bailar no ecrã?

Postalinho do Delaware, EUA

Nunca ninguém pensa no estado do Delaware, tadito :-)

Postalinho de Wijchen, Países Baixos

Postalinho de São Petersburgo

O Museu Russo

Postalinho de Moscovo

Não se vêem as letrinhas douradas, MOCKBA!

Postalinho de Hamburgo

Outra cidade que dizem muito feia, mas aqui tão bucólica :-)

Postalinho de Gdansk, Polónia

O meu amigo polaco diz que só Varsóvia é que é uma cidade feia, de resto todas as outras são uns mimos. Não lhe disse isto, claro, mas terá sido o único aspecto bom da invasão nazi, estando alapados não estragaram património.
Gdansk é o berço do Solidariedade, mas agora anda tudo muito sossegado, terá sido pela entrada na UE? Enfim...

Postalinho de Colónia

Personalizado, estes alemães associam-se para tudo :-)

Postalinho de Cincinnati, Ohio, EUA

Riverfest, they say *-)

Postalinho da Holanda

Tulipassssssssssss

Postalinho da Finlândia

Muito festivo e muito antigo :-)

Não consigo pararrrrrrrrrrr ronronronronron

Maisssssss

comecemos já 2006 com um ataque de

fofuraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes was a much-loved comic strip where Calvin (the kid) imagined that his toy tiger (Hobbes) was his best friend, and talked to him (although it is open to different interpretations). Then they would go on adventures, and discuss life, and that. It finished about ten years ago, with a happy ending. Both the characters remarked on how the world was full of possibilities, and sledged off into the snow. This is a doctored strip that was distributed around the Internet as though it was the genuine last episode (although this was not its author's intention).

In it, Calvin appears to have been prescribed Attention Deficit Disorder drugs ( a contentious point in America, where many unruly or hyperactive children seem to be prescribed them as a matter of course. The commonly-perceived effect of ADD drugs is that they leech a child of any character or enthusiasm about the world). Then, at the end, as Calvin has stopped imagining, Hobbes in effect dies, and becomes just a stuffed toy again. Many people have read a broader meaning into it beyond that of it being purely a comment on ADD drugs: that the loss of our imaginations and belief in the endless possibilities of the world is an inevitable part of crossing from childhood into adulthood.

It is the saddest comic strip ever.

Via Escrever para o boneco

Morri e fui para o céu ;-)

Earthsea

Projecto Tampinhas!

Estes são os vários logotipos para votarmos num até 17 de Dezembro, e, claro, aderirmos à Associação Tampa Amiga

Mas o que é isto?

Tigres, leões e outras espécies protegidas, como linces e lobos brancos, estavam a ser abatidos a tiro em Badajoz, muito perto da fronteira com Portugal.

Eram safaris ilegais para milionários, organizados por uma rede que está a ser desmantelada pela Guardia Civil. Numa operação que ainda não terminou. Feras africanas a 100 quilómetros da fronteira.

Nesta herdade da província de Badajoz, a Guardia Civil encontrou um leão e dois tigres, um deles morto a tiro. Compravam os animais em jardins zoológicos para mais tarde organizar caçadas ilegais, um negócio milionário. Por enquanto, há sete detidos.

Na aldeia vizinha, há tempo que os 700 habitantes ouviam rumores sobre actividades suspeitas, abates de lobos brancos e linces, duas das espécies mais protegidas da Península Ibérica. As cabeças eram oferecidas como troféus e os corpos queimados para não deixar rasto.

A vedação, electrificada e muito alta, chamou a atenção do Serviço de Protecção da Natureza. Dizem que por um lobo branco pagava-se 30 mil euros, cerca de seis mil contos.

O tráfico de fauna protegida está a aumentar em Espanha, só no ano passado foram recuperados mais de 1.800 animais ameaçados, a maior parte répteis.

Via SIC Online, onde há um filme para ver, mas não me atrevo,
e , sempre extraordinário!

The Digital Audiophile's Toolbox

So you want to be an audiophile? Great, but you need to realize this is an elite designation and that joining the ranks will take work. The key is having the right tools, and not all of those listed here are easy to figure out, at least not the first time you use them.

First, let us pause for two major caveats, as this article examines only software for producing high-quality, portable (as in put them on your iPod) digital recordings. This is no doubt sacrilege to bona fide audiophiles, for whom analog still rules supreme. (See the second part of this special report, "Hi-Fi, Meet the IPod," for a closer look at this issue and how new technologies may one day bridge the gap.)

The lack of a hardware review may also irk some. You can't have great sound without high-end speakers, specialized speaker cords and the like. This is a dangerous world to tread with a wallet and scant knowledge, as this list of overpriced, useless gear points out.

Still, the gap between low-end digital recordings and high-end digital recordings is so vast -- and the means to fix the worst failings so well within the bounds of average folks on a budget -- that a look at just digital music software is justified.

The first thing you'll have to throw out is expectations of a tidy and simple user interface. Sure, the layout in iTunes is less daunting, but that's because Apple Computer's program offers fewer choices. Specifically, it fails to offer the options that give the highest likelihood that your prized digital music library won't be made obsolete by new formats five years down the road.

The other thing you'll come to realize is that no single program does everything well. Sadly, the software that's best at playing your music using your computer isn't necessarily the best at managing a music file's "tags," which are the text strings that contain the song's name, artist, album and other information.

I've tried to keep the list simple while at the same time casting a wide net. Here's what you need:

CD ripper: This is the program that scans your music CD and converts the tracks to a file that can be stored and played on your computer or iPod. The most versatile and accurate program is, without a doubt, Exact Audio Copy, or EAC. The free software goes to great lengths to ensure that scratches and other imperfections on the surface of your CD don't result in pops or scratches in the audio files it rips.

It also works well with the Lame encoder, which I'll get to in a moment. Configuring EAC can be daunting. I found invaluable help online.

Lame encoder: EAC uses this open-source software to convert songs on a CD to MP3 files. I recommend the MP3 format because it's available as an option on just about every device and most software you'll ever come across.

There are many different versions. The current stable version is 3.97, beta 1. (Don't be put off by the "beta" designation. I've been using the software for weeks and it works fine.)

Download version 3.97, beta 1 (alternate download sites are free-codecs.com and Softpedia), unzip it to its own folder (for instance, C:\Lame) and make a note of its location. You'll have to know where it's located when you configure EAC.

Once you've got EAC configured to use Lame, you're almost there. The only thing left to do is tell the programs what settings you want to use. I recommend using a sound-quality setting that's a notch higher than the standard, and to tag your music using an older and a newer format. Don't worry if this sounds confusing -- all you need to do is open EAC and choose Compression Options from the File menu. From there, look for an empty box just to the right of text that says "additional command line options." In that box, paste the following string:

-V 0 --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --tt "%t" --ta "%a" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" --tg "%m" %s %d

Media player: You've now completed the hardest work. Of course, to listen to music on your computer, you'll need a jukebox or media player program. My favorite is Winamp. By downloading plug-in software called ml ipod, you can also use Winamp to manage your iPod. Unlike iTunes, ml ipod allows you to move songs from your iPod onto your computer, which is useful for backing up your valuable collection.

Tagging software: Finally, to make sure files in your music collection contain the correct information about the song's title, artist and album name, you'll need a tagging program. I like MP3 Tag Studio.

Tags are strings of text that live inside an MP3 file so you can organize thousands of songs by a single characteristic -- for example, a genre such as jazz. If you've ever suffered with an iPod that shows three different entries for the same artist (for example: "The Who," "Who, The" and "Who"), chances are that inconsistent tagging is to blame. MP3 Tag Studio is free and it has features that will remove extra spaces from tags and rename files based on tags.

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Erotismo Inteligente na Publicidade

O bom uso das nossas mentes perversas! ;-)

Golfinhos fofos na Austrália

Este é teu e para ti :-)

Postalinho de Sevilha :-)

Postalinho da Turquia :-)

PostCrossing from Poland

Wroclaw, townhall

Da Kat :-»