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O livrinho, traduzido pela Tinta da China , que anda no Twitter a pedir leitores ;) Cheirinho na página oficial em inglês E encontram-se com Miyazaki!!

Article 1 Les livres, tous les livres ont le droit d’exister. Article 2 Les livres sont égaux entre eux, sans distinction d’origine, de fortune,de naissance, d’opinion, d’éditeur. Article 3 Tout livre a droit à la vie, à sa commercialisation, à la chance d’être exposé au lecteur, et de donner à son auteur celle d’être entendu et rémunéré à juste titre. Article 4 Tous sont égaux devant la loi qui les met à égalité de prix pour tous en quelques lieux qu’ils soient proposés. Article 5 Chacun a droit à la reconnaissance en tout lieu de sa personnalité, de la personnalité de son auteur, de celle de son éditeur. Article 6 Le livre,oeuvre d’imagination autant que de recherche, s’adresse à l’imagination autant qu’au besoin de l’homme. Il ne peut en aucune façon être dévoyé dans sa commercialisation comme un produit d’appel de consommation courante. Article 7 Le livre est, et demeure garant de nos libertés. Il ne peut en aucun cas être soumis à quelque aliénation que ce soit tant sur le plan d...

Tradução portuguesa na Gailivro Smashing Pumpkins and Georges Méliès

In Japan, cat cafes have been popping up all over the place, allowing people to relax with a cup of coffee while receiving the purr-fect, relaxing companionship of a kitty. The Calico Cat Café is one example of a successful cat café business in Tokyo. With over 3 locations in existence in Japan, people are flocking to the unique cafes because they love pets, but just can't commit to having one at home or are restricted by the strict housing regulations in the country. For 800 YEN per hour or 2000 YEN for three hours, animals lovers can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and find themselves ignored, or occasionally delivered affection by the cats when the mood suits them; just like any pet lover would if they could have cats in the comfort of their own homes. While there are many strays in Japan, they do not join the furry ranks at Cat Café; however, advertisements for strays that need a home are posted throughout the establishment. To protect their animals from illness, Cat Café require...

From my translation: — Acha que eu poderia ter um gato? — perguntei. — Se um te escolher, serás dele ou dela. — Me escolher? Neferet sorriu e fez festas a Skylar , que fechou os olhos e ronronou alto. — São os gatos que nos escolhem, não somos nós quem manda neles. — Para ilustrar a verdade do que ela dissera, Skylar saltou-lhe dos braços e, de cauda bem levantada, desapareceu pelo corredor abaixo.» Por outro lado, gatos e vampiros, aliás, gatos vampiros, não me parece, por isto: http://tinyurl.com/cr8abz All the vampire cartoons from Off the Mark here The House of Night series website - create your own vampyre tattoo ooh ooh :) Preview from Google Books

Directed by Sophie Fiennes, yes, from that beautiful and prolific family ;)

BMW films - Beat the Devil - Z4 (Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, James Brown - Tony Scott) - kewego

Latest blog addition, which may very well turn into an addiction ;)

No CCB: 21 Mar 2009 PARA TODO O PÚBLICO VÁRIOS ESPAÇOS DO CCB ENTRADA LIVRE Depois do enorme sucesso da primeira edição, realizada em 2008, que trouxe ao CCB mais de duas mil pessoas, o programa para 2009, que volta a contar com o apoio do Plano Nacional de Leitura, alarga os horizontes geográficos da poesia feita em português: autores do Brasil, Angola, Cabo Verde e Moçambique, juntarão a sua voz aos seus confrades portugueses para celebrar a língua que todos falam – e na qual escrevem. Poetas que lêem a sua poesia (e a de outros poetas), espontâneos que encontram o seu espaço para dar largas à sua vontade de comunicar através de um poema, oficinas em que as crianças (e os pais) aprendem a brincar com as palavras, pequenos concertos onde se apura a relação entre a palavra poética e a música, documentários onde se recolhe o rosto e a voz de poetas que já não estão entre nós, uma feira do livro exclusivamente dedicada aos poeta...

1963-2009 Her best work (in movies) for me: Gothic, The Handmaid's Tale, Zelda, Asylum and of course many more I haven't watched :|

CD 1 "Burglars Singing In The Cellar" " Alone " Read by Marianne Faithfull - 1:30 " The Raven " Read by Christopher Walken - 8:30 " The Tell-Tale Heart " Read by Iggy Pop - 14:26 " The Conqueror Worm " Read by Ken Nordine - 3:00 " The Black Cat " Read by Diamanda Galás - 36:58 "For Annie" Read by Gavin Friday - 5:21 "To Helen" Sung by Ed Sanders - 2:29 CD 2 "The Devil's Brew" "The Haunted Palace" Sung by Ed Sanders - 5:42 " Ulalume " Read by Jeff Buckley - 6:13 " Berenice " Read by Dr. John - 27:42 "The City and the Sea" Performed by Deborah Harry and The Jazz Passengers - 8:04 " Annabel Lee " Read by Marianne Faithfull - 2:24 " The Masque of the Red Death " Read by Gabriel Byrne - 18:13 "The Raven" Read by Abel Ferrara - 1:57 "Mr.Watson, come here, I want you..." Read by Mr. Draeny -5:18 Taken from ...

The other posting was not the whole How to Write series, silly me :| The best poets read widely What makes a poem? You need to learn the rules in order to break them A poem is artificial, artful. It is not simply a mirror A good poetic structure protects the essence of the poem Developing & editing The form of a poem is more dynamic than that of a puzzle Read your words aloud, even if you have only a few of them Poems are able to express the things we find hardest to say The beauty of a poem, like the beauty of an equation, lies in its precision A poem must contain itself, and all the reader needs Some forms Checklist What next?

Em comemoração do Bicentenário de Edgar Allan Poe, a Linha de Acção de Estudos Americanos do CEAUL convida-o a participar no Colóquio “Poe e Criatividade Gótica”. Em paralelo, decorrerão diversos eventos culturais na cidade de Lisboa, tais como uma exposição na Biblioteca Nacional, o lançamento de um volume com a poesia completa de Edgar Allan Poe e outras surpresas góticas a revelar. O Colóquio terá lugar na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, entre 18 e 20 de Março de 2009. Finally a posting about something I get to do ;)

Um ser vagamente melancólico, com predisposição para a nostalgia dos gloriosos tempos dos seus egrégios avós, enquanto acumula pequenas derrotas diárias que aceita com resignação. Foi esta a imagem do português com que crescemos, a que ouvimos milhares de vezes em cafés, programas de televisão, jornais, livros e no cinema: somos o povo do fado, não sabemos dançar como o irmão brasileiro, não sabemos fazer a festa como o vizinho espanhol, não temos o dom de nos auto-depreciarmos com gosto como o civilizado amigo inglês. E, no entanto, esta gente ri-se. Assim de repente, e recorrendo apenas a exemplos inevitáveis, riu-se do provincianismo das suas elites (com Eça), riu-se da mesquinhez de, bem, de toda a gente (com Camilo), riu-se do absurdo dos seus atavismos e dos seus ascensores sociais (com Herman), riu-se da sua linguagem vazia (com o Gato Fedorento). No entanto, riu de quê e como? Quantas vezes e porquê? Mais que tudo: riu-se em português? Ao longo dos séculos temos teorizado sobre...

Are you over 27 years old? Well guess what! Your cognitive functioning is now officially in decline. Awesome! Let's see if my 28-year-old brain can complete this post unicorns rainbows marshmallows ice cream! A study conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia tested the cognitive skills of over 2,000 participants ranging in age from 18-60. "The people involved – who were mostly in good health and well-educated – had to solve visual puzzles, recall words and story details and spot patterns in letters and symbols," the Daily Mail notes. 22 year olds had the best scores; after the age of 27, scores began to drop off, particularly in the areas of reasoning, spatialization, and speed of thought. "Results converge on a conclusion that some aspects of age-related cognitive decline begin in healthy, educated adults when they are in their 20s and 30s," wrote Professor Timothy Salthouse, who believes that therapies designed to prevent the aging of the brain n...

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How to write books for Children posted in Lucas on my mind :)

Food studies is a subject so much in its infancy that it would be foolish to try to define it or in any way circumscribe it, because the topic, discipline or method you rule out today might be tomorrow’s big thing. The inadequacy of our conventional conceptual framework for dealing with this unwieldy child is bathetically shown on the copyright page of The World of Soy, where the “Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data” lists the volume’s subject matter as “1. Soyfoods. 2. Cookery (Soybeans). 3. Food habits”. Thus do our categories of taxonomy reduce the current state of our knowledge about the world’s fourth most important food, measured in terms of calories, and first among legumes. Measured in cash terms, soy (Glycine max) is in some ways the most important crop, and in terms of imports and exports, second only to wheat. The fact that this important book has contributions by seventeen authors reflects more than the circumstances of its origins in a couple of academic co...

The Japanese have a passion for filing and categorization that reaches fever pitch when it comes to the always-popular system of classifying people by their A, B, AB or O blood group — "ketsuekigata" (血液型, blood type)." Women, especially, will ask about the blood type of anyone we feel friendly toward (and will eagerly volunteer our own); the topic is regarded as a surefire ice-breaker, the veritable exchange of personality meishi (名刺, business cards), as if to say, "This is me, so what about you?" On the other hand, after getting acquainted and telling each other about families, birth dates, etc., followed by the inevitable question of blood — " Ketsuekigata nāni? " (血液型なあに? What's your blood type?), it could be that the other person will look a little wary or mildly disappointed. Many Japanese women know, down to the minutest detail, the characteristics of their particular blood group — and more importantly, it's aishō (相性, suitabil...

Among the endless chilling aspects of the ongoing economic crisis, perhaps the most unnerving has been the constant suspicion that this is only the beginning – that the money printing and boarded-up high streets are only the prelude to a far darker second act. The trick, of course, then becomes picturing what that might be – except it's a fool's errand, the mind's eye fogged by the sheer scale involved. Enter the movies – still for all their flaws a fine device for speculating on the future, allowing us to to piece together a composite of likely scenarios, turning all of us into WALL-Es sifting through the cinematic debris. Among the most active lately has been Evan Calder Williams's blog Socialism and/or Barbarism , whose musings on our likely fate are based around the filmic motifs we may shortly find spilling into real life. The thing is, the end of the world thus far has taken most of us by surprise. It's not that at some stage we won't still wind up in The ...

1 ILHA DA BERLENGA Portugal Be brave — the sea crossing from Peniche can be bumpy, but the reward is a hillside camp site with exclusive access to the crystal waters of a small cove on Ilha da Berlenga. Only a dozen fishermen’s families live on the island, which is a protected nature reserve. It’s saltwater showers only, and you have to collect a daily personal allowance of fresh water at the island’s bar (which stocks other drinks, too). ilhadasberlengas.no.sapo.pt , 00 351 262 789571 2 LUGAR VARZEAS Portugal Camp with a clear conscience in the hills of central Portugal, surrounded by the scent of jasmine, eucalyptus and orange blossom. The turquoise eco-yurts have a brass-knobbed bed and retro furnishings, while the owners’ organic allotment provides vines, figs and basil. Their chickens will lay your morning eggs, and you’ll wake up to find your breakfast in a hamper at your yurt’s front door before you skip off for a solar-powered hot shower. yurtholidayportuga...

How to write (by Stephen King, no less) How to write WELL How to write a Joke How to write a Movie How to write Poetry How to write a brillliant Essay How to write a Best-seller The Guardian

(quoted from Newsweek :)

Ongoing testing, playing, partying by and from Baby Toolkit (so be sure to keep checking for more, same here): Apples to Apples

What choice of reading material would impress you in a potential date - and which book would be a big turn-off? Bond over a book ... Photograph: Kevin Mackintosh/Getty Images We all know we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but what about judging a date by the cover of the book he or she is holding? According to a survey for the National Year of Reading , almost one in five people would read a book while waiting for their date to arrive in order to make a good impression. But choosing the right book to be seen with can be a minefield. To mark World Book Day today, the British Library is hosting a speed book club . Participants take along a favourite book, swap it with a likely looking stranger, and "perhaps find their soulmate", say the optimistic organisers. There will also be games, workshops, and live music in the cavernous entrance hall, so the odds of bumping into a real-life Mr Darcy a...

Post-Oscars, The 'Slumdog' Kids Head Back to the Slums When we think of child actors, it's easy to think of rich, overly indulgent scenarios like the one Don McKellar outlined in Childstar . But that's not always the case -- especially for the tykes of Slumdog Millionaire . It only lost two of its ten Oscar nominations, but for the young Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Rubiana Ali , post- Slumdog life isn't coming up roses. On the heel of news that the kids were getting trust funds and school funding, The Telegraph reports that they are reeling after their whirlwind taste of luxury life at the Oscars. Azhar has been suffering from a 103 temperature and vomiting since returning home, a condition which isn't helped by the fact that he doesn't have a physical home to rest in (although neighbors are trying to build a metal structure for the kid to rest in out of the sun). Meanwhile, Rubina still wears the now-stained gown she wore to the Oscars, wishing to liv...

Amazing blog about futurology back in the day, and how it didn't come true :| The Kitchen, the electronic Home, Mechanical Men, the works :)

It's best not to hazard a guess as to whether Mickey Rourke will pick up a best actor Oscar for The Wrestler this Sunday night; the odds have him losing to Sean Penn, but it wouldn't be the first time this sly, mercurial, irreplaceable actor has overturned everyone's expectations. As Rourke awaits his big moment (though, in fact, if the portrait of him that's emerged in recent interviews is accurate, he may not give a shit about the outcome—he's just enjoying the ride), I want to revisit the role in which many of us first noticed him and in which I remember him best. I don't propose to provide a full survey of Rourke's career: Sheila O'Malley has done that, definitively and beautifully, in this chronicle of her long-standing love affair with his work. But for those who haven't had the chance to confirm Rourke's talent via Netflix lately, let me just state that your fond memories of Diner are not wrong. In the 27 years since its release, I...