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Is Bin Laden dead? I’ll believe it when i see it.

Are you kidding me? His body buried in the sea? This is the most wanted person in the history of the world and they don’t bring back the body to prove – without a shadow of a doubt – that he is truly dead? Give me a break. I’ll believe he is gone when i [...]

Apple store delivers orders to the past

So apparently my iPad’s smart cover will be delivered on the 6th of April. Today is the 21st… But i’m not complaining. Not about that, at least. You see, they split up my order in two because the iPad is to be shipped later (25th of April). The problem is that an iPad cover is [...]

Adventures at the Indian embassy (or how Portuguese services suck)

Disclaimer: I’m not complaining specifically against the way the Indian embassy works so, before calling a xenophobic or some crap like that, keep in mind that i’m just venting out something that could have happened in pretty much any other Portuguese public bureau. Where should i start? Ah, yes, the motivation: In about a month [...]

Seal skin? Really, Crowne Plaza?!?

This is my fourth time in Amsterdam since i started working remotely. Obviously, once i moved back to Portugal i took all my belongings there and gave up my house in Holland so, every time i come to Amsterdam i have to stay at an hotel in the city. I have experienced three, so far: [...]

Reddit’s RSS only shows article titles

Am i the only one who is pissed off by this? Aren’t RSS feeds supposed to be the awesome way of consuming information? And for what? Web page hits? Here’s a newsflash, dudes, your website isn’t that good looking Here’s what i mean: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.rss

Can’t touch this (iphone) nah, nah nah nah

Ok, this is so freaking hilarious that i cannot help it but sharing. It seems that, when faced with the impossibility of using their iPhones with gloves on, some Koreans have started using miniature sausages (yes, sausages) for that effect. It seems that the composition of the sausage is similar enough to a human finger [...]

A shoe in for the job

Just found this pearl of a story. It tells the tale of an IT employee that sees his resume twisted by a recruiter to fit a job description at a financial institution and how that fact makes him waste his time and money chasing a job where he would not fit in the first place. [...]

New cockroach species found in New York

It seems a new type of cockroach might have been discovered in a new york apartment. Mutation, very-shy-hidden-for-ages-type, I have no idea but, according to the article: “[Closely-related] species don’t differ [by] more than one percent, [while] this cockroach is four percent different, (…) This suggests it is a new species of cockroach.” So there [...]

The beginning of the Matrix? Chicken poo equals electricity.

Chicken matrix. Are we there yet? This article reports a new clean way of turning animal waste into electric power. What I understand from it? A new motivation for chicken farms not to go away any time soon.

Ancient egyptians had bad teeth

I don’t know about you, but they just destroyed a bit of my fascination for ancient Egypt… Turns out that 18% of the 3000 mummies discovered so far presented signs of really bad dental problems which, in retrospective, is something that one would expect at those times when Colgate and Pepsodent were not around The [...]

Reddit developers, please fix this

I previously mentioned how dumb it was for someone to have to wait 10 minutes to be able to post a comment on a different thread on Reddit, but this latest discovery is just delicious. Just tried to post a comment on a post where the submitter clearly forgot to add the link to the [...]

SWIFT transfers are monitored by US authorities (even European transfers)

I was really in shock when I went with my mother to the bank the other day: There was a small sheet of paper stating that bank transfers done via the SWIFT network are prone to have its details shared with US authorities. The network currently has two nodes working with the same data in [...]