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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Bilingual post! Entrada Bilingue!

First I will start with English because of the news that I found. Further there is Portuguese and at the end some very funny videos.
Primeiro vou escrever em Inglês por causa da notícia que encontrei. Mais à frente estará em Português e no fim uns videos muito engraçados.


A Superhero Suit for Athletes
Engineer Richard Palmer developed a futuristic liquid armor that hardens on impact.
This guy should be on a list of developers just for his effort:
"To get d3o off the ground, he quit his job as a design consultant, sold his house, cashed in his life savings—even auctioned off his belongings on eBay—and spent 18 months crashing on a friend's couch. That friend, fellow engineer Adrian Hampstead, became the company's first investor, ponying up $50,000. By 2003, Palmer had standardized samples, a Web site, and a staff of three—but no customers, no products and no money."

Portuguese part now:
Em Português agora:

Domingo, dia de descanso onde nada se passa na Alemanha. Durante o dia estou a ouvir o novo album dos Silbermond e ao almoço estava a ler o último livro da triologia "Eden". Quando acabei o almoço, ainda a ouvir musica, tenho a estranha sensasão que alguem me quer contactar... Um ténue ruído de fundo alerta-me por cima da música "Das Beste"... a Inês quer falar comigo.
Mesmo a 2000Km de distância há sempre uma ligação pronta, quase telepática.
Com um toque no rato ligo o Skype para atender a chamada. Uma foto da Inês aparece no ecrã, onde podia estar o video que por acaso não foi ligado...
E ali estava eu, em pé a olhar para um ecrã, encostado à parede, com um livro na mão para apenas mandar um beijinho tal como se ela estivesse por detrás dessa mesma parede.
Foi um momento algo futurista, como se o meu quarto fosse redesenhado pela equipa do 24th
century
. O meu pequeno PC portátil tornou-se indespensável, e toda a tecnologia que permitiu este tão importante pequeno momento de contacto.
São apenas ferramentas, mas até poderia imaginar-me numa nave espacial a falar com um ente querido a milhares de quilómetros de distância (2 neste caso), como se estivesse ali mesmo por detrás daquele ecrã.

Crónica "Rir é o melhor remédio"
Cronic "Laugh is the best medicine"

Borat on Night of Too Many Stars, I guess Kazakistan won't be happy with this...
The Borat character, a fictional Kazakh journalist invented and portrayed by the British comedian provocateur Sacha Baron Cohe has given some head aches to Kazakistan.

In November 2005, following Borat's hosting of the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry voiced their concerns about the character. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news conference "We view Mr. Cohen's behaviour at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners which is completely incompatible with the ethics and civilized behavior of Kazakhstan's people", concluding "We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind."

Baron Cohen has since posted a video on the "Official Borat Homesite" where Borat responds to Ashykbayev in character. In the video, Borat states, in part, "In response to Mr. Ashykbayev's comments, I'd like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my Government's decision to sue this Jew. Since the 2003 Tuleyakiv reforms, Kazakhstan is as civilized as any other country in the world. Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats, and age of consent has been raised to eight years old. Please, captain of industry; I invite you to come to Kazakhstan where we have incredible natural resources, hardworking labour, and some of the cleanest prostitutes in whole of central Asia. Goodbye! "
Now a new video comes along, this is it, enjoy:




Boemerang was a TV show by Eric Hartman that at the end went very wrong.... I laughed like hell with this one :D

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