From the monthly archives:

May 2007

links for 2007-05-31

May 31, 2007

Brazil authorities to restore glitz to Rio’s Copacabana
Long way indeed, nothing can match peaceful Leblon.

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links for 2007-05-26

May 26, 2007

The end of MacMini
Apple is becoming way too conformistic hardware-wise.

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Alex Orion e bem melhor o que Banksy

May 24, 2007

Wednesday, Alexandre Orion launched his book ‘Metabiotica’ in Fnac Pinheiros in Sao Paulo.  I met the guy in Sao Paulo and became his biggest fan, way more intense than the dusty crap Banksy is lately producing.

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Big Mac Index: Brasil > US

May 23, 2007

A Big Mac is now more expensive in Brazil than in the US.
Nobody cares of course, we all prefer a good Feijoada.  Meanwhile the R$ is still rising against the US$ and the EU.

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Na Geladeira

May 22, 2007

Mixirica is a Blog from Brazilian Tatiana Damberg which I can’t resist visiting.  She Blogs on Brazilian cuisine.
Today she took a picture of her fridge.  And it reminded me how different the food in Brazil really is.  Contrary to Brazil, here in Belgium we don’t have ‘real’ food anymore in the supermarkets, everything, but literally everything is prepapred.  
Questions on the [...]

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links for 2007-05-22

May 22, 2007

Dollar’s Woes Eyed in Persian Gulf
O yes, I like that idea of Sheik Salem Abdul Aziz. No greenbacks in my hands, let the dollar collide !

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links for 2007-05-21

May 21, 2007

Com Gisele Bündchen, Fashion Rio vai se inspirar no Pan
Fashion Rio from June 3 – 8, let’s see what the summer fashion will bring this (Belgian) winter.

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US military dictatorship

May 21, 2007

What’s the difference between the Brazilian military dictatorship of the 70s and the United States of today?
With CNN being the most ridiculous biased propaganda tabloid:
Al Qaeda Aussie ‘happy’ to be jailed on home soil; or the line “watch Hicks emerge from a luxury jet“; the tone of those headlines are laughable.
I promised myself in July 2001 in [...]

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Nirvana

May 21, 2007

How I miss this heavenly place.

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Why the pope visited Brazil

May 20, 2007

More then half of all Catholics in the world live in Latin America. 
Every newspaper will tell you that the pope visited Brazil for the opening of the 5th Celam conference and to support a plan to stop the Catholic exodus towards the increasingly popular protestant churches.
But the real reason why the pope visited Brazil is [...]

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