quarta-feira, março 31, 2004


IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística: "PIB 2003 foi de R$ 1,5 trilhão e renda per capita fica em R$ 8.565"




Mozilla on CD: "Order Mozilla Gear!
* New Products Start Shipping Week of April 12th"



Howstuffworks "What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?": "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the United States' emergency oil stockpile, and it is the largest emergency petroleum supply in the world. The reserve stores about 570 million barrels of crude oil in underground salt caverns at four sites along the Gulf of Mexico."




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quinta-feira, março 25, 2004


Brad Meltzer: Identity Crisis: "Starting in June, writer Brad Meltzer (Green Arrow) and artist Rags Morales (Hawkman) will unleash Identity Crisis, an epic seven-issue mini-series that DC claims will have lasting ramifications for it's entire universe -- and change the way readers look at it's heroes and villains. In fact, the publisher is touting Identity Crisis as the most important event since Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 seminal classic, Watchmen."



Mercury News | 03/24/2004 | U.S. students shun computer sciences: "Undergraduates in U.S. universities are starting to abandon their studies in computer technology and engineering amid widespread worries about the accelerating pace of offshoring by high-technology employers."



Wired News: Outsourcing Report Blames Schools: "'Companies aren't outsourcing only in order to obtain cheap labor; they are also looking for skilled technology workers that they increasingly can't find in the U.S.,' said Matthew Kazmierczak, senior manager of research at AeA, and one of the authors of the report."

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IT workers--unhappy campers? - News - ZDNet: "If information technology is your chosen vocation, think again; you might be a lot happier if you switched profession and took up hairdressing, plumbing, cooking or even selling flowers."






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Neutron bomb - Wikipedia: "These same authorities say that the common perception of the neutron bomb as a 'landlord bomb' that would kill people but leave buildings undamaged is greatly overstated. At the conventional effective combat range (690 m) the blast from a 1 kt neutron bomb will destroy or damage to the point of unusability almost any civilian building. Thus the use of neutron bombs to stop an enemy attack, which requires exploding large numbers of them to blanket the enemy forces, would also destroy all buildings in the area. "

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quinta-feira, março 04, 2004


LDraw.org :: The Central Site for the LDraw Family of LEGO CAD Software: "LDraw is an open standard for LEGO CAD programs that allow the user to create virtual LEGO models and scenes. You can use it to document models you have physically built, create building instructions just like LEGO, render 3D photo realistic images of your virtal models and even make animations. The possiblities are endless. Unlike real LEGO bricks where you are limited by the number of parts and colors, in LDraw nothing is impossible."


quarta-feira, março 03, 2004



Budweiser Case Study: "This issue involves United States of America and the Czech Republic. For past hundred years, an international legal dispute continued between the American brewer Anheuser-Busch and the Czech beer producer Budejovicky Budvar over the right to use the trademark name Budweiser on their products. Currently, both of the brewers produce beer beverage labeled Budweiser, and battle over who does have the legal right to the commercial use of this name."


terça-feira, março 02, 2004



$2 at Taco Bell: "On my way home from the second job I've taken for the extra holiday cash I need, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold is a $50 bill and a $2 bill. That is all of the cash I have on my person. I figure that with a $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to worry about people getting pissed at me."


segunda-feira, março 01, 2004

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