Adding some entropy

Looks like I will spend my birthday on the road…9 hours inside a dodge van. Hooray! (And...

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:28:15 +0100

Looks like I will spend my birthday on the road…9 hours inside a dodge van. Hooray!

(And jet-lag still kicking)

Pray the devil back to hell

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:26:00 +0100

Picture the typical African country torn apart by a corrupt government that keeps the power by terrorizing the civil population. It has all the necessary ingredients: children soldiers, famine, murders, rapes, displacement and rebel groups even more dreaded than the government itself. More than ten years of violence. Just another doomed and poor African country with apparently no hopes of recovery any time soon.

And now picture a group of women that can’t take war anymore. They are mothers, sisters and wives, and all they want is peace. It all starts in a small christian community but it rapidly propagates into the Muslim community as well. They dress in white, and they gather and chant in the same spot day after day, recruiting more and more people. After a while they make enough noise to be heard by the country’s despot itself and they ask him to talk with the rebels and bring peace to the country. They do the same with the rebels. They involve the international community and get them to organize peace talks to stop the bleeding of the country.

And they succeed.

This happened in Liberia, which has now the first woman president in Africa’s history, and should be known by everybody. People with no fear, an incredible willpower and an intense desire for life and peace accomplished the impossible. They united religions and helped topple the dictatorship. It is an incredibly inspiring documentary:

http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com

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Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:41:01 +0100

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Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:08:06 +0100

Real recursivity

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:32:06 +0100

Real recursivity

"If at first your idea does not sound absurd, there is no hope for it."

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:30:25 +0100

“If at first your idea does not sound absurd, there is no hope for it.”

- Albert Einstein

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:54:45 +0100

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything:

I just loved the article title :)

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Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:58:37 +0100

The future of reading

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:20:15 +0100

The future of reading

My job involves explaining things to idiots

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:05:55 +0100

My job involves explaining things to idiots

Living on the edge

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:31:42 +0100

Living on the edge

Patriotas

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:47:21 +0100

Patriotas

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:26:38 +0100

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?:

Really scary.

Schneier is my homeboy!

This is just hilarious.

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:23:00 +0100

This is just hilarious.

Sometimes I would like to understand law

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:53:15 +0100

Until I realize that I will never be able to.

The tribunal said sending refugees to camps in the Sudanese region of Darfur was not “unduly harsh” resettlement.

um…yeah.

The original metacircular evaluator

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:38:45 +0100

The original metacircular evaluator

sonatfuneral

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:39:59 +0100

sonatfuneral

"Politics is just show business for ugly people"

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:45:00 +0100

“Politics is just show business for ugly people”

- Jay Leno

Hey

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:25:00 +0100

Where is my storm?

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Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:32:50 +0100