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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>fserb.com.br</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/feed.xml</link><description>Fernando Serboncini's blog</description><lastBuildDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:27:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Existe sempre alguma coisa ausente de Caio Fernando Abreu [via o Ri]
</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/links</link><description>&lt;a href='http://semamorsoaloucura.blogspot.com/2007/08/existe-sempre-alguma-coisa-ausente.html'&gt;Existe sempre alguma coisa ausente&lt;/a&gt; de Caio Fernando Abreu [via o &lt;a href='http://noisiscrevi.blogspot.com'&gt;Ri&lt;/a&gt;]
</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/links#115</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Midnight songs (Sometimes always)</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/114</link><description>

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&lt;p&gt;Depois de hoje, parei pra ouvir o &lt;a href='http://radiopoploaded.blig.ig.com.br/'&gt;podcast do Lúcio Ribeiro e do Massari&lt;/a&gt; (bem bom, aliás). No &lt;a href='http://radiopoploaded.blig.ig.com.br/2008/08/poploaded-lxx.html'&gt;#70&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Scarlett Johansson&lt;/b&gt; cantando &lt;i&gt;Boys don't cry&lt;/i&gt; é &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E5_AEfgcSk'&gt;soft porn&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;p&gt;Descobri que ela apareceu, no &lt;a href='http://www.coachella.com/'&gt;Coachella&lt;/a&gt; de 2007, junto com o &lt;b&gt;Jesus and Mary Chain&lt;/b&gt; (que, segundo o NME, está &lt;a href='http://www.nme.com/news/the-jesus-and-mary-chain/28699'&gt;preparando disco novo&lt;/a&gt;) cantando &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4paPtRuIw2Y'&gt;Just like honey&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;p&gt;Fiquei escutando J&amp;MC, lembrando de quando ouvi, pela primeira vez, &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvfmQOyQt5c'&gt;Darklands&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imRt0H-9Sfs'&gt;Snakedriver&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmk8ZDmaP88'&gt;Reverence&lt;/a&gt;. Pensei no quão mal isso deve ter feito pra minha cabeça (agora já não tem volta).

&lt;p&gt;Lembrei de pesquisar quem é a menina que canta no Sometimes Always com eles. Ela chama &lt;b&gt;Hope Sandoval&lt;/b&gt; e cantava no Mazzy Star uma música chamada &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWvEXChflEE'&gt;Fade into you&lt;/a&gt;. Bacaninha.

&lt;p&gt;Dessa época, lembro também do &lt;b&gt;Nick Cave&lt;/b&gt; cantando &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrodaLzfi5s'&gt;Red Right Hand&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRMe5H9WKpM'&gt;Where the wild roses grow&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owifmb8n2s'&gt;Into my arms&lt;/a&gt;. 

&lt;p&gt;Isso tudo foi um pedaço importante da trilha sonora da minha vida aos 17 anos. No video, &lt;b&gt;Sometimes Always&lt;/b&gt; mais uma vez.&lt;/p&gt;

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</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/114</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard Dawkins reads his email</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/113</link><description>

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</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/113</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Máfia das telecomunicações</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/112</link><description>

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Traffic shaping&lt;/i&gt; dos infernos. Esta manhã a &lt;b&gt;NET Virtua&lt;/b&gt; resolveu me "ensinar uma lição" e unilateralmente baixou o limite de banda da minha casa para o mínimo que o nosso contrato permite.

&lt;p&gt;Gangsters.

&lt;p&gt;Empresas de telecomunicações são um câncer da sociedade moderna. 

&lt;p&gt;Ao lado, José Felix, &lt;i&gt;capo&lt;/i&gt; da supra-citada.

&lt;p&gt;Acho que em breve devo acordar ao lado de uma cabeça de cavalo sangrando ou receber um peixe pelo correio.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;update:&lt;/b&gt; Liguei lá na cova dos leões. Tentaram me empurrar um "procedimento" de enrolação. Felizmente, um cara do suporte técnico me deu uma mão. Tudo resolvido, mas, por precaução, vou dar duas voltas na chave hoje a noite.
</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/112</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A história do universo em 10 palavras</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/111</link><description>

&lt;p&gt;No começo era o nada. Que explodiu. E foi indo.


</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/111</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I knew it...</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/110</link><description>

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.theonion.com/content/news/michael_phelps_returns_to_his_tank'&gt;Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World&lt;/a&gt;. 

</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/110</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Irony?</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/109</link><description>

&lt;p&gt;Please, explain me if &lt;a href='http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/08/22.html'&gt;Joe Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; was in irony mode or not when he wrote this:

&lt;div class='quote'&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ve been using it for a month now, and I’m completely sold. &lt;b&gt;This is the best phone I’ve ever had. I love it.&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;p&gt;...it kept &lt;b&gt;dropping the connection&lt;/b&gt;, so I can’t say that was the perfect experience, ... [the e-mail client] doesn't know about folders ... This was &lt;b&gt;unacceptable&lt;/b&gt;. 

&lt;p&gt;The GPS is great fun. &lt;b&gt;It doesn’t work&lt;/b&gt; indoors. It doesn’t work in the city where the sky is a distant memory. But it works when you’re out in the country...That is, if you’re not so far out in the country that there’s no cell reception. ...You have to be pretty lucky for this to work: getting the GPS to find enough satellites is not always possible.

&lt;p&gt;The music player is adequate, but not great. The sound quality is not quite as good as Apple. It takes too many steps to shuffle music. &lt;b&gt;You hear unexplained static&lt;/b&gt; in the headphones when no music is playing. The volume control has exactly ten choices. When you’ve listened only to a part of a long podcast, the phone doesn’t remember where you were up to, so if you go back to it, you have to search around for the point where you left off.

&lt;p&gt;There's a built in GPS map application, which &lt;b&gt;always freezes&lt;/b&gt;.

&lt;p&gt;In any case, it’s the best phone I’ve ever had and I’m loving it.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='quote_author'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The bolds are all mine, and I have cherry-picked quotes on purpose here. For instance, he seems to find a replacement to the GPS map application and for the e-mail client. I also skipped the parts about call quality and battery which he seemed to like a lot. If you are one of those - you know who you are - that are all picky about fairness, go check &lt;a href='http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/08/22.html'&gt;the original article&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;p&gt;I'm just saying that if this is really the best phone Joel ever had - and I'm not caught in some soft irony post here -, this says more about Joel than about this particular phone. Which seems, from this review, a compact brick of crap.
</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/109</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Consequências</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/108</link><description>

&lt;p&gt;Acreditar em algo não é só acreditar em algo. Ou, como disse o Cortázar, abrir uma lata de sardinha não é abrir a mesma lata de sardinha até o infinito. Acreditar é também acreditar nas consequências lógicas - por definição? - do que se acredita.

&lt;p&gt;Há, nesse planeta, gente que acreditava que os tais &lt;a href='http://google.com/search?q=crop circles'&gt;crop circles&lt;/a&gt; eram feitos por coisas de outras galáxias. Alguém, então, assumiu a autoria e o assunto - se já não antes - agora dava-se por encerrado, certo? Não tão rápido. Essa mesma gente passou a acreditar então que, senão todos, alguns dos &lt;i&gt;crop circles&lt;/i&gt; eram feitos por coisas de outras galáxias.

&lt;p&gt;Até aí, Inês rezou três pai-nossos, acendeu uma vela pra Iemanjá, conferiu o horóscopo do dia e foi morta. Amigos imaginários podem ouvir tudo, saber tudo, perdoar tudo. Porque não desenhar tudo? Se já chegamos até aqui...

&lt;p&gt;O que dá medo, e que deveria ser um indício que devemos repensar essa nossa espécie atormentada é perceber as consequências. Que há gente que acredita que, em se havendo coisas em outros planetas que possuam espaçonaves e saiam boiando pelo espaço afora, o que elas provavelmente fariam seria viajar secretamente de planeta em planeta capinando círculos nas plantações.
</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/108</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bronze Brasil 2008
</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/links</link><description>&lt;a href='http://bronzebrasil2008.wordpress.com/'&gt;Bronze Brasil 2008&lt;/a&gt;
</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/links#107</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Comentários</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/106</link><description>

&lt;p&gt;É o dois-ponto-zero da núvem na rede social interativa e iterativa.

&lt;p&gt;Como se não bastasse um idiota falando, agora teremos vários. Todos vocês 9. Aproveitem.


</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/106</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Camille - Au Port</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/105</link><description>

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&lt;div class='quote'&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hé! petite larve! je suis toi-même et je te parle&lt;br&gt;
tu es déjà grande alors lève toi sors de ta cale&lt;br&gt;
Au port&lt;br&gt;
ton coeur de petite fille est mort.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='quote_author'&gt;Camille - Au Port&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://fserb.com.br/post/105</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>(M-1)(S+1)/S</title><link>http://fserb.com.br/post/104</link><description>

&lt;div class='quote'&gt;&lt;p&gt;By 1941-42, the allies knew that US and even British tanks had been technically superior to German Panzer tanks in combat, but they were worried about the capabilities of the new marks IV and V. More troubling, they had really very little idea of how many tanks the enemy was capable of producing in a year. Without this information, they were unsure whether any invasion of the continent on the western front could succeed.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='quote_author'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jul/20/secondworldwar.tvandradio'&gt;How a statistical formula won the war&lt;/a&gt;.
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