IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

iPhone

Para os fanáticos do iPhone, cá vai disto:

When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead. He claimed that the phone was three devices in one: an iPod, a phone, and an "Internet communications device." Oooh, an Internet communications device?! AWESOME!



It's not three devices in one any more than my laptop is you morons. Using Jobs' loose definition of what constitutes a separate device, technically my laptop can be considered 8 devices in one:

A clock
A calculator
An "Internet communications device"
A phone (I can make voice calls with my modem)
A pornographic media storage device
A video player
A word processor
And an "iPod"

Vejam tudo na melhor página do mundo.

Secret Agent

Epa eu não aguentei não mostrar isto:

Dinheiro enquanto Dívida

Se tiverem 45 min para dedicarem a aprender algo sobre economia, na vertente do conhecimento monetário, aqui está um filme muito interessante.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279&hl=en

(o hyperlink não ta a funcionar, na sei porquê)

Após o verem é possível que fiquem enraivados com a situação, mas lembrem-se do ponto seguinte:

- Sem esta forma de ter dinheiro, não teria havido inovação e exploração. Basicamente teríamos ficado presos na Europa a morrer aos 30 anos de vida e a acreditar que a Terra era o centro do Universo.

Existe outra conclusão a retirar. Caso se tenham perguntado porque razão o Banco Central sobre as taxas de juro quando a inflação aumenta, do que é dito no documentário podem-se tirar conclusões. Experimentem lá ver se perceberam ;)