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Archive for March, 2008

Earth Hour

Today, is the Earth Hour day. Which means that tonight from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm (whichever is your time zone) you turn off the lights and any other electric device you are using.
It’s just for an hour; just once a year.
Do it.
This reminded me of a quote I use to be fond of when [...]

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Have you even noticed how much more productive you are whenever you have someone around reminding you about deadlines and similar?
Now the Internet does it. Here.
Next time you boss bothers you, tell him he/she’s of no need.
Better: fire him/her.

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Bhutan is a little country on the Himalaya between India, China and Nepal. It has less than a million inhabitants. They are Buddhist. Television has only existed for five years in Bhutan, and many think it affected negatively the morality of the people. The only airline that flies there is called Druk Air, which is [...]

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Today I discovered (stumble-ing, it goes without saying) the existence of the Internet Movie Scripts Database. Maybe it’s because I desperately want to believe that the world still needs writers, but some movie scripts are just incredible to read. Like this one.

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The best writing tips…

… I have read in a while are here.

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Oh My God

When I first heard about it, I thought it could be dangerous, given the time I already spend online.
Today, probably under the effect of the eccessive amount of chocolate I had, I decided to check it out.
It’s called Stumble Upon, and it takes you to websites selected according to your interests.
Welcome to the end of [...]

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Water Day

Today, I am reminded, is World Water Day.
This makes me think about two stories.
The first: last year I saw We Feed the World. The film ends with an interview with Peter Brabeck, chairman of Nestlé International. Brabeck speaks about the problem of water distribution in the world. He says there are two ways of looking [...]

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