August 2009
10 posts
If we want businesses to be ethical, we have to reward the ones that are. By not enriching companies that want to take away our freedom and by rewarding those that respect us, we will be helping to bring about a better future.
The iPhone hype hides a basic problem with the product — Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) inside the iPhone means that it wont be under your control. Apple has...
“[…] não sou um autor de farsas, mas um autor de tragédias. E a vida não é...”
– Um, nenhum e cem mil (Luigi Pirandello)
“I work on the book about women,” she wrote to Algren from Paris....”
– Love Letters: LETTER FROM SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR TO NELSON ALGREN : The New Yorker
What It's Like To Die
Decapitation: Beheading can be swift and painless but consciousness is believed to continue for a short time after the spinal cord is severed. Experts have calculated that the brain might remain functioning for seven seconds. Reports from guillotine executions in France cited cases where movements of the eyes and mouth were seen for up to 30 seconds.
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