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Fresh news. Charles P. Thaked was announced as recepient of the 2009 ACM Turing Award.

I'm following these blogs, anything I'm missing?

• A Neighborhood of Infinity
• AMS Graduate Student Blog
• Ars Mathematica
• Explaining mathematics
• Frank Morgan's
• God Plays Dice
• Gowers's Weblog
• Secret Blogging Seminar
• The Unapologetic Mathematician
• What's New
• 0xDE
• Algorithmic Game Theory
• Computational Complexity
• Godel's Lost Letter and P=NP
• In Theory
• Lambda the Ultimate
• My Slice of Pizza
• Random bits
• Recursivity
• Shtetl-Optimized
• WebDiarios de Motocicleta
• Combinatorics and more
• LogBlog
• My Biased Coin
• The polylogblog

I'm not vegan but I'm into veggies. This blog is hilarious:

I won’t eat at McDonald’s. Ever. Even the stuff they have that might be accidentally vegan, like, I don’t know, water, maybe. I just decided at some point that that place wasn’t for me and I had no interest in supporting them.

I will, however, use their bathrooms when needed. They’re very handy with their many locations, and I figure it’s a service they provide as a means of trying to apologize for killing bazillions of animals. It doesn’t come close to squaring that particular atrocity up, but I figure if I’m going to piss on something, I might as well piss on something owned by McDonald’s.

An overview of the best movies in here.

Notebook of Colonial Memories - a love letter to a racist father; exorcising Portuguese demons. It's a new book of Isabela Figueiredo based on the posts of her blog.

Taken from Jugular:

It is a sweet and brutal picture, brutally sweet, written almost as a betrayal. To call her father racist, to take the racism of the settlers, the Portuguese, the Mozambican white, the "system". This is something that ensures furious controversy. A world which belongs Isabela since 2005 (with the blog Perfect World, now replaced by the New World) and where she began her purges - a purge that these memories admittedly are - the unpleasant reactions were swift. "It is normal", Isabela said, She sees the massacres in September 1974 - in which she didn't die by chance - as "a fair retribution". In the country in which one could run over a black man and not go to prison.

Yay! After 2 years taking pictures with my phone or stealing pictures from friends this is going to feel strange. I was regretting not having decent pictures from the places I've been going to - and even the pictures I have are not so great. Now that I got the camera I'll try not to get sucked to that psyche of just taking pictures of something without enjoying it; but at least I'll have some pictures.

Anyway, you can expect these pictures soon. Maybe one of these weekends I'll take pictures of people taking silly pictures to other silly people in front of the tower. That will be fun.

From bad to worse...

This post on Aquaponics is awesome. Makes me want to do that! The blog is eco-geek & cute as well.