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• Um blog sobre viagens ao fundo do mar dos Açores.

• As únicas imagens de Anne Frank em video.

• Mais bossa nova da Noruega com o novo álbum dos Kings of Convenience.

It's a bit premature but the good news is that now he has to live up to it. I'm guessing that was the point all along in giving him the prize. Lets see what happens in Copenhagen in December!

Only in the UK but I'm adopting it anyway. Here are some TED Talks about poetry.

So funny that they censor the suits :-) I'm guessing that was the irony she was going after in doing this!

I didn't watch "Agora" but it seems to be a nice movie, rated 8.6 in IMDB. It was screened in Cannes earlier this year and it's causing some controversy in (fundamentalist) religious circles. Namely in some country inside Rome. I'm not sure what's their problem with it but reading the synopsis I think they probably have issues with every combination of adjectives you can imagine to describe the people in the love relation.

Also, as the main character is a scientist (she invented the hydrometer and the astrolabe), I'm looking forward to watch it because it's yet to come a movie that portraits how scientists work - No! A beautiful mind is not a good counterexample, daydreaming of patterns is not how cryptographers break codes!

Thanks to Alessio for pointing this out.

I've seen The Yes Men Fix the World and it's just hilarious. I'm also feeling pretty rebellious right now.

Today Mafaldinha turns 45. When I was young I spent more time reading it over and over again than doing anything else. I still like to think that I have a bit of Mafalda, Felipe and Miguelito in me.

Last week, in my way home, I did a stop over in Lille. Don't ask. There are only direct flights twice a week and, irony, going to the north of France is just a slight detour from Italy to Portugal. One day I shall write about the hidden sins of low cost flights. Guilty. Anyway, I had time to go to the city center and have bread with raisins for breakfast in a "boulangerie". Very fancy. I was quite surprised with this cool city and shock, people were nice!

I'm totally against stereotypes but I've been a few times to Paris and I know very well how the french people are! Joking, I actually like Paris, with 10 million people the darkest hobby has its place and it's just fun to go inside a store of a calligrapher and origami maker or the like. Also, I have some friends there and obviously this makes cities much more interesting. By the way Sarah, if you're reading this, thanks for you couch. My point: Parisians, hem, are not the nicest people in world.

In Lille I was ordering breakfast and the waitress, who was very nice (and cute), double checked every thing I ordered and gave advices such as "you should take the bread with pine nuts and raisins and not the sweet bread with raisins, it's much better" or "we don't have dark chocolate for your cappuccino, do you mind the organic-fair-trade-even-better one?". Sure this became complicated after I run out of the 5 different sentences I can say in french so, shock again, she changed to not-so-good-but-with-effort english! It was just this girl! - you say. No, people were generally very nice, giving indications of where the buses were and so on. I'm not really sure what's it all about with those people doing street polls in every corner, though.

All this to say that I must twist my arm and visit some other places in France with a bit more time. On other news I heard that Belgium is claiming French Flanders back.