Não haja dúvida que as versões digest são úteis à brava

Como ler oito obras da Margarida Rebelo Pinto em apenas 10 segundos:

Sei Lá – Gosto de gajos mas não faço ideia do que é uma relação estável.
Não há Coincidências – Gosto de gajos mas não faço a mínima ideia do que é ter uma relação estável e excitante.
Alma de Pássaro – Gosto de gajos.
Artista de Circo – Gosto de gajos do circo e com uma elasticidade fora do normal
I’m in Love with a Popstar – Gosto de gajos desde que cantem.
Nazarenas e Matrioskas – Gosto de gajos e não tenho jeitinho nenhum para arranjar títulos para os meus livros.
Pessoas como Nós – Gosto de gajos normais (à falta de melhor).
Diário da Tua Ausência – Gosto de tudo o que mexa.

Restante post no de vagares.... Recomenda-se.

Stew pot

Izmir, Turkey
01/11/2006

A question of motivation

After the defeat against Spain (0-4), this afternoon the Ukrainian players entered in the football field where the game against Saudi-Arabia was going be played with the assurance that the first one to score a goal would win… a female pig (alive!). Result of this encouragement: 4 minutes after the starting whistle, Rusol scored the first goal. The pig was offered by an editor company, which also promised a barrel of honey to each player, in the case of a victory. At this moment, the chronometer shows 49 minutes and the Ukrainians are winning for 3-0 already…

Paulo Camacho
in Jornal da Noite, SIC
19th June 2006

...

Eu sei que sou burro... Eu sei que tenho bastantes cadeiras para fazer... Mas...

Será que tinha de ter 3 exames no mesmo dia?!

Recipe for a strange physical (and psychological) state

Ingredients:

Normal çay, elma nargile, normal çay, kaşarlı gözleme, muz çay, gül nargile, peynirli gözleme, normal çay, muz, nane nargile, normal çay, elma nargile, kumpir, kup balbadem.

Preparation:

Mix all the ingredients, one by one, exactly as the previous disposal. Consume it in a hot and dry summer evening.
Enjoy.

Se quiseres conhecer a pessoa dos teus sonhos,

esconde a tua dor atrás de um sorriso

Alexandre MM Caetano

When, more and more, what is needed is a Grito de Ipiranga* in journalism...

... the sad news keep on. This time the crisis arrived to the newspaper which once had an editorial stating that "Notre pauvreté est la mesure de notre indépendance.": Libération. The founding manifesto of this newspaper was: "Depend on the people, not on advertisers or banks".
After some years of economic problems (which is not surprising in the press), this statement changed to: "L’indépendance c’est très simple : Il faut gagner de l’argent" and the solution seemed to accept the investment of the financer Edouard de Rothschild, who had no experience about working in journalism before and that even had financed rightist electoral campaigns, being also a Sarkozy's close friend (why lately everyone seems to be a close friend of Sarkozy?): "A New York educated, horse-racing enthusiast, Mr Rothschild is a friend of the conservative interior minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, with whom he had holidayed. He is adamant that his friendship with Mr Sarkozy has not influenced his attitude to Libé."
But, even if the news at the time seemed to try to show the opposite, who can say that this offer didn't have any second intentions? As it is said by Yves Rebours and Arnaud Rindel, it's difficult to believe that the independence of a newspaper is independent of the demandings of profit, which are set by the main stockholder, when these ones are able to affect the jounalists' work condicions, their name and their position.
First of all, it was Rothschild himself who said that one of the reasons for this investment was the "influence sur la société" and that it is "un peu une vue utopique de vouloir différencier rédaction et actionnaire » (France 2, 30.9.2005)".
This was even confirmed by Le Point: "Vingt millions d’euros, c’est beaucoup d’argent, même pour un Rothschild. 'Et en même temps, poursuit ce banquier [a banker who knows him well], ce n’est pas beaucoup pour mettre la main sur une affaire connue.' De celles qui vous projettent en pleine lumière. Libé, c’est une institution du 'microcosme', un journal qui a plus d’influence que son tirage".
However, the mainstream idea was always that Rothschild's proposal was only related with an economic, almost philantropic, interest and that he would respect the identity of the newspaper, as himself stated several times: "Je m’engage fermement et personnellement [à] préserver l’indépendance de la rédaction, [...] Et, à ce titre, sachez que je considère les droits de la SCPL comme inaliénables et qu’ils seront garantis.". About the question "Libération sera-t-il à l’abri des pressions économiques et politiques?", Edouard de Rothschild has confirmed once more this promisse: "Oui, sans équivoque. Je crois avoir été assez clair sur la question de l’indépendance du journal.".
Furthermore, and one of the main contraditions, Rothschild has also stated that Serge July would keep all his fonctions: "Une chance d’autant plus grande que l’offre du financier inclut - 'à la demande d’Edouard de Rothschild', précise Serge July - l’assurance pour lui 'de poursuivre à la tête de Libération, en cumulant les fonctions de président et de directeur général, jusqu’en 2012'...". Even July, after this promise, was convinced that accepting Rothschild proposal wouldn't change anything in the heart of the newspaper: "Notre journal, affirme-t-il dans les colonnes de Libération (22.01.2005), n’entre pas dans un groupe puissant, où nous aurions été contraints, irrésistiblement, de nous fondre, il s’associe avec un actionnaire qui, s’il sera le premier de l’entreprise, sera minoritaire, et destiné à le rester, comme il en a pris l’engagement. Ce nouvel associé souscrit à la charte d’indépendance et au pacte d’actionnaires qui sont les socles de notre indépendance entrepreneuriale et journalistique.".
Surprinsingly, or not, according to the last news, July and Louis Dreyfus will leave the newspaper, under the pressure of Rothschild: "Selon 'L'Express', l'actionnaire principal est prêt à signer un nouveau chèque, d'un montant compris entre 10 à 15 millions d'euros, 'à une seule condition: le départ de Serge July'."

Some links here (fr), here (fr), here (eng) and here (pt).

* "Liberty or death", considered the declaration of the Brazilian independence from Portugal, pronounced by Dom Pedro near the Ipiranga river on the 7th September 1822.

Istanbul through the perspective of a camera

Laundry's day - Fatih
4th March 2006

Momentos...

More! More! More!

World Cup 2006

This is my contribution to the portuguese team.

(Link in the title - don't ask me how did I find it...)

Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam

Your life will not be the same after this movie.

This home-made version of a Star Wars earlier chapter with the Indiana Jones soundtrack and in turkish is, definitly, an art masterpiece.

(Link in the title.)

What is faith?

You can find the answer here (but probably you won't) .

Fraude, como sempre, em Portugal

(link no título)

«Ser ou não ser, eis a questão. Será maior nobreza sofrer as fundas e as flechas da fortuna ultrajante? Ou pegar em armas contra este mar de infortúnios opondo-lhes um fim? Morrer, dormir, nada mais... é belo como dizer que pomos fim ao desgosto e aos mil males naturais que são a herança da carne. É esse um fim a desejar ardentemente? Morrer, dormir... dormir e talvez sonhar. Sim! Eis o espinho! Pois que sonhos podem vir desse sono da morte depois de libertos do tumulto da vida? Eis o que deve deter-nos, eis a consideração que nos trás a calamidade de uma tão longa vida...»

«A felicidade não é a meta, mas o caminho»

Aqui.