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(...)I kind of like those Bluetooth earpieces where you don't use your hands. The ones that hang from your ear and have you talking off into the ether. You look like a crazy guy wandering down the street, the only difference being that a real crazy guy usually has something interesting to say.

in Wired News: How to Squelch Your Inner Jackass

P.S.: Este artigo também contém algumas dicas de etiqueta do tele-falante móvel e público.

Nearly exact self-similar fractal forms occur do in nature, but I'd never seen such a beautiful and perfect example until, some time after moving to Switzerland, I came across a chou Romanesco like the one above in a grocery store. This is so visually stunning an object that on first encounter it's hard to imagine you're looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology. But of course, then you realise that vegetables are created with molecular nanotechnology, albeit the product of earthly evolution, not extraterrestrial engineering.

Recomendo a leitura deste excelente artigo na Wired sobre os banhos públicos japoneses e a sua relação com a aceitação da tecnologia, a assimulação de uma cultura e os factores economico-sociais envolventes.

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