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Urban Sketchers.

I got to know this community through this article [in portuguese] which is probably the bestl written piece of text that I've read in a newspaper in a long time.

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.