Posted on June 9, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Globo: Soaps With Soapboxes
Mariana MartinsObservatório do Direito à Comunicação June 2008
Martins notes the transition from the waning prime time Globo soap — which ended in a gay wedding from which the bridal kiss was screamingly absent, in a strange touch of modesty for a production that borrowed generously from the pornô xanxado genre of the [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Colin Brayton
The New Bourse: Intercontinental ballistic synergistic ambitions?
Relatório reservado nº3394 09/06/2008: RR is an interesting subscriber-only Brazilian deal-flow gossip sheet that relies pretty heavily on anonymous sourcing.
Its FPR (failed progostication rate) has yet to be thoroughly measured by the NMM-Tabajara Signal-to-Noise Labs (“Time is money because life is short. Less noise, more signal.”)
At any rate, this [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Efforts to Slip & Slide: Called on carpet for sale of uncertified systems to California counties.
The Risks Digest Volume 25: Issue 18: Peter Neumann clips an item from Wired. I am forwarding this along to the folks at Voto Seguro.
Bruce Haggard, an election commissioner in Faulkner County, Arkansas, is baffled by a problem that occurred [...]
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