“Globo Closes Deal for Estado de S. Paulo?”

Giba Um in the 1970s.
From the Web site of IMPRENSA magazine (Brazil): Colunista afirma que Estadão foi vendido para o grupo Globo (“columnist says sale of the Estadão to Globo is a done deal.”)
Na manhã desta quinta-feira (26), o jornalista Giba Um, que tem um site homônimo, publicou uma nota afirmando que o jornal O [...]

“Globo Accuses TV Record of Industrial Espionage”

TV Globo acusa Record de espionagem e demite funcionário: “TV Globo accuses rival TV Record of industrial espionage, and fires employee.”
The Folha de S. Paulo publishes the press release.
Towards the end of the video shown above (botched while ripping), you will see a few scenes from the advertising duel the two broadcasters are currently engaged [...]

Shocking and Dismaying Statement of the Day

The Rosetta Stone
How To Start an Online Translation Service, from eHow.com, cheerfully informs us:
You don’t have to be a translator to start an online translation service.
You don’t have to be an M.D. to run a hospital knowledgeably, by the same token. But it sure helps.

“Are the MST a Guerrilla Movement?”

MST: “The moral equivalent of al-Qaeda,” according to Jose “ETA Did 11-M” Maria Aznar.
… the antiestablishment alliance has begun to organize itself spontaneously, through a converence of enemies and phobias. This shared aversion is what holds together the left that failed in May 1968 with the other that came over the Berlin Wall when it [...]

“Defeating The Voto-do-Cabresto: Weaknesses of Brazil’s E-Voting System”

Design modifications to the Brazilian e-voting machine include (1) the abandonment of proprietary code in favor of Linux; (2) the integration of a biometric voter ID module, and (3) the integration of a printer for producing a voter receipt and permanent (paper) audit trail. Source: Professor Rezende, University of Brasília.
“Electronic Voto-do-Cabresto: Brazil’s E-Voting System” [...]