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Viviane Araujo: Rule 5

Posted on January 25, 2011 | Comments Off on Viviane Araujo: Rule 5

Goddess_of_Carnival_viviane_araujo_mancha_verde2010 Rio Samba Drum Queen of Brazil. Will she return in February? Bet on it.

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Drum queen

Posted on February 15, 2010 | Comments Off on Drum queen

Brazil CarnivalRio’s samba version is the place to be, of all the carnival festivals at this time of year. Bruna Bruno and other drum queens are a good reason why.

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Chicago does Honduras

Posted on October 30, 2009 | Comments Off on Chicago does Honduras

I don’t quite know what to make of this, whether it’s as important as it looks, or just more confusion. I suppose we’ll have to wait a few years before the fawning media gets around to telling us just what threats Hilarity and John ("I still have the hat!") Kerry made to twist their arms. They’ve even been battling the lawyers at the Library of Congress to try to restore their fig leaf of legality.

One good thing. When the ousted wouldbe dictator (whose room at the Brazilian embassy basement actually has a tinfoil curtain) starts spouting off about all those awful, mind-ray-blasting Jews, then, whether or not his big buddy Hugo C. comes to the White House for a celebratory grip-and-grin, Barry will look like a bigger fool than he does already.

UPDATE:  Well, there seems to be some level of hope that this anti-democracy push will not succeed.

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9/11 as a joke

Posted on September 8, 2009 | Comments Off on 9/11 as a joke

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The World Wildlife Federation’s “commemoration” ad for 9/11, according to ad agency DDB Brazil. The fine print in the upper right says: The 2004 Indonesian “tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11.” Yeah, let’s compare corpses, shall we? Just keep those donations coming folks. First, the federation claimed it was rogue work and they didn’t approve it. Later they admitted they did.

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Ball lightning in the lab

Posted on January 24, 2007 | Comments Off on Ball lightning in the lab

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 Still photos taken from a Brazilian lab’s video shows scientists applying an electrode to silicon wafers (top left) to create golf-ball-sized balls of electrified silicon vapor. The vapor sparks orbs of ball lightning that bounce across the lab floor/images by Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.

Via Technology Trends

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