João Mota

spitebook

2011-03-01T13:40:00.000-08:00

Kiva.org: Joyce Namwanje

2010-01-08T16:50:00.001-08:00

Namwanje Joyce, 28 years old, is a widow with five children all in school. She owns a retail shop business. She has operated this business for over two years. She is a permanent resident of Baggala zone. She is using the loan to acquire items (drinks, rice, maize flour, beans, bread, soap, salt, sugar, and so forth) in order to expand her business. Her dream is seeing her children finish their education and getting good jobs.

-- from kiva.org

If you don’t know this concept yet, do check it out. My meager $25 have been successfully repaid 4 times, and this is the fifth loan I make with that amount, so in practice I’ve managed to help microfund 5 businesses in a total of $125 with it. Sounds pretty cool to me – I’m sure there’s a lot of you out there with twenty-five bucks to spare, right?

road to bucharest III

2009-12-16T08:14:00.000-08:00

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road to bucharest II

2009-12-16T06:07:00.000-08:00

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road to Bucharest I

2009-12-16T01:40:00.000-08:00

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angel at hell's gate, birkenau

2009-12-04T04:09:00.000-08:00

Auschwitz II
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Krakow castle

2009-12-03T07:55:00.000-08:00

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wedel, warsaw

2009-12-02T05:06:00.000-08:00

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tech help, iasi

2009-11-18T12:06:00.000-08:00

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the terminator strikes back

2009-10-29T17:00:00.001-07:00

taking a leak

2009-10-21T07:38:00.001-07:00

http://wikileaks.org/

now here’s an endless repository of clever raw-materials you can use in many conversations to come, and make yourself look pretty smart and well-informed (or maybe a complete conspiracy freak if you don’t watch yourself').

Today’s favourites:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Suppressed_Madeleine_Foundation_leaflet%2C_2009

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Rosicrucian_%22Ancient_Mystical_Order_Rosae_Crucis%22_Mandami_package%2C_2007

more to come, I’m sure…

at the mall

2009-10-15T03:44:00.000-07:00

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Golega

2009-09-30T15:17:00.000-07:00

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gralheira, red light district

2009-09-17T09:48:00.001-07:00

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firewind

2009-09-17T09:48:00.000-07:00

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Space is big. Really big. Here’s a video of almost none of it: The Milky Way.

2009-09-15T07:43:00.001-07:00

and there you thought is was a long way down the road to the chemist…

augmented reality apps #1

2009-09-12T04:21:00.001-07:00

apparentely only real-estate is considered reality so far… but let’s trust evolution to eventually enable this tech to do something actuallly useful. like finding and previewing the best strip joints and coffeeshops.

foz

2009-09-11T08:13:00.000-07:00

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Craiova

2009-09-03T05:11:00.000-07:00

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Current polls for ET candidates

2009-09-02T14:01:00.001-07:00

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ntpckr.php

not-so-intelligent design

2009-09-02T03:30:00.001-07:00

It just hit me: another reason why Intelligent Design theories are so silly. It’s actually quite obvious: the very notion that life derives from Intelligent Design is self-evidently false: Life on this planet has been designed entirely on a trial-and-error basis, as is made apparent by my deeply flawed life forms present here, that just happened to survive by sheer luck, until the next global catastrophe sets the record straight again and wipes them out forever. In fact, the only hardwired concept common to all life, and that justifies survival on these species (as well as all others), is precisely this permanent search for survival. Need examples? Go watch the ‘March of the Penguins’ flicks and tell me honestly that the Emperor Penguin is a species well fit to this planet. But there are many others living on dire straits. We even have the human example: what’s with the appendix? and the problematic coccix? and not being able to process cellulose in the stomach (considering it’s basic to most vegetables and easily digested by a plethora of bacteria)? No my ignorant god-seeking friends, it’s all been trial and error so far, mutations spawned slowly throughout the generations, struggling to survive. The very fact there’s such immense biodiversity on Earth goes to show there’s nothing intelligent about the Design of life, otherwise, we’d most likely have to have a single, near-perfect life form – that would above all be able do perform oral sex on itself.

Anyway, I’d love to hear thoughts on this – ideally I’d crowdsource a brainstorm here (how geeky right?) but there’s just not enough ppl reading this drivel, so spambots are welcome to comment to – hey! that’s basically the way Nature did it, so maybe it’ll work for me :P

glorious movie

2009-08-29T05:50:00.001-07:00

Tarantino did it again…! A true cinema masterpiece, movie’s doing what movies do best – tension, drama, action, glorious soundtrack, laughs and frights, s’all good in this gut-wrenching-sadistic-orgasm-inducing rollercoaster of blood, gut’s and Quentin-coolness, taken to the next level by an awe-inducing cast.

Anybody saying bad things about this masterpiece should be dragged outside and scalped alive. Any self-proclaimed movie critic doing so should be forced to watch it until they figure it out. And then scalped.

Inglorious Basterds definitely deserves a spot up there with Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

the time approaches...

2009-06-14T10:56:00.000-07:00

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Hotel u Prince

2009-05-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

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Golden Tiger

2009-05-14T10:14:00.000-07:00

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Prague library

2009-05-14T09:54:00.000-07:00

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ghostwall

2009-05-14T08:18:00.000-07:00

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Walenstein Plc

2009-05-14T08:15:00.000-07:00

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Jazz@Prague castle

2009-05-13T12:20:00.000-07:00

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Iasi

2009-05-07T08:56:00.000-07:00

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Area 51, Romania

2009-05-07T01:59:00.000-07:00

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Religulous

2009-05-06T15:16:00.001-07:00

this is, oddly enough, one extremely important movie for folks to watch.. (with the added extra of being dead funny)..

not meaning to sound ridiculous (or religulous) for having a comedian make such an impact on me, but this flick gave me the final push to come out of the closet: I AM A NON-BELIEVER! and screw your faith.. just 'coz you believe in something (for no apparent good reason) doesn't make you worthy of respect. if anything, it makes you.. well.. ridiculous.

Persuasion Through Persistence?

2009-04-24T08:41:00.001-07:00

http://www.cracked.com/article_17031_7-people-who-never-gave-up-but-absolutely-should-have.html

spite in studio, braga

2009-04-02T13:19:00.000-07:00

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bydgoszcz

2009-03-26T14:52:00.000-07:00

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Paradise Valley

2009-03-12T06:34:00.000-07:00

Roztoky, CR
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this is gonna b like... soooo cool!!!

2009-03-08T10:21:00.000-07:00

Dia do compadre (RIP)

2009-02-12T07:23:00.000-08:00

Alpalhao
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who r u f*cking?

2009-02-02T16:02:00.001-08:00

top of warsaw

2009-02-02T08:38:00.000-08:00

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getting stuck... again!

2009-01-26T04:26:00.001-08:00

Prague by Nite

2009-01-22T13:57:00.000-08:00

Top of Hotel au Prince
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Prague metro

2009-01-22T06:55:00.000-08:00

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Pribram

2009-01-21T05:10:00.000-08:00

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hotter & hotter as the years go by

2009-01-20T15:49:00.001-08:00

The Man is aging like wine, and yet can still be sour as vinegar...! Just watched Uncut from NYC and pissed myself... An angry angry funnyman - living icon Henry Rollins.

slums are in

2009-01-20T15:45:00.001-08:00

Danny Boyle's back with a really cool one... the flavour of India sets it aside from "Cidade de Deus" wannabee, because, well... it's about love! Actually.

Genghis Tron

2009-01-20T15:41:00.001-08:00

they call it cybermetal apparently... whatever the label, sounds good to me!

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best. footie. ever.

2009-01-20T12:42:00.001-08:00

SWOS - Total Pack

A complete solution to play any flavour of Sensible Soccer, at any speed, sound, command, whatever... fully customizable and the answer to the prayers of any football sim fan worthy of the air he breathes.
This game is still unbeatable in simulating what football is about, and screw all your eye-candy bullshit games...!

more on Kiva

2009-01-13T03:16:00.001-08:00

A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan from Kieran Ball on Vimeo.

Godjira is Godzilla

2008-12-31T04:17:00.001-08:00

Interesting french metal act, hinting at the consolidation of a style epitomized by their fellow countrymen Scarve.
I'm not much into the lyrics, but the fat, heavy grinding sound is just up my alley. Hope to catch them live sometime soon.

http://www.gojira-music.com/
http://www.myspace.com/gojira

kill the nimbys

2008-12-30T06:03:00.001-08:00

"It was great to see Essex County put a hold on wind farm projects.

There are a lot of unanswered questions when it comes to this energy solution.

The proposed windmills for our area are not the cute little postcard windmills from Holland.

These are massive turbines up to 150 metres in height. They create
noise and vibration and have the ability to cause health problems.

The
companies constructing these farms are rushing through the approval
process, banking on government incentives and a public that believes
anything green is good.

There is also the issue of esthetics and property values. Take a tour near the latest wind farm outside of Wheatley.

Until one is up close to one of these giants, it is hard to comprehend their imposing nature.

There is a place for wind farms, but it must not interfere with a person's right to enjoy their property.

PAUL SALDEN

Essex"

Windsor Star

Published: Tuesday, December 30, 2008

This disgusting NIMBY attitude makes me sick. It's precisely because of this self-righteous selfish imposition of a supposedly god-given right to "enjoy one's property" that's sending this planet down the drain. Apparently for folks like these it's more important to enjoy their oh-so-sacred property than solving the energy crisis and mitigating carbon emissions.
Everybody loves wind energy... just not here!
They should just expropriate his ass.

Cinfaes

2008-12-24T04:46:00.000-08:00

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Metal up their arses!

2008-12-16T11:16:00.001-08:00

Musicians don’t want tunes used for torture - MUSIC- msnbc.com

Hell yeah! I too, lost my mind the first time I listened to heavy music! And still often do! MEtaL rewlz l00zerz!!

Seriously what a pathetic state of self-loathing has western civilization reached when the collective conscience is burdened for 'torturing' captives (supposedly) holding mission-critical information with MUSIC!? can anyone think of anything LESS damaging to do to a human being that can still be considered torture? I mean the point is to drill out info from people used to some of the worst living conditions on this planet, who on top of that were mostly trained to withstand intensive interrogation, AND who are skilled in looking as inconspicuous as possible... get the picture? if you give air time to any of these guys they're bound to paint the darkest possible picture.. and it doesn't even seem that dark to me. not used to rock n'roll? tough luck, you just became a casualty of evolution, not imperialism...
meanwhil I read some Guantanamo prisoner's are being sent to several countries who offered to receive them... wait 'till you get a load of Romanian prisons doodz.. and if the other inmates get to know your priors, you'll be second only to rapists & pedophiles in everybody's shitlist. you'll be singin' "you shook me all night long" a couple of octaves higher in pitch my rug-headed friends..

Colosseum

2008-11-25T01:56:00.000-08:00

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Basilica S Pedro

2008-11-24T05:54:00.000-08:00

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Nero's bath

2008-11-24T05:53:00.000-08:00

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Vatican

2008-11-24T02:39:00.000-08:00

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S Angelo

2008-11-24T02:32:00.000-08:00

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Antico Caffe della Pace

2008-11-23T05:22:00.000-08:00

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Taverna di Mercanti

2008-11-22T13:21:00.000-08:00

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Trevi

2008-11-22T06:05:00.000-08:00

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Colline Emilione

2008-11-22T05:40:00.000-08:00

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The Dead

2008-11-22T02:27:00.000-08:00

Santa Maria del Popolo, Piazza del Popolo
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Gusto

2008-11-21T13:31:00.000-08:00

Rome I

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Iasi

2008-11-12T00:23:00.000-08:00

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Moldavia Romania

2008-11-11T03:27:00.000-08:00

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Queluz

2008-11-01T03:39:00.000-07:00

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walking the road of Hate

2008-10-22T08:43:00.001-07:00

fall

2008-10-15T08:08:00.000-07:00

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arcotel teatrino

2008-10-14T23:09:00.000-07:00

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in$anity

2008-10-07T03:04:00.001-07:00

Atocha, Madrid

2008-10-02T01:24:00.000-07:00

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Kiva

2008-09-26T09:05:00.001-07:00

I've been lending to Kiva for almost two years now, and the second loan I made has just been repaid: I helped Ndella Taye from Senegal to buy supplies to feed her cattle, which she sold to not only repay her loan, but to start a savings account with her husband.
This is her 12th microfinanced loan, and her ambitions to diversify her business are high. The total amount lent this time was $1,050.00. I contributed a measly $25, which I got back in exactly the timeframe promised (6 months).
In all truth, I can't say I did much, I didn't even spend any money, and yet it feels nice. Feels even nicer to see that I'm having a hard time reloaning the $25 to someone else, 'cause all loans requested on kiva.org are fully funded at this point! A big step up since the site got started...

Oh look, three new loans just popped up! Here's twenty-five bucks headed Mrs. Rojas' way!
Good luck in your business...!

guns don't kill people

2008-09-23T03:31:00.001-07:00

"...stupid motherfuckers with guns kill people"

according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies, there's one gun for every seven people worldwide. given that even the crappiest handgun packs at least six bullets, the math makes sense. what doesn't is that I'm one of the six getting shot :P
so what do you think, should I get a gun? should we all get a gun and finally have peace, in a coldwar-madman-tactics kind of logic? or should we take the gun from that other guy? I'm not sure I want to be the first in line for that one though...

and what is the connection between guns and highschool shootings in the connection-less world? Mr. Moore argues that the US right wing is the child-killer for allowing guns to spread among citizens. but he set out to prove that from the start, due to his own personal political bias - and you can prove anything you want if you set your mind to it from the beginning: blame it on God, the Devil, Allah or Canada. or the butterfly flapping its wings 30000km away. or the planets. so today in finland there was another shooting. and finland isn't the US, this is a civilized european country here. with low pollution and high income. with good jobs and salaries, and a high cultural level. so what are your conclusions now? (mr. moore's are probably something along the lines of 'bowling for helsinky' and how much revenue that'll generate - kudos for finding such a profitable niche) agreed, finland is the 3rd most heavily armed country in the world, just behind the US - but that's pretty obvious: no gun, no shooting. but is it so irrelevant to understand why this urge to kill emerges? seems to me we're having a really hard time adjusting to modern western life... and it's been a while!

Mihai Vitazu

2008-09-18T07:44:00.000-07:00

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Danube

2008-09-18T06:48:00.000-07:00

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Sailin' outta Braila

2008-09-18T06:37:00.000-07:00

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Mihai Vitazu

2008-09-17T03:49:00.000-07:00

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playtagger

2008-09-04T10:03:00.001-07:00

sanitarium - metallica

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the spiteful newsletter

2008-09-04T08:25:00.001-07:00

needs updating I think... ;)

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punkt

2008-08-28T17:21:00.000-07:00

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IP3, PT

2008-08-21T09:10:00.000-07:00

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Choke Point, Prague airport

2008-08-14T05:10:00.000-07:00

These creeps charged me 4.4. Eur for a shitty espresso! Kill them all!!!
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Praha

2008-08-12T03:33:00.000-07:00

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tokbox

2008-08-11T13:13:00.001-07:00

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alliance fest, carcavelos

2008-08-09T08:40:00.000-07:00

Echidna

Montalegre, Portugal

2008-08-06T06:32:00.001-07:00

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travelling without leaving the house

2008-07-22T06:50:00.001-07:00

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flight of the conchords - the humans are dead

2008-07-21T01:19:00.001-07:00

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Arco da Memoria

2008-07-16T06:15:00.000-07:00

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rollin'!

2008-07-10T14:24:00.000-07:00

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The Black One

2008-07-10T01:01:00.000-07:00

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GMT+2

2008-07-09T02:34:00.000-07:00

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Figueira da Foz

2008-06-27T08:19:00.000-07:00

Praia do Hospital & Serra da Boa Viagem
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Nyktos

2008-06-27T07:36:00.000-07:00

Once an underground sanctuary for lost souls in search of the heavier sounds, now 'for rent'. :(
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stuck!

2008-06-25T07:20:00.000-07:00

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Serra de Montemuro

2008-06-25T07:13:00.000-07:00

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blackberry test

2008-06-24T10:13:00.000-07:00

Blogging with my bberry...
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Dude...

2008-06-24T06:28:00.001-07:00

...welcome to Geekdom

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George Carlin is no more

2008-06-23T02:38:00.001-07:00

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...

...and you finish off as an orgasm.”

George Carlin, 12/05/1937 - 22/06/2008, RIP

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