Thursday, December 18, 2008

Saturday, November 29, 2008

palavras

Palavras que não percorrem o ar, silenciosas e ausentes. A ele custa a encarar, não é bem encarar, acaba por ser uma vontade de querer uma acalmia aparentemente muito distante. Face a sete anos já passados, e com uma volta ao mundo em atraso, são muitos os bocados que acabam à deriva da azáfama citadina. Sempre sem perceber o aquilo que por lógico se apresenta como possibilidade de ser o percorrer de uma solução só para ele não evidente, acaba muitas das vezes a tentar melhorar o que podia ser uma harmonia. E toda a mudança num sistema em equilíbrio, inevitavelmente obriga a colisões. Mais uma pensa ela, olhando para ele após um choque em cadeia.

E na declaração amigável, qual pacto selado, gravado e apostado num lance de acaso, rodou, e em vez de esperar que o exército metropolitano, ditador e normalizador de uma sociedade unicolor o levasse nos braços para ser engolido a um ritmo marchante, decidiu tentar fazer alguma diferença.

E ele e ela aceleraram.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Eternal sunshine from a spotless mind revisited

From: Scientists Wipe Mice Memories, Forgetting the Past Could Be a Pill Away

With new medicine you may soon be able to choose to wipe your memories -- but is it a choice you want to make?

Scientists are gaining impressive new insight into the brain and nervous system of late. New experiments in neuron signaling could one day return movement to victims of paralysis. And the next generation of computer controllers are already tuning in to our brain waves. New technology even promises to reverse memory loss.

Now a radical new technology may dramatically alter life as we know it. The Georgia College of Medicine has invented a chemical treatment that molecularly wipes traumatic or intense memories. The chemical, successfully tested on lab mice, could be adapted to human physiology according to research and could one day be available to treat a variety of psychological ailments or even for elective use.

The approach targets a specific chemical in the brain. This chemical, a protein, plays a crucial role in the formation of memories. When recalling a specific painful event, a drug developed by the researchers overloads this mechanism, causing an excess of the protein to be produced. This causes the brain to overload and chemically wipe all trace of the negative memory, without any apparent physiologically harmful side effects.

Scientists say that the treatment could be applied to humans and could one day wipe memories of traumatic events, a common cause of psychological problems. While the researchers caution that memories are an important part of the learning process, they also acknowledge that some memories cause the mind more harm than good.

Dr. Joe Tsien, of the Brain and Behaviour Discovery Institute in Georgia comments, "First of all I should emphasise the methodology is not applicable to the human clinical situation yet. However, it does suggest molecular paradigms which we can explore to perhaps achieve the same kind of effects in humans - but those are probably years or decades away."

He comments that war veterans, "often suffer from reoccurring traumatic memory replays after returning home". A pill version of the memory wipe chemical could one day eliminate these traumatic flashbacks.

The new medicine bears uncanny parallels to the fictional movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" in which Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey play two characters formerly in love who decide to wipe their memories of each other.

Dr. Joe Tsien warns, though, that if the treatment should ever be adapted for the human physiology, people should use it with caution. He describes that most memories are useful, but a few can be harmful. "If one got a bad relationship with another person, hoping to have a pill to erase the memory of that person or relationship is not the solution. (But) while memories are great teachers and obviously crucial for survival and adaptation, selectively removing incapacitating memories, such as traumatic war memories or an unwanted fear, could help many people live better lives."

The scientists used a special chamber to test the memory wipe. A sound would play and mice would receive a mild, slightly painful shock. The mice became alarmed when they would hear the noise. Giving the mice the "memory protein" alpha-CaMKII, also found in humans, when the mice were not hearing the sound did nothing, apparently because the mice were not accessing the memory. However, when the researchers played the sound and administered excess levels of the protein, the memory of the mice was wiped. This was evidenced by repeated trials which showed the memory wiped mice to be unafraid of the sound when normal mice started panicking.

While many may be curious of how the new technology might affect life, Dr. Tsien reminds that it will take time to adapt to the human physiology. He states, "No one should expect to have a pill do the same in humans any time soon, we are barely at the foot of a very tall mountain."

And yet, the new research takes the prospect of human memory wipes from the realm of fiction to ongoing research, and in doing so raises key social, moral, and ethical quandaries.


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Have you ever seen the movie Eternal sunshine from a spotless mind?

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

a nice talk

In a nice talk with a friend last week, we ended up talking things like the need for money, but primarily the conversation focus on the show off of little nice gizmos, cars, spending cash for others, i think I could go on :)


Discover Jack Johnson!


I don't want share my opinion this time, so I will leave a song and the corresponding subtitles.






Enjoy.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Comparador de preços de gasolineiras, por zona.

Pareceu-me um pouco vazio de informação preçária, porque lá bombas indica ele. Para seguir com alguma atenção.

Site: GASMAPPERS
Link da notícia: TEK.SAPO

Friday, August 15, 2008

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Palavras de amor em Português

e se de repente ficasse tudo parado à tua volta?

O que fazias?



enjoy

Friday, June 20, 2008

Make your Actions Reflect your Words

I think in this on another media format all have seen this one. If not, enjoy.
thx scowlett for this



:'(

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

boa sorte

reaccionário é como se sente o mundo que vivo.

De fora olho,
Como se adorno celeste significasse,
tentando perceber o fervilhar,
dos incontrolos emocionais,
calculados de fórmulas imediatas.

Encontro tudo enquadrado,
em passados já ultrapassados,
vividos outrora,
por outros também já idos.

Por isso não procurando respostas,
encontro soluções e percepções,
de realidades concretas,
Guardando o que se pode,
Qual retrato fotográfico,
qual mnemónica para guardar o presente,
que ajude a sonhar de olhos abertos o ontem,
esperando o acordar de amanhã que tarda a chegar.

Já sabes,
não vás para muito longe...

Friday, May 02, 2008

a + b = a

como se fossem dez minutos depois, mas na realidade passou hora e meia.

if violence was a solution, mas não é.
Não é, nem nunca será. Infelizmente é um meio usado para atingir demasiados fins e acabamos por também sentirmo-nos tentados a adquirir parte do globo.

É frustante a impotência para fazermos a diferença.
Os meus parabéns ao topo da cadeia de domínio humano, pois penso que estejam quase lá.

Aliás pensando nisso enquanto escrevo, a réstia de evolução desta nossa sociedade que tenta totalizar de esperança as nossas cabeças, não servirá como um potencial não catalizador de uma eventual revolução? Se pensar que poderá haver hipóteses destas mudanças, posso sentar-me e dormir à espera que elas surjam, verdade? Caso contrário poderei sentir-me desperado e com nada a perder. E se não tiver nada a perder, o que posso perder por tentar?

Mais, se tivesse o poder para tentar fazer a diferença, possivelmente estaria corrompido como os demais, sendo apenas mais um elemento nulo numa qualquer equação global.



listening:
UNKLE - War Stories

if violence was a solution

Nacionalismo? Sociedade aberta? Emigração? Importação? Intervenção?
Do I give a care? Do we give a care?

Foda-se o criticismo de merda. Não ligo, como ninguém liga. Então não digam que se preocupam, que estão a tentar fazer alguma coisa para mudar.

Onde está a preocupação pela ralé que é da nossa espécie? Que nem devia ser da nossa espécia tal miséria que têm? Solução? Matar, matar, matar! Morrer ou ser morto.
Está na nosso sangue, queremos ver sofrimento! Queremos MATAR, queremos tirar vida!
KILL, KILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Porque não adoptam uma filosofia de vida, que se baseia no princípio de exterminar a vida humana, assim não é preciso de ser falacioso. Genocídio, Morte e Prazer. E no fim querer matar mais uma vez.



E que tal paz? Preocupações? Apenas se respiro ou expiro primeiro.
Where's the train and the one way ticket to the promise land?

RATM - The Ghost of Tom Joad

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

there's always a motive

Calhou apanhar-te num momento de fugida,
Sentir o teu cabelo a roçar a esquina de saída,
Mas o teu sorriso ficou para trás :)

Porque o fizeste,
Se sabes dos issues auditivos que tal inocência pode trazer?

Recomendo:
The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues

Monday, April 28, 2008

The big picture and the problem of it

PART I
Mais um daqueles nocturnos dias claros.
Sobe o que tem que subir, danças ao pé de mim.
Acelera, mais uma vez, acelera.
Drink a glass, taste the known silence.
Check and check it again.
It's right there, open up and let all the feelings come out.
Don't put your barriers in the way, say as you mean it.

PART II
Será do teu, será do meu?
Ofereces-me os teus lábios,
E um pouco de still time,
Em que o que passa, não passa por nós,
Pedes mais do que um olhar,
Do que um sorriso no sítio certo

PART III
The little man which didn't pass,
Started a conversation,
About the question of here and there,
About the sleeping of the trees,
As a calm dream in the sea

PART IV
You're missing the biggest picture,
Let me help you getting into frame,
Grab my hand, and let me fly you,
Should you accept it?
Should you cry has it can't help anything?
Let me guide you into the sun,
Blindly burning your eyes.

PART V
The sum of the parts, is usually bigger than the part itself,
Grab the one, and the two, and the three
And make them immutable,
Some day I'll give you the sums signals,
And the solution,
Will be yours.
Just don't die will ya?
Miss you,
and want to miss you for a long time to come.

Friday, April 11, 2008

r we free?

Zuca smiled has I popped the question.

I don't think we are, honestly, mainly because we tend to go with flow of the outside sea, and start to think as a group and not so much as an individual.

But, I think we can be free, in true meaning of the this small word, but at the same time so mind blowing. All it takes it's a little courage, perhaps forgetting some roots, leaving only it a couple of strings attached. Don't mean to jump of the cliff, i mean to stand at it's upper limit, and feeling that you r right were you r supposed to be, and that you're aware of it. Even only in a "It's all in the head" like a very good friend of mine says.

I like to call this as a breathing of John Lennon "Imagine" filled with "Hyper Ballad" felling.

Felling free? After writing this, me and Zuca are. And you?