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Letras que caem, duplas grafias que ficam – Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa O Acordo Ortográfico prevê alterações em cerca de 1,6 por cento das palavras que constituem o léxico da chamada variante luso-africana do português (que engloba Timor e Macau), ao passo que, na variante brasileira, apenas 0,5 por cento das palavras irão passar a ser escritas doutra maneira. O documento consagra ainda uma dupla grafia para algumas palavras que continuarão a escrever-se diversamente em Portugal e no Brasil....

Projects – IndieWebCamp Tools and resources to “Own Your Data” while still connecting with the outside world in general. A list of projects supporting or being actively used by IndieWebCamp attendees to create the Indie Web.

Watch — Everything is a Remix Everything is a Remix is produced by me, Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker. This site is a companion piece to the four-part video series. See also Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix | Video on TED.com

First and foremost, all we really did was our best implementation of what Chris Phin asked all App Makers to do in his talk at NSConference 5 . Our “perfect press release,” was literally just a point for point copy of the ideal press release from his talk, which I hope nobody will mind me sharing here. (via Launch Thanks | mur.mu.rs )

(via I’llTakeTen.com :: Shut Up And Take My Money! ) In classic ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses fashion 🙂

“A campanha do colesterol é o maior escândalo médico do nosso tempo” – Activa.pt Entrevista a Uffe Ranskov, investigador dinamarquês e fundador da Liga Internacional dos Céticos do Colesterol que defende que o colesterol alto não é causa mas apenas um sintoma das doenças cardiovasculares. Ver também O mito do colesterol.

Thoughts And Articles On Pricing | Software Indie Nice roundup of articles of software pricing.

Wine tasting is bullshit. Here’s why. HOWEVER, it bears emphatic mentioning that whether this suggests more expensive wines are objectively better (which it doesn’t) is irrelevant, because among amateur wine drinkers (which, let’s face it, you are), the survey found the opposite, i.e. a negative correlation between price and happiness, “suggesting that individuals on average enjoy more expensive wines slightly less.” Though some people seem to know what they’re talking about: Ep#2....

Duolingo | Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and English for free Language courses for free and for fun in a crowdsourced translations site with embedded game mechanics.

Pulling a few weeds every time is good for maintenance, but it doesn’t make sense to spread fertilizer one square foot each day. Cricket (via The Repeat Test and Personal Kanban ) Little-and-often and do-till-one are two different tools. (…) most projects need a mix of tools.