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There are some words in Portuguese that are odd to my English ears. puxe (pronounced "push"), means pull confuses the hell out of me when it's written on the door. pretende in means intend in English. entender means to understand . sex means Fri or sexta-feira. Every Friday it seems the elevator wants to have sex as it shows the date at the top. no means in or at . So the other day I saw " 1/2 preço no happy-hour " and it made me sad that there's no happy hour. meia means half, socks , and six . Apparently, the six comes from "half" a dozen. de 30 em 30 dias means every 30 days but to my mathematical mind 30/30 = 1, it should be every day. legal means legal and cool . But I would think that only lawyers think legal is cool. direito means right , but direto means straight ahead . Very confusing when someones giving instructions while driving. jóia means jewelry and great . Actually, this one does kinda make sense. If it meant B...

I was at a Google party and we were talking about our first computers etc. and got a big laugh when I admitted that I remembered the day we got the new DOS with subdirectories (i.e. mkdir). That would have been MS-DOS 2.0 in 1983, I was 16 years old then.

Content aware image sizing is a method of resizing an image horizontally or vertically by removing pixels. In the picture above we're resizing horizontally and the cyan line is the pixels that will be removed. What's even neater is you can give hints of what parts to preserve or which parts to preferencially remove. Watch the video it explains it all. Here's the research paper .

Looks like the Wii has finally outsold the XBox 360 in worldwide sales, despite the one year lead by Microsoft. Although my favorite site doesn't yet say that yet.

This model follows your cursor with her eyes and is very well done. So well done it's creepy .

I like the really high life expectancy too. Not sure if I can trust this program though, it's not too sure on how to spell "Expectancy".

Why do we have a line of hair sitting caterpillar-like above each of our eyes? Forget such mundanities as dust protection or ornamentation, a new study suggests our eyebrows serve to control how easily other people can tell where we are looking.