"Cass Sunstein recently described how Wikipedia moves us past the rigid limits of socialist planning that Friedrich Hayek attacked on the grounds that "no planner could possibly obtain the dispersed bits of information held by individual members of society. Hayek insisted that the knowledge of individuals, taken as a whole, is far greater than that of any commission or board, however diligent and expert."

"There’s ample evidence that Hayek was right in an examination of the failure of planned economies – smart men sitting in a room do a far worse job of setting the price of copper ore or bread than the collected actions of thousands of consumers, iterated over time."
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/11/30/cass-sunsteins-infotopia/

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/11/30/cass-sunsteins-infotopia/

Make it Mine
Jason Mraz
"
...
I don't wanna break before
The tour is over
I'm gonna make it mine
Yes i...I'll own it
I'm gonna make it mine
Yes I'll make it all mine

And timing's everything
And this time there's plenty
I am balancing
Careful and steady
And reveling in energy that everyone's emitting

I don't wanna wait no more
No I wanna celebrate the whole world
I'm gonna make it mine
Because I'm following your joy
I'm gonna make it mine
Because I... I am open
I'm gonna make it mine
that's why I will show it
I'm gonna make it all mine
It's mine...
Yes I will make it all mine"

On motivation...

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
Wayne Dyer

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar

Quote from The Hurt Locker

Staff Sergeant William James: [Speaking to his son] You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your Mommy, your Daddy. You love your pajamas. You love everything, don't ya? Yea. But you know what, buddy? As you get older... some of the things you love might not seem so special anymore. Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you'll realize it's just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal. And then you forget the few things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. With me, I think it's one.

Against the Wind
Bob Seger

"...
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then

Against the wind
We were runnin' against the wind
We were young and strong, we were runnin'
Against the wind

The years rolled slowly past
And I found myself alone
Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends
I found myself further and further from my home
And I guess I lost my way
There were oh so many roads
I was living to run and running to live
Never worryied about paying or even how much I owed
Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time
Breaking all of the rules that would bend
I began to find myself searching
Searching for shelter again and again "

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Meu Mundo é Hoje
Paulinho da Viola
"...
Tenho pena daqueles que se agacham até o chão
Enganando a si mesmo por dinheiro ou posição
Nunca tomei parte desse enorme batalhão,
Pois sei que além de flores, nada mais vai no caixão.
Eu sou assim, quem quiser gostar de mim eu sou assim."

Lula e os b(r)ancos de olhos azuis

...e quem tem culpa nessa crise.

http://pedrodoria.com.br/2009/03/30/lula-brancos-de-olhos-azuis-e-quem-tem-culpa-nesta-crise/

Hurt
Nine Inch Nails

"...
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
..."

By the way, check out NiN and Jane's Addiction's exclusive unreleased track downloads: http://www.ninja2009.com/

Round Here
Counting Crows
"...
Round here we're carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
Round here she's slipping through my hands
...
Round here she's always on my mind
Round here I got lots of time
Round here we're never sent to bed early
and nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late
I can see nothing... nothing round here
Will you catch if I'm falling
Will you catch me if I'm falling
Will you catch me cause I'm falling down on you
I said I'm under the gun around here
I'm innocent I'm under the gun around here
And I can see nothing
Nothing round here
"

Diz Adam Duritz, vocalista do Counting Crows:
"A música começa com um cara saindo pela porta da frente de casa e deixando essa mulher pra trás. Mas o quanto mais ele começa a deixar pessoas para trás em sua vida, mais ele sente que está se deixando para trás também. Ele sente que se está se tornando menos e menos importante para si mesmo. E é tipo isso que a música fala, porque ele sente que enquanto ele desaparece da vida das pessoas, mais e mais ele está desaparecendo da sua própria vida."

"You want a wife with a flat face, narrow eyes, and strong legs. ('evil spirits dive into wide eyes')"
Khan Yesugei tells Temujin (Genghis Khan)

Experimentos com Animais II

"
(...)
É sinal de profunda ignorância e/ou leviandade colocar experimentação científica séria, voltada para a saúde da humanidade, no mesmo saco que: touradas, Farra do Boi, criação de gansos para fazer patê de foie gras, caça "esportiva" de animais ou para extrair peles para casaco de madames fúteis, (...) (todos procedimentos que sou absolutamente contra).
(...)
Se o leitor, após ler o que escrevi, ainda discorda de minha argumentação, respeito totalmente sua opinião, apenas peço coerência. Se não és vegetariano, torne-se imediatamente. Pare então de usar tudo que foi testado em animais: medicamentos alopáticos estão todos fora de cogitação, inclusive anestésicos. Deves fazer qualquer procedimento cirúrgico sem anestesia. Aliás, pensando bem, a maioria dos procedimentos cirúrgicos atuais ainda foram testados em animais, ou derivam de outros que assim o foram. Ou seja, a grande maioria deles estaria fora de sua lista de itens 'zôo-corretos', inclusive nada de ir ao dentista. "

Obrigado à Raquel que me mandou por e-mail esse artigo de O Globo.

Qualquer dinheiro vale?

A Embraer vendeu um caça Super Tucano para a Blackwater, aquela empresa de defesa/segurança que está sendo investigada por mortes de civis no Iraque. Diz pra mim: qualquer dinheiro vale? Ou sou só eu que acho que é imoral fazer essa venda?

Georgia Why
John Mayer
"
...
Everybody is just a stranger but
that's the danger in going my own way
I guess it's the price I have to pay
still 'Everything happens for a reason'
is no reason not to ask myself

If I'm living it right
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why, tell me why
Why, why Georgia why?"

MEDO
Melissa Lopes

Tenho medo de tudo
e me chamas corajosa!
Tenho medo de ter medo
e ainda o tenho;
tenho medo de chorar,
e mais eu choro e me apavoro
diante do perigo,
e me chamas corajosa!

Tenho medo de te amar,
e confessar o que sinto,
então eu minto;
tento me esconder
no canto escuro que é minha vida...
E me chamas querida!
Quero te falar dos meus desejos,
e de teus beijos
que só me fazem bem...
e tudo fica além...
pois tenho medo.

E o segredo que me guarda
é o mesmo que trái,
e me consagra rainha de ninguém...
Tenho medo do futuro
e do escuro que vejo em teus olhos.
Este escuro brilhante,
que me cega a verdade, verdade escondida
num canto escuro que é minha vida!
E me chamas querida...
Imploro-te: não pares...
ainda com medo, guardo o segredo
e sempre te chamo...
e embora eu não fale, e sempre me cale
eu sei que te amo!

JF City, 17/12/1993