Try to open the cave's door (puzzle)

How to ride a KTM

SERIOUS FUN!

In Autoblog: Video: KTM demonstrates how to ride its bikes

Explicação para a Crise Financeira

Acabei de ler um artigo intitulado "Para onde foi o dinheiro?" que me foi enviado, publicado na imprensa alemã (jornal Die Zeit, 27/Nov/2008 - tradução auto pelo Google aqui) e traduzido por Elisabete Antunes (uma benfeitora desconhecida).
Para quem já está farto de ouvir falar em crise financeira, crise de crédito, crise SubPrime, etc., aconselho vivamente a leitura deste artigo!

Eis um excerto (da tradução):
"podemos encontrar a primeira resposta à pergunta sobre o paradeiro do dinheiro na cidade fantasma perto de Las Vegas: só no estado do Nevada estão 22.000 casas à venda. Em todo o país existem 4,67 milhões de casas e apartamentos desabitados. Ninguém os quer. Custaram uma média de 212.000 dólares o que perfaz um total de 990 mil milhões presos nas paredes e no chão."

Podem ler o resto aqui

Trip to Australia & New Zealand: Day 4: September 3, 2008: Sydney Sights with the Works

We got up, early in the morning, to catch the so called "Sydney Sights with the Works" tour.
Basically, we traveled inside and outside Sydney... a lot. To be honest, it was too exhausting, despite some spectacular scenery that we were able to see, as you can check by the photos.
Beside the scenery, the hightlights were the unexpected "magpie's bus invasion", the lunch on board at the cruise and the 8 AUD that we paid for 2 little coffees in a bar at Bondi Beach!
Anyway, Sydney is beautiful:

Trip to Australia & New Zealand: Day 2-3: September 1-2, 2008: Sydney

Day 2: planes and airports, that's all there is. First London to Hong Kong, then to Sydney. The good part of this were the Cathay Pacific Airbus A330 planes with their personal multimedia systems! Good movies and good TV series. I was able to see Iro Man, for instance.
Finally, we arrived to Sydney. By the way, here's a weird scene at Sydney airport: two girls got out of the plane by mistake; they were supposed to get out only at Auckland, New Zealand! How weird is that?
We arrived very early in the morning. So early we couldn't go to the hotel room yet. So we left our luggage at the hotel reception and went to a walk to check the surroundings. Of course we were completely exausted but, well, the excitement kept us awake... hardly.
Anyway we got time to walk around and see almost all the Sydney's centre, including the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, the Sydney Tower and Darling Harbour.
By the way, did you know that Paul Hogan, the actor from Crocodile Dundee, one of the movies that put Australia in the Hollywood menu, held a job painting this bridge, which in turn is always been painted because of its size.
Here are some of the photos: