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		<title>The worst cover version of a song ever</title>
		<link>http://juliobiason.net/2010/08/30/thw-worst-cover-version-of-a-song-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about two weeks I&#8217;m going to work, listening to radio and a weird version of &#8220;Under Pressure&#8221; plays in the radio. This version completely makes me cringe in some parts because it completely ruins the mood of the song. &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/08/30/thw-worst-cover-version-of-a-song-ever/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For about two weeks I&#8217;m going to work, listening to radio and a weird version of &#8220;Under Pressure&#8221; plays in the radio. This version completely makes me cringe in some parts because it completely ruins the mood of the song. Today I found this version on the internet.</p>
<p>But first, let me explain what it&#8217;s wrong with it: &#8220;Under Pressure&#8221;, in the way Queen sings it (and Keane too, if my memory doesn&#8217;t fail) sounds a lot like &#8220;society vs the individual&#8221;. All the song is permeated with references to people not being/doing what they want. &#8220;Why can&#8217;t we give ourselves one more chance?&#8221;, &#8220;Pressure [...] puts people on the streets&#8221;. Really, not a happy song. The strong hits of Roger Taylor on the drums mark it as a very strong mood and strong feelings.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t completely say &#8220;it&#8217;s utter crap&#8221;. At least the guys kept in their rhythm instead of just mimicking the original song. Unfortunately, they had the very sad idea of doing a cover version of &#8220;Under Pressure&#8221; when it&#8217;s tone have nothing to do with their type of song.</p>
<p>So, if you have a strong stomach or really doesn&#8217;t care about songs, press play: </p>
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		<title>The early possibilities for the TNG cast</title>
		<link>http://juliobiason.net/2010/08/27/the-early-possibilities-for-the-tng-cast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SlashFilm psoted a very interested thing for Trekkies: The list of early actors considered for The Next Generation. When I was reading the list and wondering &#8220;Who is that guy?&#8221; a few names suddenly popped up like &#8220;Hey! I know &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/08/27/the-early-possibilities-for-the-tng-cast/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SlashFilm psoted a very interested thing for Trekkies: <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/27/star-trek-the-next-generation-casting-memo/">The list of early actors considered for The Next Generation</a>. When I was reading the list and wondering &#8220;Who is that guy?&#8221; a few names suddenly popped up like &#8220;Hey! I know this guy!&#8221;, so I decided to check <a href="http://memory-alpha.org">Memory Alpha</a> to see if any others joined any of the series later.</p>
<ul>
<li>Picard
<ul>
<li><u>Patrick Stewart</u>: Well, he got the job.</li>
<li><u>Mitch Ryan</u>: Played Riker (Jonathan Frakes) father, apparently in 2 episodes.</li>
<li>Roy Thinnes: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li>Yaphet Kotto: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li>Patrick Bauchau: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Tasha
<ul>
<li>Lianne Langland: Didn&#8217;t join the cast</li>
<li><u>Julia Nickson</u>: Did two different, minor, characters, in two different TNG episodes.</li>
<li><u>Rosalind Chao</u>: Really joined the cast, and with a character the got into two series: first, 9 episides in TNG and then 18 in DS9, as Keiko O&#8217;Brien. The curious thing about this is that, in my humble opinion, Keiko and Tasha are completely opposites.</li>
<li>Leah Ayers: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li>Bunty Bailey: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
</ul>
<p>The actress that got the job was Denise Crosby, which was selected for another role.
</li>
<li>Data
<ul>
<li>Mark Lindsay Chapman: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li><u>Eric Menyuk</u>: Joined in 3 TNG episodes, as a center character for those episodes.</li>
<li><u>Kevin Peter Hall</u>: Only for one TNG episode.</li>
<li>Kelvin Han Yee: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
</ul>
<p>(Weird fact: Brent Spinner, who got the job and was considered one the best impersonations of an android, is not in the list.)
</li>
<li>Ryker
<ul>
<li>Michael O’Gorman: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li>Gregg Marx: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li><u>Jonathan Frakes</u>: Got the job and shown the world what a manly beard looks like.</li>
<li>Ben Murphy: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Geordi
<ul>
<li><u>LeVar Burton</u>: Got the job.</li>
<li>Reggie Jackson: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li><u>Tim Russ</u>: Did a small appearance in TNG as a thief knocked out cold by Picard in the first half of the episode, made a Klingon in a single DS9 episode and joined Voyager in full time to play Tuvok.</li>
<li>Wesley Snipes: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li>Victor Love: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li>Chip McCallister: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li>Clarence Gilyard Jr.: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li><u>Kevin Peter Hall</u>: Yes, see above.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Beverly
<ul>
<li>Anne Twomey: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li>Jenny Augutter: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
<li><u>Cheryl McFadden</u>: Yes, she joined the cast as Beverly Crusher. Unsuspecting trekkies know her as Gates McFadden, though.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Troi
<ul>
<li><u>Denise Crosby</u>: Joined the cast, but not as Troi. She got the part for Tasha Yar while Troi was played by Marina Sirtis. The history says that, in the episode Tasha dies and they have her funeral, Sirtis was really crying, as both became really good friends.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Wesley
<ul>
<li>J.D. Roth: Didn&#8217;t join the cast.</li>
</ul>
</li>
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		<title>OAuth paranoia</title>
		<link>http://juliobiason.net/2010/08/10/oauth-paranoia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day after I posted the lack of respect for OSS apps in Twitter &#8220;ecosystem&#8221; (a word they seem to like a lot these days), they announced that the API request for trending topics will now return the promoted tweets. &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/08/10/oauth-paranoia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One day after I posted the lack of respect for OSS apps in Twitter &#8220;ecosystem&#8221; (a word they seem to like a lot these days), they announced that the API request for trending topics will now return the promoted tweets.</p>
<p>As I was reading this announcement, the paranoid hat fell on my head.</p>
<p>As I explained before, OAuth allows Twitter to simply cut the access of an application at their own will because, as they say, it may &#8220;harm the ecosystem&#8221;. The problem is that since forever, the line of what is &#8220;harmful&#8221; to the &#8220;ecosystem&#8221; was never fully explained and seems to be a moving target: Every day, someone will post on Twitter-Developement-Talk about their applications getting rejected due some not explained reason and being pointed to the Terms of Use.</p>
<p>Now, since Twitter never really explained what the &#8220;ecosystem&#8221; is and can simply cut any application they want, what may stop them to cut the access of some application that removes promoted tweets in the basis that promoted tweets are good for the &#8220;ecosystem&#8221;?</p>
<p>Does this paranoid hat make me look crazy?</p>
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		<title>Twitter making it hard to use OSS apps with their API</title>
		<link>http://juliobiason.net/2010/08/06/twitter-making-it-hard-to-use-oss-apps-with-their-api/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter, the biggest microblogging tool around, decided to change their policy to applications and it&#8217;s making it hard to OSS developers create applications that can be as good as the other applications. First, let me explain what is the problem &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/08/06/twitter-making-it-hard-to-use-oss-apps-with-their-api/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twitter, the biggest microblogging tool around, decided to change their policy to applications and it&#8217;s making it hard to OSS developers create applications that can be as good as the other applications.</p>
<p>First, let me explain what is the problem they are trying to solve, how they are trying to solve and how this will make the life of OSS developers harder.</p>
<h3>How things work today?</h3>
<p>Today, applications can use the Basic Auth, which send your username and password to Twitter, which checks and, on success, returns your messages, direct messages, post your update and so on. The flaw in this is that someone could be &#8220;listening&#8221; to your communication and easily guess your username and password. Or you computer could get hacked, attackers could just retrieve the file with your password. And then, one day, you wake up and see some of your updates saying, for example &#8220;Buy viagra&#8221; or &#8220;I liek cocks&#8221;; not good.</p>
<h3>Solving the password stolen problem with OAuth</h3>
<p>To solve the problem of someone stealing your password, Twitter decided to embrace OAuth for two reasons: First, you store an authorization token on your side and not your password, so if you your computer gets hacked, they still don&#8217;t have your password. Second, if one application misbehaves, you can remove its permission to post and you should be all good.</p>
<p>On top of that, for applications that are very very naughty, they can completely revoke your application access. Why? The logic behind it is that spammers don&#8217;t really care if their spammy applications are misbehaving, as long as they post spam all the day. It also makes the spammers life harder by forcing them to create accounts manually (which they do already) and applications manually, or a group of fake accounts could suddenly stop working &#8217;cause one single application was revoked.</p>
<h3>And where is the problem?</h3>
<p>Basically, to avoid someone to listen to your communication and use your authorization token, the application must have an identification and a secret token, which is used to encrypt the authentication token and message signature. So, even if your computer is hacked and their stole your authorization token, they still can&#8217;t use it &#8217;cause they don&#8217;t have the application secret and, that way, can&#8217;t sign the messages as being that application.</p>
<p>So Twitter said to all developers today: &#8220;<em>Never</em> share your keys! I&#8221;</p>
<p>And here lies the problem for open source developers: We were forced to chose amongst two options:</p>
<ul>
<li>First, we could follow Twitters idea and not share the application keys with the application itself. For a user to be able to use the application, then, they would have to register they application themselves, with another name. For an experienced user, it may be ok, but for users that simply want to read new messages, going all the way  of registering an application, knowing if it is a desktop or a browser app, provide some URL and so on it&#8217;s too damn complicated. Most users would simply forget about, and think that their friend&#8217;s application, which is closed source, is way better.</li>
<li>Second, we ignore Twitter&#8217;s recommendation and distribute our application with our keys. In this case, we can either suffer from someone taking those keys and spamming Twitter, thus revoking the application secret and letting our users without any access till we provide a new secret; greately reducing our users protection &#8217;cause their authorization tokens can be easily exploited in case their computers get hacked; or, simply, Twitter decides that since we are providing our keys publicly, and that&#8217;s bad for the ecosystem (because of the two previous maybes) and revokes the application anyway.
</li>
</ul>
<p>In summary: Either we give applications with a terrible user experience or we have to bite the bullet and give our users an application with incredible reduced security for them (or that, one day, will simply stop working even if the community of users around it behaves nicely, just because someone took the keys and abused the system.)</p>
<p>Twitter came with a solution for open source applications that, basically, mimics the application registration thing: The application is marked by them as open source, so we would have access to another URL, which basically registers a new application with your application as template, gets a new application secret and identification, returns to you and then you keep using that from now on. So, in case the secret is hacked, only one application is compromised and only one application is blocked. But that won&#8217;t be available on the day they will kill the basic authorization. So there will be a gap where open source applications and their users will be completely vulnerable to attacks.</p>
<p>Personally, I hate this instance from them. With Mitter, I always aimed for a simple application that would be easy to use and secure, whenever possible. Their current position forces me to chose one in favour of the other.</p>
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		<title>Upstarting (Synergy and Jira)</title>
		<link>http://juliobiason.net/2010/07/30/upstarting-synergy-and-jira/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After some small headaches, I managed to setup my first two upstart scripts[1]. So, for your amusement, here they are: Synergy # Synergy server description "Synergy Server" author "Julio Biason " start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems) stop on runlevel [016] &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/07/30/upstarting-synergy-and-jira/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After some small headaches, I managed to setup my first two upstart scripts[1]. So, for your amusement, here they are:</p>
<h3>Synergy</h3>
<pre># Synergy server

description        "Synergy Server"
author            "Julio Biason <julio .biason@gmail.com>"

start on (net-device-up
          and local-filesystems)
stop on runlevel [016]

umask 007

pre-start script
    [ -s /etc/synergy.conf ]
end script

exec /usr/bin/synergys</julio></pre>
<h3>Jira</h3>
<pre># Jira issue tracking

description        "Jira issue tracker"
author            "Julio Biason <julio .biason@gmail.com>"

start on (local-filesystems)
stop on runlevel [016]

script
    su - jira
    # Yes, I just unpacked and run it. And I'll have to change this in case
    # I get a new version.
    cd /usr/local/jira/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.1.2-standalone
    bin/startup.sh
end script</julio></pre>
<p><em>Note</em>: I just noticed the Jira upstart doesn&#8217;t do a proper shutdown (calling <tt>bin/shutdown.sh</tt>). I&#8217;ll fix it later and post it again.</p>
<hr />
<p><sup>[1] &#8220;Small headaches&#8221; &#8217;cause I&#8217;m used to the old way of writing startup scripts, which are way more explicit than upstart. But, once you got one running, this looks a bit simpler (although not as explicit as the old shell scripts.)</sup></p>
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		<title>Medos que se tornam verdade</title>
		<link>http://juliobiason.net/2010/07/08/medos-que-se-tornam-verdade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quando coloquei que o Tadeu Schmidt deveria calar a boca eternamente, acabei concluindo com uma preocupa&#231;&#227;o (que poderia mais ser um reductio ad absurdum) de que se nos esportes aceitam-se os trocadilhos engra&#231;adinhos e deixa-se a not&#237;cia, o fato, de &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/07/08/medos-que-se-tornam-verdade/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quando coloquei que <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/07/02/porque-o-tadeu-schmidt-tem-que-calar-a-boca/">o Tadeu Schmidt deveria calar a boca eternamente</a>, acabei concluindo com uma preocupa&ccedil;&atilde;o (que poderia mais ser um <i>reductio ad absurdum</i>) de que se nos esportes aceitam-se os trocadilhos engra&ccedil;adinhos e deixa-se a not&iacute;cia, o fato, de lado, isso logo espalharia para as demais &aacute;reas do jornalismo. Obviamente, um grande salto de l&oacute;gica.</p>
<p>Infelizmente, n&atilde;o levou muito tempo para que eu achasse um exemplo real do meu medo.</p>
<p>Na Zero Hora de hoje, bem na capa, h&aacute; a seguinte manchete:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Um goleiro enredado&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>&Eacute;, obviamente, uma alus&atilde;o &agrave; pris&atilde;o do goleiro Bruno do Flamengo, acusado de ter sequestrado a amante, for&ccedil;a-la a abortar e, como a crian&ccedil;a chegou a nascer, acabou por planejar a morte da mesma. Ou, pelo menos, &eacute; a linha que est&aacute; sendo seguida pelas investiga&ccedil;&otilde;es da pol&iacute;cia e cujos fatos est&atilde;o surgindo para confirmar a hip&oacute;tese.</p>
<p>E, com um caso b&aacute;rbado destes, a Zero Hora, que deveria ser um jornal s&eacute;rio (em contra-partida com o j&aacute; n&atilde;o s&eacute;rio Di&aacute;rio Ga&uacute;cho), coloca um trocadilho destes. Se jornal tivesse som, a manchete seria seguida por algum imitador do S&iacute;lvio Santos rindo.</p>
<p>Um homem abusa da posi&ccedil;&atilde;o de sucesso na m&iacute;dia para participar de orgias, engravida uma garota de programa, for&ccedil;a-a a abortar e depois planeja sua morte e a executa com a ajuda de traficantes. E vira trocadilho de um dos maiores ve&iacute;culos de not&iacute;cias do estado.</p>
<p>Realmente, &#8220;jornalismo&#8221; &eacute; uma atividade rara no pa&iacute;s, sendo gradualmente substituido pela com&eacute;dia.</p>
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		<title>Porque o Tadeu Schmidt tem que calar a boca</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tudo come&#231;ou como uma brincadeira no Twitter: O j&#225; &#8220;batido&#8221; cala-boca Galv&#227;o, que se murmurava por a&#237; a tempos, conseguiu ser um &#8220;trending topic&#8221; mundial na rede social. Por uma coincid&#234;ncia, isso aconteceu um pouco antes do t&#233;cnico da sele&#231;&#227;o &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/07/02/porque-o-tadeu-schmidt-tem-que-calar-a-boca/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tudo come&ccedil;ou como uma brincadeira no Twitter: O j&aacute; &#8220;batido&#8221; cala-boca Galv&atilde;o, que se murmurava por a&iacute; a tempos, conseguiu ser um &#8220;trending topic&#8221; mundial na rede social. Por uma coincid&ecirc;ncia, isso aconteceu um pouco antes do <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/06/24/o-caso-dunga/">t&eacute;cnico da sele&ccedil;&atilde;o discutir com um jornalista</a>. Na mesma noite, Tadeu Schmidt veio &agrave; p&uacute;blico com um editoral rechassando Dunga. Aproveitando o embalo e apoiando a atitude do t&eacute;cnico, apareceu o novo trending topic: &#8220;Cala boca Tadeu Schmidt&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;A reportagem é um conteúdo jornalístico, escrito ou falado, baseado no testemunho direto dos fatos e situações explicadas em palavras e, numa perspectiva atual, em histórias vividas por pessoas, relacionadas com o seu contexto. A reportagem televisiva, testemunho de acções espontâneas, relata histórias em palavras, imagens e sons.&#8217; &#8212; <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reportagem">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Quando se ligou do que estava acontecendo, a Globo resolveu botar o Tadeu Schmidt e o jornalista envolvido na quest&atilde;o na geladeira. Ambos sumiram da telinha por uma semana e depois voltaram aos poucos &agrave; programa&ccedil;&atilde;o, com not&iacute;cias e coment&aacute;rios curtos. O que eu vejo, &eacute; que o Tadeu Schmidt tem que calar a boca definitivamente.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jornalismo é a atividade profissional que consiste em lidar com notícias, dados factuais e divulgação de informações. Também define-se o Jornalismo como a prática de coletar, redigir, editar e publicar informações sobre eventos atuais.&#8221; &#8212; <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jornalismo">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Meu problema todo com o Tadeu Schmidt &eacute; o que ele representa.</p>
<p>Para ilustrar a quest&atilde;o, deixem-me utilizar uma par&aacute;bola:</p>
<p>Quando o PlayStation 2 foi lan&ccedil;ado, a Sony disse que poucas empresas conseguiriam tirar o proveito m&aacute;ximo de todas as capacidades do aparelho. 2 anos depois de lan&ccedil;ado, o jogo &#8220;Shadow of the Colossus&#8221; foi aclamando pela m&iacute;dia e, segundo a Sony, era (e ainda &eacute;) o jogo que consegue explorar melhor tudo que o aparelho oferece. &#8220;Colossus&#8221; &eacute; o &aacute;pice dos jogos para PlayStation 2.</p>
<p>E isso &eacute; o que &eacute; o Tadeu Schmidt: ele &eacute; o &#8220;Shadow of the Colossus&#8221; da &#8220;com&eacute;dia esportiva&#8221;, o &aacute;pice da falta de jornalismo esportivo. Ele &eacute; a consagra&ccedil;&atilde;o m&aacute;xima do &#8220;comediante esportivo.&#8221;</p>
<p>Eu sou do tempo que se ouvia jogos de futebol com coment&aacute;rios do Ruy Carlos Ostermann, que conhece o jogo, conhece a <em>hist&oacute;ria</em> do jogo e relacionava fatos novos com os antigos para demonstrar a vis&atilde;o geral do que estava acontecendo.</p>
<p>Outro exemplo de &#8220;jornalista esportivo&#8221;, embora em outra &aacute;rea, &eacute; o Reginaldo Leme. Quem nunca se surpreendeu com a capacidade que ele tem de buscar fatos na hist&oacute;ria da F&oacute;rmula 1 para explicar acontecimentos da corrida atual? Ou buscar as informa&ccedil;&otilde;es necess&acute;rias para explicar porque o novo desenho de asa da equipe X d&aacute; &agrave; equipe um melhor coefici&ecirc;nte de arrasto e que isso daria uma maior velocidade nas retas mas n&atilde;o nas curvas? </p>
<p>Mas, a tempos, essa vis&atilde;o do &#8220;jornalista esportivo&#8221; come&ccedil;ou a mudar. Eu acredito que o primeiro passo (ou o primeiro largo passo) dado foi o S&iacute;lvio Lu&iacute;s e seus rebuscados jarg&otilde;es, numa &eacute;poca que o Galv&atilde;o Bueno era bem comportado neste aspecto at&eacute;. Como o narrador estrapolava, os jornalistas come&ccedil;aram a estrapolar tamb&eacute;m, e come&ccedil;aram a colocar pequenos coment&aacute;rios humor&iacute;sticos nas suas reportagens. At&eacute; chegarmos no Tadeu Schmidt, onde &#8220;reportagem&#8221; &eacute; o que menos existe e piadas cobrem tudo o que ele fala. De novo, ele &eacute; o &aacute;pice do &#8220;humorista esportivo&#8221;, a profiss&atilde;o que atirou o jornalismo na lixeira e mandou reciclar em outro campo, mas n&atilde;o foi o primeiro.</p>
<p>Colocar palavras na boca dos jogadores, fazer &#8220;interpreta&ccedil;&atilde;o&#8221; corporal, falar com o replay em c&acirc;mera lenta, tudo isso &eacute; o que Tadeu Schmidt faz. A preocupa&ccedil;&atilde;o com a informa&ccedil;&atilde;o fica num distante segundo lugar. A piada vem sempre primeiro. A falta de &#8220;reportagem&#8221; &eacute; t&atilde;o grande que, num sketch sobre a copa (ou seja, n&atilde;o d&aacute; pra chamar de &#8220;reportagem&#8221;), Tadeu parou na frente de um fosso pr&oacute;ximo do campo e falou:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Este fosso deve ter&#8230; hm&#8230; hm&#8230; uns 2 metros.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Uns 2 metros&#8221;. Depois de parar para olhar. Numa &#8220;reportagem&#8221; pr&eacute;-gravada, n&atilde;o ao vivo. Com funcion&aacute;rios arrumando o campo. Logo, haviam v&aacute;rias oportunidades para pesquisar, perguntar, verificar a altura correta. Mas, como a piada &eacute; mais importante, o fato real n&atilde;o importa.</p>
<p>Meu maior medo &eacute; que esta tend&ecirc;ncia de adicionar piadas e acabar se tornando mais importante que o fato central da &#8220;reportagem&#8221; acabe se espalhando por outras &aacute;reas. Se funciona no esporte, porque n&atilde;o iria funcionar com, digamos, as reportagens policiais?</p>
<p>Tadeu Schmidt &eacute; o primeiro passo para que a Idiocracia se torne realidade.</p>
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		<title>O Caso Dunga</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O maior &#8220;esc&#226;ndalo&#8221; da Copa do Mundo com a esquadra brasileira foram as declara&#231;&#245;es do t&#233;cnico Dunga chamando um jornalista de &#8220;merda, cag&#227;o&#8221;. Dunga &#233; conhecido por sua raiva com o jornalismo brasileiro, mas todos falaram que foi descabido os &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/06/24/o-caso-dunga/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O maior &#8220;esc&acirc;ndalo&#8221; da Copa do Mundo com a esquadra brasileira foram as declara&ccedil;&otilde;es do t&eacute;cnico Dunga chamando um jornalista de &#8220;merda, cag&atilde;o&#8221;. Dunga &eacute; conhecido por sua raiva com o jornalismo brasileiro, mas todos falaram que foi descabido os insultos falados. Eu realmente consigo entender a raiva que o Dunga tem com o jornalismo brasileiro mas, assim como muitos, me pareceu um pouco exagerado. Foram a&iacute; que alguns fatos passaram por mim:</p>
<h3>Fato 1: &#8220;Vergonha Alheia&#8221;</h3>
<p>No matinal da R&aacute;dio Ga&uacute;cha (cujo nome eu sou incapaz de lembrar e me recuso a chamar aquilo de &#8220;jornal&#8221;), T&uacute;lio Milman, que escreve a segunda p&aacute;gina da Zero Hora, comentou o seguinte numa das entrevistas (aproximadamente, n&atilde;o consigo lembrar exatamente as palavras usadas):</p>
<blockquote><p>Me sento envergonhado como jornalista quando vejo as entrevistas coletivas em que um jornalista, que deveria perguntar sobre a sele&ccedil;&atilde;o, vem com um conjunto de opini&otilde;es pr&oacute;prias e termina com &#8216;O que voc&ecirc; acha?&#8217;. Isso n&atilde;o &eacute; jornalismo.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Fato 2: &#8220;Memoria de Elefante&#8221;</h3>
<p>Em uma das coletivas, o t&eacute;cnico respondeu para um jornalista que tinha &#8220;<a href="http://borgesluciano.blog.terra.com.br/2010/06/16/classificado-dunga-continua-a-politica-contra-as-tendas-o-circo-e-o-oba-oba-2/<br />
">mem&oacute;ria de elefante</a>&#8221; sobre o mesmo jornalista ter perguntando se o Robinho deveria realmente ir para a copa e agora estar perguntando porque o Robinho n&atilde;o entrou no lugar do Kak&aacute;. Ao que tudo indica, o jornalista no caso<br />
Dunga falou para jornalista sobre sua memoria de elefante (aparentemente, Robinho) era o mesmo jornalista que teve que ouvir de Dunga.</p>
<h3>Fato 3: &#8220;Jornalista nao deve misturar pessoal com profissional&#8221;</h3>
<p>Ontem (23 de junho), ao retornar para casa, fiquei ouvindo o programa &#8220;Pretinho B&aacute;sico&#8221; no r&aacute;dio. Como a Atl&acirc;ntida &eacute; parte do grupo RBS, assim como a r&aacute;dio Ga&uacute;cha, houve uma brincadeira entre os apresentadores e o apresentador S&iacute;lvio Benfica (acredito eu, sou terr&iacute;vel com nomes) e foi perguntando, em tom de leve brincadeira: &#8220;E ent&atilde;o S&iacute;lvio, o que os teus colegas da SporTV est&atilde;o achando do coment&aacute;rio do Dunga?&#8221;. A resposta veio (de novo, n&atilde;o exatamente com estas palavras):</p>
<blockquote><p>Olha&#8230; Eu realmente n&atilde;o quero comentar sobre isso, eu n&atilde;o quero ati&ccedil;ar essa fogueira mas, na minha opini&atilde;o, jornalista n&atilde;o deveria misturar quest&otilde;es pessoais com profissionais.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Perceba que, na opini&atilde;o de algu&eacute;m que est&aacute; perto do evento real, quem n&atilde;o deveria misturar o pessoal &eacute; o jornalista.</p>
<h3>Fato 4: &#8220;Dossie UOL&#8221;</h3>
<p>Em v&aacute;rios lugares da internet, est&atilde;o colando um link para uma <a href="http://copadomundo.uol.com.br/2010/ultimas-noticias/2010/06/23/globo-confirma-que-dunga-vetou-entrevistas.jhtm">not&iacute;cia do UOL</a> que afirma que a Globo tem sido vetada sem parar pelo t&eacute;cnico, mesmo com ordens da CBF. H&aacute;, ainda, alguns dizendo que o jornalista fez o coment&aacute;rio de prop&oacute;sito, justamente para provocar Dunga e, assim, fazer com que o mesmo baixasse a cabe&ccedil;a e cedesse.</p>
<h3>Fato 5: &#8220;Nem tava olhando pra ti&#8221;</h3>
<p>As informa&ccedil;&otilde;es da entrevista em quest&atilde;o contam que a conversa entre o t&eacute;cnico brasileiro e o jornalista foram algo do tipo:</p>
<blockquote><p>Dunga: &#8220;Hein?&#8221;<br />
Jornalista: &#8220;Nada. Eu nem tava falando contigo.&#8221;<br />
Dunga: &#8220;Ah&#8230;&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Bom, eu n&atilde;o se mais algu&eacute;m vai concordar comigo, mas se, por algum motivo, tu interropme algu&eacute;m, &eacute; costumeiro pelo menos pedir desculpas. Como pode ser visto, n&atilde;o foi o ocorrido.</p>
<p>N&atilde;o espere respeito de quem n&atilde;o te respeita.</p>
<h3>Fato 6: A Cam&ecirc;ra</h3>
<p>Algu&eacute;m me apontou que o Dunga deveria pelo menos lembrar que as cam&eacute;ras estariam viradas para ele e que algu&eacute;m poderia &#8220;ler&#8221; o que ele falou. Neste caso, meu problema &eacute; que, justamente, n&atilde;o temos como ver o que o jornalista estava fazendo (rosto, postura corporal.) De novo, fica a pergunta se realmente o que foi feito n&atilde;o foi uma provoca&ccedil;&atilde;o pra cima do t&eacute;cnico.</p>
<h3>&#8220;Efeito Coreia do Norte&#8221;</h3>
<p>A grande quest&atilde;o que sobra &eacute; n&atilde;o temos como perceber exatamente o que aconteceu porque o &#8220;prejudicado&#8221; nesta hist&oacute;ria, segunda a imprensa, &eacute; quem tem todos os direitos de transmiss&atilde;o e pode, a seu bel prazer, simplesmente n&atilde;o transmitir coisas que poderiam explicar o evento inteiro.</p>
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		<title>Kick-Ass (2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMDB Plot: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. My standard warning: there may &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/06/19/kick-ass-2010/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1250777/">IMDB Plot</a>:<br />
<blockquote>Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>My standard warning: there may be spoilers.</em></p>
<p><em>My non-standard warning: Before watching the movie, I read the comics. So I may spoil the movie <b>and</b> the comics.</em></p>
<p>For one thing, when I thought about this, I thought about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller_%28comics%29">Frank Miller</a>, author of the &#8220;deconstructing heroes&#8221; comic &#8220;<a href="http://juliobiason.net/2009/11/20/watchmen-2009/">Watchmen</a>&#8221; but alas, not the same person (and their lastnames are not even written the same way!)</p>
<p>But, in a way, &#8220;Kick-Ass&#8221; is also a &#8220;deconstructing heroes&#8221; comic/movie, in the sense of &#8220;what <em>is</em> a hero?&#8221; (while &#8220;Watchmen&#8221; is a &#8220;What <em>makes</em> a hero?&#8221;) So it goes hand-to-hand with Watchmen.</p>
<p>The plot was substantially changed from the comic to the movie (although the main plot is still there.) Some things for good, some for bad. For example, in the book, the relationship between Dave and his father is explored further, to point where you notice that he actually cares about him; in the movie, this is barely touched which makes Dave&#8217;s decision to help others somewhat strange. On the other hand, the douchery that Hit Girl and Big Daddy are in the comic are completely removed to the point that you actually care about them.</p>
<p>Aaron Johnson as Kick-Ass/Dave works. And that&#8217;s all I can say about it: Not a surprising acting, but also not bad. Chloe Moretz is weird, but what could you expect from a 13 year old girl that says &#8220;cunts&#8221;? Nicolas Cage is so and so, with some good moments and some &#8220;meh&#8221; moments. Mark Strong, playing the bad guy, really shines. I mean, really. Think Alan Rickman in &#8220;Die Hard&#8221; shinning. And Christopher Mintz-Plasse, as the bad guy&#8217;s son is&#8230; well, Christopher Mintz-Plasse: The guy never gets a chance to play anything else, always the small, puny kid that nobody cares.</p>
<p>Editing is strange, when compared with the comic: The linearity that the comic offers is completely broken here. Or maybe I felt it was broken <em>because</em> I knew the comic.</p>
<p>One thing that I was playing attention this time and that usually doesn&#8217;t happen is the soundtrack: Really, I usually don&#8217;t pay too much attention to it (unless the soundtrack is <em>part</em> of the movie &#8212; which is not the case here) but it really shines. It have the perfect combination of upbeat, seriousness and comic when appropriate.</p>
<p>All in all, I&#8217;d say: Stay away from the comic till you see the movie; <em>then</em> read the comic.</p>
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		<title>When Chrome crashes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://juliobiason.net/2010/06/17/when-chrome-crashes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julio Biason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[6666:6680:32113841705:ERROR:net/base/host_resolver_impl.cc(802)] Called HostResolverImpl::CancelRequest() after Shutdown(). 0x86559f1 0x8936372 0x8936d85 0x8196aa1 0x867c3f7 0x866f1c1 start_thread [0x27a96e] 0x38b8a4e [6666:6691:32113881274:ERROR:net/ocsp/nss_ocsp.cc(480)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. --2010-06-17 17:38:06-- https://clients2.google.com/cr/report Resolving clients2.google.com... 72.14.204.113, 72.14.204.100, 72.14.204.101, ... Connecting to clients2.google.com&#124;72.14.204.113&#124;:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK &#8230; <a href="http://juliobiason.net/2010/06/17/when-chrome-crashes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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[6666:6691:32113881274:ERROR:net/ocsp/nss_ocsp.cc(480)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
--2010-06-17 17:38:06--  https://clients2.google.com/cr/report
Resolving clients2.google.com... 72.14.204.113, 72.14.204.100, 72.14.204.101, ...
Connecting to clients2.google.com|72.14.204.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `/dev/fd/3'

    [< =>                                    ] 0           --.-K/s
Crash dump id: 5b50180e394484f6
    [ < =>                                   ] 16          --.-K/s   in 0s      

2010-06-17 17:38:08 (165 KB/s) - `/dev/fd/3' saved [16]</pre>
<p>Damn Google: When you are going to learn to <em>not hide stuff from users</em>? What about stop being lazy and write a proper crash report tool and a proper update tool, instead of doing those things hidden from the user?</p>
<p>And yes, I&#8217;m tired of <tt>ksurl</tt> showing out of nowhere and basically killing my slow connection at home, with Chrome not saying a damn word about it.</p>
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