A filosofia da Internet / Internet's philosophy

“The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it’s a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.”
                                                     

Joichi Ito - NYTimes.com

Leitores de Natal / Christmas' readers

Elissabetta Decontardi

As leitoras de Ricardo Celma / Women reading by Ricardo Celma

Ricardo Celma

Um urso na biblioteca / A bear in the library

Via Pinzellades al Món

Uma questão de auto-confiança / Self-confidence

“I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Pai natal oferece cartão de biblioteca / Santa gives library card

Contos de fadas para gajos / A guy's book of fairy tales

Baby Blues

Era uma vez um rapaz... / Once upon a time there was a boy who...

“Once upon a time there was a boy.
He lived in a village that no longer exists,
in a house that no longer exists,
on the edge of a field that no longer exists,
where everything was discovered
 and everything was possible.
A stick could be a sword.
A pebble could be a diamond.
A tree could be a castle.”  

Nicole Krauss

O fado é Património Imaterial da Humanidade/ The Portuguese Fado

Mariza - Ó gente da minha Terra

Oiçam e comovam-se.

Ó gente da minha terra, estamos de parabéns! O fado foi hoje considerado Património Imaterial da Humanidade pela UNESCO.  :)

O bom bibliotecário / The good librarian

“Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.”

Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!

A geografia de Homer Simpson/ Homer Simpson's geography

Uma das personagens mais deliciosamente idiotas alguma vez criadas. Mais idiota que isto é muito difícil mas mesmo assim adoramo-lo!

A estante dos meus livros / My books have their own shelves

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi, 1861

"I want my books to have their own shelves.’ you said,

and that’s how I knew it would be okay to live together.” 

 “The Lover’s Dictionary” by David Levithan

Não sejas normal, conta a história que só tu podes contar / Get crazy: start telling the stories that only you can tell

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view. There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.”  

Neil Gaiman

A ouvir Michael Buble: Dream a Little Dream of Me