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Aguas de Março

One of my favorite songs in the Brazilian jazz genre is Tom Jobim’s Aguas de Março. This song doesn’t tell a story in the typical fashion…rather, it’s a collection of images (one of which is the “waters of march”) that signal the end of summer (Brazil is in the southern hemisphere).

Anyway - today I discovered a great video that was taken in the studio when Tom Jobim and Elis Regina recorded the song for their 1974 CD, Elis & Tom. Enjoy!

Edit: the portuguese lyrics are available here along with an english translation (scroll down).

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Happy 10th Birthday, /.

Wow - slashdot’s 10th birthday was yesterday. I believe I started reading slashdot in ‘98. Ahh nostalgia - CowboyNeal poll options, Russian reversals, Beowulf clusters of this and that.

Slashdot, even though you’ve been somewhat upstaged by other linklogs in the recent past, you still hold a dear place in the heart of this geek and many others.

Happy Birthday!

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Monospaced font in Gmail

This is primarily for my own reference. To get a monospaced font in gmail, add this to your firefox userContent.css file:

div.msg div.mb {
font-family: monospace !important;
font-size: 12px !important;
}

textarea.tb {
font-family: monospace !important;
font-size: 12px !important;
}

td.ct {
font-family: monospace !important;
font-size: 12px !important;
}

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