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Academic earth

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Warning, clicking on the following link could warn your productivity for the next days: Academic Earth has thousands of video lectures from world's top scholars, covering several topics such as Economics,Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Mathematics and much more.

For all out there who like to learn, beware, you can become addicted to it.

Karl Marx dixit

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In Das Kapital Karl Marx writes:"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism."

This was written in 1867. I'm not a communist (on the contrary) but this sentence makes me think.

Social Media in 2009

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It's one of those articles you must read. Via Twitter.

Baby connectus

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It’s now official: I need Youtube to feed my son.

Online banking security

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Update 1 day later: First, just to let you know that the comments on this post are richer than the post itself. Second, that Mit has found a contact form.

You know something is wrong with your online banking security when you access cgd.pt (instead of www.cgd.pt) and you get an external page:

Note: before I post this article, I tried to find a contact form in CGD's homesite and warn them about this issue. Didn't find any. Even tried the website map.