Fri, 27 October 2006 Getting ready for tonight's climactic debate on the Globo network between the PT incumbent and the PSDB-PFL challenger in the Brazilian elections, we leave you with a musical interlude to get you in the mood ... including the Anglospherean debut of Brazil's hottest new band, O Cordel do Fogo Encantado. I may just give up working and become a wandering Fogohead ... Comments[0] |
Thu, 19 October 2006 Dateline: The largest city in Latin America. Live on tape from the lobby of the World Federation of Exchange's annual meeting in the wasteland that is Morumbi, São Paulo; in governance vote, KQED exec wants a Bush-like state of exception; Richard Florida peddles the same old snake oil; plus the latest from Caetano Veloso: "Odeio você!" Comments[0] |
Sun, 8 October 2006  On strike for better working conditions after assassination of Russian journo. Comments[6] |
Fri, 6 October 2006 The Brazilian political scenario; big bank strike busts out; FEBAN and Microcode; racial democracy and other myths; the open-source e-government that never came to be; corruption rules my soul; plus Robert Lefkowitz on Orwell and Open Source(TM), in a nod to the pods. Comments[0] |
Sun, 1 October 2006 Brazil votes; plus, from the news desk, mondo global market machines stories with an Act III yet to be written, from India, Russia, Mexico, China and, of course, Brazil; Man overboard; Bob vs. Chico; Globo talking heads warm up the blinking lights, though failure to schedule democracy for primetime continues to irk; and the best country song ever about the generals and their Economic Miracle ... Comments[0] |
