Page 23

Why not?

Para um cosmólogo, as galáxias são as moléculas de um fluido altamente invulgar a que chamamos fluido cosmológico

I tried with the book I’m currently reading but I dare you to find a page with more than 3 sentences in any José Saramago’s book.

And here are the instructions:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.


Gio’s Database Design

Gio Wiederhold’s Database Design, 2nd Edition online version. 1st edition from 1977 but still a good read.



Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Don’t forget to pre-order it :-P

Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through
his half-moon glasses. “It is time,” he said, for me to tell you
what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down.
I am going to tell you everything.”

From href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747569401/andrerestiv04-21">
www.amazon.co.uk.



Middle Earth Secret Diaries

The secret diaries, or should I call them weblogs, of the most
important characters of The LOTR. From Gandalf’s Diary:

Day Twelve: Went to Saruman for advice about Ring but
he had become evil. Nobody tells me anything. Apparently there was
a memo. Radagast the Brown probably stealing paper out of my inbox
again.

From href="http://diaries.diagon.org/">diaries.diagon.org.



The Programmers Stone

This one came from href="http://blog.portugalmail.pt/K/archive/000158.html#000158">Sergio’s
Blog and it’s a must-read. Only had time to read the first
chapter. Will read the remaining tonight. This says it all:

References
Adams, Scott
The Dilbert Future
Boxtree
ISBN 0-7522-1118-8

Very funny and perceptive. A lot of nonsense is talked about Adams.
Some say that he has failed to champion the cause of cubicle
dwellers. As far as I know, he has never claimed to be the cubicle
dwellers’ champion - just a very funny cartoonist. Others say that
he is a terrible, cynical person. This is because he documents
workplace stupidity with staggering accuracy. All of the pomposity,
dishonesty, bullying and ritualism is there. The end section of
this book, about affirmations etc. should make your hair stand on
end.

From href="http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r0/">www.reciprocality.org.



XML with Java

Sergio href="http://blog.portugalmail.pt/K/archive/000141.html#000141">pointed
out this new on-line book.

From href="http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/">www.cafeconleche.org.



The Universe in a Nutshell

Stephen Hawking’s follow-up to a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553175211/andrerestiv04-21">
Brief History of Time. href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593048156/andrerestiv04-21">
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Having read href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553175211/andrerestiv04-21">
A Brief History of Time a long time ago and more recently the
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593040597/andrerestiv04-21">
Ilustrated version of the same book, I couldn’t resist to
browse Hawking’s last book at a local bookstore.

I just skimmed through it but what i saw amazed me. Hawking did
it again. Not exactly a book for the masses but Hawking is able to
explain the most advanced theories about the Universe in the most
accessible way. The ilustrations are as beautifull as in the
illustrated version of A Brief History of Time. Definitively a must
have.

The Universe in a Nutshell attempts to address the
relative difficulty of Hawking’s first foray into popular science,
A Brief History of Time. While this sold in its millions, few
readers got past the first few chapters. Helpfully, this new work
is full of beautifully prepared colour illustrations and
decorations, and has a “tree-like” structure, so that readers can
skip from chapter to chapter without losing the
thread.

From href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593048156/andrerestiv04-21">
www.amazon.co.uk.