quinta-feira, maio 27, 2004

Capitão Gancho

Acabo de ouvir (pelas 0615 horas) no noticiário da Sky que o lider ultra-radical islâmico sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri foi preso há pouco em Londres, onde vive, em resultado de um pedido de extradição por parte dos Estados Unidos.

Abu Hamza é o autor da célebre frase
"Many people will be happy, jumping up and down [after September 11]. America is a crazy superpower and what was done was done in self-defence"
cuja autoria foi durante muito tempo erradamente atribuida a Miguel Sousa Tavares.
# Lançado por PSA às 6:19:00 da manhã
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)