quinta-feira, agosto 26, 2004

“Ladies and gentlemen,...

... Elvis has left the building. Thank you and goodnight."
Não imagino quantas vezes terei dito esta frase, sem fazer ideia de quem teria sido o autor. Fiquei a saber que o seu nome era Albert Dvorin e que morreu, aos 81 anos, no passado fim de semana.
# Lançado por PSA às 10:27:00 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)