This year, Salvador de Bahia, the first brazilian capital, has completed 460 years. However, according to Paulo Ormindo, chairman of the Bahia’s section of IAB - Institute of Architects of Brazil, there was no reason for celebration.
With more than 4 thousand inhabitants per square kilometer, the “Soteropolis” has a housing deficit of 100 thousand dwellings. [...]

My friend Pablo published a nice post talking about the reaction of composer Tom Zé to the unfortunate statements made by University of Bahia (UFBA)’s Medicine Course coordinator, Antônio Dantas. Dantas had said that the low performance of his Medicine students in ENADE (a Brazilian national exam for those who finish the university) would be [...]

LaListaWIP is an interesting site that shows the popularity of different VIPs from sports, arts, culture, politics, etc., based in the number of Web pages, links and news that reference them on Internet. The site also allows the VIP popularity to be ranked based on categories, countries and regions. Another option is to directly compare [...]