seen here. baile funk wiki here.

alemão = a german; in the street slang meaning enemy. can be either someone from a rival drug gang or a police.
asfalto = the name reffering to the normal city instead of a favela or a morro. Comes from the paved streets. (many of the favelas have only unofficial dirt streets.)
baile = a ball, a party
baile funk = a funk ball, party where funk is played
bonde = a group of people, a crew – also a train like dancing style where you go dancing in a row, one behind each other.
carioca = a Rio inhabitant
comunidade = a favela community (some people consider favela a bit discriminating as a name and prefer to talk about communities.)
equipe = a sound system crew
funk carioca = People in Rion call the style of music funk carioca. Outside of Brazil it’s generally called baile funk deriving from the name of the parties where it’s played.
funkeiro = a person who likes baile funk
gringo = a foreigner
kuduro = Angolan ghetto-tech/house music
morro = a hill, also used generally as a synonym reffering to the favelas that are mostly situated on hills and hill tops.
popozuda = a girl with a big ass (brazilian men prefer the good, round big asses)
proibidão = genre of “extremely forbidden” songs, that usually contain gun lyrics, references and praises of the drug gangs or hard sexual slackness.
quadra = a home space of a samba school, used for training and parties
tamborzão = the main heavy percussion loop used in baile funk songs
traficante = a drug dealer operating within some of Rio’s drug factions

The big winners: Alexa and Compete agree on the top three webcomics: xkcd, Cyanide and Happiness and Penny Arcade. Those of us who believed in our hearts that Penny Arcade would remain the #1-ranked webcomic for the rest of our natural lives… we may need a moment to absorb that. The rise of xkcd has been greeted, belatedly, with a rash of mainstream media articles, gatherings of the fan base and other usual signs. Cyanide and Happiness’ gains have been a bit less perceptible, but its canny use of online video and community-building has served it well. Both sites have done well by adapting to certain changes in the Web, and in its audience– but that’s another blog post.

olá, crianças, como têm passado? nós aqui do quartel general do major não somos muito afim de mostrar trabalhos inacabados, mas como faz tempo que não há novidade alguma aqui no site queremos que vocês vejam o lápis da capa do MAJOR #2 que o Irapuan logo vai finalizar e colorir para seu deleite. nela nós vemos a vilã LADY M e sua gangue de piratas MANTICORE dando trabalho pro guardião da Liberdade e bons costumes. ops, acho que isso era um spoiler… em breve mais novidades!

sabe uma das primeiras cenas do MAJOR, em que ele pula de um avião e plana por sobre o Rio de Janeiro? então, foi baseado em uma wingsuit [grafada ‘wingsuite’ nesse vídeo], uma roupa baseada na pele do esquilo voador - e macacos afins - pra pára-quedistas brincarem de voar antes de aterrisar. olha que beleza:

The United States Air Forces celebrates its 60th anniversary

a time.com photo essay

New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.