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Carro do Google Street View em Lisboa

Desta vez fui eu que vi o carro
Pausa de almoço, estacionado aqui na Avenida de Berna, Lisboa, em frente à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais.
Alguns detalhes de dentro do carro:

no banco da frente, está instalado um computador c/ teclado, para monitorização das ruas a “varrer”;
nos bancos de trás, entre bolachas e batatas fritas, várias [...]

[ More ] October 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in life, tech |

Acessibilidade no Metro Lisboa

Gosto da forma como os mapas do metro de Lisboa foram pensados. Existe uma versão simplificada com as linhas e as estações sem referências de espaço, o que funciona relativamente bem pois o utilizador consegue criar uma ponte entre o seu mapa conceptual e os conceitos que o mapa pretende ilustrar.

Da mesma forma, existe a [...]

[ More ] October 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in life |

Staying in Milan

Just a short review. If you are staying in Milan, Italy, AVOID Hotel Garda Milan at all costs!!
It is a lousy hotel and the pictures on the website don’t match at all with reality. And beside that, the staff kept improperly some of our luggage.
A terrible nightmare in Milan… and booking.com is not accepting my [...]

[ More ] October 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in life, travelling |

The Fun Theory

As an engineer, I love to think about good solutions for any kind of problem. One of my favourite domains is “everyday stuff” and social interaction solutions. So, I got delighted with these two videos from a Volkswagen Green Project.
1) How can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator?

2) How can [...]

[ More ] October 13th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in life |

The Longest Way

This video reminded me the old youtube hit called Where the Hell is Matt?. Nice trekking adventure and wonderful editing! (click view more)

[ More ] August 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in funny, life, travelling |

Nike + Apple = Magic

This was one of the best impulsive shopping I ever did – buying an iPod Nano and a Nike sensor in one shot!
After more than two years of usage, I have to say that I’m a delighted customer.

This simple “toy” changes the way you work out. By uploading your results to a Nike  online profile [...]

[ More ] February 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in life |

The Story of Stuff

This is a documentary about the life-cycle of goods and services. 20 minutes that might change the way you look at several products and companies.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
Highly recommended!

[ More ] February 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in life |

Guia Fiscal 2008 – DECO / Proteste

For my portuguese readers…
Este documento é o Guia Fiscal 2008 preparado pela DECO/Proteste, com imensas perguntas e respostas de como preencher a papelada dos impostos IRS 2008.
Aconselho vivamente a leitura do Guia. Nesta altura do ano, os bancos fazem imensas ofertas de PPRs, mas só em alguns casos é que se podem tornar boas soluções. [...]

[ More ] December 6th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in life, money |

Lalaclick

LaLaClick is a web application to visualize and explore similarity relations of music artists. Warning: if you love music, you’ll get addicted to this site!
It works like this:

The engine starts with the pre-loaded example: Radiohead. Music starts to play and some nodes appear on the screen.

When no more nodes are added, you can simply select the option Clear [...]

[ More ] November 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in life, tech, webdev |

World Mapper: A different perspective

A few days ago, I received an email with this website (thx Isabel), with the tag line: “The world as you’ve never seen it before”:
http://www.worldmapper.org/

This site has a huge database with maps, correlating several indicators, population density and countries dimensions. It reminded me a brilliant talk by Hans Roling on TED. It’s hard to understand the huge gap between [...]

[ More ] November 2nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in dataviz, life |
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