felipe's posterous - Felipe Gomes at the internet and elsewhere

November 13, 2008

Long time no see

Hello Posterous, are you up?

When I finally get a new router and some free time to come back to the internet, first day the DSL is down, next day twitter + bloglines down...

I hope gmail stays cool tomorrow!

and i'm back to posting the interesting stuff I find around.

Felipe.

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September 24, 2008

Daft Punk Cover

I loved this video

The "darth vader" look is scary, but everything looks extremely cool

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September 19, 2008

Color Hue Test

Very nice test, check if you can sort the 360° of the color hue palette.

The test is very nice, although the results are disappointing. The result is a simple result that doesn't tell you anything, and there is no exact average displayed so you know how well you did. The number of mistakes would be hard to count if they were more than simple swaps, but anyway, a little more info could be better =)

I took the screenshot of my test and did my own verification: got a 11 result in the test which meant 3 swaps for me.

Attaching the result, I hope every color is preserved in the file.

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September 18, 2008

Twitter and Google Chrome and Palin

A bit old news, not sure how I missed it since I was specifically looking for it (on regards of Google Chrome peak on twitter), but here it goes

http://blog.twitter.com/2008/09/palin-peak.html

This data is precious:

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September 17, 2008

The song of the week goes too...

summing it up with a single word: amazing

hard to say anything about it.. I'll just keep listening again and again

http://5090.fawm.org/songs.php?id=2303

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September 09, 2008

Personal Visualization contest at Flowing Data

This is basically infovis-porn. Flowing data announces the winners of the Personal Visualization contest.
I can't even begin to describe how nice the results are.
http://flowingdata.com/2008/09/09/winner-of-the-personal-visualization-project-is/

I'll definitely have to try some of the vis with my data, specially putting my playlists in wordle or tracking my coca-cola over a week

Click here to download:

Personal_Visualization_contest.zip (182 KB)

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September 03, 2008

Aether

Aether, ridiculously nice looking game. Awesome

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2008/09/browser_game_pick_aether_edmun.html

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August 21, 2008

Tagmarks

My newest Firefox extension, Tagmarks, is among the winners of the Extend Firefox 3 contest!
I'm very very happy now!
Thanks for all the great comments and congrats, and the posts on Cybernet and Lifehacker and other places!

I've got to say that I'm very amazed by the great response that the extension got, and that I'm working on the suggestions that the users are requesting, to make a better and useful extension for everybody!

If you don't know the extension and are interested, please see a screenshot below, and read more info about it on the project page.

Felipe.

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August 19, 2008

Olympic rickroll

The Olympics games are definitely a good opportunity to Rickroll half the world in youtube.

Today I got rickrolled searching for the Michael Phelps vs. Milorad Cavic ending... It was quite funny
I knew something wasn't veeery right when the video started with Chocolate Rain in the first few seconds..
then it switched to Never gonna give you up.

Interesting times...

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August 13, 2008

SIGGRAPH 2008 video

I'm in search for more SIGGRAPH videos.

This one is awesome:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080814/uni-washington-microsoft-research-yet-another-mindblowing-3d-photo-viewer/
improvement on microsoft's photosynth

very cool stuff. I've watched in the past some siggraph videos from previous editions, and they always blows my mind. Very impressive stuff.

(Pixar publishes some papers at siggraph about the work they do on their rendering engine)

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