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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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August 6, 2008

NYC rooftops

great flickr set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwillys/sets/72157606566769262/show/with/2724490814/

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July 26, 2008

When A* goes terribly wrong

And great discussion on its problems and approaches.

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July 26, 2008

Some very nice stuff I came across recently

Soundamus: Pass along your last.fm username, and it will give an RSS feed of the upcoming releases of your favorite artists, and suggestions of related artists. Just as simple and good as it could be.

Redesigning a bar chart: FlowingData asks the readers to come up with better graph visualization of a badly designed bar chart. (also, keeping an eye at flowingdata.com)

Lee Byron: great infographic artist, just graduated from Carnegie Mellon and is now headed to the NYtimes. I'm sure I came across his work before, but didn't know about his blog. (Latest post, very interesting: Plotting walkability scores for San Francisco.)

Speaking of the NYtimes, I don't know how, but after a long series of following links back and forth the other day, I ended up in a nytimes column that I found very interesting: The Ethicist. Subscribed! (I actually registered in nytimes.com to read it). Sometimes the traditional media shows its point (as long as you consider "traditional" to read a journal column via a RSS reader, 5000 miles far from the city where it is published).

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July 24, 2008

Histogram

Very cool hacking: editing an image to get a desired histogram, which just happened to be: was a silhouette of the original image (Miami's skyline)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesus-h-shatner/1489971035/

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July 24, 2008

Jonathan Harris' TED talk

Long time fan of Jonathan Harris. Nice talk about his current infovis projects, like We feel fine.

(I specially like 10x10 )

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July 23, 2008

PikaPika

Very nice video (shown at AnimaMundi?) made with stop-motion photos taking long-exposure shots of lights

from the PikaPika project: http://pikapikaproject.blog.so-net.ne.jp/

Nice sound too. One really need a high-resolution picture of this for a wallpaper. Let's see if Google Translate can help me find something through the site.

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July 22, 2008