October 2009
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One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should... →
So it’s actually Fifty Things Restaurant Staffer Should Never Do. Oh man, where to start? Some advice seems directed at high-end restaurants I can’t afford to go to, but in a nutshell this lists tells us what we’ve always knew: portuguese restaurants are pretty crap. And so are the bars, and the coffeeshops. Some highlights:
2. Do not make a singleton feel bad.
8. Do not...
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“892: Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney strapped the head of a defeated foe to his leg,...”
– The Wikipedia’s List of unusual deaths, ranging from the funny and stupid to the appaling and gruesome. Some are all that. (via The Null Device)
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Noupe.com: Fresh Web Development Goodies Bag →
Useful. Really.
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“It’s true that my romantic life has produced some humorous anecdotes, but good...”
– Tim Kreidler - The Referendum. There are so many quotable sentences in this article, I just picked one. I may be still thirty, but totally identify with the writer - and the fact that Portugal is still a conservative society doesn’t help either. (via Kottke)
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The World of Tomorrow!
Yesterday I attended an academic conference at the Future Places festival that’s happening right now right here in Porto. I normally tend to be wary of such conferences, having previously seen my fair share of the “I’m a genius who knows magic and you’re not” attitude, so I was very pleased by the “Just do it, things do get easy when broken down in small...
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A Critical History of Computer Graphics and... →
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Last week's social sharing
The music video for The Blow’s Parantheses has some crazy recursions in it. Especially if you are watching it embedded in a Facebook page (wait for the end). ¶
The Last Days of the Polymath. After finishing high school I took a one-year computer technology course and possibly the best thing about it was one of the instructors’ recurrent rants against overspecialization....
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Oporto Magazine - nº2 →
Recently I gave an interview to a local magazine, you can read it online - my interview starts on page 12 (it’s in portuguese, obviously).
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Video Embedding Comparison Site →
Despite the generic name and 1990s-like design this website, this survey of online video hosts is quite useful, as you can compare the embed quality and performance of different sites in a single page. I’ve been a Vimeo user for the last two years, but some things prevented from taking the plunge into a paid account (mostly the buggy player and the sleazy way the introduction of paid...
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The 2009 IgNobel Winners →
This year’s winners include an Economics Prize awarded to the executives of Icelandic banks “for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa — and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy” and a Peace Prize awarded to the scientists of Bern, Switzerland (the city where Albert Einstein devised his...
