Campos Magnéticos: August 2006 :: Bruno Martins liga o cérebro à Web

Thursday, August 31, 2006

The Simpsons vs Star Trek

The Simpsons theme meets Star Treck. Performed with Rhodes piano, Theremin and funnel.

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WWW.4x6-ART.COM

In 1999, Jeremy Adolphson, then 17, began sending artists that he likes 4" x 6" notecards in the mail with a stamped return envelope and a request to draw him a picture. Now, he has hundreds of amazing artworks from the likes of Dan Clowes, Hunt Emerson,

(tags: art comics cartoon illustration gallery)

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

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Science-Fiction & Fantasy forums - Powered by vBulletin

Welcome to the chronicles network, the world's largest - and friendliest - science fiction and fantasy forums!

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The Ecology of Magic--David Abram

The Ecology of Magic is the abbreviated first chapter of David Abram's Spell of the Sensuous. Abram explores the intersection of phenomenology, synesthesia and linguistics to discover the magic of the alphabet, the sacred winds, and ultimately, the root o

(tags: magic article sci-fi weird)

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

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Reference Library

O'Reilly's CD bookshelf.

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Key 23 | Occulture Evolved | The Utility of Hyperglyphic Media

Words build reality. They mean things. Changing the story of a culture is only possible by revising the metafiction within which we live. Words do not need to be able to be represented by letters.

(tags: media occult neuro words sci-fi ideaspace)

Monday, August 28, 2006

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All Things Are Lights by Robert J. Shea

All Things Are Lights is a novel written by Robert Shea. It is the story of a fictional 13th century French troubadour named Roland.

Set amongst the historical details of Louis IX's failed crusade to Egypt and the extermination of the Cathars in France

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson primarily between 1969 and 1971.[1] The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek

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Apophenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meanin

(tags: apophenia psychology patterns wikipedia information philosophy creativity sci-fi)
Album Covers From Hell

Large collection of awful album covers.

(tags: funny music humor fun covers gallery images)
VanderWorld: EUROPE: PORTUGAL

Jeff Vandermeer em Lisboa.

(tags: jeff vandermeer lisbon blog visit)
>>INFINITE WHEEL<<

Dub Selector - a flash based dub...sampler toy thingie. 9 tracks to play with.

(tags: flash music dub)
Peter Norvig's Speech to the Graduates

Peter Norvig's Keynote Address at the U.C. Berkeley Computer Science

(tags: career advice cs research speech google computer science)

Sunday, August 27, 2006

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mesostomatic: you too can have nothing to say, and say it.

Matthew McCabe has created the "Mesostomatic" -- a little web tool for automatically generating mesostics! Pump in the (John Cage's own poetic form )words you want the mesostic to spell, a URL for the engine to scrape text from, and presto.

(tags: literature poetry php generator mesotstic)

Saturday, August 26, 2006

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The Art of Craig Mullins

Craig Mullins is a commercial photoshop artist & videogame fan. In the mid 90s, after a couple amateur pieces of fan art he created for the game Marathon made their way to the folks at Bungie, he was hired to create a series of Halo themed art for the com

(tags: art painting illustration artist digital portfolio fantasy graphic photoshop)
Tide Pool Recordings: Tide Pool Says Hello

Tide Pool is a music label. Tide Pool releases non-typical 'dance music', and other interesting works. we like ambient washes, 3-minute drum workouts, casio-synth riffs, and so on; we like making djs think.

(tags: music label openlabel free mp3 electronic downloads)
HOW TO DO FIGHT SCENES

Notes by Wen Spencer from the ALPHA teen writer workshop.

(tags: sci-fi fantasy writing tips howto workshop notes)

Friday, August 25, 2006

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ABC News: A Pregnant Man?

For nearly four decades, Bhagat carried the body of his twin.

(tags: medical weird sci-fi freak)
LingPipe: Spelling Correction Tutorial

Spelling correction takes a user input, typically a search engine query, and returns a "corrected" spelling. How's it Done? LingPipe's spelling correction is based on a noisy-channel model, which models user mistakes (typos and brainos) and expected user

(tags: java tutorial spelling correction lingpipe)
International Songwriting Competition (ISC) - An Annual Songwriting Contest

Brian Wilson and Tom Waits Judge Your Music. So do Robert Smith, Frank Black, Isaac Brock, Sean Paul, ...

(tags: competition contest music songwriting)
FLURB, a webzine of astonishing tales

First number with stories by Paul Di Filippo, Marc "Half-Life" Laidlaw, John Shirley, Terry Bisson and others. The editor is Rudy Rucker.

(tags: fiction magazine stories writing magazines online sci-fi shortstory)

Thursday, August 24, 2006

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Edouard Martinet Sculptures

The work represented on this site consists of metal sculptures created using found materials which are fixed without welding. Edouard carefully selects his raw materials found in brocantes and junk yards. The finished pieces achieving a life of thier own.

(tags: art inspiration sculptures animals metal)
Thog's Masterclass

This regular department of the sf newsletter Ansible enshrines gems of "differently good" prose from (mainly) science fiction and fantasy. It is to be assumed that the chosen selections are stuff which brutish Thog really likes.

(tags: writing sci-fi reviews funny)
Marvel.com - Digital Comics : Comics

The title says it all.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

The blue screen of death (banned Sun commercial?)

links for 2006-08-22

Slate presents The 9/11 Report

A graphic adaptation of the 9/11 report.

(tags: news art comics 9/11 comix illustration nyc comicbooks comic)
Film turns lens on Charles Bukowski - Yahoo! News

AP carries an article about Factotum, the latest adaptation of a Charles Bukowski novel for the big screen. Matt Dillon stars, which will be interesting - I always thought he pissed his career away after the brilliance of Drugstore Cowboy.

(tags: film cinema movie charles bukowski factotum adaptation)

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The amazing Cristiano Ronaldo

The world according to Ronald Reagan

links for 2006-08-21

Type, handwriting, and lettering

otes on type design, handwriting, and lettering.

(tags: typography design handwriting writing lettering font type development education fonts teaching tutorials usability)
Amateur Illustrator

AmateurIllustrator.com was started in the summer of 2006 by two illustration students at the University of Lincoln (in the East Midlands of England.) During the first year of our degree we came up with the idea of building an online web portal for illustr

(tags: illustration art design community graphics social socialnetworking drawings creativity tutorials gallery graphic illustrations inspiration pictures showcase socialsoftware)
Ursula K. Le Guin: Gedo Senki, a First Response

A First Response to "Gedo Senki," the Earthsea film made by Goro Miyazaki for Studio Ghibli. Written for my fans in Japan who are writing me about the movie, and for fans elsewhere who may be curious about it.

(tags: anime movie Ghibli books earthsea story film)

Monday, August 21, 2006

Do academics say "I don't know"?

Sunday, August 20, 2006

links for 2006-08-19

Rock Town » Blog Archive » Speed-Reading Techniques [from http://www.indwes.edu/tuesday/speed.htm]

Keith Drury at Indiana Wesleyan University has published an article on different speed-reading techniques that you can use to speed up and tweak your reading.

(tags: speedreading reading productivity lifehacks howto learning speed useful tutorials hacks)
Collection of Divine Messages, volume 1

In 1926, Vietnamese intellectuals tried to unify the religions of the world. After a year of intensive seance, here's what they came up with: Spiritist mediumship, Taoist cosmology, Christian rhetoric, Catholic structure, Buddhist/Confucian morality, ....

(tags: history religion buddhism weird research sci-fi)
FSI Language Courses

Welcome to fsi-language-courses.com, the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. This site is dedicated to making these language cours

(tags: language education learning free languages reference audio mp3 online french chinese podcast tutorials podcasts)
Nintendo computer game characters made out of paper

Just click on the link to the image you want and then right click and "Save As" to download it to your computer.

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Saturday, August 19, 2006

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Baby Rock Records

Baby Rock Records transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies, sending your little one to a slumberland of sweet dreams. Delicate instruments such as the glockenspiel, vibraphone, mellotron, harp and bells create a soothing atmosp

(tags: music baby rock lullaby children kids funny audio covers download)
The Fortress

Nintendo music. Download some of their music. Photos of them touring now. Enjoy the 8-bit goodness.

(tags: music nintendo bands games mp3 nes gaming geek band)
Linux4Chemistry - Linux software for chemistry: molecular modeling, visualization, graphic, quantum mechanic, dynamic, kinetic, simulation

Linux4Chemistry is maintained by Noel O'Boyle. Original maintainer (2001-2005) is Nikodem Kuznik. Editors: Paul Czodrowski and Nikodem Kuznik.

(tags: Linux software Chemistry Visualization simulation java science research reference)
Technoblog: MapReduce for Ruby: Ridiculously Easy Distributed Programming

Google's MapReduce is now available for Ruby (via gem install starfish).

(tags: ruby programming mapreduce distributed concurrency rails library software development code algorithms parallel network performance map)

Friday, August 18, 2006

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Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids

Call it super wide-angle panorama or call it panography, we think it's awesome. Read on to learn how you can make one yourself!

(tags: photography TUTORIAL photoshop panorama HOWTO photo PHOTOS panographies)
Homemade Strobe Photography

Take pictures of popping balloons, breaking glass, and water droplets.

(tags: electronics flash howto magazine magazines photography technology highspeed DIY strobe)
AOL: 90% clicks on the first page, 4% on second

There has been some discussion on how much #1 place in SERPs really matters. Some say it doesn’t matter so much as long as you are on the first page while others claim most of the search traffic goes to first places. Since we have the AOL search data we

(tags: aol geek internet research search seo stats web)
Hanamaro

The works of Hanamaro Chaki.

(tags: 3d art illustration illustrator japanese painting portfolio)
Marcos Chin Illustration

The works of Marcos Chin.

(tags: advertising art artist drawing graphics illustration illustrator inspiration interesting portfolio design digital digitalart)
UW CSE Colloquium and Televised Talk Information

The UW CSE Colloquium features accessible talks by leading computer scientists and computer engineers from the University of Washington, the region, the nation, and the world.

(tags: audio conference cs education lectures research video talks)
How to Capture & Save Screenshots of Webpages

How to convert an entire website to an image file or PDF on Windows, Linux or Mac ?

(tags: blogging communication firefox capture screenshot howto tools)

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Philip K. Dick 1977 video interview

Bring me the head of Charlie Brown

links for 2006-08-16

Skeet Spirit: A Crunk Tribute to Radiohead

Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be a new way to reinterpret Radiohead songs, DJ GYNGYVYTUS comes along with Skeet Spirit: A Crunk Tribute to Radiohead.

(tags: culture free humor fun mashup mp3 music radiohead)

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

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Software product documentation

Learn how to write good documentation for your software,

(tags: software documentation howto tutorial article)
The Wolfram Functions Site

More than 87,000 facts about mathematical functions.

(tags: math reference mathematics functions science mathematica maths learning geek wolfram archive)

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

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50'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge

Being able to compress well is closely related to intelligence as explained below. While intelligence is a slippery concept, file sizes are hard numbers. Wikipedia is an extensive snapshot of Human Knowledge. If you can compress the first 100MB of Wikiped

(tags: computer language compression prize)
Crossover Comics Cavalcade

Lots of super-hero Crossovers:

(tags: comics cool dc images culture crossovers)
OTR.Network Library (The Old Time Radio Network)

The OTR.Network is a new online resource for Old Time Radio (OTR) enthusiasts. We have over 11,000 OTR shows available for instant listening, and we add at least 100 more every week.

(tags: radio audio old streaming free music time classic archive oldies)
Pitchfork Feature: The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s

So today, we kick off the largest feature in Pitchfork history, a five-day trip through the first full decade of the pop/rock era. From today until Friday, we'll roll out the 200 songs that most resonate with a generation too young to have experienced the

(tags: pitchfork music list 60s oldies)
Comic Books Archive - Downloads and Current Trends

Awesome archive. Download older DC Comics

(tags: comics archive download dc)
BBC News | Sci/Tech | Looking through cats' eyes

As reported on BBC News Online last week, a team of US scientists have wired a computer to a cat's brain and created videos of what the animal was seeing.

(tags: science sci-fi weird freak)
The seven ways that people search the Web. By Paul Boutin

AOL's data leak reveals the seven ways people search the Web.

(tags: search engine article analysis)

Monday, August 14, 2006

Gato Fedorento Bloopers

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Simplify data extraction using Linux text utilities

An overview of the most commonly used command-line text tools.

(tags: linux unix tools text howto regex shell tutorial sysadmin awk admin documentation reference)
Drawspace.com - Drawing lessons

Drawspace offers diverse downloadable and printable drawing lessons featuring Brenda Hoddinott's unique and highly acclaimed style of teaching. Drawing lessions from beginners to advanced.

(tags: drawing lessons tutorial art howto illustration)

Saturday, August 12, 2006

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http://dontdelete.com/

AOL has released search data to the public. This includes over 20 million search queries from 658,000 of AOL's users. Apparently 658,000 AOL users are estimated to be around 1.5% of the total Google search population. This data is from March 1 2006 - June

(tags: aol search queries logs research science ir)
New Scientist SPACE - Top 10: Weirdest cosmology theories - Information

The title says it all.

(tags: cosmology science physics sci-fi research)
Plain English Campaign: Free guides: How to write in plain English

How to write in plain English

(tags: english writing tips simple)
OpenLayers: Home

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all

(tags: gir metacarta openlayers mapping software toolkit research)
MG4J: Managing Gigabytes for Java™

MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a free full-text indexing system for large document collections written in Java.

(tags: java search ir index toolkit)
http://www.carrot2.org/

Carrot2 is a framework for experimenting with automated querying of various data sources (such as search engines), processing search results and their visualization. Carrot2 was primarily built with search results clustering in mind, but it can be easily

(tags: clustering ir engine framework science research)
Heritrix - Home Page

Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project. Heritrix (sometimes spelled heretrix, or misspelled or missaid as heratrix/heritix/ heretix/heratix) is an archaic word for heiress (woman who inh

(tags: crawler ir research resource toolkit)
About Hadoop

Hadoop is a new Lucene sub-project that contains the distributed computing platform that was formerly a part of Nutch. This includes the Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) and an implementation of MapReduce.

(tags: hdfs ir research toolkit)
JExcelApi

Java Excel API is a mature, open source java API enabling developers to read, write, and modifiy Excel spreadsheets dynamically. Now java developers can read Excel spreadsheets, modify them with a convenient and simple API, and write the changes to any ou

(tags: java excell api framework ir research opensource)
Wikiwords (Beta) - An open dictionary built by translators

Wikiwords is a collaborative project to create a dictionary of all terms in all languages.

(tags: dictionary wiki collabrative)

Thursday, August 10, 2006

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Computational Complexity: Confessions of a Quantum Computing Skeptic

Will we ever have useful quantum computers? Despite the "breakthroughs" we seem to have nearly every month, we are a long way off from controlling even a handful of quantum bits certainly not the tens of thousands of qbits one needs for any meaningful com

(tags: quantum computer science discussion sci-fi)

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

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Giving an Academic Talk

This is a sample of my opinions on how to give a talk (using slides or transparencies) in computer science, concisely distilled for my students and students attending Graphics Lunch. Most of these thoughts are based on my going to conferences and seeing t

(tags: research presentation business academic presentations productivity reference tutorial)
cre.ations.net - Creation: The Time Fountain

I suppose it might be called a "Backwards in Time Fountain" or a "Time Manipulation Fountain" but I figured those titles would be a bit long

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Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications

Developer.com is running an outstanding series of tutorials on the Google Maps API, check 'em out:

(tags: google maps api development web webdesign webdev web2.0 mapping tutorial reference)

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

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tglo.com - Voip Internet Phone Calling Worldwide

Use the badly named Tglo to call any phone in the USA for free, and to SMS anyone in the world (maybe) for free.

(tags: internet voip freesms)
How to Present to Investors

At the most recent Demo Day, we four Y Combinator partners found ourselves saying a lot of the same things we said at the last two. So at dinner afterward we collected all our tips about presenting to investors. Most startups face similar challenges, so w

(tags: startup entrepreneurship howto tutorial paulgraham ycombinator)
Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial

Here is your chance to really understand sed.

(tags: sed unix linux tutorial scripting programming shell computer tutorials)
Pitchfork Feature: Interview: Stephin Merritt

We sat down with the irascible Magnetic Fields leader to discuss Chinese opera, technology and songwriting, the theatricality of pop music, and his extraordinary work ethic.

(tags: music magneticfields interview indie pitchfork)
Geospatial Semantic Web Blog - GIS Data Integration, Geo Ontology, Geo Tagging & Geo Web 2.0 News » Blog Archive » MetaCarta GeoParser API & Other Tools

MetaCarta GeoParser API is an experimental web service that provides a unified RESTful interface to the MetaCarta LocationFinder and GeoTagger. It takes a document or query string as input and extracts locations referenced in the text.

(tags: javascript search api metacarta discussion)

Monday, August 07, 2006

links for 2006-08-06

Collected Tears of the Weeping Nivbed

Artworks by Nivbed.

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Who Wants to Be a Rocket Pirate?

Famed graphic novel creator Warren Ellis will curate a free, mass webcomics site called "Rocket Pirates". He is now accepting submissions, and the criteria is "stuff Warren really likes."

(tags: webcomic comics webcomics waren ellis warenellis)

Sunday, August 06, 2006

O mais lindo sabão natural!

Fatboy Slim - The Joker

links for 2006-08-05

THE SURREAL, FANTASTIC REALISM & VISIONARY ART FORUM :: Index

The Surreal, Fantastic Realism & Visionary Art Forum is a free artists resource for networking, exhibition invites

(tags: design art surreal sci-fi fantastic forum)

Saturday, August 05, 2006

links for 2006-08-04

WAT-C Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium [WAT-C] provides a collection of free tools to assist both developers and designers in the development and testing of accessible web content.

(tags: accessibility tools web webdesign webdev w3c html web2,0 standards xhtml utilities usability)
Skeletonz CMS

Skeletonz is a new content management system (CMS) based on Python. It differs from others by being simple, but yet very powerful and extensible. If you need a simple system that you and your users are going love then Skeletonz might be the solution you a

(tags: python cms simple webdev tool)
Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math

Over the last seven years, I've read perhaps four hundred papers in computer science and math. Thirty or so were well-written. These anomalies aside, extracting meaning from most of the papers was like sucking a camel through the eye of the proverbial nee

(tags: writing research papers article math howto computation computer science school phd reference useful)
Dive Into Python

Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers.

(tags: Python Programming book tutorial books documentation development computers manual howto scripting)

Friday, August 04, 2006

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MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Animated light pen art

How to make cool "light pen" art & animated GIFs.

(tags: howto lightpen art photography exposure)
Mining the New York Times with machines

Researchers at University of California-Irvine have announced a new technique they call 'topic modeling' that can be used to analyze and group massive amounts of text-based information. Unlike typical text indexing, topic modeling attempts to learn what a

(tags: textmining text mining nlp computer science article)
MODx PHP Application Framework

MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.

(tags: php cms ajax opensource framework web software webdev webapp web2.0 webdesign development)
Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You

There's no data like more data, and scaled up the size of our data by one order of magnitude, and then another, and then one more - resulting in a training corpus of one trillion words from public Web pages.

(tags: google n-gram corpus research computer science dataset)
PLAY! - a Video Game Symphony - The ultimate tour to the fans - A celebration of video game music

Performed by full orchestra and choir, PLAY! features award-winning music from a catalogue of blockbuster video game titles. Outstanding graphics on large screens above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video game

(tags: Music Games Symphony videogames game concert videogame)
chadcoyle.homestead.com

Cartoon-type drawings.

(tags: illustration art cartoon inspiration blog)
Zodiackiller.com: Tracking the Mysterious California Serial Killer, the Zodiac. Operated by Tom Voigt

On the trail of California's notorious, still-at-large serial killer, the Zodiac.

(tags: history killer zodiac murder)

Thursday, August 03, 2006

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Digit - Features - Digital Manga - pt 1

Learn how to recreate the styles and sharp colour divisions of Manga art using Adobe Photoshop's Freeform Pen tool.

(tags: manga tutorial digital art reference)
The Mapping Revolution: How Google Earth Is Changing Science - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Biologists, epidemiologists and disaster control experts are discovering Google Earth as a powerful tool in their work. The success of the digital globe has reawakened interest in computer mapping models.

(tags: article science mapping google maps gis)
PIKAPIKA: in kitijoji - Animated light pen art

Neat - check out these animated gifs made from a light pen and digital camera (long exposure)

(tags: animation alternative photography lightpen exposure)

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

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Bill Pullman playing Philip K Dick?

He’s close to signing on to an independet film about the author. Entitled Panasonic, the movie is being directed by musician Matthew Wilder.

(tags: pkd movie news sci-fi)

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

links for 2006-07-31

alex dragulescu - dynamic for the people

Alex Dragulescu is a Romanian visual artist whose practice embraces both traditional and new media. His projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived fro

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StarLogo TNG

StarLogo TNG is The Next Generation of StarLogo modeling and simulation software. While this version holds true to the premise of StarLogo as a tool to create and understand simulations of complex systems, it also brings with it several advances.

(tags: education tools simulation design software free programming gaming 3d art)
Krugle

Krugle makes it easy for developers to find source code and technical information - fast!

(tags: search programming code opensource source Development Software web2.0 webapp)


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