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

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

links for 2006-10-30

Astounding - Analog

Covers from these classic sci-fi magazines.

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

links for 2006-10-27

webkuehn.de - Homepage of Stefan Kühn - Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth

In the free Software Google Earth is it possible to use own data and to connect this with a website. In the free enzyklopedia Wikipedia some Wikipedian support the WikiProject Geographical coordinates, where they include coordinates in the articles. I use

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A film by Toshio Matsumoto - for the damaged right eye

Friday, October 27, 2006

links for 2006-10-26

Scar Stuff: Forrest J. Ackerman and Frank Coe "Music For Robots" (Science Fiction Records, MFR-1001A, 1964)

This is some great great stuff -- vinyl pops and clicks included!

(tags: music mp3 retro audio robots history mp3s)
Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping

Could a simple coin toss -- used routinely to decide which team gets the ball, for instance -- actually be rigged?

(tags: math mathematics coin flipping news weird)
netpd about

netpd is a project based on the software puredata. its intention is to create an environment for electronic musicians and give them the opportunity to jam with each other in realtime, connected over the internet or a LAN.

(tags: music net internet collaborative tool experimental)
.·`¯¯`·.__.·`¯ Blip Festival 2006 NYC NOV 30 - DEC 3 ¯`·.__.·`¯¯`·.

THE TANK and 8BITPEOPLES are pleased to present the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit videogame consoles and home computers used as creative tools.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

links for 2006-10-25

JOCR

GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License.

(tags: java ocr programming graphics scanning text tools utilities library recognition)

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

links for 2006-10-23

Pulp Italian sf magazine covers

Check out this incredible gallery of over 1500 Italian pulp science fiction magazine covers, spanning 1952 to the present day.

(tags: design sci-fi art retro vintage pulp cover magazine magazines graphics illustration)
Computer Gaming World magazine

Welcome to the official online archive of Computer Gaming World magazine, where you can read and download digitized versions* of the first 100 issues of the magazine, beginning with the first issue in November 1981, and then see covers of all the rest of

(tags: games magazine gaming free pdf archive computer videogames videogame 80s computers download gallery retro game)
Tutorials | Photoshop Lab

Lots of Photoshop tutorials.

(tags: tutorials tutorial webdesign graphics Photoshop howto photography web2.0 illustration effects art resource resources reference)
Manga Revolution Drawing & Painting Tutorials

Manga Revolution.com is your premeir source for learning how to draw using digital and traditional methods of all types. From digital painting, to drawing anime, we're an online resource aimed at helping you learn and grow.

(tags: drawing art tutorial manga illustration reference japanese tutorials tips graphic painting anime artwork comic comics digital lessons)
t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m : ASCII-O-Matic

ASCII Art Generator.

(tags: ASCII Fun image cool flash design Art typography visualization graphic graphics software)
» Toshio Matsumoto - Experimental Film Works

Graduated from Tokyo University in 1955. A pioneer of avant-garde documentary, experimental film, multimedia, and video art in Japan.

(tags: film video japan art downloads media documentary cinema)

Thursday, October 19, 2006

links for 2006-10-18

Cyberfret.com: Guitar Techniques

Free online guitar lessons.

(tags: guitar music lessons tutorial techniques)
The Best Dreamcast Games For Today: The Top Titles That Still Matter : Retro Gaming with racketboy

A list of games that are still relevant in today's gaming market because of their unique gameplay that has not been improved upon on other consoles.

(tags: dreamcast games retro sega videogames gaming video)

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

links for 2006-10-16

Flying Saucers From Hell

Ufology often seems to come down to a choice between extraterrestrial visitors and some as yet unknown natural phenomenon but, as Dr David Clarke reveals, a now largely forgotten counter-theory was of infiltration by demons from the fiery pits of Hades.

(tags: ufo christianity culture religion books sci-fi weird)
c64animation.com

Glorious 8bit computer game graphics vault C64 Animation

(tags: c64 animation retro art design geek graphics videogames vintage computing cool database games gaming game 8-bit image pixel)

Monday, October 16, 2006

links for 2006-10-15

M O D I S T I

Modisti is an online directory with information with regard to experimental music, it's performers and enthusiats, thru lists promotion activities such as concerts, festivals, etc., as well as record releases.

(tags: music experimental audio creativecommons sound downloads mp3s free artists)
tomsrtbt home page

The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk.

(tags: linux floppy software bootdisk rescue boot tools)

Sunday, October 15, 2006

links for 2006-10-14

Robotics Institute: Neural Network-Based Face Detection

We present a neural networkbased face detection system. A retinally connected neural network examines small windows of an image, and decides whether each window contains a face.

(tags: face detection image retrieval ir science research)
TV Links - Cowboy Bebop

The famous anime series about a group of space travelling bounty hunters in 2071. 'Cowboy Bebop is strongly influenced by American culture, especially the jazz movements of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Nearly all of its action sequences, from space battles

(tags: video tv anime animation cowboy cartoons flash downloads media cartoon streaming)
The Interactive Way To Go

Here, you can surely learn to play Go because you can actually play.

(tags: go games tutorial howto boardgames game learning)
Game/Computer Magazine Scans - 1982/83 - a photoset on Flickr

The title says it all.

(tags: games retro advertising history gaming magazine videogames vintage videogame video 80s computer flickr graphics scans)
Bolt Member happyfcekilla's Video: Watch, Post, Comment, and Share with Friends

Includes: Clerks 2, Dazed and Confused, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Fearless, Ghost In The Shell, Harold and Kumar, Labyrinth, The Lost Boys, Miami Vice, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Scanner Darkly, Sin City, Superman Returns, V for Vendetta, X-Men 3,

(tags: movies video online videos cinema)
Geonames Ontology - Semantic Web

The Geonames Ontology makes it possible to add geospatial semantic information to the Word Wide Web.

(tags: geo semweb rdf geonames ontology owl)
Mindswap Homepage

Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab Semantic Web Agents Project.

(tags: semanticweb ontology rdf semantic research socialsoftware software computing computer social socialnetworking webservices academic technology semweb)

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Blade Runner Documentary

Friday, October 13, 2006

links for 2006-10-12

Shelfari

The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world!

(tags: books social web2.0 sharing book personal socialsoftware socialnetworking literature library collaboration networking)
Google News Archive Search

News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

(tags: history news search)
Public Military Manuals

PDF files with Public Military Manuals.

(tags: pdf manual howto army military)

Thursday, October 12, 2006

links for 2006-10-11

Blogmusik

Free Internet virtual ipod for Music Albums.

(tags: Music mp3 streaming Free ipod online Blog social webapp flash radio podcast aggregator ajax)
GMAN: FlickrDown

Batch download of flickr photos.

(tags: flickr software tools download photography photos tool images application backup)
MATSYS

Starting from a single sheet of paper, the students are asked to construct a number of models using techniques such as folding, bending, and cutting that transform the sheet into a 3 dimensional structure cabable of new structural performances.

(tags: architecture art blog research student system)
Origami Tessellations

Eric Gjerde's musings on origami, tessellations, geometry, design, and art

(tags: origami art paper geometry design tessellation blog cool mathematics papercraft)
Sculptures

In the mid 1980's, dissatisfied with the origami world's twin obsessions of complexity and literal representation, I began to experiment widely with technical and philosophical alternatives to folding paper as a model making activity. I wanted to make peo

(tags: papercraft art origami sculptures blog)

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

links for 2006-10-10

Thephildickian.com

Specializing in Philip K Dick, Science Fiction, and Radical Movement.

(tags: pkd sci-fi zine)
dataisnature.com

Dataisnature is a weblog of personal and recreational research containing information and links covering the following topics - Robot Art, Algorithmic and Procedural Art, Computational Aesthetics, Glitch Aesthetics, Vj’ing, Video Art, Computational Arch

(tags: art blog design visualization generative technology blogs digital computer computers computing fractal computation fractals graphics algorithm algorithms processing mathematics math maths multimedia)
CheapGeek- How to Clean a Dirty Old Printer

Here's how to clean an old laser printer, to bring it back to life...

(tags: printer howto diy hack)
Polar Rose -

Polar Rose uses unique face recognition technology to help search and find pictures of people, whether in your individual web album or across the web. We're picking up where traditional text search engines simply can't go!

(tags: search photography recognition face images web2.0 web photo photos technology tagging social)
reg:exp: GPS + Google Maps Mash-up in 42 lines of code

Here is a quick and dirty hack to perform mobile GPS-referenced Google Map searches on your laptop (e.g., where's the next coffee shop around here?).

(tags: googlemaps google gps python programming Maps software web2.0 mapping computer mashup mobile)
Home - voxforge.org

VoxForge was set up to collect transcribed speech for use with Open Source Speech Recognition Engines.

(tags: speech recognition voice opensource learning machine computer free science research)

Monday, October 09, 2006

links for 2006-10-08

COMMIX - Comics written just the way you want.

Easy tool for making comics.

(tags: comics art fun design tools cool web illustration webcomic illustrator web2.0 webapp drawing diy strips strip tool)
stuntkid.com

GirlMaker! Design a girl because it is fun.

(tags: cool flash toys web design illustration tool)
Acapela Group - Interactive Demo

A demo of text-to-speech technology.

(tags: text-to-speech language speech audio tts voice tools webservices webdev web2.0 demo technology)

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Amazing physics

links for 2006-10-07

8 BIT - home

A documentary about art and video games.

(tags: art documentary 8bit game film videogames movie films movies digital computer)
A Student's Guide to Startups

An essay by Paul Graham.

(tags: startup entrepreneurship PaulGraham business tips howto entrepreneur essay student article)
Slang of the 1920

The twenties were the first decade to emphasize youth culture over the older generations, and the flapper sub-culture had a tremendous influence on main stream America; many new words and phrases were coined by these liberated women. Many of these are sti

(tags: culture language humor reference dictionary words languages speech slang cool retro)
Undeniable Facts: Undeniable Friday: The Teleporting Cat Trick- a fact a day

This is a truly astounding illusion which you can use to bewilder your friends.

(tags: interesting video trick magic)
Kick Ass Classical - Classical Music's Top 100 Greatest Hits

Here's a targeted list of the 100 most popular Classical Music pieces, with [ LISTEN ] links directly to the "hook" - the most recognizable part of the piece - so you can decide if you like it (or even know it!) before you go buy the CD or mp3. Now go get

(tags: music classical lists mp3 reference classic classics)
Limbo Game

Could this be the next Another World?

(tags: games design video art game videogames videogame animation flash retro gaming)
Jack's Harmonica Page

Harmonica Lessons and Songbook.

(tags: harmonica howto music tutorial reference)

Friday, October 06, 2006

links for 2006-10-05

X-RATED - Adult movie posters of the 60s and 70s

Collection of x-rated movies posters from the 60s and 70s.

(tags: design art posters porn movies sex film 60s 70s advertising humor history graphics vintage)

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

links for 2006-10-03

Institute for Distributed Creativity

The research of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) focuses on collaboration in media art, technology, and theory with an emphasis on social contexts. The iDC is an international network with a participatory and flexible institutional structure

(tags: art media culture theory creativity research networks technology education community opensource design digitalart)
Penguin Books - a photoset on Flickr

Some of the old Penguin and Penican book covers.

(tags: design books art illustration flickr inspiration retro typography vintage gallery cover book)
home | 256bytes demos archive | v3

A demo archive.

(tags: programming demoscene assembly demos demo cool 3d graphic graphics electronica music computing coding code animation)
How to draw Steampunk Machines

The purpose of this web page is not to teach you how to draw. I will not be going though technique, perspective, color, line weight, software, or any of that stuff that you can easily surf up. This page is to only to inform artists who want to draw steamp

(tags: art steampunk drawing howto illustration graphics design drawings tutorials tutorial research retro comics)
ratcreature: how to draw female comic characters (according to Wizard)...

How To Draw: Heroic Anatomy

(tags: drawing comics howto art illustration reference tutorial tutorials tips comic)

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Indian Michael Jackson