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March 10 2010
NEW E*TRADE Baby - Girlfriend
Milk-a-what?
March 08 2010
Galería fotográfica: Barcelona bajo la nieve
La Villa Olímpica:
Las Ramblas:
La estatua de Colón:
Guiris en la Plaza Catalunya:
Vista de Barcelona desde el Tibidabo:
Mecagon el Weather Wizard.
March 07 2010
March 06 2010
March 04 2010
The auction begins
I thank Paul Sherman and Loren Poulsen and Eliot Williams for the pointer; a related link is here.
March 03 2010
Mere addition paradox – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The mere addition paradox is a problem in ethics, identified by Derek Parfit, and appearing in his book, Reasons and Persons (1986). The paradox identifies apparent inconsistency between three seemingly true beliefs about population ethics.
via Mere addition paradox – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Ya se puede ver online a Wild Honey en "Los conciertos de Radio 3"
Ya se puede ver online el concierto que dimos para "Los conciertos de radio 3" y que se emitió anoche en La2:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/la2/ultimos/index.html#709495
Ver un concierto propio en la tele es algo rarísimo, sobre todo por la impotencia de no poder retocar algunos temas de sonido y porque te arrepientes de haber estado tan serio (¡las cámaras de televisión intimidan!).
Pero es una experiencia muy chula y creo que el concierto quedó bastante bien. Muchísimas gracias de nuevo a la gente de Radio 3 por invitarnos a tocar. A ver qué os parece a los que ayer no pudisteis verlo...
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It's now possible to watch online the show we recorded for the Spanish Public Television that was broadcasted on TV last night:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/la2/ultimos/index.html#709495
Watching yourself on TV is a really weird experience: you feel powerless for not being able to correct the audio mix and you regret that you were so serious on stage (playing in front of TV cameras is something intimidating!).
But we had a lot of fun, it was definitely an incredible experience and I think that the concert looks ok. Thanks again to the people at Radio 3 for inviting us to play on TV. I hope that you like it!
March 02 2010
SaTScan - Software for the spatial, temporal, and space-time scan statistics
vector poem » Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom
In 1993, the message Doom sent to the videogame world was something like “use cutting edge technology to make something dark, edgy and violent”. The world has changed so much around Doom since then that very little of that original impact comes through to players today – though the industry has inarguably gone on to master the techno-fueled ultra-violence thing! Here’s what I’ve found after many years of enjoying the game and digging ever deeper into its design.
Twitter Data – A simple, open proposal for embedding data in Twitter messages – Home
Twitter Data is a simple, open, semi-structured format for embedding machine-readable, yet human-friendly, data in Twitter messages. This data can then be transmitted, received, and interpreted in real time by powerful new kinds of applications built on the Twitter platform
via Twitter Data – A simple, open proposal for embedding data in Twitter messages – Home.
iProcessing
iProcessing is an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language.
via Luckybite.
When the ship goes down
The New York Times covers a new study on the co-operative behaviour of passengers when two famous sea-faring passenger liners sunk: the Lusitania sank fast, leading to every-man-for-themself type escape behaviour, whereas the Titanic took almost three hours to sink, meaning women and children were given priority and rank and social class were respected.
It reminds me of a famous, if not somewhat disheartening, study [pdf] on the predictors of survival after air crashes that was covered by Mary Roach's brilliant book on dead bodies, Stiff. From p87:
Here is the secret to surviving one of these crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.
Link to NYT piece on sinking study.
Link to summary of scientific study.
pdf of air crash report.
neo4j open source nosql graph database »
Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com
At the Olympics, the blink of an eye can be all that separates the gold medalist from the 10th-place finisher. In some events, this is obvious. But in others, with athletes racing one by one, the closeness of the race is harder to perceive. Listen to the differences below.
via Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com.
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