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Spanish Crew - SXSW 2010

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:04:08 GMT

Spanish Crew - SXSW 2010
Faltan @xurde y @misha, pero estaban ya en la BBQ

Me entrevistan en el diario Hoy de Extremadura [es]

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:43:17 GMT

Ayer domingo tuve la oportunidad de aparecer en una de las páginas del diario con más tirada de Extremadura. En dicha página me preguntan sobre cómo empecé a dedicarme a esto del diseño de interacción, qué tal va Voota y mi opinión sobre otros detalles relacionados con el mundo de la tecnología (entrevista completa).

Cuando lo ves sobre el papel, enseguida te das cuenta de cosas que cambiarías porque no han salido justamente como las has dicho tu, pero esa es también la labor del periodista, al fin y al cabo. Simplemente quiero dejar bien claro que no soy “el fundador de varias start-ups”, puesto que parezco el único artífice de ellas. Junto a mi hay gente muy valiosa tan involucrada como yo.

Aparte de esta puntualización, uno no puede evitar esbozar una sonrisa al verse reflejado en un diario, por supuesto.

Va por mis padres, siempre a mi lado apoyándome en todo lo que hago.

Y ya que estamos en Extremadura, aprovecho para comentaros que estaré como ponente en The Evnt: un evento en Cáceres sobre nuevas tecnologías que tendrá lugar el próximo 9 y 10 de abril. Por si alguien se anima…

(Dani, gracias por la fotinga! Al final valió para algo! ;)

Bookmarks for March 1st through March 15th

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:01:16 GMT

These are my links for March 1st through March 15th:

Geohash – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Geohash is a latitude/longitude geocode system invented by Gustavo Niemeyer when writing the web service at geohash.org, and put into the public domain. It is a hierarchical spatial data structure which subdivides space into buckets of grid shape.<br />
Geohashes offer properties like arbitrary precision and the possibility of gradually removing characters from the end of the code to reduce its size (and gradually lose precision).<br />
As a consequence of the gradual precision degradation, nearby places will often (but not always) present similar prefixes. On the other side, the longer a shared prefix is, the closer the two places are.
gameQuery – a javascript game engine with jQuery – gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript game development easier by adding some simple game-related classes
SaTScan – Software for the spatial, temporal, and space-time scan statistics – SaTScan™ is a free software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics
neo4j open source nosql graph database » – You can think of Neo4j as a high-performance graph engine with all the features of a mature and robust database. The programmer works with an object-oriented, flexible network structure rather than with strict and static tables — yet enjoys all the benefits of a fully transactional, enterprise-strength database.
OBLIGE Home – OBLIGE is a random level generator for various classic games, such as DOOM and DOOM II (more coming soon). The goal is to produce high quality levels which are fun to play.

Desayunando con energia

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:30:18 GMT

Desayunando con energia

lifeisfinite: nevver: Palette, Retrogasm**

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:17:49 GMT

En una caja de un router

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:30:24 GMT

En una caja de un router
Es lo que tiene que el dueño sea un informático

iPhone Development: Nexus One from an iPhone Developer's Perspective

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:26:20 GMT

Photo

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:09:34 GMT

Best Divorce Letter Ever - PBH3

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:44:47 GMT

NEW E*TRADE Baby - Girlfriend

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:01:43 GMT

Milk-a-what?

Galería fotográfica: Barcelona bajo la nieve

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:52:00 GMT

El Paseo de Gracia:

La Villa Olímpica:

Las Ramblas:

La estatua de Colón:

Guiris en la Plaza Catalunya:

Vista de Barcelona desde el Tibidabo:

Mecagon el Weather Wizard.

Top 5 artists this week

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

lección 1: papá es naranja

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:19:03 GMT

killingbambi: via img.ffffound.com

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:55:52 GMT

Photo

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:45:57 GMT

The auction begins

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:39:25 GMT

I thank Paul Sherman and Loren Poulsen and Eliot Williams for the pointer; a related link is here.

Mere addition paradox – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:40:11 GMT

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"

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:04:31 GMT

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!

Nueva camiseta corporativa

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:38:27 GMT

Nueva camiseta corporativa

Visualizing time series data embedded in tweets

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:43:40 GMT

SaTScan - Software for the spatial, temporal, and space-time scan statistics

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:42:14 GMT

SaTScan™ is a free software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics

vector poem » Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:39:31 GMT

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.

via vector poem » Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom.

Twitter Data – A simple, open proposal for embedding data in Twitter messages – Home

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:38:22 GMT

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

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:36:48 GMT

iProcessing is an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language.

via Luckybite.

When the ship goes down

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

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 »

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:53:57 GMT

You can think of Neo4j as a high-performance graph engine with all the features of a mature and robust database. The programmer works with an object-oriented, flexible network structure rather than with strict and static tables — yet enjoys all the benefits of a fully transactional, enterprise-strength database.

Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:44:34 GMT

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.

Black Sabbath - Blue Suede Shoes

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:29:44 GMT

Syyn Labs: High Voltage Debauchery

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:26:45 GMT

When the rock band OK Go, famous for their viral videos including the spectacular and award winning “treadmills video”, wanted to feature a 4-minute long Rube Goldberg Machine in an upcoming video, they tapped Syyn Labs to build it. The requirements were that it had to be interesting, not “overbuilt” or too technology-heavy, and easy to follow. The machine also had to be built on a shoestring budget, synchronize with beats and lyrics in the music and end on time over a 3.5 minute song, play a part of the song, and be filmed in one shot. To make things more challenging still, the space chosen was divided into two floors and the machine would use both.

via Syyn Labs: High Voltage Debauchery.

NASA – Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:06:10 GMT

JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how Earth's rotation should have changed as a result of the Feb. 27 quake. Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).

via NASA – Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days.

SwanDiamondRose: Sabocracy in NYC & her SWANclothing Thigh...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:45:59 GMT

OBLIGE Home

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:27:36 GMT

OBLIGE is a random level generator for various classic games, such as DOOM and DOOM II (more coming soon). The goal is to produce high quality levels which are fun to play.

vector poem » Arcadia Demade

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:12:45 GMT

Typically when you ship a big game you get some time off to relax, take a step back and enjoy life.

Of course, I had to do something very silly with some of this time. So I did a remake of a BioShock level for… wait for it… Doom 2.

via vector poem » Arcadia Demade.

Flickr: Discussing Machine tags in Flickr API

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:07:58 GMT

No, machine tags are not RDF; they could play RDF on television, though.

via Flickr: Discussing Machine tags in Flickr API.

Bookmarks for February 23rd through March 1st

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:00:34 GMT

These are my links for February 23rd through March 1st:

SLADE – It's a map editor – SLADE is a modern, portable map editor for id software's Doom series of games. It also supports the enhanced editing features of some modern source ports, like ZDoom.
SEC – open source and platform independent event correlation tool – SEC accepts input from regular files, named pipes, and standard input, and can thus be employed as an event correlator for any application that is able to write its output events to a file stream. The SEC configuration is stored in text files as rules, each rule specifying an event matching condition, an action list, and optionally a Boolean expression whose truth value decides whether the rule can be applied at a given moment. Regular expressions, Perl subroutines, etc. are used for defining event matching conditions. SEC can produce output events by executing user-specified shell scripts or programs (e.g., snmptrap or mail), by writing messages to pipes or files, and by various other means.
Chernoff Faces – In 1973, Herman Chernoff introduced a visualization technique to illustrate trends in multidimensional data. His Chernoff Faces were especially effective because they related the data to facial features, something which we are used to differentiating between. Different data dimensions were mapped to different facial features, for example the face width, the level of the ears, the radius of the ears, the length or curvature of the mouth, the length of the nose, etc.
Speed up your Rails XML responses | Rails on the Run –
Comparing MongoDB and Redis, Part 1 « While I Pondered… –

SLADE - It's a map editor

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:38:36 GMT

SLADE is a modern, portable map editor for id software's Doom series of games. It also supports the enhanced editing features of some modern source ports, like ZDoom.

Expermenting With Web Typography

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:39:56 GMT

Exploring Web Typography

SEC - open source and platform independent event correlation tool

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:31:47 GMT

SEC accepts input from regular files, named pipes, and standard input, and can thus be employed as an event correlator for any application that is able to write its output events to a file stream. The SEC configuration is stored in text files as rules, each rule specifying an event matching condition, an action list, and optionally a Boolean expression whose truth value decides whether the rule can be applied at a given moment. Regular expressions, Perl subroutines, etc. are used for defining event matching conditions. SEC can produce output events by executing user-specified shell scripts or programs (e.g., snmptrap or mail), by writing messages to pipes or files, and by various other means.

Super-K

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:10:00 GMT

Built in an abandoned mine, the "Super-K" neutrino detector surrounds 50,000 gallons of super pure water with 11,200 photomultiplier tubes. To give an idea of the scale, that object in the distance is two men in a rubber raft.

From PopSci. More pictures here.

Food Ad Tricks: Helping Kids Understand Food Ads on TV

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:25:05 GMT