Who killed the blog?

Last.fm for programs - Find programs similar or alternatives to the ones you use

2009-01-26T04:03:00.001-08:00

If you use some programs and wonder if there are any good alternatives you should check http://wakoopa.com/ it's kind of a Last.fm for programs.

Hello Google! I'm human and I can't read this captcha!

2009-01-04T14:49:00.000-08:00

Twitter Friends Network Browser

2009-01-02T10:11:00.000-08:00

This little tool allows you to explore your friends in Twitter in a easy and interactive way!

Twitter Friends Network Browser

2008 best music

2008-12-27T16:08:00.000-08:00

Categorized and with links to youtube.

#classic or contemporary#
António Pinho Vargas - Tom Waits

#indie shintzie sentimentali + dressed up in a curtain pattern#

Beach House - Heart of Chambers
Beach House - Gila
Ruby Suns - There are birds

#indie shintzie sentimentali + hip-pop#
Why? - The Vowels Pt. 2
Why? - These Few Presidents

#indie mainstream#

Constantines - Our Age
Deerhunter - Never stops
Deerhunter - VHS Dream

#trash, electronica and Chocolate Rain on lsd#
Crystal Castles - Crimewave
Crystal Castles - Lovers Who Uncover [Crystal Castles VS The Little Ones]
Ladytron - Burning Up
Ladytron - Ghosts

#ed bangers check it out#

Girl Talk - Here's the thing
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Let's Make Out
Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl
Justice - D.A.N.C.E. Part 2
Nine Inch Nails – 1,000,000

A better search engine than Google for mp3

2008-12-27T13:28:00.001-08:00

That's right Skreemr it's one of the greatest search engines available today, just ~~google~~ search for a mp3 listen with the integrated flash player and if you want just "save link as" to download the mp3. Simple and useful.

http://skreemr.com/

Monkey Business!

2008-10-12T04:00:00.000-07:00

Just found in Oddly Enough this funny video of a guy who impersonates monkeys for living in India!

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=91498&videoChannel=4&refresh=true

I need a free song to my movie...

2008-10-04T10:27:00.000-07:00

but it's all too complicated with the restrictive copyright laws we have now...

So what to do?

The answer is simple
http://www.jamendo.com/

Enjoy it and enjoy Creative Commons Licenses :)

USB FUN!

2008-09-28T04:44:00.000-07:00

'Cause USBing can be fun! The mr USB hub man!

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080926/super-kid-usb-4-port-hub/

Cool plasma useless ball
http://www.usbuniverse.com/usb-plasma-ball1.html

Yep, that's a refrigerator.
http://www.usbuniverse.com/usb-refrigerator1.html

LOL.
http://www.usbgeek.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=0911

USB Missile Launcher than can be controlled via your PC :\

http://www.usbuniverse.com/usb-missile-launcher1.html

And for all frustrated Hollywood directors the "Hollywood Reject Kit"

Found via Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/27/crapgadget-gizmos-to-scar-your-usb-port-for-life/

No time, no blogging

2008-08-10T17:56:00.000-07:00

I've been busy dear fellow mute readers. Sometimes busy doing nothing but maybe that's why we call it holidays.
So if you're interested in my photos from the Portuguese festival Alive check it here http://flickr.com/photos/xadocdna/sets/72157606100653055/

Also found these little great thing called twofifty that's let's check how much recent american crap (not talking about Batman) you have to see from the imdb's 250 top to have seen it all.

That's all for now! byeee

I STOPPED posting because...

2008-07-27T15:57:00.000-07:00

"We lose money on every transaction, but we make it up in volume!"

2008-06-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

This blog in not dead. I'm just too busy that if I wrote something here I could feel guilty for not being studying and as so this blog is waiting for the review of The Office [US]. In july I'll be back in strong. ;)

Gotta love xkcd!

2008-03-17T09:09:00.000-07:00

http://www.xkcd.com/331/

A story that could be true

2008-03-06T10:49:00.000-08:00

A STORY THAT COULD BE TRUE
by William Stafford

If you were exchanged in the cradle and
your real mother died
without ever telling the story
then no one knows your name,
and somewhere in the world
your father is lost and needs you
but you are far away.

He can never find
how true you are, how ready.
when the great wind comes
and the robberies of the rain
you stand in some corner shivering.
The people who go by-
you wonder at their calm.

They miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
"Who are you really wanderer?"-
and the answer you have to give
no matter how dark and cold
the world around you is:
"Maybe I'm a king."
"Maybe I'm a queen."

Oh well, just started to see another series and took this poem from it. This one is called "The Riches" and it's about a poor family that by accident starts to live the life of a rich couple. The thing is that so far (and I've only seen one episode) it looks reeeealy nice. The cast acts well, the story it's not cheesy and the soundtrack is great! Maybe I'll make a review of it later.

If you liked Weeds, then I guess you would also like this one.

What if there was a canadian band that sounded like Duran Duran, but was better? Doesn't really matter...

2008-03-03T15:28:00.000-08:00

PLATINUM BLONDE - Doesn't Really Matter

Crying Over You, now...

Is this an answer from rapidshare to dissuade piracy?

2008-03-02T13:49:00.000-08:00

...inserting puppies and kittens into the verification code?!

=D

The sweet geekness, The IT Crowd

2008-02-17T04:38:00.000-08:00

Hello there! Just seen this British series, always seeking for something like The Office, but I guess you only see something like that in a life time, what was I talking about?, oh the series I've seen... it's called The IT Crowd, in a short review I can say that it's passed in an IT department and it takes out and juices the sweet side of geekness (yup, there is one). Don't expect a television version of xkcd! That (I guess) wouldn't be very popular in a large audience. But you can expect a nice friendly series, and here are some of the jokes, which I've liked.

Jen: What are you laughing at?
Moss: This flipping circuit board, Jen,
Moss: Some chump has run the data line right through the power supply.
Moss: Amateur hour!
Moss: I've got tears in my eyes.

Even If my short review didn't startled your appetite's give it a taste at youtube's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEqw9o62ncQ

PS: I really hate recorded laughs in comedy, that was the major turn down

Adeus! (bye in Portuguese)

Late St Valentine's day compilation. A and B Love.

2008-02-14T12:57:00.000-08:00

A and B Love.
A: The Love
#1 Built to Spill - Car (Live)
#2 TV on the Radio - Ambulance
#3 Sonic Youth - Incinerate
#4 Elvis - Can't Help Falling in Love
#5 Roy Orbinson - In Dreams
#6 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - kiss kiss
#7 Silver Jews - Punks in the beerlight

http://sharebee.com/6da0ac5d

B: The break up
#1 The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want To Get Over You
#2 Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries
#3 Radiohead - Where I End And You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In)
#4 Jens Lekman - And I Remember Every Kiss
#5 The Unicorns - Les Os
#6 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
#7 The Knife - N.Y. Hotel

http://sharebee.com/55b422e1

Enjoy it with love! :)

Best video clips ever

2008-02-10T15:00:00.000-08:00

Atomic Roads, Nuclear Sunrise
They Left Me All Alone
Falling Stars Exploding on The Sea
God it's Beautiful
The Land and The Roses Slowly Disappear
Why I'm So Alone?
A Wounded Angel Is Smiling to Me
God It's So Beautiful

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Now, after the best, my "altogether list"

#60's
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

#70's
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

#80's
Michael Jackson - Billy Jean
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in your Arms tonight
AHA - Take on me
Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Miami Sound Machine - dr beat

On focus:
Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora - When the rain begins to fall (big focus becaus this one contains a lot of elements from this kind of 80's videos together in just one. The rival gangs, the exotic aesthetics, till that motorcycle dude the beat is strong and constant from the start to the end, and an silly history of a romance HYPER MEGA STRONG that will beat everything and everyone. If you had to reconstruct all the 80's videos from just one video, this could be the one to pick).

Duran Duran - Wild Boys

#90's
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Radiohead - karma police

On focus:
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

#00's (zerothies)
Royksopp - Remind Me
Royksopp - What Else Is There?

On focus:
Vitalic - Poney Part 1 (I think are rare the videos that melt so well with music like this one, that means, I couldn't see this music connected with another video other than this one)

unofficial
Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'un autre ete : L'apres midi

movie soundtracks
Roy Orbison - In Dreams (Blue Velvet)

Last.fm for movies

2008-01-30T13:02:00.000-08:00

Well, I've been looking for a kind of last.fm but for movies. Found some interesting sites but this one got my choice http://www.flixster.com/

It allows you to compare your taste with your friends and also recommends you movies based on what you liked. Like last.fm also works as a specific social community.

My account is here http://www.flixster.com/user/xadoc

If you don't know what last.fm is, I can tell you briefly that it counts what you hear on your player (winamp, itunes, etc etc) and provides charts, music recommendations, taste comparison with your friends, free downloads...

Give it a try at http://www.last.fm/ it's free! If you want to check mine is at http://www.last.fm/user/xadoc/

Cheers!

Darth Vader vs. Japanese Police

2008-01-27T10:36:00.000-08:00

There goes 2007. Here it is. (11 Top tracks from 2007)

2008-01-20T06:02:00.000-08:00

#01 - The National - Gospel
#02 - Explosions In The Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day
#03 - Low - Violent Past
#04 - Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory
#05 - The Arcade Fire - The Well And The Lighthouse
#06 - Sunset Rubdown - the mending of the gown
#07 - Justice - Phantom Pt. II
#08 - Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
#09 - The Go! Team - Keys To The City
#10 - The Polyphonic Spree - Light to Follow
#11 - Kaiser Chiefs - Retirement

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QHYB2IDZ

How to show only labels used more than one time in blogger?

2008-01-15T10:01:00.000-08:00

Well I wanted to show only labels used more than one time in my Labels (in order to have a small label list). You can also change it to more than two or three times, it's up to you.

To do that you have to:
1- Go to "Template>Edit HTML"
2- Check the box "Expand Widget Templates"
3- Add an If condition like if cond='data:label.count > 1' in a b tag and close the if again. Like shown in blue.
That's all! :)

free time + idea = youtube

2008-01-15T09:32:00.000-08:00

I've always liked video, short movies and so on. So just grabbed my Canon S5 and decided to make this very short 30 seconds stop motion movie that represents 13 minutes from my balcony. To merge the captured photos into a movie I've used MonkeyJam, a great free program for Windows to make stop motion movies.

Edit: A new film a bit more longer 01:38 from the same view with different time .

The next Christmas thing is "Webkinz"

2008-01-11T16:19:00.000-08:00

It's a kind of tamagotchi, social community for kids and a toy.

http://www.webkinz.com/

Found in Google Zeitgeist for 2007

Minesweeper: The Movie

2008-01-11T11:26:00.000-08:00

A parody with the quality seal from college humor :D

How to Hunt Elephants

2008-01-11T09:33:00.000-08:00

Just loved this joke, it kinda looks familiar to me in some points.

How to Hunt Elephants

Mathematicians hunt elephants by going to Africa, throwing
out everything that is not an elephant, and catching one of
whatever is left.  Professors of mathematics prove the
existence of at least one elephant and leave the capture of
an actual elephant as an exercise for one of their graduate
students.

Computer scientists hunt elephants using algorithm A:

1.  Go to Africa
2.  Start at the Cape of Good Hope
3.  Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the
    continent alternately East and West.
4.  During each traverse
        a.  Catch each animal seen
        b.  Compare each animal caught to a known elephant
        c.  Stop when a match is detected.

Experienced computer programmers modify Algorithm A by
placing a known elephant in Cairo to ensure that the
algorithm will terminate.

Engineers hunt elephants by going to Africa, catching gray
animals at  random, and stopping when any one of them weighs
within plus or minus 15 percent of any previously observed
elephant.

Economists don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if
elephants are paid enough they will hunt themselves.

Statisticians hunt the first animal they see N times and
call it an elephant.

Consultants don't hunt elephants, but they can be hired by
the hour to advise those who do.

Operations research consultants can measure the correlation
of hat size and bullet color to the efficiency of elephant
hunting strategies, if someone else will identify the elephants.

Politicians don't hunt elephants, but they will share the
elephants you catch with the people who voted for them.

Lawyers don't hunt elephants, but they do follow the herds
around arguing about who owns the droppings.  Software
lawyers will claim that they own an entire herd based on the
look and feel of one dropping.

When the Vice President of R&D tries to hunt elephants, his
staff will try to ensure that  all elephants are completely
prehunted before he sees them.  If the VP sees a
nonprehunted elephant, the staff will (1) Compliment the
vice president's keen eyesight and (2) enlarge itself to
prevent any recurrence.

Senior managers set broad elephant hunting policy based on
the assumption that elephants are just like field mice, but
with deeper voices.

Quality assurance inspectors ignore the elephants and look
for mistakes the other hunters made when they were packing
the jeep.

Salespeople don't hunt elephants but spend their time
selling elephants they haven't  caught, for delivery two
days before the season opens.  Software salespeople ship the
first thing they catch and write up an invoice for an
elephant.  Hardware salespeople catch rabbits, paint them
gray and sell them as "desktop elephants."

source:  "Pachydermic Personnel Prediction" by Peter Olsen in the
September 1989 edition of BYTE.

Found in http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/elephant-hunting

My small tribute to Elliott Smith: King's Crossing

2008-01-11T09:19:00.000-08:00

Live video where Eliott sings it so passionately :')

This song can be found in "From a Basement on the Hill".
Besides the beauty of the lyric the instrumental part is also fabulous.

Mp3 can be found here

RIAA should close down Google

2007-11-17T07:24:00.000-08:00

Why?
http://www.googlepirate.com/

Page and Brin are pirates! That's what they are! Giving us ilegal stuff! :P

Also would like to remember oink! Never forget!

oink.cd

Is Google turning us into image labelling monkeys?

2007-11-08T07:49:00.000-08:00

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Big fan of comedy

2007-11-04T14:52:00.000-08:00

I'm a big fan of comedy, someday later I'll make a list of the best one's. But for now I just would like to draw your attention towards this serie called "Flight of the Conchords". It's also a parody around music. Two New Zealanders in New York trying to make their way with their band.

If you liked "The Office" UK version this also has that silent kind of humor and an incompetent boss or in this case manager.

Not conviced?
Rachel Blanchard in episode one and some other babes! :P

(Check this scene at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDTSQtK20c)

Hope you enjoy comedy, and if you do I'm almost sure you'll enjoy this one!
Cheers!

So this is my personal blog.

2007-10-21T10:01:00.000-07:00

I'll be posting in English, although it's not my mother language so I can get an excuse for "xpelling maystakes". *kidding*
The true reasons for me to be posting in English are: practice my English and reach a bigger audience.

I was very obstinate to get a blog, because I didn't see a reason for me to get one. But when I started to understand that writing is a good activity and that it's positive to share something with the others I created this one when I got what I find a good name to a blog.

This blog will contain what I think you might like to read or see and also what want to share with you.

Feel free to comment.

Who killed the blog?

2007-10-05T04:10:00.000-07:00

You did!