http://ulmii.com/blog Random thoughts and things about...stuff Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:34:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Design is Fiction by Julian Bleecker, talked about how science fiction influence the widgets and gadgets of nowadays (like cell phones) and it's necessity of having a story behind the object, there's is a need to put the object into context for it to work. Next, Bruno Afonso with "Why should ... http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/21/shift-the-final-days/ Still don't get it? Well it's a pretty simple concept, actually. Tijmen Sheep explained it a little better on the workshop by showing some examples is foundation have produced (The works they did are posted on their website). Let's imagine you go to a social event and have a giant ... http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/15/shift-day-one/ Some bizarre images of the globe are presented on the picture gallerie of the Telegraph.co.uk site which goes by the name Atlas of the Real World, yet after putting the maps into to context, they make lots of sense.  The top image shows the countries and areas of the globe that contributed substantially to reduce the Carbon ... http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/09/the-distorted-world-we-live-in/ Update: Just upload a flickr photostream, and forgot to mention that you can see some Griffon through the Vulture Cam. We station at the Ermida on Vila Velha de Rodão, the activity consisted on the release of a juvenile griffon vulture to the wild just over the wonderful Portas de Rodão ... http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/04/eurobirdwatch-08/ This year's theme will be about Transient Technologies, meaning the way we use technology nowadays and how it became a part of our daily lives. The speakers will try to cover a number of different fields like, Education, History, Genetics, Economics, Accessibility, Transportation, Mobile Technologies, User Experience, Energy and Architecture, Art and ... http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/03/shift-08-im-there/ ...last friday, as a result of cancer. Moulin was one of Belgian jazz legends, and a musician I found out through my cousin, and just loved! Afterwards I saw that J Dilla used a sample of "Humpty Dumpty" on is song "Love Jones" httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaeUN20sDE httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpoZdrvBM88 http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/30/rip-marc-moulin/ Another extension for the spanish gvSIG, an GIS app that keeps getting better and more versatile. The extension will help manage and catalog your geographic information. It's still a prototype, but it looks good. Just noticed that Tim Sutton posted first preview of QGIS for a bunch of platforms, other suppressing ... http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/29/new-stuff-out-there/ At least I manage to put this blog up and running (sort off), but it isn't still how I wanted it to be! Nevertheless if I didn't started this blog now as is, I asurely wouldn't managed to have a blog by the end of this year. Well even though I ... http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/24/the-talent-of-being-bored/ but this time in a different approach. http://ulmii.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/24/first-post/