In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie leads the audience through an exploration of music not as notes on a page, but as an expression of the human experience. Playing with sensitivity and nuance informed by a soul-deep understanding of and connection to music, she talks about a music that is more than sound waves perceived by the human ear.
She illustrates a richer picture that begins with listening to yourself, and includes emotion and intent as well as the complex role of physical spaces -- instrument, concert hall and even the bones and body cavities of musician and listener alike.
TED Talks - Página oficial
TED Talks - Página das conferências
TED Talks - Vídeo da conferência (necessário o QuickTime)
TED Talks - Evelyn Glennie
Evelyn Glennie - Página oficial
Evelyn Glennie - Wikipédia
sexta-feira, fevereiro 29, 2008
J.J. Abrams: The mystery box - TED Talks
J.J. Abrams traces his love of the unseen mystery -- the heart of Alias, Lost, and the upcoming Cloverfield -- back to its own magical beginnings, which may or may not include an early obsession with magic, the love of a supportive grandfather, or his own unopened Mystery Box.
TED Talks - Página oficial
TED Talks - Página das conferências
TED Talks - Vídeo da conferência (necessário o QuickTime/7Zip)
TED Talks - J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams - Wikipédia
TED Talks - Página oficial
TED Talks - Página das conferências
TED Talks - Vídeo da conferência (necessário o QuickTime/7Zip)
TED Talks - J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams - Wikipédia
David Gallo: Underwater astonishments - TED Talks
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a shape-shifting cuttlefish, a pair of fighting squid, and a mesmerizing gallery of bioluminescent fish that light up the blackest depths of the ocean.
He focuses on the work of two scientists: Edith Widder at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association, and Roger Hanlon at the Marine Biological Lab.
TED Talks - Página oficial
TED Talks - Página das conferências
TED Talks - Vídeo da conferência (necessário o QuickTime/7Zip)
TED Talks - David Gallo
He focuses on the work of two scientists: Edith Widder at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association, and Roger Hanlon at the Marine Biological Lab.
TED Talks - Página oficial
TED Talks - Página das conferências
TED Talks - Vídeo da conferência (necessário o QuickTime/7Zip)
TED Talks - David Gallo
Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration - TED Talks
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.
As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.
TED Talks - Página oficial
TED Talks - Página das conferências
TED Talks - Vídeo da conferência (necessário o QuickTime/7Zip)
TED Talks - Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold - Wikipédia
As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.
TED Talks - Página oficial
TED Talks - Página das conferências
TED Talks - Vídeo da conferência (necessário o QuickTime/7Zip)
TED Talks - Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold - Wikipédia
A origem dos anos bissextos
"O dia de hoje, 29 de Fevereiro, ocorre apenas nos anos bissextos, denominação que alguns pensam reflectir o facto de os anos assim chamados terem 366 dias (com dois seis), o que não é verdade, como iremos ver."
Para quem tem curiosidade em saber a razão da existência de anos bissextos, o post A origem dos anos bissextos no blog De Rerum Natura está muito interessante.
Para quem tem curiosidade em saber a razão da existência de anos bissextos, o post A origem dos anos bissextos no blog De Rerum Natura está muito interessante.
Atheism: Raw and Uncut
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Cortesia onegoodmove
Human evolution - Moral thinking
Biology invades a field philosophers thought was safely theirs
WHENCE morality? That is a question which has troubled philosophers since their subject was invented. Two and a half millennia of debate have, however, failed to produce a satisfactory answer. So now it is time for someone else to have a go. And at a panel discussion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, a group of biologists did just that.
Mark Hauser, of Harvard University, opened the batting by asking whether morality is more than just the refined application of the emotions. He thinks that it is. Human brains, he believes, have a separate morality module. Brain-scanning experiments show that when a volunteer is faced with a moral dilemma (such as a runaway railway trolley approaching a set of points, with dire consequences whichever way he throws those points) his emotional centres are not involved in the decision. Such “trolleyology”, as it has waggishly been dubbed, also suggests that reason is not part of the process. Different ways of killing the same number of people with a runaway trolley produce systematically different answers.
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia onegoodmove
WHENCE morality? That is a question which has troubled philosophers since their subject was invented. Two and a half millennia of debate have, however, failed to produce a satisfactory answer. So now it is time for someone else to have a go. And at a panel discussion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, a group of biologists did just that.
Mark Hauser, of Harvard University, opened the batting by asking whether morality is more than just the refined application of the emotions. He thinks that it is. Human brains, he believes, have a separate morality module. Brain-scanning experiments show that when a volunteer is faced with a moral dilemma (such as a runaway railway trolley approaching a set of points, with dire consequences whichever way he throws those points) his emotional centres are not involved in the decision. Such “trolleyology”, as it has waggishly been dubbed, also suggests that reason is not part of the process. Different ways of killing the same number of people with a runaway trolley produce systematically different answers.
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia onegoodmove
quinta-feira, fevereiro 28, 2008
Watchmen - That's a wrap!
Pois é meninos e meninas, o tio Zach acabou as filmagens do filme Watchmen.
"I promise to refrain from getting too sentimental, but I want to take a moment to say thanks to the Watchmen cast & crew. You have all been phenomenal. It has been quite an experience and I could not have done it without the hard work and determination of each and every one of you. A film adaptation of Watchmen has been in the works for almost 20 years and thanks to you, it is finally in the can. It has been such a pleasure to be surrounded by a team that is so dedicated and that has given 110% each and every day. I am extremely grateful for the level of attention to detail put forth by each department to capture all of the texture that makes Watchmen the incredibly unique property that it is. Although we still have a lot of work to do in post, the shoot has been an experience I will not soon forget!
Thank you,
Zack"
E agora começa o nosso desespero.....
Para quem conhece a BD, ai ai, esta imagem, depois de ter visto o que ele fez com a BD do 300, deixa antever algo....
Watchmen - Blog oficial
Watchmen - Wikipédia
quarta-feira, fevereiro 27, 2008
Chaplain calls rival religious fellowship 'disgusting' to God
God is disgusted with California legislators – at least some of them, according to an evangelical chaplain who ruffled feathers this week in the same Capitol where he leads Bible studies for lawmakers.
Ralph Drollinger, who played basketball at UCLA in the 1970s and now heads Capitol Ministries, criticized lawmakers who participate in a separate fellowship group that embraces people of all faiths without insisting that they accept Jesus Christ as Messiah.
"Although they are pleasant men in their personal demeanor, their group is more than disgusting to our Lord and Savior," Drollinger wrote on the Capitol Ministries' Web site.
Drollinger, who has conducted Capitol Bible sessions for more than a decade, receives no compensation from the state. He is paid $120,000 annually by the nonprofit Capitol Ministries for evangelizing to politicians nationwide, records show.
Drollinger's message, also expressed in last week's Capitol Bible study session, is that religion has strict lines of right and wrong – and "progressive religious tolerance" offends God and harms its practitioners.
"What the fellowship group offers is Jesus of Nazareth, a good moral teacher who loves everyone without distinction," Drollinger wrote on his Web site. "This is a deadly lie.
"There is no true fellowship without first being reconciled to God," he wrote, defining reconciliation as "repentance from sin and faith in God through the work of Jesus Christ the Messiah."
Drollinger, in his Capitol Bible session last week, indicated that he is prepared to suffer for proclaiming what he views as God's truth.
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia Pharyngula
Ralph Drollinger, who played basketball at UCLA in the 1970s and now heads Capitol Ministries, criticized lawmakers who participate in a separate fellowship group that embraces people of all faiths without insisting that they accept Jesus Christ as Messiah.
"Although they are pleasant men in their personal demeanor, their group is more than disgusting to our Lord and Savior," Drollinger wrote on the Capitol Ministries' Web site.
Drollinger, who has conducted Capitol Bible sessions for more than a decade, receives no compensation from the state. He is paid $120,000 annually by the nonprofit Capitol Ministries for evangelizing to politicians nationwide, records show.
Drollinger's message, also expressed in last week's Capitol Bible study session, is that religion has strict lines of right and wrong – and "progressive religious tolerance" offends God and harms its practitioners.
"What the fellowship group offers is Jesus of Nazareth, a good moral teacher who loves everyone without distinction," Drollinger wrote on his Web site. "This is a deadly lie.
"There is no true fellowship without first being reconciled to God," he wrote, defining reconciliation as "repentance from sin and faith in God through the work of Jesus Christ the Messiah."
Drollinger, in his Capitol Bible session last week, indicated that he is prepared to suffer for proclaiming what he views as God's truth.
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia Pharyngula
Image Resizer
Os iluminados engenheiros da Microsoft não disponibilizaram a ferramenta Image Resizer no Windows XP, sendo necessário descarregar nas constantes actualizações do Windows ou aceder directamente à página.
Assim, muitos não se deram conta do potencial da ferramenta que permite modificar a resolução de uma imagem, permitindo assim o envio sem grandes problemas das imagens que andamos a tirar nas populares câmaras digitais mas que estão com resoluções abusivas para o envio como anexos de email.
Pelos vistos o Vista tem problemas com os PowerToys (pacote de ferramentas onde se inclui o Image Resizer).
Assim sendo, experimentem a alternativa VSO Image Resizer.
VSO Image Resizer (Freeware)- Página Oficial
PowerToys - Windows XP - Página oficial (aqui podem encontrar várias ferramentas)
Cortesia Peopleware
Assim, muitos não se deram conta do potencial da ferramenta que permite modificar a resolução de uma imagem, permitindo assim o envio sem grandes problemas das imagens que andamos a tirar nas populares câmaras digitais mas que estão com resoluções abusivas para o envio como anexos de email.
Pelos vistos o Vista tem problemas com os PowerToys (pacote de ferramentas onde se inclui o Image Resizer).
Assim sendo, experimentem a alternativa VSO Image Resizer.
VSO Image Resizer (Freeware)- Página Oficial
PowerToys - Windows XP - Página oficial (aqui podem encontrar várias ferramentas)
Cortesia Peopleware
"A revista portuguesa “Exame Informática” disponibilizou o Curso completo de Photoshop no seu site, gratuitamente no formato PDF.
Para ser mais fácil o download, juntamos num RAR todos os PDFs deste Curso. Vai necessitar do Adobe Reader (ou equivalente) instalado para poder ver e/ou imprimir este curso."
Curso completo de Photoshop (Tráfego Internacional - RapidShare)
Curso completo de Photoshop (Tráfego Nacional)
Exame Informática - Página oficial (link da página com os pdf)
Cortesia Peopleware
Para ser mais fácil o download, juntamos num RAR todos os PDFs deste Curso. Vai necessitar do Adobe Reader (ou equivalente) instalado para poder ver e/ou imprimir este curso."
Curso completo de Photoshop (Tráfego Internacional - RapidShare)
Curso completo de Photoshop (Tráfego Nacional)
Exame Informática - Página oficial (link da página com os pdf)
Cortesia Peopleware
Ferramentas para capturar janelas de trabalho, vídeo...
Por vezes precisamos de guardar a janela da aplicação em que estamos a trabalhar para algum relatório ou relatar uma mensagem de erro que teima em aparecer.
Ou mesmo criar um vídeo de um conjunto de passos de modo a permitir a que outros possam compreender como actuar com uma ou mais aplicações.
Normalmente recorremos ao Print Screen e depois temos de andar a inventar para guardar a imagem daí resultante.
E se fosse possível realizar esse trabalho de forma simples e gratuita?
Deixo aqui algumas possibilidades, eu pessoalmente uso o SnagIt que em boa hora descobri no Peopleware forma de o utilizar gratuitamente e de forma legal (pena é que a emissão de novos serials tenha terminado).
AviTools 1.2 (Freeware) - Página oficial
CamStudio (Open Source) - Página oficial
Cortesia Peopleware
Ou mesmo criar um vídeo de um conjunto de passos de modo a permitir a que outros possam compreender como actuar com uma ou mais aplicações.
Normalmente recorremos ao Print Screen e depois temos de andar a inventar para guardar a imagem daí resultante.
E se fosse possível realizar esse trabalho de forma simples e gratuita?
Deixo aqui algumas possibilidades, eu pessoalmente uso o SnagIt que em boa hora descobri no Peopleware forma de o utilizar gratuitamente e de forma legal (pena é que a emissão de novos serials tenha terminado).
AviTools 1.2 (Freeware) - Página oficial
CamStudio (Open Source) - Página oficial
Cortesia Peopleware
terça-feira, fevereiro 26, 2008
Editors - An End has a Start
Unplugged version
An End has a Start
I don't think that it's
Gonna rain again today
There's a devil at your side
But an angel on her way
Someone hit the light
'Cause there's more here to be seen
When you caught my eye
I saw everywhere I'd been
And wanna go to
You came on your own
That's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands
And air to breathe
I won't disappoint you
As you fall apart
Some things should be simple
Even an end has a start
Someone hit the light
'Cause there's more here to be seen
When you caught my eye
I saw everywhere I'd been
And wanna go to
You came on your own
That's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands
And air to breathe
You lose everything
By the end
Still my broken limbs
You find time to mend
More and more people
I know are getting ill
Pull something good from
The ashes now be still
You came on your own
That's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands
And air to breathe
You lose everything
By the end
Still my broken limbs
You choose to mend
You came on your own
That's how you'll leave
You came on your own
That's how you'll leave
You came on your own
You came on your own
Editors - Wikipédia
Editors - Página oficial
Editors - MySpace
Once OST - Falling Slowly
Glen Hansard Marketa Irglova Once Oscar acceptance speeches
Once - Falling Slowly
Falling Slowly
I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along
Once OST - Link no rapidshare (password tunestop.blogspot.com ou tunestop, Cortesia Tune Stop Music)
Once - Wikipédia
Once - Página oficial
Glen Hansard - Wikipédia
The Frames - Página oficial
The Frames - Wikipédia
The Swell Season - MySpace
Once - Falling Slowly
Falling Slowly
I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along
Once OST - Link no rapidshare (password tunestop.blogspot.com ou tunestop, Cortesia Tune Stop Music)
Once - Wikipédia
Once - Página oficial
Glen Hansard - Wikipédia
The Frames - Página oficial
The Frames - Wikipédia
The Swell Season - MySpace
Etiquetas:
Cinema,
Downloads,
Videoclip música
Sweet Home 3D 1.2.1
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.
Cortesia Peopleware
Video tutorial of Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D - Página oficial
Cortesia Peopleware
Video tutorial of Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D - Página oficial
segunda-feira, fevereiro 25, 2008
Tarsem Singh's The Fall
The Fall - Clip from Tarsem's movie
The Fall - Trailer com maior qualidade (QuickTime)
Paul Polak - Pop!Casts
From his extensive experiences working with the poor of the developing world, Paul Polak has learned a lot about effective market-based approaches to alleviating poverty. He argues that in order to be successful, solutions must be simple, inexpensive, easy to reproduce, and most important, respond to the expressed needs of the people they are meant to benefit.
Paul Polak - Página oficial
Pop!Casts - Página oficial
Pop!Casts - Página do vídeo com link para download
Paul Polak - Página oficial
Pop!Casts - Página oficial
Pop!Casts - Página do vídeo com link para download
John Legend - Pop!Casts
Five-time Grammy award-winner John Legend will move you and motivate you. He weaves stories from his Show Me Campaign—a movement he launched to help eradicate extreme global poverty—in between each soulful song.
Pop!Casts - Página oficial
Pop!Casts - Página do vídeo com link para download
Show Me Campaign - Página oficial
Pop!Casts - Página oficial
Pop!Casts - Página do vídeo com link para download
Show Me Campaign - Página oficial
The Salamander's Tale
This isn't "Part 2" in our 3-part tales videos, but this is a youtube video created by RodHullIAmHim for an actual section in The Ancestor's Tale, called "The Salamander's Tale". The audio is from the audiobook version, read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward. If anyone else would like to create a tale video, send it in!
Cortesia RichardDawkins.net
Download Quicktime version
Cortesia RichardDawkins.net
Download Quicktime version
Etiquetas:
Ciência,
Natureza,
Richard Dawkins,
Videoclip
Lou Rhodes - Icarus
Lou Rhodes at Fnac Norteshopping (Matosinhos)
Icarus
Caution is not my middle name
When it comes to love
Like Icarus I fly too high
And burn my wings on the sun
But all I can do is dive back in
So here I am standing on that edge again
And I wanna ask you darling
Could we fly
'Cause looking in your eyes right now
Nothing could be too high
And there's a kind of wisdom in being alone
We're born and we die that way
When all's said and done
But all my soul's yearning comes back to two
Could all my heart's searching
Have brought me to you
So what you say in baby
Could we fly
'Cause looking in your eyes right now
Nothing could be too high
And something tells me this time
We could fly
'Cause looking in your eyes right now
Nothing could be too high
Yes something tells me this time
We could fly
'Cause lying in your arms right now
Nothing could be too high
Lou Rhodes - Página oficial
Lou Rhodes - MySpace
Lou Rhodes - Wikipédia
Icarus
Caution is not my middle name
When it comes to love
Like Icarus I fly too high
And burn my wings on the sun
But all I can do is dive back in
So here I am standing on that edge again
And I wanna ask you darling
Could we fly
'Cause looking in your eyes right now
Nothing could be too high
And there's a kind of wisdom in being alone
We're born and we die that way
When all's said and done
But all my soul's yearning comes back to two
Could all my heart's searching
Have brought me to you
So what you say in baby
Could we fly
'Cause looking in your eyes right now
Nothing could be too high
And something tells me this time
We could fly
'Cause looking in your eyes right now
Nothing could be too high
Yes something tells me this time
We could fly
'Cause lying in your arms right now
Nothing could be too high
Lou Rhodes - Página oficial
Lou Rhodes - MySpace
Lou Rhodes - Wikipédia
Lou Rhodes - The Rain
The Rain
I know a man with the world on his shoulders
And angel's wings on his back
Angered and troubled by so much that's out there
And struggling not to paint it black
But the rain will come and wash it all away
The rain will come and wash it all away
The rain will come and wash it all away
And bring the sun
And he lives all alone out by the railway
With only dreams for company
But at night he flies high up to the stars
And sets his spirit free
And the rain will come and wash it all away
And the rain will come and wash it all away
The rain will come and wash it all away
And bring the sun
And he dreams of a girl with the moon in her eyes
And fire in her heart
And one day he'll find his way to her
And never will they port
And the rain will come and wash it all away
The rain will come and wash it all away
The rain will come and wash it all away
And bring the sun
And bring the sun
And bring the sun
Lou Rhodes - Página oficial
Lou Rhodes - MySpace
Lou Rhodes - Wikipédia
Chuck Norris Blames School Shootings on Atheism, Evolution
"After events like the shootings in Illinois, you can be absolutely certain that not much time will pas before some religious authoritarians come out to blame evolution, atheism, secularism, humanism, or all of the above. Once a mediocre actor and now an been worse spokesman for Christian Nationalism, Chuck Norris revels in repeating bigoted assertions without any apparent self-awareness of just how immoral his behavior is."
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia Agnosticism / Atheism
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia Agnosticism / Atheism
Etiquetas:
Chuck Norris,
Religião,
Sociedade
How Ricky Gervais lost his faith
Ricky Gervais, de quem já deixei uns vídeos fantásticos (aqui e aqui), apresenta nos a suas razões para ser ateu.
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
"…within an hour, I was an atheist.
Wow. No God. If Mum had lied to me about God, had she also lied to me about Santa? yes, but who cares? The gifts kep coming. And so did the gifts of my newfound atheism. The gifts of truth, science, nature. The real beauty of this world. Not a world by design, but one by chance. I learned of evolution—a theory so simple and obvious that only England's greatest genius could have come up with it. Evolution of plants, animals, and us—with imagination, free will, love and humor. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living.
But living an honest life—for that you need the truth. That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity."
Cortesia Pharyngula
Ricky Gervais - Página oficial
Ricky Gervais - Wikipédia
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
"…within an hour, I was an atheist.
Wow. No God. If Mum had lied to me about God, had she also lied to me about Santa? yes, but who cares? The gifts kep coming. And so did the gifts of my newfound atheism. The gifts of truth, science, nature. The real beauty of this world. Not a world by design, but one by chance. I learned of evolution—a theory so simple and obvious that only England's greatest genius could have come up with it. Evolution of plants, animals, and us—with imagination, free will, love and humor. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living.
But living an honest life—for that you need the truth. That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity."
Cortesia Pharyngula
Ricky Gervais - Página oficial
Ricky Gervais - Wikipédia
sábado, fevereiro 23, 2008
WMS layers: My Top Ten
Web Mapping Services (WMS) are not always my prefered option for accessing data; relying on a remote server to generate a pretty picture of the data is hardly a substitute for having the raw data in hand. But for many cases, I just need a decent looking basemap image and don’t want to download gigabytes of data, especially if that data is updated frequently.
Cortesia PerryGeo
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia PerryGeo
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Etiquetas:
Ciência,
Open Source,
SIG (GIS),
Sociedade
Installing MapServer on Ubuntu
With this post I will show hot to install MapServer 4.10.3 in Ubuntu 7.10 (but this procedure should work also for previous Ubuntu versions) from repositories.
Cortesia Thinking in GIS
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia Thinking in GIS
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Etiquetas:
Ciência,
Open Source,
SIG (GIS),
Sociedade
Installing PostGIS on Ubuntu
Pois, o tutorial não fica por aqui.
A comunidade cresce porque existem pessoas que "perdem" tempo a indicar alternativas.
O meu obrigado, muita da minha informação provém de blogs, páginas pessoais.
Mas é como disse o palhaço do representante da Microsoft em Portugal, "software open source não gera riqueza".
Pois não gera, não gera para os bolsos deles.
With this post I will show how to install PostGIS 1.2.1 on Postgres 8.2.5 in Ubuntu 7.10 (but this procedure should work also for previous PostGIS/Postgres/Ubuntu versions) from repositories.
I will also show you how to load and secure GIS data and how to access them with some cool OS GIS Client (QGIS, UDig and gvSIG).
If you use this instructions together with my previous post, you will have a fully functional GIS Server Open Source Ubuntu workstation!
Cortesia Thinking in GIS
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
A comunidade cresce porque existem pessoas que "perdem" tempo a indicar alternativas.
O meu obrigado, muita da minha informação provém de blogs, páginas pessoais.
Mas é como disse o palhaço do representante da Microsoft em Portugal, "software open source não gera riqueza".
Pois não gera, não gera para os bolsos deles.
With this post I will show how to install PostGIS 1.2.1 on Postgres 8.2.5 in Ubuntu 7.10 (but this procedure should work also for previous PostGIS/Postgres/Ubuntu versions) from repositories.
I will also show you how to load and secure GIS data and how to access them with some cool OS GIS Client (QGIS, UDig and gvSIG).
If you use this instructions together with my previous post, you will have a fully functional GIS Server Open Source Ubuntu workstation!
Cortesia Thinking in GIS
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Etiquetas:
Ciência,
Open Source,
SIG (GIS),
Sociedade
Ubuntu: GIS workstation
Ando a tentar realizar um estágio na área dos SIG, mas recorrendo apenas a software open source.
Mas não percebo nada de Linux.
Ora aqui descobri um pequeno tutorial para poder correr uma série de aplicações na área dos SIG no Ubuntu.
ubuntu: gis workstation - Luis Carlos Madeira (em português)
Turning Ubuntu into a GIS workstation - PerryGeo (texto original em inglês)
UbuntuGIS - Ubuntu Wiki - Página oficial
Mas não percebo nada de Linux.
Ora aqui descobri um pequeno tutorial para poder correr uma série de aplicações na área dos SIG no Ubuntu.
ubuntu: gis workstation - Luis Carlos Madeira (em português)
Turning Ubuntu into a GIS workstation - PerryGeo (texto original em inglês)
UbuntuGIS - Ubuntu Wiki - Página oficial
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Open Source,
SIG (GIS),
Sociedade
sexta-feira, fevereiro 22, 2008
God Delusion documentary excerpt
Já deixei aqui alguns vídeos da criatura Ted Haggard.
Deixo agora um excerto do documentário The Root of all Evil, o qual também já deixei aqui para poderem visualizar e retirar.
Deixo agora um excerto do documentário The Root of all Evil, o qual também já deixei aqui para poderem visualizar e retirar.
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DLD08 - Life: a gene-centric view
Link: sevenload.com
Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter sit down for a discussion at Digital Life Design 2008. John Brockman moderates.
Cortesia RichardDawkins.net
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'The Lava Lizard's Tale' by Richard Dawkins
"A guide at the Natural History Museum stated confidently that a particular dinosaur was 70,000,008 years old. When asked how he could be so precise he replied, "Well it was 70 million when I started this job, and that was eight years ago." The evident experience of Valentina Cruz, our wonderful Galápagos naturalist guide, suggests that I must add a similar margin to the estimate of 100 years that she gave us for the age of the black lava fields on the island of Santiago. The exact date of the great Santiago eruption is not recorded, but it definitely happened on one particular day in one particular year around 1900. I shall call it SV day (Santiago volcano day). I need to seem as precise as the museum guide, although the exact date doesn't matter. Perhaps it was January 19 1897, 100 plus eight years before my visit to the island."
Texto completo pode ser encontrado aqui.
Cortesia RichardDawkins.net
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Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0
"The aim of Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 is to invite participants to undertake together an ongoing reconnaissance of Enlightenment ideas in the light of advances in primarily cognitive neurosciences, evolutionary biology, physics etc. though not by any means scanting history, philosophy, law. The word reconnaissance is used advisedly. Although reconnaissance now usually means a military information-gathering exercise, the preference is for original root - recognoscere - which roughly suggests 'to get to know again'. The hope is to explore our current sense of Reason, Truth, Belief, Human Nature, Progress, Virtue and the Good Life in this light. It could be argued that the Enlightenment was not quite the disaster that some critics have suggested, and that version 2.0, and subsequent releases, could conceivably be a dynamic improvement if we set our minds to it, guided by that eudaemonic impulse."
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 - Wednesday, October 31, 2007, Session 1 - Google Vídeo
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 - Wednesday, October 31, 2007, Session 2 - Google Vídeo
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 - Thursday, November 1, 2007, Session 1 - Google Vídeo
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 - Thursday, November 1, 2007, Session 2 - Google Vídeo
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 - Friday, November 2, 2007, Session - Google Vídeo
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 - Wikipédia
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 - Página oficial
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 - Página oficial - Vídeos individuais de cada conferencista
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Israeli MP blames quakes on gays
An Israeli MP has blamed parliament's tolerance of gays for earthquakes that have rocked the Holy Land recently.
Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave "legitimacy to sodomy".
Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognising gay rights.
Two earthquakes shook the region last week and a further four struck in November and December.
Cortesia onegoodmove
Hum, estes judeus não gostam de ficar atrás dos cristãos e dos muçulmanos no que diz respeito a estupidez.
Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave "legitimacy to sodomy".
Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognising gay rights.
Two earthquakes shook the region last week and a further four struck in November and December.
Fonte BBC NEWS - Notícia completa
Cortesia onegoodmove
Hum, estes judeus não gostam de ficar atrás dos cristãos e dos muçulmanos no que diz respeito a estupidez.
Iraqi TV Debate: Is the Earth Flat?
Cortesia onegoodmove
Retirado do YouTube
A debate between an Iraqi "Researcher on Astronomy" and a physicist on Iraqi television. Apparently, this is an important question in the Islamic world...
-From the transcript-
Interviewer: Lunar and solar eclipses, sunset and sunrise, and the changing of seasons -- how would you explain all these phenomena, if the Earth is not round, as you claim?
Fadhel Al-Sa'd: The sun circles the Earth because it is smaller than the Earth, as is evident in Koranic verses.
Have you ever seen how the sun moves? I have seen the sun moving. The sun makes one move every 24 hours.
What I say is based on Koranic science. He bases his arguments on the kind of science that I reject categorically -- the modern science that they teach in schools. This science is a heretic innovation that has no confirmation in the Koran. No verse in the Koran indicates that the Earth is round or that it rotates. Anything that has no indication in the Koran is false.
Penso que no que diz respeito a estupidez, a religião muçulmana anda de mão dada com o cristianismo.
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terça-feira, fevereiro 19, 2008
Evolution - PBS
Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Parte 1 de 7
Parte 1 de 2 - Google Vídeo
Parte 2 de 2 - Google Vídeo
Great Transformations - Parte 2 de 7 - Google Vídeo
Extinction! - Parte 3 de 7 - Google Vídeo
The Evolutionary Arms Race - Parte 4 de 7 - Google Vídeo
Why Sex? - Parte 5 de 7 - Google Vídeo
The Mind's Big Bang - Parte 6 de 7 - Google Vídeo
What About God? - Parte 7 de 7 - Google Vídeo
Recomendo o recurso à opção "Capturar vídeo pelo Orbit", disponível após instalar o Orbit Downloader.
Evolution - PBS - Wikipédia
PBS - Evolution
Parte 1 de 2 - Google Vídeo
Parte 2 de 2 - Google Vídeo
Great Transformations - Parte 2 de 7 - Google Vídeo
Extinction! - Parte 3 de 7 - Google Vídeo
The Evolutionary Arms Race - Parte 4 de 7 - Google Vídeo
Why Sex? - Parte 5 de 7 - Google Vídeo
The Mind's Big Bang - Parte 6 de 7 - Google Vídeo
What About God? - Parte 7 de 7 - Google Vídeo
Recomendo o recurso à opção "Capturar vídeo pelo Orbit", disponível após instalar o Orbit Downloader.
Evolution - PBS - Wikipédia
PBS - Evolution
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Pandora's Box
The Engineer's Plot - Parte 1 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
To The Brink of Eternity - Parte 2 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
The League of Gentlemen - Parte 3 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
Goodbye Mrs Ant - Parte 4 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
Black Power - Parte 5 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
A is For Atom - Parte 6 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
Pandora's Box - Wikipédia
Adam Curtis - Wikipédia
To The Brink of Eternity - Parte 2 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
The League of Gentlemen - Parte 3 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
Goodbye Mrs Ant - Parte 4 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
Black Power - Parte 5 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
A is For Atom - Parte 6 de 6 - YouTube Vídeo
Pandora's Box - Wikipédia
Adam Curtis - Wikipédia
The Trap - What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom
Fuck You Buddy - Parte 1 de 3 - Google Vídeo
The Lonely Robot - Parte 2 de 3 - Google Vídeo
We Will Force You To Be Free - Parte 3 de 3 - Google Vídeo
The Trap - What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom - Wikipédia
Adam Curtis - Wikipédia
The Lonely Robot - Parte 2 de 3 - Google Vídeo
We Will Force You To Be Free - Parte 3 de 3 - Google Vídeo
The Trap - What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom - Wikipédia
Adam Curtis - Wikipédia
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The Power of Nightmares
Baby it's Cold Outside - Parte 1 de 3 - Internet Archive (vários formatos) - Google Vídeo
The Phantom Victory - Parte 2 de 3 - Internet Archive (vários formatos) - Google Vídeo
The Shadows in the Cave - Parte 3 de 3 - Internet Archive (vários formatos) - Google Vídeo
The Power of Nightmares - Wikipédia
Adam Curtis - Wikipédia
Internet Archive - Página oficial
The Phantom Victory - Parte 2 de 3 - Internet Archive (vários formatos) - Google Vídeo
The Shadows in the Cave - Parte 3 de 3 - Internet Archive (vários formatos) - Google Vídeo
The Power of Nightmares - Wikipédia
Adam Curtis - Wikipédia
Internet Archive - Página oficial
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