ContraFactos & Argumentos

09 fevereiro 2009

Relómática

This is a clock for those people that paid attention in math class all the way through college.

Despedimentos e horizontes alargados

What 3.6 Million Jobs Lost Over 13 Months Looks Like: This chart compares the job loss so far in this recession to job losses in the 1990-1991 recession and the 2001 recession – showing how dramatic and unprecedented the job loss over the last 13 months has been.

Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace

Congressman Twitters an Iraq Security Breach: A congressional trip to Iraq this weekend was supposed to be a secret.
But the cat’s out of the bag now, thanks to a member of the House Intelligence Committee who broke an embargo via Twitter.

@joelysandra, o Twitterherói: Uns dirão que são pessoas sem muito que fazer, outros apreciaram com grande gosto um pequeno momento histórico na utilização do Twitter em Portugal.

Top 10 Twitter Clients: TwitStat’s current top 10 list is below, showing ranking and % of users posting from each service today. Note that where users made use of multiple methods, all were counted. The list is constantly changing, and the Top 100 can be found here.
1 Web - 29.57%
2 TweetDeck - 10.58%
3 Twitterfeed - 5.54%
4 Twhirl - 4.92 %
5 Twitterrific - 3.79 %
6 Tweetie - 3.65%
7 Text - 3.40 %
8 Mobile web 3.00 %
9 TwitterFon - 2.96 %
10 TwitPic - 2.94 %

08 fevereiro 2009

Jogo

Perfect Balance: Rotate and stack shapes, and try to achieve perfect balance in this physics puzzle!

07 fevereiro 2009

Puzzle

Crossblock is another one of these puzzle games with a simple, elegant concept that gets surprisingly difficult.

06 fevereiro 2009

Como se fossem outros

Um mês com o salário mínimo: O jornalista que viveu um mês com o salário mínimo ficou sem dinheiro a dois dias do fim do mês. A experiência será toda contada na edição de 7 de Fevereiro do jornal Expresso.

Richard Branson lives like a refugee at the refugee camp in Davos.

Gates unleashes a million ‘bug’ jokes: To make a point about malaria the billionaire software mogul punctuated a talk by releasing mosquitoes into the concerned audience.
“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some,” Gates told the invitation-only Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference in California. “Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”

Tudo pode ser um ecrã interactivo

MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense: Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they're done.

Pattie Maes of the lab's Fluid Interfaces group said the research is aimed at creating a new digital "sixth sense" for humans.

Bloguítica local

Bloggers need new ways of organising themselves, argues Clay Shirky: Bloggers will not replace the close scrutiny of local government currently provided by newspapers, said Clay Shirky at an event this week.

Speaking at a Polis event at the LSE, Shirky, a professor at New York University and author of 'Here Comes Everybody', argued that bloggers need to find new ways of organising themselves if they are to be a suitable substitute for newspapers.