martes, agosto 28, 2012

Inequality around the World

 
 

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via Visual.ly by Newscientist on 8/24/12


Inequality around the world using the GINI coefficient. Also visualised is the share of income for the poorest and richest 10% of the population in each country

 
 

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lunes, agosto 27, 2012

WIN!: Separating Eggs WIN

 
 

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Imprescindible: el robot que lanza piedras al lago

 
 

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via No Puedo Creer by La Gusa on 7/12/12

Skippy es un robot cuya actividad se limita a lanzar piedras a un lago con la destreza suficiente para que salten un par de veces. Habita un paraje bucólico de Idaho y trabaja las veinticuatro horas del día. Su cometido: lanzar piedras bajo las órdenes de internautas.

Cualquiera puede navegar hasta la página oficial de Skippy y hacer su propio lanzamiento online. Sólo hay que guardar cola.

Probablemente Skippy esté deseando terminar su trabajo, jubilarse y ganarse el derecho a hacerse humano. Tiene la esperanza de que la vida humana es infinitamente más interesante que lanzar piedras a un lago porque, por ejemplo, un humano puede navegar por la red y lanzar piedras online. Todo ventajas.

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El fin está cerca: robot armado que dispara al sonreír

 
 

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via No Puedo Creer by La Gusa on 7/31/12

El Kurata es un mecha en el sentido clásico de la palabra. En su vídeo de presentación podréis todos los consejos necesarios para darle un buen uso, incluida la característica más notoria de los Kurata: cada vez que el piloto sonríe, el mecha dispara una ráfaga de balas; un piloto con la risa floja podría llevar a cabo una masacre antes siquiera de haber entendido el chiste.

Kurata también te permite hacer llamadas telefónicas y, supongo, tendrá algún tipo de acceso a la red censurando los vídeos graciosos (sabemos que toda risa puede ser fatal ahí dentro). Existe otro vídeo en el que aparece el Kurata siendo presentado en el Wonder Festival 2012, así como fotografías del evento que podréis ver en el enlace.

Es un proyecto de Wataru Yoshizaki y Kogoro Kurata para la Suidobashi Heavy Industry, cuya página, en el momento de redactar esto, está sospechosamente caída.

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Réplica funcional de Wall-e

 
 

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via No Puedo Creer by La Gusa on 8/4/12

Cerca de 4.000 horas ha tardado el bueno de Mike Senna en construir una réplica de Wall-e que habla, camina, gira y, en fin, hace todo lo mismo que el original excepto comprimir basura y enamorarse.

En el siguiente vídeo podréis ver una entrevista a Mike donde habla de otra de sus creaciones: una réplica del siempre adorable R2-D2.

En principio no debemos temer por el futuro de la raza humana; el perfil de Wall-e no es destructivo y el de Mike, tampoco. No parece, a simple vista, un inventor chiflado presto a sumir al mundo en una orgía de caos y destrucción. Y eso, quizás, es lo que me parece más sospechoso: los dos, creador y obra, son demasiado abrazables.

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TwitShit, un juego de mesa contra los malos hábitos de Twitter

 
 

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via No Puedo Creer by La Gusa on 8/27/12

TwitShit es un juego de mesa con un funcionamiento parecido a La Oca y que retrata el sufrido recorrido de un usuario desde un "puto huevo" a un "gurú". Podéis descargar un PDF para imprimir en el blog de su creador, Raúl Oliván, y empezar a saltar las casillas a un ritmo frenético.

Al principio toda será nuevo y harás tu primer RT; luego harás tu primer RT de algo escrito por ti y a partir de entonces la decadencia no conocerá límites: sincronizarás tu perfil de Facebook, seguirás el Financial Times a pesar de no saber inglés, DMs que acabarán publicados en el Timeline... un desastre divertido, vamos.

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miércoles, agosto 22, 2012

Bogota Hacks/Hackers to Launch Crowdsourced Map on Environmental Problems


Bogota Hacks/Hackers to Launch Crowdsourced Map on Environmental Problems

Information management specialist Luis Hernando Aguilar, standing, is part of the technology team on the project, which uses the open-source Ushahidi mapping platform. (Photo by Elkin Garavito)



TOMADO DE: http://www.icfj.org/blogs/bogota-hackshackers-launch-crowdsourced-map-environmental-problems





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“Mi Bogotá Verde,” or My Green Bogota, a new, crowdsourced digital map that will track solid waste disposal – the first of many urban environmental concerns – is just weeks away from going online in Bogota.
The map was developed during the first hackathon of the Bogota chapter of Hacks/Hackers, created just four months ago.
I am co-organizer of this chapter, the first in Colombia, something I spearheaded as part of my mandate as a Knight International Journalism Fellow here.
Hacks/Hackers is an international organization of journalists (hacks) and computer technologists (hackers) with more than 10,000 members worldwide. The Bogota chapter is nearing the 200-member mark.
This is third mapping project I have coordinated during my one-year stay here. In July, we at ICFJ launched adigital map to track political and administrative corruption in Colombia in partnership with the Consejo de Redacción, an organization of investigative journalists. We also partnered with El Tiempo, Colombia’s largest newspaper, to develop a digital map to monitor crime in the capital, a map that is to go live this month.
Our hackathon on August 11 was organized with the idea of putting together a general environmental map, but we decided rather than trying to deal with all environmental concerns, we would kick off by focusing on just one.
Our digital map will seek citizen input to monitor the garbage problem in this capital city of more than 8 million people.
What is going to make this map stand out is our thumbs-up, thumbs-down approach to the solid-waste problem. Rather than treating this as a crisis map, we will also show where and when something is done right.
We are kicking off with just three main categories – good and bad practices for dealing with solid waste, and reports verified by editors. With time, the map will expand to include other urban environmental concerns. We are using the open-source Ushahidi mapping platform.
The slogan for the map, “Entre todos lo lograremos,” or “All together, we will succeed,” also applies to the 20-plus people who showed up for the hackathon.
Our participants included journalists, cartographers, designers, developers, Web entrepreneurs and environmentalists.
We think it’s a terrific start for one of the newest Hacks/Hackers chapters.
The mapping project was selected at the second Hacks/Hackers Bogota meeting in late May. A volunteer organizing committee met periodically in June and July to get things going and keep up the momentum.
And when we all got together, the momentum was definitely there, first through our brainstorming and then with our get-down-to-it attitude to move ahead. We divided into three groups to get our work done – communications, strategy and technology.
“I love the topic,” said Diana Salazar, who works in strategic digital communications at the Bogota Mayor’s Office. “And I think this interdisciplinary approach is important to generate optimum results.”
We had lots of help. HubBOG, which fosters shared workspaces and entrepreneurship, opened up one of its workspaces. There was participant spillover from the members and organizers of Bogodev, a meetup group of Web and mobile developers, and Bogotech, an organization of entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts. Co-organizer Renata Cabrales, social media editor at El Tiempo, got us some great pre-hackathon coverage.
Now the work is continuing through the Google group we set up at the hackathon. You can follow us on Twitter at #BogmapaAmbiental.

Sistema de pago por tweet con PHP

 
 

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via Antonio Navajas by Antonio Navajas on 7/25/12

En este tutorial aprenderás a crear tu propio sistema de pago por tweet con PHP. El pago por tweet es una técnica de marketing por la cual restringimos el acceso a ciertos contenidos/descargas y sólo los hacemos accesibles si el … Continue reading

 
 

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A Map of the World According to America

 
 

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via Incredible Things by Brooke Dowd Sacco on 8/17/12


You might remember this USA stereotype map, in which one American designer poked fun at his own country. Well this map does one better. The World According to the USA Map takes shots at the entire [...]

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Dating Fails: Music Has a Long History of Getting People Laid

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via FAIL Blog on 7/26/12

The proud tradition of sexytime music has a storied past.

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School of Fail: Really Really Specific

 
 

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WIN!: Making Salt Shapes WIN

 
 

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WIN!: Piloting a Giant Robot WIN

Un robot gigante que funciona...

 
 

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via FAIL Blog on 8/2/12

Of course Japanese engineers have designed a 1.35 million-dollar robot that can be controlled with your mobile phone. Why would you even begin to think anything to the contrary.

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School of Fail: Grammar 101: How to Write Good

Como escribir bien (ENG)

 
 

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Autocowrecks: ENGLISH, DO YOU SPEAK IT?

 
 

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WIN!: Making WALL-E WIN

Un wall-e de verdad

 
 

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via FAIL Blog on 8/7/12

Whoops, yep, that might be the cutest thing I've seen all week. Okay.

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