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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has published an enormous set of photos from it’s art collection on Flickr. A very nice surprise, I urge everyone to take a look at the collections, there’s some pretty amazing pictures from Portugal’s past and present. You can look at the collections in Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian’s photostream.

Have you tried Wordle? Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can use any text, a rss feed or a del.icio.us username to create a “word cloud”, after that it’s possible to tweak [...]

Microsoft revealed the new and revamped UI for the X-Box 360 last week on E3 and it was about time. The current dashboard although not being too bad, has a few problems which sucessive update haven’t fixed, such as  too much information on screen, a bit of lag, hard to navigate in so much content [...]

In my old job I worked in a very ordinary office, it was open space, with a dark green carpet, beige desks with green chairs too and everyone wore a suit and tie every day looking uncomfortable. The office didn’t have anything that stood out, the view outside was great but you couldn’t differentiate one [...]

I use TextMate on a daily usage, it’s the most useful program I have on my Mac and it simplified alot my development work. At the same time, I also use SVN for version-control (but i’m looking at GIT…) so I was very happy to find a plugin for TextMate that enabled me to visually [...]