Fábio Caparica

URLs vistas e salvas no Del.icio.us entre 27.03.2009 e 01.04.2009:

1. Tonight’s Battlestar finale is extra long—with special previews
   As you warm up the DVRs for tonight's series finale of Battlestar Galactica, be aware that it will run extra long, about two hours and 11 minutes, so make sure you're ready to capture those last few scenes!
2. Caprica star Esai Morales sees parallels with these great stories
   Esai Morales, who will play Joseph Adama on SCI FI Channel's upcoming Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, described his character's storyline in part as Rich Man, Poor Man meets The Godfather meets Brave New World.
3. Star Paula Malcomson tells us how Caprica will begin
   Paula Malcomson, who will portray Amanda Graystone on SCI FI Channel's upcoming Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, told SCI FI Wire that Amanda is a "complicated woman." The Irish actress added that only the two-hour series pilot is complete so far and that production on subsequent episodes will begin in earnest in July.
4. Battlestar Galactica rocks the United Nations
   In a landmark event that showcased just how relevant a TV program can be, Battlestar Galactica was the prime topic of discussion at the United Nations Tuesday night in New York.
5. Cylons have The Plan, and we’ve got an exclusive peek
   Watch our exclusive clip from the upcoming Battlestar Galactica spinoff movie The Plan, directed by and starring Edward James Olmos. Jane Espenson wrote the screenplay.
6. Caprica trailer easter egg: The first Cylon!
   Caprica will premiere on SCI FI Channel in 2010, but the uncut and unrated pilot will be available on DVD (via Universal Home Entertainment) and as a digital download (via Universal Cable Productions) on April 21.
7. Steampunk Cylon Gallery: 25 old-tyme robot designs
   Steampunk Cylon design contest as Battlestar Galactica began its final run. And did you guys ever rise to the challenge! We received Photoshop renderings, drawings—even photos of someone's handmade sculpture. Impressive stuff.
8. Battlestar Galactica’s Mary McDonnell saw hope in series’ end
   Battlestar Galactica star Mary McDonnell, who played Laura Roslin, told SCI FI Wire that she found her character's fate in the series finale on Friday to be "very eloquent, very hopeful and very necessary."
9. 10 games to help you get over Battlestar Galactica
   Whatever you thought of the conclusion to Battlestar Galactica, one thing is certain: it's over. Now what? Pore over earlier episodes for clues leading to the revelations at the end? Maybe you want to try to piece together The Plan. Will Caprica be a suitable replacement? Maybe queue up some Farscape or Babylon 5 DVDs? Or should you hang your hopes on the Star Trek reboot? Of course, like any self-respecting sci-fi nerd, you've probably considered turning to video games to fill the void.
10. The Battlestar ending you didn’t see, where Galactica herself played a surprise role
    "Cut to the present-day in Central America where there are these enormous mysterious mounds that archeologists have not been able to understand (it may have been South America, I can't recall the exact location, but these mounds really do exist). Someone is doing a new kind of survey of the mounds with some kind of ground-penetrating radar or something and lo and behold, we see the outlines of the Galactica still buried under the surface."
11. The best (and worst) online comments about the Battlestar Galactica finale
    Did you think last Friday's Battlestar Galactica finale was frakkin' awesome? Or just plain frakked up?
12. Dr. Horrible, Guild, Battlestar dominate Streamy Awards
    Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Guild and Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy where the big winners at the first-ever Streamy Awards, handed out over the weekend in Los Angeles, according to a report on TubeFiler.tv.
13. Games de ação ajudam a enxergar melhor, diz estudo
    Um estudo conduzido pela Universidade de Rochester (EUA) concluiu que os videogames com muitas cenas de ação aprimoram a visão. Jogadores teriam a visão melhorada em até 58% na percepção de contrastes sutis, segundo apontaram testes.
14. Slashdot | Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control
    Back in 2006, Honda and ATR researchers managed to get a robotic hand to move by analyzing brain activity using a large MRI scanner. This latest work uses EEG to measure the electrical activity in a person's brain and blood flow within the brain using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to produce data that is then interpreted into control information.
15. Chalk Bike – Contrail Biking Community Tool Concept | Be Sportier
    Riding a Chalk Bike with a Contrail is a cool way to develop bicycle communities. To make your bike a Chalk Bike, simply attach the Contrail Biking Community Tool to the wheels of your bike.
16. Woz autographs a hackintosh netbook
    I showed him my Dell Mini 9 with OS X Leopard installed on it (and an Apple sticker sloppily applied over the Dell logo.
17. moderncat :: cat products, cat toys, cat furniture, and more…all with modern style
    This blog is a resource for cat owners with a modern style. I seek out the newest products for living with cats in a modern home. I try to identify not only products that fit a modern aesthetic, but also items that are truly innovative and that make living with cats a more enjoyable experience. Moderncat combines product reviews with other useful information for cat owners in a clear and concise format.
18. Náutico leva a melhor no Clássico das Emoções
    O Clássico das Emoções, realizado na tarde deste domingo (29) foi melhor para o Náutico, que venceo Santa Cruz por 3×1 em pleno Estádio do Aruda, no Recife.
19. Write for Reuse (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
    Users often see online content out of context and read it with different goals than you envisioned. While you can't predict all such goals, you can plan for multiple uses of your text.
20. Piloto que começou a rezar enquanto avião caía é condenado na Itália
    Tunisiano teria entrado em pânico e optado por pouso forçado no mar; 16 morreram no acidente em 2005.
21. Maria provavelmente teve outros filhos além de Jesus, dizem historiadores
    Evangelhos mencionam quatro irmãos e ao menos duas irmãs de Cristo. Interpretação de que eles seriam só primos prevaleceu no Ocidente.
22. Brawn GP faz dobradinha na primeira largada de sua história na Fórmula 1
    Button e Barrichello dividem a primeira fila do GP da Austrália: "Na primeira largada da história da Brawn GP, a equipe já conseguiu uma dobradinha. Jenson Button vai sair na pole position do GP da Austrália, que será disputado neste domingo, e Rubens Barrichello será o segundo colocado no início da corrida em Melbourne. Ambos superaram a concorrência com folgas, por mais de seis décimos."
23. English Russia » Russian Flying Fortresses
    Not much photos were saved since that times, because of the high secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time passed already. Still on the photo below you can see one of such planes – a heavy bomber K-7.
24. 10 games to help you get over Battlestar Galactica | Fidgit
    Well, it's Friday. You probably have a little extra time in your entertainment schedule tonight… [...] After the jump are ten videogames to help you get over Battlestar Galactica.
25. 27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis | FlowingData
    Let's start things off with some comprehensive guides to the financial crisis. Several of these are from GOOD magazine's recent contest to make sense of it all.
26. 20 Excellent Blogs for Those Who Love Design | Web Design Ledger
    Here are some of my favorite blogs that cover various topics from web design to package design.
27. Os capitães da pirataria – Já pensou em quem disponibiliza o filme ou a música que você baixa?
    Já pensou em quem disponibiliza o filme ou a música que você baixa? A Trip conversou com 18 uploaders para entender o que motiva essas pessoas a gastarem um bom tempo para subir arquivos na internet, na grande maioria das vezes sem ganhar um tostão em troca
28. Information Design Patterns
    This website is part of the Master's thesis The Form of Facts and Figures, developed by Christian Behrens in the Interface Design program at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Its goal is the development of a design pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design.
29. A Timeline of Information History
    This timeline presents significant events and developments in the innovation and management of information and documents from cave paintings (ca 30,000 BC) to the present. Only non-electronic innovations and developments are included (that is, digital and electronic communications are excluded).
30. Beyond prototype fidelity: environmental and social fidelity
    Fidelity is an on-going conversation in the area of prototyping. Varying levels of design fidelity elicit different reactions from project stakeholders: clients, research participants, and developers. Sometimes a low-fidelity prototype will allow stakeholders to be more generative and imaginative in their responses. Sometimes it will just confuse them. Sometimes a hi-fidelity prototype will allow stakeholders to accurately understand the design experience, sometimes it will cause them to be especially anxious about a detail like the colour.

URLs vistas e salvas no Del.icio.us entre 25.08.2008 e 03.09.2008:

1. Chrome Eliminates Google’s Middleman Problems
   With its release of Chrome, Google is distributing a browser that will give the company direct access to the user, and more control over the data it gets.
2. Browsing With Google Chrome
   Smaller interface usability hurdles sum up throughout the day, so it’s especially important that a browser is well thought out down to the details.
3. Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari
   Google introduced Chrome in part because it wants faster browsing and the richer Web applications that speed will unlock. So how does Chrome actually stack up?
4. Chromium – Google Code
   Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome.
5. Mozilla: Google’s not trying to kill us
   In an exclusive interview we ask Mozilla Europe president, Tristan Nitot, about the potential threat of Chrome, and whether the Firefox maker even knew it was coming…
6. John’s Blog » Thoughts on Chrome & More
   Between the new beta of IE8 and Google releasing the beta of their new browser (called “Chrome”), not to mention interesting work by the Mozilla team here as well, there’s as much happening as I can ever remember.
7. Google Chrome @ CrisDias weblog
   Eu transmiti quase toda a palestra via Qik na hora, abaixo você confere os vídeos.
8. O novo navegador @ Alexandre Maron
   Assim como fizeram com o e-mail, no gmail, que é sensacional, os intrépidos engenheiros do Gogle se propõem a reinventar o navegador com o Google Chrome. Conseguirão?
9. Scott McCloud cria HQ para explicar novo navegador do Google
   Autor de Desvendando os Quadrinhos desvenda o Chrome
10. Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser
    So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.
11. Google Chrome – Baixe um novo navegador
    é um navegador feito para tornar a web mais rápida, fácil e segura com um design minimalista que não atrapalha você.
12. Google Chrome [Comic Book]
    Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren't just web pages, they're applications.
13. Google Chrome – Google Book Search [PDF para download]
    By the Google Chrome team, comics adaptation by Scott McCloud
    Published by Google, Inc.
14. How to Write Your Own IM Bot in Less Than 5 Minutes
    This quick tutorial will show you how to develop your own functional IM bot that works with Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and all other popular instant messaging clients.
15. Mega Colección de Iconos, más de 7500! | WydBlog
    Para todos aquellos que estén buscando iconos “gratuitos” para sus páginas, diseños, aplicaciones, etc. Dieron con el lugar indicado, como indica el título en el post hay mas de 7500 iconos completamente gratis y listos para ser descargados
16. HTML XHTML for CSS Testing | SFS
    The purpose of this HTML is to help determine what default settings are with CSS and to make sure that all possible HTML Elements are included in this HTML so as to not miss any possible Elements when designing a site.
17. Usability Tip: Use Verbs as Labels on Buttons
    The interesting thing is that using exclamations like "OK" and "No" isn't all that usable. Instead, you should use verbs. Let me illustrate this with an example.
18. Morre aos 62 anos em Pernambuco o músico Mestre Salustiano
    Artista teve uma arritmia cardíaca provocada pela doença de Chagas. Ele era considerado um dos precursores do manguebeat.
19. Quanto vale uma rede social?
    A questão acima, embora absurda, apareceu com freqüência em diversos eventos sobre o assunto nos últimos meses. É absurda porque equivale a perguntar para você, caro leitor, por quanto posso comprar seus amigos.
20. Museu desafia papa e mantém escultura de sapo crucificado
    Sapo verde está segurando nas mãos uma caneca de cerveja e um ovo. Obra 'fere os sentimentos religiosos de muitas pessoas', diz Vaticano.
21. 30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes
    In this article we present over 30 fresh free high-quality WordPress themes. All themes can be downloaded, customized and used for free — in personal or/and commercial projects.
22. 40 Dark and Futuristic Photoshop Effects
    Here's how to do all of the above and more, for a total of 40 excellent cyberpunk and Sci-fi style effects.
23. Polícia prende quadrilha com nota de R$ 3 no RS
    Três pessoas foram presas em flagrante com crack e R$ 600. Polícia apreendeu aparelhos eletrônicos e um rádio comunicador.
24. Pesquisa revela que maioria dos homens não beija durante o sexo
    Estudo aponta que 70% dos entrevistados têm problema. Sexólogo explica que estresse é entrave para afetividade.
25. Information design by Sue Walker and Mark Barratt
    By co-ordinating a range of design, language, evaluation and technical skills, information designers play a vital role in making complex information easy to understand and use
26. English Grammar 101: All You Need to Know
    we decided to put together all the basic rules on a single page, so that you can use it as a refresher, or print it out for future reference. Enjoy!
27. Piracy is not Theft
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28. Dança do quadrante @ Vivendo em hipermídia
    "Aí galera! Tô chegando com a dança do quadrante! Pegue sua nave e vá audaciosamente aonde ninguém jamais esteve. E se violar a Primeira Diretriz vai ser teleportado pra Ceti Alpha V, hein? Vamos juntos!"
29. GiantBomb: enciclopédia de games | :: GameReporter.org :: Blog de Cultura Gamer ::
    GiantBomb, uma enciclopédia de games online que, além de conteúdo editorial da equipe terá colaboração dos usuários.
30. Bernardinho: “Lidar com a dor de um filho é impossível”
    Técnico da seleção vice-campeã olímpica diz que um dos momentos mais difíceis da derrota foi ter que abraçar o filho "como treinador, e não como pai"