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Observe uma pilha de livros amontoados sobre uma mesa gigantesca de todos os tipos. Cerca de 15.000 mil livros. Eles trazem informações sobre todos os tipos e diferentes áreas do conhecimento humano. Os livros não estão organizados mas sabemos que as informações estão ali. Se você precisasse encontrar um livro específico de biologia chamado “Cavalos Marinhos”, você teria que ir varrendo cada um dos 15.000 livros até encontrá-lo. Agora imagine que estes livros agora estejam separados por grandes áreas do conhecimento humano somente. Eles não estão classificados nem por ordem alfabética e nem por autor, mas dentre os 15.000 livros, há 4.568 deles que passaram a ser classificados como “biologia”. Ainda assim seria difícil encontrar o livro “Cavalos Marinhos”. Por que não foram organizados nem por ordem alfabética, nem por autor e nem por ramo específico da biologia. Ou seja, você terá que procurar o livro entre 4.568 outras obras.

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[Via Revolução ETC]

Flickr, Yahoo’s amazing photo-sharing site, has added another tag based feature — this one aimed at developers. They are now supporting machine tags (or triple-tags). What are those you might ask?

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[Via Radar O’Reilly]

As has been written about on Radar and Read/Write Web, Amazon has started embracing wikis on their site and in their investments. They have upped the stakes with the release of Amapedia yesterday. Taking the place of the stunted ProductWiki, they now have a very robust site (and Java wiki platform) that allows users to create and tag their own product articles. The articles are directly linked from their Amazon product pages. I met with Frank Martin and Wally Tseng of Amazon last week and got a sneak peek of the site.

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[Via Radar O’Reilly]

There’s no doubt about it; I have more than a passing fancy for JavaScript. We loves it, doesn’t we, precious? In fact, I’d go as far as to say that it’s my personal favourite programming language.

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[Via Nefarious Designs]

Over a year ago Vitaly Friedman compiled a list of freely downloadable fonts that he called the 25 Best Free Quality Fonts. I never got around to mentioning the list back then, so this is just in case you missed it (and as a bookmark for myself).

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[Via 456 BereaST]

Not only does this concept toaster toast your bread in one pass, there’s a convenient shelving mechanism to catch hot bread as well. It “works” by passing the bread through with three rollers to the toasting mechanism at the end. Instead of being made of plastic or metal, it’s made of ceramics—part of a “Ceramics for Breakfast” competition.

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[Via Gizmodo]

From the cool-looking-but-totally-impractical department comes this Rubik’s Cube MP3 Player concept. Look, it’s a Rubik’s Cube! And it plays music!

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[Via Gizmodo]

The iPhone’s new touch interface might be nice, but it’s nowhere near as involved as the future UI envisioned in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise could drag objects across the screen and manipulate them in all kinds of ways, or “push” them aside to bring up something new. Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU’s Courant Institute, has come up with such an interface, which responds not only to touch and gestures, but to varying degrees of pressure. He flips photos across the screen, zooms in, throws them away, and calls up new ones, among a variety of other cool uses of the interface. It looks startlingly responsive and natural, far more so than a standard PC setup. It’s hard to describe here how intense and possibly revolutionary the setup is, so you really need to check out the video and article for yourself. With any luck, his new company Perceptive Pixel will be bringing it to our eager fingertips before too long – Matt Buchanan

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[Via Gizmodo]

This is made out of a floppy disk! To fold what no person has folded before. Aluminum, the final frontier!

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[Via Make]

“Dimensional (3D) photography is a simple process, at least in theory. You provide a separate image of the same scene for each eye, slightly out of phase. Of course to do it right, it takes a good amount of photographic skill, an understanding of the psychological and mathematical principles involved, and some fairly precision hardware.

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[Via Make]