O Crominho do Técnico



Bruno Afonso's babbling and seldom refreshed views of the world

Famous last tweet: I personally prefer the term postdoctoral slave

Category: trivia

Gimme some of that pizza!

But as healthy as this pizza has been for Domino’s, one slice contains as much as two-thirds of a day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories. After the corn, here comes the cheese [nyt]. This is getting a bit out of hand.

On hipsters

When we talk about the contemporary hipster, we’re talking about a subcultural figure who emerged by 1999, enjoyed a narrow but robust first phase until 2003, and then seemed about to dissipate into the primordial subcultural soup, only to undergo a reorganization and creeping spread from 2004 to the present. There were also some practical [...]

It’s raining outside

and it’s beautiful.

“You never used to use a D minus”

Hilarious and genious! Not everyone will enjoy it so pace yourself before pressing the play button :-)

Dominic Wilcox’s iBookend

Dominic Wilcox is a prolific creative and he has created an accessory for iPad haters.

Cubase64

Beyond awesome.

Once in a while…

I feel like getting a brake from dancing Tango. But simply watching this makes me realize how foolish that mere hypothesis is… The range of emotions evoked just by watching this clips has no boundaries. Vals Maipo – One of my favorite songs

Yes facebook, I know

Unfortunately I cannot ignore them all with a single click.

Ginko Bioworks video

Hydrocalypse industries (shout out to my lab mates Christina Agapakis and Patrick Boyle!) has done a funny video of Ginko Bioworks, a start-up spearheaded by Tom Knight (MIT). You can read more about it here. Christina’s blog is called Oscillator, hosted at ScienceBlogs .

Christmas 2011? Fuji X100

Awesome, awesome, awesome! Now, something like this with ability to change lens :-)