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Update: cam.aipode.com has all Brisa's webcams in a neat iPhone interface. Oh, the sweat joy of laziness. Thank you Carlos for the nice job.

I have to commute to Lisbon every day, through the 25 de Abril bridge. So, every day I need to check the traffic on the bridge, and choose the best alternative to get to my job. And since I'm a lazy person, and don't want to spend more than a minute checking the traffic, I've built a page in my blog with all the webcams I need to make my driving decisions. And it's now available to you all: Lisbon traffic through the 25 de Abril bridge.

Just came across Dipity, a very interesting service which allow us to make a nice presented timeline of events. By event you should think RSS feeds, Youtube videos, etc. Just for fun, I pointed my RSS feed to it and it generated the following widget:

Pretty neat.

A great short movie considering the changes occurred in marketing and advertising for the last 30 years. Since I'm a partner for a digital agency, I guess these are good news for the business:

A short animated documentary from Milah Bilgil, who does a great job explaining the origins and some concepts of the Internet. The video uses a new type of info-graphic called PICOL icons, which will soon be made available for free on picol.org. PICOL stands for Pictorial Communication Language - it's a project that aims to create "a standard and reduced sign system for electronic communication." PICOL is free to use and open to alter.

The Black Swam by Nassim Taleb, and Darwinian Politics by Paul Rubin, were two books that changed my view of the world and humanity (for better, I think).

Today I found an amazing Ted Talk, by Dan Gilbert, titled "Exploring the frontier of happiness", which gave me a lot of helpful insights (and it toke me only 33 minutes). Dan speaks about our inability to estimate odds and value, and how than has an impact on our daily life. A must see: