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Excentric's day off

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Last Friday was Excentric's second birthday, and we all went for a boat trip. With a lot of fun (and alcohol), it was a great day, as shown in the following video (made by Jorge Teixeira, our creative director):

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I met the walrus

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In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it:

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Simpsons map for quake 3 arena

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I played quake for years and I love it. I'm a huge fan of the Simpsons. And I just realized that I can have the best of the two worlds, by playing quake 3 arena in Springfield! The level of detail is jaw dropping! Take a peek at the following video:

You can download the map (17.5 MB) by clicking one of the following links:

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Cooking for engineers

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A few months ago, my graphical CV was found by the spanish blogosphere, which boosted this blog access statistics. Today, I found in Cooking For Engineers a all new form of recipe description, a graphical one:

It takes a while to understand it, but it makes perfect sense afterwards.

SMS consumatori

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Due to the increase prices in food, the italian government has build and delivered a break-through service, the SMS consumatori, a service where one can send the name of a product through a SMS and receive the average price for it across Italy. Is this sufficient to stop speculation?