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First, Pedro wrote on his blog about the most amazing presentation he has seen this year. Well, knowing Pedro as I know, I had to see it. He is very hard to please, so my curiosity was high.

Guys, you must see this: when someone is able to make a presentation on statistics with the entusiasm of a football game, you just have to love it. It was the first time I saw statistic so live and colorful

After this, I went to read more about this guy project, Gapminder, and I have just found my pro bono project for 2007. I will help in it, that's a fact.

Third, and while in the Gapminder website, I realize the tool is available for anyone on a Google service. Did you know that Google as a tools.google.com service? And that it's running the gapminder tool for you to try and explore? Me neither.

The desire to personalize the iPod as resulted in some really odd products. BusinessWeek as 9 more to show here:

In three lines of Perl.

Yesterday I got my first iPod, the black nano. And you know the drill: it's your new gadget, and it's the best of the world. But today, while reading my daily blogroll, I founded two pieces that got me thinking:

• AppleInsider shows a new Apple fillings for the iPod redesign. It seems Apple intends to abandon the Click-Whell interface, so my brand new iPod nano will soon be a museum piece.
• A video showing what the author called the OSX Leopard Mobile running on a video iPod, with stylus and sensitive screen. My first reaction was to curse for choosing the iPod nano, but than I realized the video is fake: it's a video simulating the user interface, and you can notice that by watching it very carefully. Watch the video below.
• Last, ThinkSecret says Apple will deliver a spreadsheet software (Charts? Numbers?) in iWorks'07, scheduled to launch on January 2007.

Imagine the possibilities: a camera attached to a frisbee, able to record 20 minutes of broadcast quality video, with no moving parts (capable of hard landing). For those who are feeling dizzy with the mental footage, Catchu integrates a smart wind vein on the top, which keeps the camera facing in the same direction, even when it's spinning through the air.

I wonder if NSA will look at this as they looked at the Furbys.