Google Friends etc….
With Google Friends, you “add social features to your site”. Whatever that means!
GF is an application based on Opensocial . Opensocial is a standard for having the same application working on different social network sites. The simplest feature, for instance, is that you can log in with your Yahoo/Google/MySpace/LinkedIn (and others) account. You could build […]
Tell me how you drink, I’ll tell you who you are
I have interviewed the CEO of a investment management firm. We were speaking about the need of investment in infrastructure (mainly water), and how good, or bad, the situation is around the world.
And then he made a more specific example:
The water systems, the utilities worldwide, are sort of a barbell. There’s roughly 25% of the […]
Water Fuel Car Scam –again?!
If you (as I did) thought that only Fox news reached the lowest level of journalism in claiming that a car can use “just” water as a fuel…. well, you (we) were wrong. Even REUTERS has decided to spread the scam –sorry, the news. “It sounds too good to be true,” says Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri in […]
Fox News and Water Fuel Cars
And someone says Physics is not important. And someone thinks journalists should be competent. Please note, the video below is something like a scam.
Nowadays, there is a silly competition in offering green solutions. General Motors, just before dying (yes it is dying: I just discovered the company’s three-year bonds are traded […]
Mirror Neurons
In 1992, three Italian researchers from Parma, Italy, were studying the motor cortex of monkeys’ brains - a region that until then was supposed to deal exclusively with movement. Through electrodes implanted in the brain, they could “see” neurons firing when the monkey did a simple action, like grasping for food. The surprise came when […]
Virtual water: impossible reality in Yemen
While Yemen suffers from grave water shortages, specialists and officials keep on warning that the country
’s water supply relies on limited groundwater. Only 125 cubic meters are available annually per capita, and the groundwater has been polluted and heavily overexploitedread more | digg story
Water in California – US and Mexico
The US made a desalination plant in Yuma, Arizona, where the Colorado River leaves the US to enter Mexico. The US uses 90% of the water of the basin of the river, and leaves 10% to Mexico. The problem is, everytime the water is used for irrigation, its salinity increases to 3000 grams of […]
Looking for some water (scarcity)
Just after entering Mexico I take in the car José, Blanca and the little four-month-old José Luiz. The renting contract of the car states that the insurance does not cover any other persone than me. But says also that the insurance is not valid in Mexico (it does not say anything about Canada). So […]
Ending a dammed nuisance - Underwater Free Flow Turbines
Written for The Economist, March 8TH - 14TH 2008, Technology Quarterly section.
A new generation of free-standing turbines will liberate hydroelectricity from its dependence on dams?
read more | digg story
Setting up a web publication with Drupal
Free-software — free as in freedom, not as in free beer. Richard Stallman, the inventor of the concept of free software (and most of the free software itself during the 80s), could not have imagined, thirty years ago, that free software could have had today such a big success.
And […]
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