rodrigob's blog

The accordion is not what I though it was !

2009-11-06T20:58:00.002+01:00

Supercapacitors in 2009

2009-07-28T18:32:00.004+02:00

Supercapacitors are coming... and these guys now their stuff...

"""
Very cost effective and time effective. So I think we've got that well under hand. I think the materials is a very very nice story there. Barite, which was Barium, was used in the front end of TV sets. If you go buy a TV right now there's no more ... it is hard to find a CRT TV set unless it is a small thing for a computer. Most of it now in fact is very ? DLP and or other types of technologies. CDP and so ... We're the best friend of the Barite company the Barium company's got in the world. There are major sources of Bariite found in the United States. But a new one is just found in Nevada. We're writing? to get the sole rights to that. And looks like that's going to be done. Then we have large amounts of it in Mexico. And owned by US companies. You can also bring that in from other parts of the world in very high volume. So, the United States Geological Service, with *out* the stuff I've got in Nevada, says there's at least 2 billion tons of stuff in known reserves.

That's unlike Lithium ion where there is a small amount down in Chile, where they got the brine. You run out of that, then you've gotta' go over to China an get it from China. Uhhh, if you think we're in trouble with oil, wait till you have to go to China to get your Lithium.
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2009-07-28T14:15:00.002+02:00

Music by Barcelona

Robocup 2009

2009-07-10T19:55:00.002+02:00

The Robocup aims to create in 2050 robots able to play one to one with humans (and win). 40 years downstream we start seeing the first encounters...

Not yet a great match, but hey: it started only 12 years ago...

Sausages, muffins and pancakes

2009-07-10T19:52:00.002+02:00

2009, not the same anymore...

ps: no, the videos are not accelerated, these are 2009 german industrial robots.

We do not see the world, we see its illusions

2009-06-30T12:32:00.002+02:00

Do you see green and blue ? Well look again.

2009-06-29T02:28:00.002+02:00

"""
We’re an international tobacco company focused on creating value for our shareholders.
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pretty much everything I could hate in a big company, put as the main message of their website.

if you are white...

2009-06-25T17:35:00.000+02:00

It is easy, if you are white you will not get killed in Brooklyn.

Just change the scale

2009-06-19T11:04:00.002+02:00

Simply put, the best argument I have heard on why we should not use Carbon/Gas/Oil/Nuclear energy/'Anything that does not come from outside the Earth':

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Just change the scale.
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(look at it on a 4000 years span)

As others said, "earth is a closed system for materials, but an open system for energy".

feel -> do -> think

2009-06-19T09:12:00.001+02:00

"""
Everything we do is filtered by our emotions, first.
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almost.at

2009-06-09T14:18:00.003+02:00

Time and space are not what they used to be.

2009-06-01T14:20:00.000+02:00

dot-communism

2009-05-30T04:13:00.004+02:00

Wired has a thoughts provoker article on dot-communism.

The article is interesting not only because of the presented topic but also on how the American writer interprets "socialism" / "communism" using most of the well known Americans clichés.

On a related note I just noticed that, from USA's point of view there is "almost nothing in the world beyond Mexico (low level workers with strange accents) and Canada (dumb weird socialists)". Below illustration and comparison to France.

ps: remember that "internet will not save the world", or in other terms, "it is not what internet does, it is what people do"

2009-05-29T09:22:00.001+02:00

Google keeps updating the concept of Awesome !

2009-05-17T17:25:00.001+02:00

the world is a place yet to be seen.

I'm sorry little fox...

2009-05-14T21:48:00.000+02:00

just tried chromium linux nightly build, and I have to say that, now, I know there is something better than Firefox out there. Just waiting for flash support and Chromium will become my daily navigator (until Firefox beats it, by using multiple processes, importing V8, and imitating the user interface...)

making the world data computable

2009-05-14T21:40:00.003+02:00

ok, now I'm sold. I'm waiting for your newborn, Wolfram.

Yas & the LightMotiv

2009-05-14T02:36:00.003+02:00

I really enjoyed their concert.

The money, the heart and the brain

2009-05-14T00:10:00.000+02:00

You can say whatever you want...

2009-05-13T20:06:00.002+02:00

but living in Paris is better.

(and yes I do agree that the music sucks)

How far is far away ?

2009-05-04T22:46:00.002+02:00

Understanding the human (omni)presence on earth and how to plan a real escape out of this world.

Worst movies... ever

2009-05-02T20:43:00.003+02:00

Joining the infamous duo, I have now discovered, in deep sorrow, the three worst movies ever:

- Transformers 2007
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008
- Dragonball Evolution 2009

Interestingly enough all three movies fail in the same way:
- All three are american movies
- All three have good enough actors
- All three have very good special effects and production
- All three have the basis to create a very good script
- All three where massacred by a catastrophic direction, transforming a a potentially great movie in a non sense butcher.

I'm sharing this comments as relevant public health information to be diffused at large.

It was them, not it

2009-05-01T20:01:00.001+02:00

"""
Give us a million $$'s to find a million cures for a million types of cancers
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2009-04-30T13:17:00.001+02:00

Impressive video, with a superb music.

2009-04-28T16:22:00.000+02:00

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And that is why I want an apartment with direct sunlight...