November 2010
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12 Questions for Using Permaculture: Food Freedom. →
1. Why do (we need) permaculture?
Because we need its natural growing living systems, awareness, healthy organic living in balance at home. Engaging in permaculture helps us understand and love our bioregion, weather and watershed flowing into local fertility that’s constantly changing. We need to reduce stress, consumption, traveling, waste, and competing to survive and succeed. We need...
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“Wikileaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through...”
– Evgeny Morozov
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WatchKinect + Computer Vision + Javascript = Minority Report meets Web Browsing video
More about DepthJS
via weliveinthefuture
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“We’re of the school that if you have an idea that you think might work, the...”
– Jim Coudal, quoted from the article Eight Successful People Doing Exactly What They Want via swissmiss. (via jetami)
“PROJECT H’s Design Directives:
1. Design through action
2. Design with, not...”
– http://www.ted.com/talks/emily_pilloton_teaching_design_for_change.html
(via nataliemiklosic)
Watch“MAKERFACTORY is a free service for connecting the emerging network of localized fabrication technologies with people like you who need stuff 3d printed, CNC’ed, or otherwise made. Brought to you by your friends at EFFALO.”
via fabricating
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TLC?
When I was younger I remember seeing folks like Arthur C. Clark on TLC. The last time I was home I had the misfortune of watching “19 Kids and Counting”, and today it’s “Sister Wives” with commercial breaks for “Bama Belles”…
::sigh::
Multi ministry camera ban frustrates artists →
KUWAIT: After the ban three ministries placed on photography, most Kuwaiti youth are a bit confused about what to do with their cameras if they can’t use them in public and why such laws were implemented in the first place. The Ministry of Information, Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Finance recently came to the conclusion that photography should be used for journalism purposes only....
Open Source has won precisely because we no longer... →
vruz: my thoughts, exactly.
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China, Russia quit dollar →
St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday.
via cuntymint:continuum
This really isn’t a big deal, and certainly not something that should surprise us. Why should Russia and China use US dollars to trade...
“An elderly woman has survived being trapped in her bathroom in Paris for 20...”
– BBC News - Paris woman trapped for 20 days in bathroom via turkeyjaws
This is the world we live in ladies and gentlemen. Hear the neighbour making too much noise? Start up a petition! It’s certainly easier than trying to talk to them.
“You could hear banging sounds, like a hammer, even...
Esoteric Wisdom and the Pineal Gland →
The Pineal Gland has for long been associated with Esoteric Knowledge surrounding the spiritual, metaphysical aspects of consciousness and the self. René Descartes, who dedicated much time to the study of the pineal gland, called it the “Seat of the Soul”. He believed that it was the point of connection between the intellect and the body. The Pineal Gland is a cone-shaped pea that sits on the...
“Berger: Ever since Pope Benedict XVI, at the latest, you have to be anti-modern...”
– Interview With Gay Theologian David Berger: ‘A Large Proportion of Catholic Clerics and Trainee Priests Are Homosexual’ (via ryking)
“How our government works: 1) Get a position in the government. 2) Hype up some...”
– TSA’s Nude Scanners, Former Homeland Security Head Chertoff, and How Our Government Works
(via janedoe225 cuntymint)
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Suburban Staycation
In Mobile for the rest of the week. I brought my camera but forgot my tripod : /
… I also need to figure out how to program a PIC18 using Linux and get started on my senior design documentation.
“…the capitalist class in the ’50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was...”
– Noam Chomsky (via azspot: liberalsarecool)
Watchericmortensen: Austan Goolsbee, chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, takes to the white board to explain why President Obama’s plan to save GM worked.
Alexander: The administration should have retooled GM to make wind turbines and high-speed trains. Is Obama really that short sighted? Do people think it’s radical to keep making cars? What gives?
Long Live the Web →
The Web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web. Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals. Governments—totalitarian and...
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“Only American audiences ask me, “What should I do?” I’m never asked this in...”
– Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions, p. 39-40 (via sgandhi)
submedia.tv: Derrick Jensen: “YOU’RE NOT CRAZY AND... →
Derrick Jensen on coming to grips with this destructive culture
Deep ecology author Derrick Jensen won fame and notoriety with heavy works of non-fiction like Endgame, which compares western civilization to an abusive family where violence is a constant threat. He argues that we must bring down this culture by any means necessary. Since then, Jensen has published a searing exposé about...
Learning Basic Mechatronics Concepts Using the... →
