An absolutely exceptional night of live music from Marmaduke Dando, The Murder Barn, and Will Miles, our host. I’ve presented the songs in running order, except for the first Murder Barn song which is just… the one for all the right (and wrong!) reasons. And there’s more! I always feel a bit bad shooting music [...]
Read more →I am thinking of going walkabout. Virgin have a round the world air ticket which gives 29,000 air miles for a bit over a thousand pounds. Enormous flexibility, you can do damn near anything their network goes, and while some serious craft is required on the booking front (so much choice) the deal is Pretty [...]
Read more →I have now spent ten years as an unpaid employee of an invisible global government: the government-in-exile of the well-intentioned survivors of the Crew of Spaceship Earth. The crew of Spaceship Earth are largely holed up in Engineering and down to the last rations, occasionally losing members to bloody, fruitless combat with passengers who believe [...]
Read more →(click the images for more info) This is Soap Guy. He makes soap. He doesn’t just make soap, he makes political soap. Soap so good it makes you question capitalism. Let me explain. Alex Fradera gave me a bar of soap he’d made with his own two hands, after going to Soap School, and it [...]
Read more →So… it’s done. The Future We Deserve, my – well, our book project, is done. You can buy a lovely copy online from PediaPress and it’ll be on Amazon soon enough. It’s a thing of beauty, if I do say so myself. So what can I tell you? As you know, a hundred people wrote [...]
Read more →So Dougald and I are going to be running a one-week residential workshop at Schumacher college on Collapsonomics April 30 – May 4, 2012. I thought I should write something about why people should take this course. The bottom line is that learning a new perspective on life is difficult. It took the best part [...]
Read more →The new-new thing at EdgeRyders is that map. We’re building a map of what’s going on, where the sites and stories are which show the new peeking through the cracks in the old, where the action is. You can sign up to edit the map. That’s actually pretty bold – we’re crowdsourcing a map of [...]
Read more →Click here if your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video I’ve had a really good time the last two weekends attending The Event Leila Johnston’s talk series on absolutely catastrophic risks (think cosmic rays, supervolcanos and worse.) I did a talk called complexity kills on understanding risk and Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps. Download the talk, slides [...]
Read more →If you want the summary: build the courts first, and build them now, if you want to protect the Electronic Frontier, and, indeed, the People. (You may well want to read the two previous blog posts which go along with this one to understand the whole mindset behind this piece, but that’s about 6K words [...]
Read more →Utopia. No-place. We can and must do better than this. Because the Media are owned by Corporations who we wish to Police using the power of the State which they have Suborned using the gutter press and requiring political advertising in elections. Because the Internet Service Providers are Tightly Aligned with Copyright Holders who are [...]
Read more →I have a knack for crypto. Actually, to be honest, I have a knack for Lego. My mind maps the things you can do with a simple set of tools/rules and then generates simple, easy ways of doing impressive things. Good examples of this: the hexayurt or the Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps system. Applied to [...]
Read more →Five verses on the gap You can see and feel the gap in the quiet desperation of those well-intentioned as they age into their 30s and wonder “is this it?” It hit me late: I have no child, I am yet free One life is not enough to achieve it. The cosmic infinite inside says [...]
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