I can’t put it into words, but something happened today, stepped over some kind of threshold, hit critical mass. Now it goes boom, this thing we’ve been building – a perspective, a view on life, a housing technology, a science of infrastructure… a plan to fix the world, which is not broken. If you never [...]
Read more →As I look at all these rocket scientists struggling to navigate the horrific waters of patent law and worst practices, I’m wondering… why has the Sacred Oath gone out of fashion? Like, really, what this comes down to is three principles which really ought to be sworn in blood by anybody doing this kind of [...]
Read more →Dr. Horrible is a really, really perfectly nerdy web TV show by the brains behind Buffy and Firefly/Serenity. For reasons that I’m foolishly going to try to explain, it hit me like a bag of hammers. Here’s Dr. Horrible’s problem. He wants the world to be a better place, and he’s willing to kill people [...]
Read more →“you will live and die on this farm, and you will never go hungry. but your kids are going to the stars.”
Read more →or, how to fix the planet for $60,000,000 First, let’s get clear about this: sixty million dollars is not a lot of money. Let’s think about a few things that cost in that price range. 1> One half of a Eurofighter aeroplane. 2> One half of “Batman and Robin.” So, here’s what I’m going to [...]
Read more →Much better video to follow – this is what I shot with my Xacti E1 from a tripod in the back of the room! Discussion here and HQ video and talk slides here.
Read more →We got Boing Boing’d via John Barlow’s very, very good 4th of July message. Eben Moglen’s on stage right now talking on “die gedanken sind frie” (thought is free) which is really rather good I’m on later today. Fun and games, fun and games. Here’s the main site FSFI and the conference data in English.
Read more →Here’s the trick: record in quad. In Audacity, invert either the front or the rear track. What happens is that the ambient noise which hits all four mics about equally is significantly subtracted out, leaving the voices (which are significantly different between front and rear mics) synchronize out. Works really well, I was amazed.
Read more →http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A1766 20 minutes, audio only, discussion about the global swadeshi ideal, global capitalism, and long term futures. Great stuff.
Read more →see http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A1761 This one is actually quite nice to watch which makes a nice change.
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