* You upload a piece of content to a Server * the Server hashes the content (you could be a Server.) * it creates a 2D bar code of that hash, with a URL redirection pointer * you print the hash and stick it to things * anybody who wants to know what it is [...]
Read more →Organic agriculture can double or triple the world’s sustainable food supply. I think it’s legit. Analysis?
Read more →http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=76007 Occam. Specifically, http://transterpreter.org Yes, the language it runs (Occam) is 20 years old. But the language was designed for programs running on dozens to thousands of nodes, and in the transterpreter implementation, there’s the possibility of doing this on heterogeneous hardware, where the fast nodes do things like splitting and merging the data set, [...]
Read more →http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7070494.stm A World Toilet Summit has opened in the Indian capital, Delhi, with more than 40 countries taking part. The four-day meeting will examine solutions and technologies that can be used to provide a basic need for nearly half the world’s population. According to estimates, 2.6bn people around the world lack access to a hygienic [...]
Read more →Again, please send me all of your thoughts and feedback. We’ve got time to tweak yet! ==================== Challenge Response: The Hexayurt (http://hexayurt.com) is a practical global housing solution that has found champions in groups as diverse as the Amritanandamayi Ashram, the American Red Cross and the US Department of Defense. A $200 family home that [...]
Read more →12′ Hexayurt construction gallery from the STAR-TIDES demonstration in October. There is likely to be a second run sometime in mid-November at Henderson Hall, if it all comes together.
Read more →You can download the next SketchUp models of the Hexayurt (including the Stretch Hexayurt and Pentayurt) here.
Read more →FIRST DRAFT PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS It’s within 1% of the maximum length, but has a little bit of word-level slack that could be trimmed to get in an additional sentence. Larger scale cuts and re-arrangements are perfectly plausible also. ============================ Challenge Response: Our goal is to produce a proven [...]
Read more →Andy Buxton just wrote an article on shelter cooling and the rational for the SleepBreeze Personal Cooler on Appropedia. It’s a very useful piece of kit, and you should be able to buy one soon. I recommend subscribing to the BreezeBlog if you’re at all interested in product development, small business, manufacturing logistics, ergonomics, or [...]
Read more →If you’ve been wondering how the TIDES Demonstration at National Defense University went, the TIDES Summary – 2.5 mb PDF – 35 pages is a good place to start. This is a first draft of the TIDES boards – we’re still missing some of the material on solar, and everything to do with satellite communications [...]
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