You can’t trust anybody these days. At the root of the systems of oppression we labor under is the concept of the Nation State, and the idea that the Nation State has some kind of automatic right to enforce its will on the population unlucky enough to be born within its borders. It is a [...]
Read more →Sea of flags on the hill, with massive cable runs all over the place. Mostly various kinds of radio and computer guys, working to make systems internationally interoperable. Testing testing. Nearly everybody is either in camo (various nations, you get to know the pattern by eye) or the “working contractor” uniform (a particularly functional, I-work-18-hours-a-day [...]
Read more →Woody Evans figured out how to build a perfectly proportioned hexayurt model from a single 4′x8′ sheet of board material. It’s a very very clever bit of work, and pictures and the diagram are below. If you change the cut pattern a little, you can get six walls 4/5ths of a square high. Here’s how: [...]
Read more →Google singles out Darfur for special attention. There are a lot of other crises in the world. By singling out this one, Google is both contributing to helping solve it, and also throwing many other situations into the shadows. As I said before, “I am an individual with a foreign policy.” The new game of [...]
Read more →Off-grid.net likes hexayuts. A lot. hexayurt@gmail.com is my address, and I’m hoping this will show up in the trackbacks over there because I tried to post a comment but couldn’t. Welcome, readers! http://appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project is the main site.
Read more →A little light reading – 40 pages of details on how they spend their money, and how they get by. the economic lives of the very poor.pdf.zip The propensity to own a radio or a television, a widespread form of entertainment for American households varies considerably across countries. For example, among rural households living under [...]
Read more →Theos Car C,mm,n (aka Common.) The Theos Car has a much wider remit for a re-examination of the fundamentals of car design. Much better shot at coming up with a revolutionary breakthrough. Seriously thinking of getting involved with that one.
Read more →Palestinian sewage dyke collapses burying people in shit. Turns out their sewage processing infrastructure was overloaded by overcrowding and they started storing it in lagoons. Aid officials said plans to build a larger waste treatment facility had been held up for years by perpetual fighting in the area. [...] The Gaza City mayor blamed the [...]
Read more →Uses about 500W, costs $2,500, doesn’t appear to be a swamp cooler.
Read more →Foldschool. Download and build. We’ll be having some of those for the hexayurt project then, eh?
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