Hm. 97% ripe on Rotten Tomatoes and with good reason. To get this and Batman in the same year really rather validates Hollywood as an institution that still has it. What Toy Story showed about friendship, and Finding Nemo said about fathers and sons, or the Incredibles said about families, WALL-E says about one form [...]
Read more →Polymeme isn’t too high traffic, and claims to cherry-pick items of general interest from the blogs of experts and specialists, more or less, using Magic Algorithms. However it works, it does what Metafilter used to do, before it got so inbred. Here’s what I got from the last week or so’s accumulation in my RSS [...]
Read more →Another good one from Jonathan – Youtube anthropology. It’s an excellent talk. From the first few minutes * youtube adds 9,000 hours of content every 24 hours * equivalent to 400 full TV channels That sort of put things into perspective for me, and it just keeps going.
Read more →http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/dining/22local.html?em&ex=1216958400&en=7df5348a50e688b3&ei=5087%0A Guy comes round to your house, grows your vegetables, and gives them to you. There’s a name for this, and I’m trying to remember it…
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 →http://ambidextrousmag.org/issues/09/ is the magazine link, and you can read our piece here (pdf): I’m very pleased with this piece. It really encapsulated a lot of what we wanted to say at a fairly minimalist length.
Read more →Here’s one I made earlier. Hit “unmute” to hear it. http://www.dyspxl.com/gallery/orbs/296-theme-song
Read more →Not perfect, but much improved, audio synch. Turns out that Google Video preserves synch much better on uploaded .mov files than on uploaded .mp4 files. Basically this is an hour of Marcin of Open Source Ecology and I discussing the long term prospects for long term economic and political freedom driven by free and open [...]
Read more →We learn that if you want to run a business, you must generate your own power. The Municipal power is on for perhaps 3 or 4 hours during the day, on a good day. This turned out to be so, not only in Tombua, but throughout the country. (from half way through) See the whole [...]
Read more →Click here for the main interview discussion: http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A501 Here are the supporting links: 1. Global Village Construction Set (and weblog): http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=198 2. Open Source Technology pattern language: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Pattern_Language 3. Development page: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=CEB_Press and overview: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Overview 4. Year 1 of our Life at Factor e Farm http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=First_Year_at_Factor_e_Farm 5. Economic model: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/steve_bosserman/2008/02/09/giving_it_away_making_money.htm
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