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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Announcing GlueSniffers

Thursday, January 22, 2009

GlueSniffers is today, February 9th 2009 in Bermondsey, London. A Tuttleish get-together for people interested in the intersection between ICT and appropriate technology, so named by the Mad Genius of Akvo – a hotly contested title – Mark Charmer being the current holder. Dougald Hine of the School of Everything – another mad genius, you [...]

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Visiting WaterAid with Akvo

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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World Help Training Center on TV

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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Attachab – an ecovillage project in Nigeria

Monday, January 19, 2009

Featuring Pam of Dadamac and Marcus of Ecoshelter.

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The new video age is going to require radical attention conservation tools to manage

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Twitter and video blogging represent opposite ends of a spectrum. I follow something like 100 people on twitter. It takes about ten minutes a day, maybe a little more if I’m using the web interface. Already several very interesting things have come out of that investment of attention – a larger sense of a social [...]

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Data protection: firesafe that lets you use bus-powered drives without opening it

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Sheer brilliance – a bus powered drive goes inside, and you plug it into a computer on the outside and use it. In the event of a fire, your computer melts, but not the drive. Would be a ton more useful with half a dozen USB connectors or some facility for moving power inside too, [...]

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Ugh. The moral cracks, they show…

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Firstly, you have to turn on the subtitles. I didn’t know that Youtube did subtitles, but it does. When the video starts to play, press the upwards pointing arrow icon in the bottom right corner, then click the CC button in the menu that pops up and turn captioning in English on. Secondly, you don’t [...]

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William H. Macy on the Ukulele

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Savages co-stars.

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Mike on Life _Way_ Beyond Capitalism at the Temporary School of Thought

Saturday, January 17, 2009

MP3 of Mike’s talk here. I’m listening it right now, and he’s gone through the history of the human race – the long gap between our evolution and the start of “history” – and the history of the corporation, and that’s the first ten minutes. Recommended.

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“There are no photo opportunities in relationships”

Saturday, January 17, 2009
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