January 2010
38 posts
War on Terror
The Board Game! …
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How to Build Your Dream →
azspot:
In the age of democratized industry, every garage is a potential micro-factory, every citizen a potential micro-entrepreneur. Here’s how to transform a great idea into a great product.
1) INVENT Stop whining about the dearth of cool products in the world — dream up your own. Pro tip: Check the US Patent and Trademark Office Web site to ensure no one else had the idea first.
2) DESIGN...
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Muso Gonnosuke?
Defeated Miyamoto Musashi with a hanbo. …
Priorities
This deserves a longer analysis, but here is a start. Recently, I started a list of priorities, based on what I am doing and have done, not what I want to be doing. This is based on a desire to be honest with myself, roping in expectations, in hope of creating a realistic base for growth. I know myself well enough to understand that I have difficulty rearranging my priorities, for better or worse....
“Cunningham knew he had a good enough case to file a lawsuit against the debt...”
– http://www.dallasobserver.com/content/printVersion/1653972
Kraus
adjective
a gift that is more trouble than it is worth
“Walking to the Sky is such a kraus. The university had to pay to have the damn pole replaced before it got knocked over by a stiff breeze.”
origin
Comes from Carnegie Mellon University Jill Gansman Kraus, who, along with her husband Peter, donated the sculpture Walking to the Sky to the university in 2006
Gulf Building
Walking to the Sky
Artist? …
Eagle, AK
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Anagram for desperation: A rope ends it
IDW Publishing?
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“TRANSLATION: Although it is true that Haiti was just like five minutes ago a...”
– Matt Taibbi
The future of hacking →
“Music must be integral to the story: for example, the story might be about music, or the life of musicians, or the effect of a musical instrument, or perhaps a piece of music — or anything else that I haven’t thought of!”
80 euros.
Phyles →
Spanish cyberpunks went from cyberactivism and literature to constituting a group of cooperative enterprises straddling South America and Madrid. Their new banners: economic democracy, resilience, and transnationality. They changed names: now they are known as “Indianos”, the Spanish word for the emigrant who would return to his home village after making his fortune in the Americas. Only that the...
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Understandably, the move has been toward a focus on survival, and the use of outside resources [water and electricity at other residences]. There must be a conscious move toward the creation of the resilient. Note that this differs greatly from concepts of sustainability, for is we were to sustain just what we are doing now, we will kill the earth and ourselves.
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Pay it forward
Link Crippled Vulture Games. …
Hammock?
In the corner? …
Darknet
What about capital and capitalism? Both in the problem of a standard unit of labor-representation and its accumulation, and the mentality surrounding the commodification of Everything. How to hardwire anti-capitalist rulesets. …
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“We are at a dead end.
So, take control.”
A spectacular engagement
Darknet moves beyond it? How? …