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By Dave, July 14, 2005 9:23 pm

Boing Boing: Plan 9 From Outer Space available on Internet Archive

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This is cool!

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 9:19 pm

Boing Boing: Vintage radio PCs

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and yet another way to destroy old vintage radios… That hurts!

But it might be a lucrative business too!

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 7:31 pm

Boing Boing: Decrypt this book, says Chinese code-novelist

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The above is the whole of his novel. About two young lovers that do something. Horizontal mambo or something is what it looks like from that last section. First part looks like they aren’t real sure of their sexual orientation. Then they get eyebrows or something.

Don’t think this kind of thing is gonna catch on. And he claims it took a year to write.

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 3:06 pm

Woodland Yurts

Here is a free copy of my book Build your own yurt, written in 1998, It has been used by a great many people who have built their own yurts. Our designs have progressed somewhat since 1998. For a much more comprehensive guide see The Complete Yurt Handbook

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Some good info here. For those yurt minded amongst us… 😉

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 11:18 am

Slashdot | Doctorow and Stross Release Latest Novels for Free

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And their sales keep climbing. Free advertising is hard to beat. Shows once again that there are positive aspects to giving things away.

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 11:11 am

The Huffington Post | Latest News
Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.

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Read on a bit for the conflict of interest part. This is the kind of thing that we have to eliminate. Don’t know how or if it’s even possible but somehow if we are to survive as a people instead of as producer/consumers in a corporate work force.

The early verges of this are on us now as auto makers put employees parking further away that drive other brand cars. Coke firing employees for drinking Pepsi. Walmart touting how much it does for the communities it infests while it instructs its employees to apply for food stamps and federal aid. Tis old news and not new news but it illustrates how our society as a whole is going.

Trademarks everywhere. I’m not immune. I’m typing this on an Apple iBook that I tried to talk myself out of getting. But I got it from a small business. They pissed me off and I may never go back there again but that’s another story.

Ramble, ramble. It all ties together in my head and probably nowhere else.

FreeOpenSourceSoftware Rulz! Think global, buy local.

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 10:07 am

Report Discredits F.B.I. Claims of Abuse at Guantánamo Bay – New York Times

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I kinda equate using the military to report on it’s on actions to putting the known egg sucking dog in charge of protecting the chicken coop…

Take that however you want, Albert E. and handlers…

But I keep forgetting. He don’t read the news. He lets others tell him what to think…

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 10:02 am

Edward Whelan on Supreme Court on National Review Online

Interesting commentary.

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 2:46 pm

Found on the web…

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A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft’s electronic navigation and communications equipment.

Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter’s position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said “Where am I?” in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said “You are in a Helicopter.”

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.

“I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer.”

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 1:44 pm

Vietnamese Spam Offers a Beguiling Printer Ink System : Gizmodo

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I’m surprised that someone hasn’t done this before now. And that they aren’t available here. Somebody is missing a good biz op…

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 9:58 am

The Huffington Post | Latest News
Willie Nelson Album’s Pot Leaf Cover Morphs Into Palm Tree For Wal Mart…

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I hate to miss a chance to say: WALMART SUX! And this is only one of the many reasons that I don’t do wallyworld. Finely found a place to get most of the vitemans that we had been getting there. Costing a bit more but the business is local and thats where the money stays.

Think global. Buy local.

Support local business not big business.

Just say NO to big business.

Think small. Buy local.

Any more along this line?

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 9:49 am

DIY Projector – Overview

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Interesting. The overhead projector part is no problem. Got one around somewhere. or two or three. Two now I think. I’ve been wondering about using an old lcd display from a laptop but suspect there is more than one reason it won’t work. Course with all the other projects around the farm doubt that I will ever get a round tuit…

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 1:25 am

Am going tomorrow (today now) to look at a machine that makes 6 inch by 6 inch by 8 to 16 foot long cross tie looking things. Or plastic building/retaining wall timbers that last forever and then some. Taking the cam to get some shots of it.

Uses wire insulation the is cut up in the recycling process for the metal that’s called fluff. Puts it in a mold and using a 250 ton (?) ram compacts the fluff into one solid piece.

The equipment will have to be moved and I’m along for the tear down and put a working machine back together part of the trip. This is just a first run thing to see if it is feasible to take apart and move. Don’t know much of anything about it yet.

Canned 8 pints of blueberrie jam tuesday. Froze 2 quart bags and gave the folks another half a gallon. Still got lots on the bushes. All 3 of them.

Made a loaf of banana blueberry bread today too. Added a cup and a half more flour than they called for and got it to work about right. Tastes kinda like a blueberry bagel. Good just not what I would have thought it would have tasted like. Or has the texture of or something.

The jam was taken off the stove about 6:30 pm and was boiling at the time of putting in the jars. Put them in the water bath and boiled for 10 minutes or more then out on the counter on a towel. After the second batch (small boiler only holds 4 pints) was out I put 3 small towels around them all. Jars not touching. about 11:30 or a little after I noted that they were still HOT. Took a thermometer and they were at 122 degrees f. Tis about 1 am now and they are still at 118.

Here they are with the thermometer sticking out of one side.

Shot from above showing the jars and another thermometer.

Closeup of the temp.

And to be perfectly anal about this here is one more with the towels tucked firmly back in place around the thermometer.

It’s taken me about 20 minutes to get the pictures and resize them, upload and write this crap and the temp has dropped another degree at most. Room temp is 70 or so. Quite good insulation.

Think I will call it a night and start it anew again tomorrow.

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 12:47 am

Treehugger: Tree Care Solutions with Rubbersidewalks

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I’m thinking franchise city here. This process should also be able to scale up to road parts. Got a lotta potential with an ever growing supply of raw material.

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 12:40 am

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Andy’s Mystery Device

The mystery of the secret device has been solved folks, and it was something that I would never have guessed. I am writing, of course, about Andy’s secret something that he was to show off at the end of his Keynote, and show it off he did.

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This is cool. Not that I could play it even if I got one but still is neat. A usb enabled uke! input into garage band and sound like anything!

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 12:37 am

★ The Joy of Tech! ★

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Point, counter point? Or is that point of view? Or view the porn?

Never understood how blood and violence is acceptable but the sight of the human body is just horrible and a sexual perversion… Bunch of farking hypocrites is what I says… Or it could be the chili barking…

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 12:25 am

Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth
by R. Buckminster Fuller
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This is the entire book online at and thanks to the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

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By Dave, July 13, 2005 12:17 am

The Buckminster Fuller Institute

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Gotta link to this site directly. Lotta cool stuff looks like at first glance.

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 11:39 pm

Myths might be related to earthquakes

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If they say so. More info please! Maybe add a few links. Something more than this with a title like that…

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 11:35 pm

Greek island hosts three-day conference on Atlantis myth

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Cleaning out the tabs I had meant to read over the last two or three days and haven’t gotten to yet.

I wonder why this was posted on PhysOrg. And come to think about it I don’t know why I am linking to it. Oh well…