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Jul 23
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“ Step 1: Feed your lion by sliding his food off a tray and placing the food on the ground. Pet lions have been known to take metal or plastic bowls and destroy them in a matter of seconds because they do not understand the concept of eating out of a container.
— via William Niebling: eHow: How to Feed a Pet Lion
Jul 20
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SW 2 HW

Hardware, fabbed like hydroponic marijuana, will be cheap and sold next to beef jerky in gas stations. Software, customizable and requiring wealth to run on a universal Turing machine, will be for the upper class. This is already the case with $10 Famicom clones in India and China, vs. emulated Nintendo ROMs on a 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo.
Jul 18
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Information technology for the masses

A line of toys which allow for situational awareness at low cost. Can be used for home security or to manage/enable nonviolent protest. Electronics for civil disobedience can help defend civil liberties in an opressive political regime.
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“ Meanwhile, instead of tankers, how about dirigibles retrofitted with solar panels? During the rainy season, they graze along the canopies of the Amazon, soaking up fresh tropical water. Enterprising landscape architects on an eco-tour of the rainforest will record their mesmerizing whirs of rotating blades — the eco-soundtrack of New Nature — and then sell the DVDs on eBay or at a farmer’s market.
— Pruned on tanker-aqueducts supplying Cyprus with fresh water.
Jul 15
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David Macaulay’s “Through Rome by blimp”
David Macaulay’s “Through Rome by blimp”
Jul 10
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Everyone Forever / Maths / Diffusion limited aggregation
Everyone Forever / Maths / Diffusion limited aggregation
Jul 05
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Design for tabular data display. Book of the Dead, columns 67-71, chapters 97-102. Circa 350-250 BCE. “The ancient Egyptians believed that the deceased journeyed to the Hereafter aboard a ferryboat, or aboard the solar bark of Ra. These chapters include prayers to these boats, prayers to summon the ferryboats, and spells for protecting the solar bark of Ra against its enemies. In column 69 the deceased is provided with the names of the different parts of the boat since each part asked the deceased to tell it its name.”

Design for tabular data display. Book of the Dead, columns 67-71, chapters 97-102. Circa 350-250 BCE.

“The ancient Egyptians believed that the deceased journeyed to the Hereafter aboard a ferryboat, or aboard the solar bark of Ra. These chapters include prayers to these boats, prayers to summon the ferryboats, and spells for protecting the solar bark of Ra against its enemies. In column 69 the deceased is provided with the names of the different parts of the boat since each part asked the deceased to tell it its name.”

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Map in comic-strip format, Valley of the Kings, 1480-1070 BCE
Map in comic-strip format, Valley of the Kings, 1480-1070 BCE
Jul 04
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Index of Early Medieval World Maps
Index of Early Medieval World Maps
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Google Trends for “solar power”, “wind power”, “nuclear power”
Google Trends for “solar power”, “wind power”, “nuclear power”