New Scientist Breaking News - Robot claims 'treasure island' booty
Good papers in PDF form, that I want to look through.
Great profile of the Soviet missile officer whose overriding of a faulty computer signal prevented us from being annihilated in 1983.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Thank You, Stanislav
Newsday.com: Flooding in Mexico, C. America Kills Three
From a good discussion on Slashdot concerning wireless VoIP.
In the Washington Post.
Mexican Sugar Workers Take Over Mills
We had a busy weekend in DC, including the Greenfestival, where we met several folks working with biodiesel and greasecars. More pieces of the puzzle, working towards the girls club veggie van.
Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems
Grassolean.com :: Home of the Biodiesel Station
With the latest season of Survivor taking place in the Peten in Guatemala (in Yaxha, hence the tribe name) my fellow Usu tribe members have suggested we post some notes on the real Yaxha. We'll gather some information and some links for the curious. Ron Canter has photos and notes from his studies of the area. Chris Shaw has written about Yaxha in his book, "Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods" (see the cover and link on the left of this site's main page).
For now, know that Yaxha was an important link in a broad system of Maya river navigation that spanned present day Guatemala and used the rivers from the Usumacinta watershed, on the border with Mexico.
As they say, watch this space for more information. Once we post on Yaxha, I'll come back and update this post with a link to the new one.
UPDATE: Here is Ron's finished report:
The Daily Glyph: Yaxha - The Backstory of the 'Survivor Guatemala' Locale, by Ron Canter
Don't miss it!
Community networks that supply power and heat.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Microgrids as peer-to-peer energy
Here's one of those "Doh! Why didn't I think of that?" moments.
They suggest showing your home videos through an iChat session. Why not use it to review your Final Cut editing work at home with your client? I have to do a test of the quality to see if this would work.
Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Quickly share home video via iChat
The Observer | International | Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina
The PCR-1. For the podcasting studio. On sale now at J&R. This reviewer likes it better than the Oxygen 8.
Review: Edirol PCR-M1 Ultra-slim Keyboard - createdigitalmusic.com
Including the activist, Cory Doctorow.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Digital Citizens: The activist
Consumers Union and Free press have launched a new site dedicated to community networks. The story and more links from Morgan Jindrich of CU, via the Digital Divide Network mailing list. (click MORE)
New Community Internet Site Launched!
Today, Consumers Union, and Free Press released new resources for anyone
interested in community Internet projects. You can read stories about groups
across the country that went out and started an Internet network in their
community, be it a small town in Texas or a few blocks in Chicago. We have
already collected more success stories - we will be adding more and more as
they come.
Free Press, is also launching a new resource today - where you can search by
state and find out if any of the hundreds of projects all over the country
are near you.
* Main section:
www.hearusnow.org/connected
* Press Release:
http://www.hearusnow.org/other/newsroom/internetbroadband/groupsunveilnewcom
munityinternetresources/
* Issue Alert on Center For Neighborhood Technology's Emergency
Wireless Networks (w/ link to yesterday's letter to the Hill):
http://www.hearusnow.org/internet/12/
* Issue Alert about New Google Wireless Network:
http://www.hearusnow.org/internet/12/
A glimmer of understanding for me, a giant step for the web.
Ajax for Java developers: Build dynamic Java applications
By then they will build as many in a year as Toyota already sells.
Ford to Boost Production of Hybrids Tenfold
Maybe I'll live to see it.
Slashdot | Thoughts on the Space Elevator
Despite the title they are not making light of, or a profit on, triage. Bravo to the Nielsen Haydens for a forum that could provide this, and readers with intelligence to comment on it. Indispensable reading for anyone needing emergency medical information, and that seems to be a lot of folks these days.
Making Light: Triage for Fun and Profit
From Global Voices Online. Most useful in places where freedom of speech and press are under attack. Sound familiar?
Handbook for Bloggers & Cyberdissidents
Using slower radio connections to connect distant points in Africa.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Narrowband - one solution for African connectivity
San Francisco only so far. Ready for the battle of the giants?
Google Secure Access: Frequently Asked Questions
They mean (with audio). Someone was too excited to get it right.
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO play video on iPods (with video)
Yep, the LiftPort folks have a WordPress weblog.
With this I may not have to drag my laptop to work.
ThePlaceforitAll.com - Portable Firefox
Like many folks I've been fascinated by the potential of the hydrogen economy to transform energy and transportation. But there may be better strategies, as David Morris explains.
Other energy resources from the New Rules Project:
New Rules Project - Democratic Energy - Tools and How-to
The Zapatistas have announced that, 5 years after the Zapatista caravan to Mexico City in support of indigenous rights, they will make another trip out of the Lacandon forest to publicize the "other campaign", their contribution to a national debate during the Mexican elections.
ABC News: Zapatista rebel leader unveils Mexico tour plans
And an environmental group in Chiapas has called on the rebels to include protection of natural resources as a part of their platform, noting that leftist groups have always struggled against the exploitation of man by man, but never see the unjust and absurd exploitation of nature that is done by every social system, without exception ("siempre han luchado contra la explotación del hombre por el hombre, pero nunca ven lo injusto y absurdo que es la explotación de la naturaleza que hacen todos los sistemas sociales, sin excepción").
IndyMedia Chiapas - Grupo ecologista pide al EZLN incluir defensa de recursos
Interesting.
Berkun blog » Blog Archive » Why I switched to Firefox
For the community wireless portal. It will happen.
Daily Wireless - Mobile WiMax Handsets
I'm revisiting this now that I'm using Tiger and launching the Girls On Air! podcasting project.
Podcast Actions - Automator Actions
Automator - Example 3 - Automate Podcast Preparation
I would have to modify the workflow above, and add this action if I wanted to automate the FTP upload:
Upload to FTP - Automator Actions
With Apple's support of podcasting came their enhanced podcast format, allowing chapters and graphics in a podcast. The first tools to create these were not particularly user-friendly.
Now there's a better tool available, which also lets you create chapter-based "Vidcasts". Works with OS 10.3 or later, QT 6.5 or later.
From the same company, an asset management tool that also helps create chapter based videos.
I've been a nut on this since I read Arthur C. Clarke's "Fountains of Paradise" but it may not be for nuts any longer. Real plans are moving ahead, supported by new materials and technology.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Elevator Going Up!
Interesting points relating to the license you assign your work when you post it to "free" sites like Ourmedia. Counter-intuitively, if you assign a "non-commercial use only" license , it makes it unusable by other open projects like Wikipedia.
Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful | Ourmedia
I posted a while back about using iChat with Google's new IM service. I hadn't used it in a couple of weeks and tried today, but got an error that it seems everyone doing this is getting now. No workaround or fix yet from Google. Back to AIM for now.
ssl error 9843 - Google Search
An update on the lives of the Maya poor in Chiapas, as the Zapatistas launch a national campaign to sway the upcoming elections.
Where Poverty Drove Zapatistas, the Living Is No Easier - New York Times
I have to get serious about Final Cut, finally. My next editing job will be the first hour-long show (dense with effects) that I've tackled on FCP. So I started looking for tips and tricks and found this collection of tutorials from the Berkeley school of journalism. Nothing in-depth, but good insights and well-written. It covers story selection, planning, shooting, editing, audio, Photoshop - a little of everything. Except podcasting.
Alfonso Morales wrote with what he called old news - a scan of a page from Tabasco Hoy from June 10, about the establishment of a protected area around the canyons of the Usumacinta, in Tabasco. (Click on the image for a large version)
If true, this would prevent the building of a dam at Boca del Cerro, near Tenosique. Alfonso is looking for more information, and I was unable to find a direct link to the report. But the full text of an earlier report by the same local reporter can be found in this entry in a weblog called "My Beloved Tenosique".
Mi querido Tenosique » declaran area natural protegida al cañon del usumacinta
One of the great pleasures of our visit to Port Clyde, Maine, was sharing the enthusiasm of our friend Margaret Bodell for the place and its people. That and some hilarious time getting to know C. Wilder Oakes, native son and painter of life in the fishing town / art colony that is Port Clyde. Looking forward to more fun there.
The Paintings of Charles Wilder Oakes
Messages in a Bottle by David Grima
Back online after a great week roadtripping to Maine, N.H., Vermont, now the Adirondacks. Catching up with wireless news, including the availability of WiMax customer premises equipment from Alvarion.
Daily Wireless - Alvarion BreezeMax Shipping