As clear a summary as I've seen of the current confusing state of the rebellion in Chiapas.

It will all be made clear in the next Zapatista memo | csmonitor.com

Charles Golden has posted his FAMSI report from the 2004 season in the Sierra del Lacandón. I experienced only a few days of that grueling and productive season. His team made major discoveries in the frontier between ancient Yaxchilan and Piedras Negras territories. They continued the work this year.

Thanks also to Charles and his team for their work in the Usumacinta mapping and preservation project. We hope to see them again on the river.

Sierra del Lacandon - resources - publications

For making enhanced podcasts with chapters, stills, and links.

RBSoftware :: Web Tools for Mac OS X

via Al Delgado's Educational Weblogs.

My test drive of the OPML editor.

Dave Pentecost's OPML blog: Sunday, July 31, 2005

Dave Winer has made the Mac version of his OPML editor (it's really much more than that) available. Here's the page about it:

OPML Editor support: Welcome to the OPML Editor

And here's the download.

Fredy López sends word of a new, multilingual online cultural magazine that he has launched with other pals in San Cristóbal de las Casas, including Chip Morris, Janet Schwartz, and Megan O'Neill. Congratulations to them all for a first edition that looks great and reflects the diverse culture of the town we love so well.

Jovel News "El rostro amable de Chiapas"

Sorry, they didn't "nail it" as this report suggests. Everything listed is from another neighborhood. Not the East Village. The photos are interesting but they are mockups. Still to be built.

Curbed: Las Vegas' East Village: They Nailed It

I took a look around, and here are two good sources.

[blog.forret.com]: Podcast icons: what's available

[timmadden.com] Podcast logos

Mainly concerned with economics of coffee shop level hotspots, but interesting.

Slashdot | The Case for Free WiFi?

Andrew Hedges has put together an excellent tutorial on building widgets. Much clearer than anything I've run across, and more helpful to the non-geek than the dashboard developers' list. Thanks Andrew!

Developing Dashboard Widgets

Yep.

Joi Ito's Web: Yak Shaving

Addressing the digital divide with a crank powered mesh enabled laptop.

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Negroponte's Hundred Dollar Laptop

The folks at EchoDitto keep bringing out more goodies for Drupal-based websites.

For now there's:

• echo_bat - a Dean campaign-esque bat/thermometer
• echopetition - an exensible petition module
• echodump - reporting and dumps to Excel
• echoinvite - create tell-a-friend nodes
• blacklist - prevent comment spam
• googlesearch - add a block to search your site with google

Keep an eye on their website and their open source page.

Maybe someday I'll be an Airstream Bohemian. Or just an old guy in my trailer.

airstreamBOHEMIA - restoration resource

The Mod Pod / An SF architect gives Airstream trailers a modernist makeover

And the classics:

Fred's Airstream Motorhome Class A Archives - Home

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Mel Gibson filming historic epic

I met Jay last week after a panel discussion on the digital divide at EyeBeam, sponsored by City Councilwoman Gail Breuer (Bruce Lai was representing her office). Jay took a bit of a tangent in his comments but was an inspiring and vivid addition to the conversation.

NewsForge | Jay Sulzberger on Free Software (and computing freedom) advocacy

Getting geeky here. I usually try to get a glimmer of the latest buzzwords on the web. Often I don't get much further. Occasionally I get some use out of it.

From this readable and useful explanation of AJAX by Cameron Adams:

"Essentially, remote scripting allows client-side JavaScript to request data from a server without having to refresh the Web page. That's it."

AJAX: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials]

I'll need this later. Thanks to Sam Churchill.

Daily Wireless - Are City Clouds Safe?

Why worry? As the quoted report in Mobile Pipeline points out, it's all just too easy.

WordTech Software: Open Source Applications and Packages for Mac OS X: AquaEthereal

File under "Online global persistent distributed co-op backup"

OceanStore

Two items in Daily Wireless today with useful info for those dreaming of cheap (or free) wifi for their communities.

Daily Wireless - Philly Chooses 3 Finalists

Daily Wireless - Citywide Voice over WiFi

Pedal and solar powered PC and communications system | Inveneo.org

EchoDitto has created some of its best websites on a foundation of the Drupal open source content management system. Now they are beginning to make their elegant add-ons open and available. Cheers to Nicco and the team!

EchoDitto's Open-Source Software

Must be Science Wednesday at the Daily Glyph.

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites

I finally got a statistics service for this weblog and I've been watching what people search for to get here. I'm in the top 10 in many odd Google searches. But I noticed today that someone looked at an old post of mine about the Periodic Table of Desserts.

Then today I saw a post in Slashdot about a new approach to the periodic table of the elements. And that post included a link to a great selection of tables, humorous and otherwise:

Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Culture Is Not Always Popular

Sounds serious. But scroll down and you'll see some unusual tables of information.

Among other reasons, because 7-10% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from concrete (portland cement) manufacture. If my Dad were around, I'd ask him.

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Reinventing Concrete

The rumor has it, as early as September.

WSJ.com - Apple Looks to Sell Videos -- and Maybe iPods to Play Them

PBS | I, Cringely . July 14, 2005 - More Shoes

Apple To The Rescue...Again? - Forbes.com

The only one I miss on this chart is civicspace, built on drupal. For a multiple author, open blogging system it works great. But I think the choices in the chart are probably much easier to set up and simpler for each individual author to use.

Blog software comparison chart

Thanks to Dave Winer for the pointer.

How To Publish a Podcast on the iTunes Music Store

Thanks to Dori at Backup Brain for the link to this new Airstream model. What is this obsession I have with tiny trailers?

Nissan Airstream BaseCamp Trailer | Uncrate

But Bambi still looks good.

Airstream - Quicksilver Bambi

Here's a direct link to the July 17th story regarding opposition to the plan in Palenque to run traffic through an important forested corner of town. There has been no study of the environmental impact of this road construction project.

The loss of this patch of jungle would turn Palenque (the town, not the ruins) into the dismal dusty place it has always threatened to be, and would degrade its tourism potential.

Tabasco Hoy - Se oponen al proyecto de La Cañada