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ACT9
I followed the survival dark site template and I've begun a site with Afternow and Patrolling-themed information.
I may be able to tie it into the Primer Hindsight survival scenarios and the Afternow RPG if Sean likes the idea.
It can become like an online geocache with emergency information available to help…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 10:19am — No Comments
My indigenous knowledge object is a Hatch
You've seen Lost right?
I'm building a hatch like that.
Right now it's just a couple of 50 caliber ammo cans watertightly sealed as geocaches with hardcopy survival guides, tools and supplies for the post-apocalyptic survivor to rebuild with.
But eventually it's going to be an underground bunker with rotating shifts keeping watch in case of the end of the world via gamma ray bursts, nuclear war or…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 10:10am — No Comments
Rant Meets And San Francisco Resilience
I want to get a hacker survival club started at next month's First Fridays Rant Meet to start talking about preparing the maker community to survive and flourish with our own food, water and disaster preparedness strategies and training.
I've seen the SF resilience plan, and it doesn't have anything about people preparing themselves…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 9:53am — No Comments
I'm going to portion parts of the Primer project as paid jobs that girls in Afghanistan can do
I'm going to post some parts of the Primer game development project to be done by girls connected to the FabLab in Afghanistan. This way girls in the FabLab can use our courseware to learn game development, and they can get paid for their first professional game development work by helping develop the Primer itself.
I spoke with a speaker at BIL who talked about the HPU or Human Processing Units, using systems like Mechanical Turk to portion out work that needs to be done…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 9:46am — 1 Comment
ACT5
I'm posting my game development project Primer for funding on Kickstarter this week.
I'm going to have to write up the entire budget proposal and figure out exactly how much I'm asking for to make the project viable. I'll post updates here as I get the budget together and post it up on Kickstarter.
I'm going to have to write up the entire budget proposal and figure out exactly how much I'm asking for to make the project viable. I'll post updates here as I get the budget together and post it up on Kickstarter.
Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 9:38am — No Comments
How do we get a DEKA Slingshot Water Purification system more affordable?
I want to find a way to get the DEKA Slingshot Water Purification System more affordable and available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distillation_system)
They currently have been tested successfully, but…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments
Powering my AWOL bag Mobile Command Center by Solar & Solid Fuel
I have a set of survival gear that currently relies on portable batteries to sustain operations in field conditions like Burning Man and the Canadian bush. This is unsustainable if the grid goes offline or I go off the grid.
I'm going to get a Solaris 26 watt power supply sufficient to power my operations through the day and the cables to connect this to my batteries sufficient to last throughout the night.
I'm also going to get a BioLite stove…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 9:16am — No Comments
I'm going to volunteer to help out at a local food not bombs in San Francisco
I used to volunteer with Food Not Bombs and I want to start cooking a new FNB for makers and those who want to learn to be makers at the Noisebridge makerspace.
I like the FNB that I cooked at and the ones that I ate at, but I would like to see free food cooked for makers to not only feed them but bring them together into community with each…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 9:08am — No Comments
Indigenous Wisdom at 100:
By the time I'm 100, having been born as a human in the era before life extension and trans-human human/artificial intelligence hybridization will be novel enough to make us seem like quaint old timers.
But I want to share something I learned from my elder brothers, the Kogi.
I'm part Native American Tuscaroran, and I've spent time in native communities as a participant and volunteer youth guide in a first-nations community-run program called…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 8:59am — No Comments
By 2021, I hope to see FabLab empowering women in Afghanistan to have international geek employment
Right now my friend Todd Huffman's involved in a project related to FabLab Jalalabad.
FabLab teaches afghan kids how to bootstrap and learn technology to make things and connect with the global marketplace. Some of the kids have started businesses and doing journalism already. One afghan kid's blog articles got picked up by CNN. I think that this is the best hope for women in Afghanistan,…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 8:45am — No Comments
World Water Day: Give Everyone In The World A Canteen & A Filter
It costs about $2-5 to give someone a canteen so that they can stop drinking wastefully bottled water. We'll come up with some kind of clever branding to put on the bottles that is a parody of soft drink advertising. And each bottle will come with a "WATER: FREE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST" sticker explaining the world water shortage and ten things people can do to conserve water and promote access to safe water and sanitation in place that lack it. Every one of these bottles will be carried be people… Continue
Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 8:24am — No Comments
Seastedding: Developing autonomous electrical power is a first step to developing autonomous political power
Ephemerisle New York is floating in the harbor off Mahnattan. We're celebrating the 8th anniversary of Primer Day and the beginning of The Age Of Empowerment by projecting the lights of the world over the city and the Primer symbol to symbolize the interconnectedness of humanity. Our flotilla of projectors is powered by wind turbines, solar and… Continue
Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 8:17am — No Comments
Eating in 2021
It's 2021. I'm eating biologically autonomous produce at Ephemerisle 11 on my Seastedding container ship, The Singularity. We're lashed to the other barges and boats from Noisebay, the San Francisco Noisebridge Makerhood's floating offshore micronation. Noisebay consists of all the craft that link up in international waters off the coast of San Francisco. Many boats shuttle back and fourth with the mainland, and a Noisebay island in the San Francisco Harbor is our state-side harbor point. The… Continue
Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 8:11am — No Comments
Pandemic Call to Action: I DO call on everyone to become a wisdom oriented guardian and save themselves and others
There is a tens of thousands-strong community that is already working to prepare and equip themselves to survive emergencies like pandemics: The Rant Media Wisdom Oriented Guardian community.
We create shows like Patrolling for each other's education and meet up face to face first fridays of every month.
We purchase survival gear and go out…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 7:48am — No Comments
San Francisco in 2021: The Openopolis Makerhood
Today San Francisco has one of the coolest, most vibrant hackerspaces in the world, Noisebridge, and a host of other amazing spaces and communities that are amongst the most awesome in the world. What if they all started associating on a map and having a sense of neighborhood that bridged distances?…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 7:42am — No Comments
Women's work in afghanistan should be made possible through the Net
AFGHANISTAN: Ranna Tareen, “I see my death… but no one cares”
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KANDAHAR Tuesday, May 11, 2010 (IRIN) - Work outside the home in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province has become almost impossible for women due to constant threats and…
Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 7:06am — No Comments
Dean Kamen's desalinating machine is the future
I think Dean Kamen's desalinating machine is the future of water. Water is getting worse faster than it's getting better, but Kamen's machine will be able to keep people alive even if the water gets dramatically poisoned.
My personal project is to get every single person I know to use canteens instead of disposable cups and to filter water instead of buying bottled water. Bottled water is the stupidest way to get water ever invented.
Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 7:03am — No Comments
Urban Resilience Via The Hacker Survivalism Community
Ushadishi should be used to map people's skills and projects to get people to teach each other skills via Hackerspaces. People that build strong communities BEFORE the disaster will be able to collaborate without needing last-minute communication strategies.
RantMedia.ca is a great example of a community that is going to survive the apocalypse.
SKTFM (Sean Kennedy the F**CKING MAN) created a series of videos called Patrolling. Check them out,…
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Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 7:00am — 2 Comments
The future of money: non-monetary exchange
I think that the future of money is that more people will start asking for non-monetary exchange. For example, bands can offer their MP3s for free while offering physical things like T-shirts for money or free for fans who complete EVOKE-styke missions to promote the band in their town or book a show in a local venue.
People need each other's HELP much more than just their money.
Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 6:58am — No Comments
My best friend Elliott is working on paving the way for solar all over the world
My friend Elliott Macdougal's company is purchasing land and setting up the legal groundwork for solar plants to be installed. He's doing this as fast as he can and leaving the solar plant development to others so he can get to opening up the next potential site and clearing the regulatory looph***s so plant developers can roll out solar faster and faster.
If you want to get involved in the solar industry, I can put you in touch with him.
Added by Alex Peake on May 13, 2010 at 6:55am — No Comments
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Fourth of July on the Lake
This past weekend was the annual celebration at the lake house in Connecticut. It is amazing that the lake is still so clear and beautiful after all these years. The watershed association has done a wonderful job protecting these waters from the damaging effects of development.The wood grill was finally ready to cook on, so we didn't miss the propane tank fueled grill anymore. The food actually tasted fresher than in the past and was easy to keep fueled.Dad was very proud of the solar hybrid…See More
Stinging Nettle
In this blog post I will focus on a plant that is abundant in our nature, and which is immensely nutritious. It's of course the Stinging Nettle. Let's start with the chemical constituents of this plant:37 % Non-Nitrogen-Extracts19 - 29 % Ash9 - 21 % Fiber4 % Fat22 % ProteinOnce the leaves are drid, their protein content can reach an astounding 40 %, which is much higher than beef, which even under the best of circ**stances can never exceed 31 % protein. In addition the Stinging Nettle consists…See More
The meal
It is 7'oclock, I was late home from work due to an assignment that i wanted to get ahead on. By the time I get home I am feeling extremley tired and I cannot be bothered to make a proper meal. I walk to the fridge and open it to see what there is for me to eat. All of the out of date foodstuffs have been automaticaly thrown away by the fridge, they will be recycled tomorrow as animal feed or something. I see i have organic local eggs and some local cheese. Foods are vacc** sealded for easy…See More
Future
FutureToday is 2020/1/1. It is just like yesterday. The war is still continuing. It has started since 2010. In 2010, that year was a horrible year. Almost every energy ran out. Every country’s governments were crushed down at the same time. There were riots everywhere. All of the big company’s bosses were killed xdeadx in the riots. Troops fought each other everywhere. Food was bought up xawayx at once. There were no more food supplies in any shops. The economy was all crushed down. All the…See More
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