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Flemming writes -

There has been some stirring lately about using Gold Phoenix for hobby projects, all kicked off by a blog entry by Julian Bleeker, so as my favorite board house was on holiday I tried this newfangled Chinese outsourcing and compared it to Olimex.

Gold Phoenix vs. Olimex - Link.

For folks who don’t know about this, Gold Phonenix makes PCBs (Printed circuit boards) and they do it very fast/cheap…

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on August 28, 2007, 10:00am

Haiko Hebig’s photography of abandoned or decrepit industrial machinery and its control rooms is striking. And because Hebig is bewitched by the mills and factories of Germany, he also blogs about plant closings (and the occasional re-opening).Endangered Machinery [Hebig.org via Monoscope]

Originally from Boing Boing Gadgets reBlogged by caleb waldorf on Aug 28, 2007, 10:22AM

Originally by caleb waldorf from calebwaldorf.net on August 28, 2007, 5:10pm

Regarding the ongoing internet fun-poking at Miss Teen South Carolina and her love of maps, Jason Schultz says,

In response to the recent call to action by Miss Teen South Carolina, Maps For
Us started a blog of important maps: Link. My favorite is the map of Sparta: Link.

In BoingBoing’s comment section, reader Tim Howland shared this revelation:

I think that everyone has missed something important here; she’s actually been pioneering a new art form- a combination of Hindi Ghazal poetry and blank verse.

Look at the transcription:

I personally believe that us americans

are unable to do so
because osama.

People out there

in our nation

don’t have that,

And I believe that our education

like such as south africa and

such as the Iraq.

everywhere “such as”.

And I believe our education

should help the US

should help the south africa

and the iraq

and the asian countries

so we can build up

our future.

The themes are clear; she’s worried about the way we are reacting to the war on terror, the way Osama Bin Laden still is free, and the way that we are being “educated”. The irony is simply dripping from the last stanza.

She was able to deliver this call to revolution absolutely deadpan, cunningly pulling the wool over America’s eyes- and people here have the temerity to mock her intellectual accomplishments? She is the latter-day heir to Rosa Luxemborg- only, without the boathook.
oing:

Originally by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing on August 29, 2007, 7:07pm

Originally by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing on August 28, 2007, 2:06pm

John Joseph Adams sez,

I’ve just launched the website for my forthcoming anthology Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, which features stories by Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, Boing-Boing’s own Cory Doctorow, and many others.

The site has quite a lot of information about the anthology, the stories, and the contributors. You can read the header notes for the stories, the introduction to the anthology, excerpts for most of the stories, and three stories can be read in their entirety.

nks, John!)

Originally by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing on August 28, 2007, 5:35pm

KCBS

EarthLink shrinks, cuts workforce by half
The Money Times - 34 minutes ago
by Shubha Krishnappa - August 29, 2007 - 0 comments EarthLink Inc., the second largest Internet service provider (ISP) in the United States, on Tuesday announced a corporate restructuring plan, under which the company will eliminate about 50 per cent …
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Originally from Google News on August 28, 2007, 7:41pm

(((My kind of easy reading, ladies and gentlemen.)))

I am proud to announce the appearance of my new book, Zero Comments, Blogging and Critical Internet Culture, the third volume in a series on critical Internet culture (after Dark Fiber and My First Recession).

I got it in the mail on Friday, you can order it through Amazon but I am not sure if it has yet arrived in bookshops.

The book contains eleven essays and an introduction that deals with Web 2.0 and Internet culture after its recovery of 9/11 and the dotcom crash.

This is the table of contents:

Introduction: Pride and Glory of Web 2.0

Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse

The Cool Obscure: Crisis of New Media Arts

Whereabouts of German Media Theory

Blogging & Building: The Netherlands After Digitization

Indifference of the Networked Presence: On Internet Time

Revisiting Sarai: Five Years of New Media Culture in India

ICT After Development: The Incommunicado Agenda

Updating Tactical Media: Strategies for Media Activism

Axioms of Free Cooperation: Contesting Online Collaboration

Theses on Distributed Aesthetics

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Originally by caleb waldorf from calebwaldorf.net on August 18, 2007, 6:24pm

Link: The promise of noöpolitik.(((Ten years ago, at the diplomatic height of the “Washington Consensus,” famed military futurists David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla wrote a buoyant assessment of the potential of the Internet to create a new politics, new diplomacy, and new military strategy highly confluent with and favorable toward American national interests.)))

(((They now reproduce this essay in full, and with a brand-new postscript. Their assessment? America blew its options so comprehensively, and is so rigidly bone-headed in grasping the new strategic realities, that the bad guys are winning.)))

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/ronfeldt/index.htmlhttp://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/ronfeldt/index.html

… (S)tandard presentations tend to portray soft power as “good” and hard power as “bad,” or at least mean–spirited. Thus, soft power is said to be mainly about ethical attraction, and to offer a third way for strategy and diplomacy beyond the usual two: sticks and carrots.

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Originally by caleb waldorf from calebwaldorf.net on August 18, 2007, 3:20pm

My first Guardian Unlimited column just went live. It’s called “Give us credit” and it’s about the contracts that we receive from broadcast media to license our content for television. I wrote about this because I haven’t seen anyone writing about it before and because I feel it’s important to anyone publishing their own videos on the internet.

Now that the excitement over reality TV is dying down, a new budget-saving television revolution is upon us: internet video reruns. Later this year, many stations across America will be launching shows featuring some of the most popular web videos you’ve already seen. They’ll also be screwing the producers of those videos – people like me - out of royalties, recognition and more.

Link to the full article

Originally by Casey from Casey McKinnon on August 7, 2007, 10:40am

Friends… Romans… Countrymen…

I’ll be heading down to the San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday to appear on a panel and to host a special show for Pulp Secret. If you see me there, please come and introduce yourself!

Since I was added to the panel after the programmes were printed and the web site went up, I’m not officially listed to be there. BUT, this is the panel I’ll be appearing on:

Thursday, July 26
6:00-7:00 How To Become an Internet Geek Super-Star— It is the age of video on the Internet, and geeks are leading the charge! If you have interesting stories to tell or a unique take on nerd culture, there is an audience out there for you. Ben Cote (DivX Stage6) will moderate a wide-ranging discussion on how some of the budding stars of the online world found a following of like-minded fans. Guests include Jarett Cale and Geoff Lapaire (”Jeremy” and “Kyle,” PurePwnage), Jonathan London (Geekscape), and Zadi Diaz (JetSetShow). Room 30CDE

Hope to see you there!

Originally by Casey from Casey McKinnon on July 24, 2007, 12:04pm