Today on Boing Boing tv, Cory Doctorow invites you to create and share HOWTO videos based on an ongoing series of Instructables posts that draw from his latest book, Little Brother.

Source: Boing Boing

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay
Trying to keep tabs on the development of the metaverse is a full time job. The rate of new introductions and platform offerings is astonishing. My Google alerts are daily hitting me with the latest news.
While I would like to […]

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How many social networks can one be in? Or more precisely, how many social network tools do I need?
Jeez, I am in the following:

Second Life - 18 Groups
SL Bloggers Network
Face Book
My Space
Linked In
Flicker
uTube
MyBlog Log
Type Key
Twitter
Digg
Technorati
Stickam
StumbleUpon
Yahoo Answers
Santa Cruz New Tech Meet-up
Hash House Harriers - Websites & Local Running

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Time for another round up of “I am EASILY Amused” and this week I was.

Local Comic - Subconscious Comics
Cell Phones - Instinct vs iPhone
Over at Laughing Squid - This American Life Segment
As a minister of the Universal Life Church, I am not sure how to feel about this offering from SubGenius.
Read an example of self […]

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Note - As always, I am Cisco Systems developer in Second Life. This is NOT a paid advert.
For all of my gamer friends - chance to win $10,000 US and a Cisco Router (worth $35K) - Check out the game at least - It is silly - It is fun - and you can […]

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I went to the Santa Cruz New Tech Alliance Meetup last night (May 7) with 60+ other geeks and even our Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty. Sponsored by Ceboa who paid of the pizza and soda (mucho props!). Overall I rate the night a 4+ on a scale of 5, my only complaint […]

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Got a message from a friend about an upcoming event for women in the Bay Area
A friend of mine is the co-founder of “Women 2.0″, an organization
that aims to increase the number of young women entrepreneurs by
encouraging women to work with and in the field of technology,
providing resources that will lead to the launch of […]

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One of the most compelling images from Blade Runner was the building billboards depicted in 2019 Los Angeles (Hell-A). Now comes news that a Hell-A real estate mogul is going to replicate the billboards on a couple of buildings.
I would love to see it, would not want to live near it. I wonder […]

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Yes, I am easily amused - or what I have looked / listened to lately - plus other mindless updates

Radio Free Burrito Episode 12

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IMNSHO this is how a podcast should sound - great sound quality and a purpose. I am sick of shows that have poor sound quality and […]

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Great article today in the Wired about the discovery of the fourth electronic circuit element. A couple of things I took away were:
Researchers at HP Labs have built the first working prototypes of an important new electronic component that may lead to instant-on PCs as well as analog computers that process information the way […]

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