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The annotated webliography project went thissa way: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009941892632664145530:4oufa0peto4 http://www.google.com/cse?cx=009941892632664145530:4oufa0peto4&&q=sanitization Makes more sense to me, more fluid, quick, open. Mainly state and fed sites, with some good NGO type work,… Continue

I'm going to start annotated-webliographizing some SIV resources... If you see something quality, pass it on my way. Continue

Thinking abt the greatness that has come from computer sci people applying that kind of logic -- thinking in code -- to disaster, aid, infrastructure probs. Wondering what kinds of solutions may come forward with energy moving from libraries and the management of computers + books + [people's finding and use of info in computers + books]. has its own sorts of implications. what abt libraries and info-science (as it specifically relates to managing the access of folks to the info -- no strictly… Continue

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. You can put the resources in people's hands, but you can't make them connect the question to the answer. You can outline, step by step, exactly what the truth of the situation is, based on the research and facts, but you can't make them believe you. I sincerely believe that the easiest way to do something is always most likely the best way to do something. I see people wasting my time and theirs by making things much more diffic… Continue

Today is my son’s first birthday. This, of course, has forced me to take pause and evaluate the state of the world, and what I can do to improve it. Going around (and around) in my head is the only realistic thing I can do to change the world for the better- I must develop and record a complete secular moral code. I have come, firmly, to the conclusion that morality without religion is no only possible, but necessary in order to positively advance global society. We have laws, yes, but these sh… Continue

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/exclusive-defco.html https://www.defcon.org/ Continue

just a few scattered thoughts related to the early days of the popular conception of the net cyberspace, the consensual hallucination, born out of w. gibson's real hallucinations early 90s "VR" geekery - informed by terence mckenna's wonderful mad ravings about networks of fungul cells under the soil jaron lanier's squid, and panpipes. a point, finally, or a direction rather, for the scattered wanderings and psychic waste of 'counter culture'. and the point of reference, toward the networked,… Continue

note -- Models are imperfect, but models are useful. In the short term or the near field, weather models are useful. are there any cultural models as software -- put a small mobile wind generator into a model of a refugee camp in Chad, run the model. see what happens. modeling cultural factors as code -- kinship, economics, sex & gender... how will factor x play in cultural situation Z... then the model, the outcomes, used as rough sketches which real world experience and data from life on… Continue