Can a computer game teach how to fight real-world adversaries—dictators, military occupiers and corrupt rulers, using methods that have succeeded in actual conflicts—not with laser rays or AK47s, but with non-military strategies and nonviolent weapons?
The Return to Dharamsala // Meshing Again
A fellow traveler has written a great story about the Dharamsala mesh, which has now been published in a mag in the UK.
In The Mesh Becomes Reality I wrote up my impressions in October, 2005. The “Father of the Dharamsala Mesh,” Yahel Ben-David, has just returned to Dharamsala and is working on “what’s next” for the mesh right now.
The affordable (“the $100”) computer
Y’all know by now about the “$100 computer” for nations where personal computers aren’t broadly affordable. Here’s a C|Net wrap on a number of other computers (most are proposals) designed to address this affordability gap.
Free software and the “support chain”
I think the critical issue in making free operating systems and software truly workable on the desktop is finding the right locus for the “geek” part of the technical support chain. Let me describe a continuum. On one end Apple Computer – then Microsoft – then Linux and “free” operating systems.
WordPress and MovableType
For some time now I’ve been using Movable Type, by Six Apart, as my blogging software. Made it possible for me to move everything to my server and gain greater control over the code as well as the content of my blog. Recently, Robert Scoble introduced a bunch of my NextNow buddies to WordPress, which is free blog software.
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