technology ∩ social changeTumblr (3.0; @flarets)http://flarets.tumblr.com/<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktecl2hZEG1qz6g0to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bike chain clock, by Andreas Dober.</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/250579387http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/250579387Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:24:00 +1000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hJ57xzo287U&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hJ57xzo287U&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Google has released the <a href="http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os">source</a> to its Chrome OS (a Linux variant) which is firmly targeted at netbooks. Interesting differences include</p> <ol> <li>All applications are web applications </li> <li> Everything is sandboxed (for security, similar to what the OLPC OS, Sugar, does)</li> <li>All data is stored in the cloud</li> </ol> <p>Put it on a touchscreen pixel-qi tablet, add Wikipedia and a decent pdf reader, and you get Hitchhikers guide version zero.</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/250254166http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/250254166Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:41:00 +1000This isn’t getting enough attention.  The UNSW has commercialised a vanadium redox battery (a...http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/250214076http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/250214076Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:05:00 +1000<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksaxl8Lcjv1qz6g0to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I want a pair of Coxto Campers but cannot find them short of flying to Sydney to window shop. if anyone has seen them, let me know.</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/227410453http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/227410453Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:34:00 +1000NIN fan produced dvd: NIN, continuing to push the boundaries.  It can truly be said that the fans...http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/223436226http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/223436226Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:23:36 +1000<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6614042&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6614042&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6614042&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>being a supporter of individual liberties online (read: paranoid), I’ve been following <a href="http://freenetproject.org/philosophy.html">freenet</a> development. I’m also interested in distributed computing (the internet is, after all, a massively parallel computer with no downtime). Now, these things have been combined in <a href="http://code.google.com/p/swarm-dpl/">swarm</a>.</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/210895704http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/210895704Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:48:00 +1000the pirate bunker: not only will they outlive threats from the entertainment industry, they may yet...http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/206971352http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/206971352Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:18:00 +1000http://ia311203.us.archive.org/2/items/YochaiBenkler/BenklerWithSlides.mp2.ff.ogv<br/><br/><p>Yochai Benkler, author of Wealth of Networks</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/189829958http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/189829958Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:55:29 +1000<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://flarets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/168034164/tumblr_kopwwbfITc1qz6g0t&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>fruits of the previous post’s script. a nice live rendition of “all this trouble” by brendan mcleod.</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/168034164http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/168034164Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:28:59 +1000I’m sick of bad flash players that internet radio stations use. So I wrote a simple shell...http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/166995560http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/166995560Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:54:00 +1000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5OMCaglCrAI&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5OMCaglCrAI&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>“I’ll have a skinny mocha latte”</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/160118726http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/160118726Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:43:00 +1000<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/m5ZwwyX1Cqtu69ri8yLYvpQao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>the budget upgrade path: lighter rims to improve acceleration, and new hubs to cut down friction. also, the saddle looks cool.</p> <p>Details: Mavic X-517 rims (400g each w/ 36 spokes for ze offroading), Deore LX hubs (631g) (sorry Bjorn) and a 130mm Specialized Rival SL saddle (225g).</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/157584871http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/157584871Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:22:00 +1000“Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project,...http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/147537855http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/147537855Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:02:00 +1000chrome extensions are web pages! (chrome extensions are web pages). usually, after getting all...http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/140555356http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/140555356Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:34:00 +1000<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/m5ZwwyX1CpribptpiZODkMpco1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>It’s difficult to find a flattering photo of this phone.</p> <p>Its ease of use is dependent on the operating system. Android has a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/live-android/">livecd</a> and a <a href="http://forum.koolu.org/">koolu mod</a> which halves the boot time to 51s. Debian, on the other hand, comes with about 24 thousand free packages.</p> <p>So what am I looking for in a phone?</p> <ul> <li>speed</li> <li>weight</li> <li>reliability</li> <li>battery life</li> </ul> <p>It’s safe to say, therefore, that the neo freerunner will not be a phone. At least, not a good phone.  In the future I see, phones will simply have wifi, GPS and Linux, with free data transfer (including VoIP) through an ad-hoc <a href="http://www.brismesh.org">mesh network</a>.</p> <p>This is the first, but it’s really only for developers at the moment.</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/139499867http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/139499867Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:35:00 +1000the advent of a <video> tag in the new HTML 5 standard has caused a standoff between...http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/138921274http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/138921274Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:02:00 +1000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_UyVmITiYQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_UyVmITiYQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>google wave (is that a firefly reference?) preview. if you haven’t seen it, because you must.</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/117298501http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/117298501Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:29:00 +1000<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://flarets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/101695134/m5ZwwyX1CmwdbkwsKDQKjJXv&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>a talk on copyright by Lawrence Lessig<i></i>, well worth a listen.</p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/101695134http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/101695134Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:15:04 +1000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qWEIQIv8zvY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qWEIQIv8zvY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/96363510http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/96363510Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:10:35 +1000<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/m5ZwwyX1Cl73c91vdvX5OzMoo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://18000homes.org/">18000homes</a></p>http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/87487445http://flarets.tumblr.com/post/87487445Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:01:00 +1000