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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Dictators names
Quoth Wikipedia:
In 1972, Mobutu renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (“The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake.”), Mobutu Sese Seko for short.
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More FabLabbery, and Siert’s windmill
Rather than going back and editing my earlier post about that Icelandic guy, here’s some salient linkage on the subject. This is so exciting I almost skipped breakfast to watch it.
Iceland’s FabLab wiki, which is run by Smári, from a previous post.
A Dutch video with music about a FabLab workshop. Video unpacking and demoing [...]
Storytelling is hard
I did a lot of thinking about storytelling this weekend. Marketing is good stories. “Stories my dad can tell” is my benchmark. No story has hit that mark better than Skype. His enthusiasm for it, and the simplicity of its value offer was refreshing.
Talking to an American who’d moved to Sweden and taught himself Swedish, [...]
FSCONS: Smári McCarthy on abundance
Smári McCarthy Originally uploaded by Wrote
The man in the picture is Icelandic, outlandish, with lots of fancy words.
FabLabs (a set of machines to make any plastic object up to 1 meter in size) point to a future, and McCarthy talked about that future. No scarcity, everything “non-exotic” (which is not imbued with aura, like say, [...]
FSCONS: Conversations are the conference
Just had an interesting micro-conversation, with a man who spoke with a slightly Indian accent. Cambodia: No landlines, but quite developed mobile phone networks, never bothering with the previous stage of tech. Leapfrogging. Related: Ericsson deployed a solar-powered mobile base station there. That press release hits all points in the last paragraph of the leapfrogging [...]
FSCONS 2008, Sunday
Listening to a guy in a red t-shirt. He talks about Debian package structure. People ask questions. He is reading from a tiny-font control configuration file. Not so good for my concentration. But, he has a good voice, at least it has some melody.
Yeah, a big corporation in search donated a Moleskine notebook in [...]
Roleplayers, everywhere
In Gothenburg, at the FSCONS conference. Henri Bergius, a Midgard developer from Helsinki, was here, and I asked him: “Is Finland small enough that you know Timo Multamäki?”
“Why, yes, I know him.”
And with that, Henri proceeded to tell me about Monday Night Larp, a 2-hour event, every week, that’s been going strong for 14 years [...]
Going to Gothenburg: FSCONS
In 10 hours off we go, on the train to Gothenburg. A conference! It feels splendid. I’m going with Isak, my colleague.
Wow! Look at the schedule! Just look at it. The tracks line up so excellently. This’ll be a blast.
Circuit learning
Bought an issue of Circuit Cellar. You learn so much from a magazine in a field you’re new in!
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