Random items of interest:
- Houston Chronicle. Possible Zeta plot to blow up a huge Rio Grande Dam on the Texas border. Tactics of failure? Small investment, big response.
- Smart grid privacy concerns: It knows how often you use your microwave, how many loads of laundry you do every week, what kind of television you own and even how often you shower. It can tell how many people live in your home, what time they go to bed and when the house is empty... Law enforcement agencies want to use smart meters to spot potential marijuana-growing operations or the location of an underground sweatshop. Do you want to control this locally or let the global economic system dictate the answer?
- Zenpundit has some Boydian analysis (connection/disconnection) of Gaza's peace flotilla. Wired's Danger Room analyzes the asymmetrical ROIs (returns on investment) of the incident, a classic global guerrilla concept.
- RC tech + Gaza could have some interesting results. For example, the open source CEB (compressed earth brick) press could provide a way to route around the blockade of building materials currently in place. Powerful combo: build hyper locally + disrupt externally.
- Disrupting the power grid as a survival technique.
- Lego CNC.
- More open source hardware (The $99 NanoNote -- The palm-sized notebook is designed to be a hackable hardware platform for Linux developers, akin to what the Arduino board is for electronics projects). Nice use case.
- My friend Nils Gilman on deviant globalization. Nice GG presentation.
- Working with carbon fiber ($0.99 ebook). "..because the same process also applies to fiberglass and Kevlar composites, these skills give you multiple ways of boosting your future projects to a new level!"