Some items of interest:
- MiiU's hurricane preparedness page. Please add any tips or supplies or links needed.
- Chad's exploration of how to live with unstable supply chains. He calls it RECESS - resource.exhaustion.crisis.evacuation.safety.shelter.
- 3D milling machine made from Legos.
- LifeNet. Ad-hoc mesh networking via software download to smart phone/laptop.
- Backpack Farm is designed as an all-in-one canvas backpack packaged with all the essential agriculture inputs needed for small landholders to standardize both the quality and quantity of agriculture production during an annual growing season, to mirror semi-commercial rates of production. Complete with 5 step program.
- insideAR 2011. Augmented reality conference in Germany.
- Paper: "Decentralize, adapt and cooperate." Borrows heavily from GG thinking. "...many of our security systems — those that are resistant to change, or that try to eliminate all risk — are doomed."
- The Baltimore Food Policy Initiative is compiling a list of urban farming training program manuals from across the country, and is looking for manuals that accompany programs that run a minimum of 6-8 weeks. (Email Shlok if you have a contribution.)
- Some sort of seminar on "what your corporation can learn from criminal businesses."
- Ran Prieur: Imagine a strategy game or RPG, where the weaker you are, the easier it is to rise, and the stronger you are, the easier it is to fall. The game is shaped like a bowl and drives you to the middle. This would be the opposite of almost all the [JR: real life economic] games we have now, which drive you off the edges, either so weak that you lose, or so strong that you get bored.
- Mercs. vs. Pirates.