aka CoFounder-s

Jason Kottke notes Chrystia Freeland piece on the self-defeating policies and attitudes of the 1% (Upper Class), as they create an Extractive State which will lead to a Failed State. (more)

Jihi had me buy a Cuisin Art Coffee machine a year or so back. She likes it because I can make a pot of coffee at 7am and she can get a very warm cup at 11am. (more)

Somehow I missed that FBReader (for Android, at least) now lets you select arbitrary chunks of text to Excerpt. You have to hold your initial press down a bit long, so it's possible I've been running a version with that feature but not noticing it. I've been just settling for the "BookMark the first sentence of the paragraph" feature which is much less cool. You can (more)

Open Source Weblog Engine (more)

I keep forgetting to re-try IPython. (more)

Evan Williams operation (Incubator?) that begat Twitter. (more)

Limited Liability Corporation (more)

Brain Fart Of The Day... (more)

ongoing Big Project to escape the Earth (more)

A Learning Theory. (more)

Robert Paterson suggests getting a CoWorking space membership for your kids, so they can have some interaction with Free Agent-s. Good Raising Reality Hackers idea.

Peg Tyre on the "WritingRevolution" (Educating Kids). (There's a whole collection of response pieces.) (more)

disgusting non-food (more)

Bo Adams on trying to make Schooling more like the Real World. (more)

Embedded Hardware/Plug Server PC - $175 (more)

Privacy Hacker - creator of PGP, Z Fone/ZRPT, and Silent Circle (more)

How I was taught Essay Writing in the 1970s (Educating Kids). Hated it. (more)

Dave Winer describes his ideal circumstance. What I would like to do is create a new kind of development project, one that goes on for years and years. Maybe decades and decades... I love to teach this stuff. And I'd love to get a project going where students come and go as they shuttle through the university... A university-hosted Open Source project staffed by students creating software for and with other students and teachers and the world. A university is a perfect lab for this work. I've been noodling on a similar vision for years: I've called it the Thinking Tools Lab. (more)

Dave Winer is turning his OPML Editor into a Blog Comment system, too! It's a different way of doing it, and long-term I don't even think it'll be seen as comments.