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I FIXED IT!
OFFLINE INTERNET
Rural internet - offline but still connected
WE'RE OUT OF TIME!
Tired of hearing about climate change? Then do something. Now.
Time travelling
new military-occult technologies for psychological warfare
DIY Gramophone Recorder
//via http://bricolabs.net //
HUMAN POWER
LES RESCAPES DU FUTUR
compte-rendu du workshop Downgrade! à l'occasion des rencontres organisées par bandits-mages
ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Critical Art Ensemble
« The question for the consumer is: “Did I get a good deal [i.e., the most for the money]?” The question of “Can
I actually use what I buy?” is never raised. The corporations know of the desire for the useless (a desire that can never be fulfilled), and comply by heaping on their products as much useless gadgetry as possible in order to seduce the bargain-hungry consumer. And so the cycle starts.»
Chapter 4. The Technology of Uselessness
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THE BAGDAD BATTERY
Estimated to date from a period between some hundreds of years before Christ, up to some hundreds of years after Christ. The Baghdad battery is about 15 cm high with a lid of asphalt. An iron (oxidised) rod in the middle which is surrounded by a 9 cm long copper cylinder with a diameter of about 26 mm. When the vase is filled with one or another electrolyte, such as lemon juice or vinegar, then it is able to deliver an electrical voltage of approximately 1 volt.
ZONE BLANCHE
La zone blanche est une zone "santé" pour les personnes souffrant d' Hyper-Sensibilité Electromagnétique
END OF THE WORLD FESTIVAL
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part one : post nuclear dystopias
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-projéctions non stop du 9 au 12 (72h birthday party)-
starts 9/01/09:16:00
SURVIVAL GROUP
After 10 years of experimentations, manifestations, happenings, etc. the SURVIVAL GROUP is, still, an UFO.
HACKING YOUR BRAIN
How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio..
PRISONERS' INVENTIONS
This project was a collaboration with Angelo, an incarcerated artist. He illustrated many incredible inventions made by prisoners to fill needs that the restrictive environment of the prison tries to supress. The inventions cover everything from homemade sex dolls, condoms, salt and peper shakers to chess sets. We collaborated on this project with Angelo for over two years. We had many additional collaborators who made a book, exhibition of re-created inventions and a prison cell possible. This page offers an overview of the project thus far.
E-waste
Every year, hundreds of thousands of old computers and mobile phones are dumped in landfills or burned in smelters. Thousands more are exported, often illegally, from the Europe, US, Japan and other industrialised countries, to Asia. There, workers at scrap yards, some of whom are children, are exposed to a cocktail of toxic chemicals and poisons.
The rate at which these mountains of obsolete electronic products are growing will reach crisis proportions unless electronics corporations that profit from making and selling these devices face up to their responsibilities. It is possible to make clean, durable products that can be upgraded, recycled, or disposed of safely and don't end up as hazardous waste in someone's backyard.
The great escape
The story of some 20 people leaving the Matrix to get ready for the new age.
Maria Thun Moon calendar
very useful for growers… exists also on book for those who dont have any internet..
Sport Enthusiasts of Lockpicking
The Sportenthusiasts of Lockpicking is a club where one can learn how to open locks without the corresponding key to the lock. And this may only be done without any damage whatsoever to the lock. Violent behaviour is not allowed and will lead to the direct and immediate exclusion from the sport club.
How do I take fingerprints ?
Simple instructions how copy and fake fingerprints
LA SURVEILLANCE HI-TECH EST-ELLE SOLUBLE DANS LE LOW-TECH?
Un appareil photo jetable pour détruire les puces RFID, des stylos lasers pour aveugler les caméras de vidéosurveillance, de la pâte à modeler pour flouer les contrôleurs biométriques, le dossier brouillon d’un webmail pour déjouer l’interception des communications, un vrai-faux passeport biométrique pour endormir la confiance des policiers…: la surveillance high tech serait-elle soluble dans le low tech ?
NON AUX RACKETICIELS
pour répondre à Umberto Eco..
NANO-TECH / MAXI SERVITUDE
extrait de: RENDEZ NOUS NOTRE OBJET D'ALIENATION FAVORI! OU POURQUOI LA TECHNOLOGIE EST LE PROBLEME
- "L'ordinateur, la voiture, le téléphone, le nucléaire constituent notre milieu, que l'on nomme désormais fort à propos de "technosphère".Prétendre qu'on aurait le choix de les utiliser, comme le font ceux qui les produisent, c'est vendre au poisson la possibilité de vivre hors de l'eau"
- "Une technologie se confond avec ses applications, et prétendre distinguer l'une des autres est une farce"
- "N'importe quel humain, expert de la vie sur terre,sait que les outils technologiques bouleversent davantage son existence que la couleur du régime politique."
- "Considérer la technologie comme neutre, c'est se livrer sans armes à sa domination, et renoncer à exercer son libre-arbitre"
Début décembre 2008, les éditions l’Echappée publient deux nouveaux livres de Pièces et Main d’Oeuvre dans la collection "Négatif" :
* RFID : la police totale (80 p. 6 euros) Version revue et augmentée du texte paru en mars 2006 ;
* Aujourd’hui Le Nanomonde. Les nanotechnologies, un projet de société totalitaire (430 p. 15 euros) dont voici la préface : "Des hypertechnologies à la société de contrainte".
UMBERTO ECO : DOWNGRADE!
"Il y a des progrès technologiques au-delà desquels on ne peut pas aller. On ne peut pas inventer une cuillère mécanique, celle d’il y a deux mille ans fait encore très bien l’affaire. On a abandonné le Concorde qui pourtant faisait Paris-New York en trois heures. Je ne suis pas sûr qu’ils aient bien fait, mais le progrès peut aussi signifier faire deux pas en arrière, comme revenir à l’énergie éolienne au lieu du pétrole et des choses de ce genre. Soyez tendus vers le futur ! En arrière toute !"
PENGUIN LIBERATION FRONT
PLF is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Linux distributions for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues:
* patentability of software, algorithms, formats and other abstract creation
* legal restrictions on freedom of speech or communication
* restrictions on the use of certain types of technical solution, such as cryptography
* legal restrictions on imports of software technology, requiring for example specific permissions
* etc…
A lot of excellent free software is concerned by such restriction somewhere in the world, thus preventing its inclusion into standard Linux distributions that, for economy and simplicity, are generally identical for all countries.
We refuse to resign ourselves to abandonning software that may be legally useful somewhere, and we have chosen to provide it with professionnal quality packaging, easily usable within the context of standard Linux distributions.
The PLF project is open to all distributions, provided we have volunteers to produce and maintain the packages.
"WE ARE ALL THE GRATEFUL DEAD"
Paul Krugman, 2008 Enomomic Nobel Prize
The predictions of ’90s technology gurus are coming true more slowly than enthusiasts expected — but the future they envisioned is still on the march.
In 1994, one of those gurus, Esther Dyson, made a striking prediction: that the ease with which digital content can be copied and disseminated would eventually force businesses to sell the results of creative activity cheaply, or even give it away. Whatever the product — software, books, music, movies — the cost of creation would have to be recouped indirectly: businesses would have to “distribute intellectual property free in order to sell services and relationships.”
For example, she described how some software companies gave their product away but earned fees for installation and servicing. But her most compelling illustration of how you can make money by giving stuff away was that of the Grateful Dead, who encouraged people to tape live performances because “enough of the people who copy and listen to Grateful Dead tapes end up paying for hats, T-shirts and performance tickets. In the new era, the ancillary market is the market.
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Bit by bit, everything that can be digitized will be digitized, making intellectual property ever easier to copy and ever harder to sell for more than a nominal price. And we’ll have to find business and economic models that take this reality into account.
It won’t all happen immediately. But in the long run, we are all the Grateful Dead.
MAPPING THE LABORATORY PLANET
Planète Laboratoire Editions is an irregular but attended newspaper dealing with science, politics, and actual history.
BUDDHA MACHINE
"In a way, it’s like the cheapest pre-loaded IPod you’ll ever be able to buy.”
RASTA SOFTWARE!
Rastasoft is the best downgrade software provider! Use Dynebolic on any old machine to get the best out the worst!
Thanx Jaromil for his kindness and efficiency !
Eye of the lynx
early text mode browser for the real web experience
no pluggin no flash no banners no javascript no virus :)
Take a tour now!
Afroman's guide to recharging alkaline batteries
- Explosions: 0
- Myths dispelled: 1
- Companies bankrupted: 2
- Total cost of ownership for sex toys: down 86%
Get more really cheap mod and Ghetto Hardware Fun™ at http://www.afrotechmods.com
via EVIL MOISTURE
diy SOLAR BOOM BOX
You can construct a solar powered boombox for as little as $75
Combine a small, energy efficient digital amplifier, cheap bookshelf speakers, batteries, a small solar panel, and your MP3 player as a source.
MintyMP3
The Minty MP3 player can be built from parts that are sold at Ye Olde Traditional electronics distributor (digikey/mouser/newark). Half of the parts can be sampled for free, for a minimal total cost of $25 for parts, and $25 for a PCB. And the case is soooo Minty!*
- Do not eat MintyMP3
INVISIBLE FACE MASK (i-rasc update)
These days big brother is everywhere, with $10 or so worth of items you can build your own invisible "mask" to avoid any kind of identity exposure !
Feeling unlucky?
Imagine a massive Google Failure®… Suddenly Google goes down! Will you survive the Google Winter ?
Theodore Kaczynski aka UNABOMBER
Mathématicien de formation, dans les années 80-90 envoie des colis piégés pour détruire des magasins informatiques et échappe à la traque du FBI pendant 18 ans.
il fut arrété en 1996 suite à la publication d'un essai anarcho-primitiviste radical intitulé "La Société industrielle et son avenir".
Il tenait un journal intime en langage cryptographique que la CIA mis plus de 10 ans à décrypter(en 2006)
Nikola Tesla (1856-1923)
Né dans la nuit du 9 au 10 juillet 1856, à minuit précises, dans la petite ville de Smiljan en Autriche-Hongrie, il devint l'un des inventeurs les plus extraordinaires des temps modernes. Prix Nobel, auteur de plus de 900 brevets traitant de nouvelles méthodes pour aborder la conversion de l'énergie, récipiendaire de quatorze doctorats des universités du monde entier et maîtrisant 12 langues, il mourut triste et oublié le 7 janvier 1943.
Tesla avait découvert un système qui permettait de transmettre des quantités presque illimitées d'énergie électrique n'importe où sur terre avec des pertes négligeables.
Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
La principale notion illichienne est le concept de la contre-productivité. Il avait par exemple calculé qu'en prenant en compte le temps moyen passé à travailler pour acquérir une automobile et faire face aux frais qui y sont liés et non seulement le temps passé à conduire celle-ci, la vitesse du bolide était de 6 km/h. En effet, un Américain consacrait en moyenne, durant les années 1970, 1600 heures par an pour sa voiture et ne parcourait que 10000 kilomètres durant l'année
- "Au-delà d’une certaine valeur du PNB, les frais du contrôle social croissent plus vite que ledit PNB et deviennent l’activité institutionnelle qui détermine toute l’économie."
- "plus d’énergie consommée demande plus de domination sur autrui" (la convivialité)
- "Passé un certain seuil de consommation d’énergie, l’industrie du transport dicte la configuration de l’espace social."
DIY 2.4GHz Spectrum Analyser
There many wireless devices available on the market now that broadcast in the 2.4GHz spectrum including Bluetooth, 802.11a/b ethernet (WiFi), Zigbee, wireless USB, cordless phones, wireless mice and keyboards and the humble microwave oven. Depending where you live in the world your government has allocated a roughly 80MHz block for transmitting all manner of data starting at 2.4GHz. It's getting a bit crowded in this band, especially if you live in a built up urban area. With this project you can monitor what's going on and figure out what channel to change your WiFi network to in order for it to keep working when your neighbor rudely sets up their wireless network on the same channel as you (that'd be channel 6, you lazy sod).
see also :
I-R.A.S.C.
[i-ràs ] infra-redlight against surveillance camera
The I-R.A.S.C. is an infrared device, which protects against infrared surveillance cameras. It can be made by anybody; no special skills are required. The device radiates infrared light disrupting the reception of infrared surveillance cameras. A sphere of light covers the face of the person under surveillance and as the interaction is invisible to the human eye (at a frequency between 780nm and 1mm), the individual is unaware of what is going on i.e. they don't see the infrared rays emitted by either the surveillance camera or the I-R.A.S.C.
BID IDEAS (DON'T GET ANY)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
ZX SPECTRUM LAPTOP
The ZX Spectrum laptop is a combination of two old computers: a ZX Spectrum 48k and a Toshiba Libretto 110. The Spectrum is an iconic British computer from the 1980s, selling in huge volumes (although I was brought up on a BBC Micro myself), and the Libretto was one of the first truly tiny x86 laptops, quite amazing when it appeared about a decade ago.
THEME MAC OS 9 POUR PALM
OWL PROJECT
the world’s most popular wood based noise generator / player lets you enjoy, glitch electronica, noise, and even the sound of light.
SOUTH PARK - OVER LOGGING
WATCH:http://allabout-sp.net/?p=season12/1206
FULL EPISODE:http://cdn1.fliqz.com/fliqz/production/content/a6abcc3751b2d561adde5db467580265.flv
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ZX SPECTRUM CLONES & PERIHERALS GALLERY
Those, who already tried, called the king of ZX Spectrum peripherals the MB-02+ disk interface. This unit was developed by the Czech 8 Bit Company jointly with BusySoft and introduced in 1997.
1$ HI-DEF SPEAKER
by House Hold Hackers
This is a hoax…
OBSOLETELY FABULOUS - Futurama S05E14
After living with the outdated robots, Bender realizes he doesn't need technology anymore. He then orders his companions to "downgrade" his metal robotics with a wooden body. Bender leads his friends to New New York in a wooden submarine, where they wage war on technology. The band of five are surprisingly successful, but Bender reveals there is one more thing they need to destroy: Robot 1-X.
Episode Sounds:http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/4ACV14/
