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How to Know When Ice is Safe - WikiHow

emmineb — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:23:24 GMT

# Recognize that determining the safety of ice is dependent on a combination of factors, not on one factor alone. Ice safety is determined by assessing the following factors together: * Appearance of the ice - its color, texture and features * Thickness of the ice - there are recommended thicknesses for different uses, which are set out below * External temperature over a period of time and on the day * Snow coverage * Depth of water under ice * Size of water body * Chemical composition of water - whether water is fresh or salty * Local climate fluctuations * Extent of ice

How to Test if a Plant Is Edible - wikiHow

emmineb — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:18:31 GMT

Drastic times call for drastic measures. If you ever find yourself stranded in the wilderness for several months without food, you're going to have to figure out how to feed yourself. You can survive for at least a month with nothing but water, you will lose about 20 lbs. However, this is not a suggested fad diet, once you start eating again, you will probably put most of the weight back on. If you're well prepared and knowledgeable about the area, you should have no problem finding edible plants, but if you are near death, and can't otherwise positively identify a safe plant to eat, follow these guidelines to test for edibility.

In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com by LAWRENCE LESSIG professor of law at Stanford Law School, and co-founder

emmineb — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:39:55 GMT

In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving to the distinctive beat of a song by Prince, "Let's Go Crazy." He had heard the song before. The beat had obviously stuck. So when Holden heard the song again, he did what any sensible 13-month-old would do -- he accepted Prince's invitation and went "crazy" to the beat. Holden's mom grabbed her camcorder and, for 29 seconds, captured the priceless image of Holden dancing, with the barely discernible Prince playing on a CD player somewhere in the background.

In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | By Chris Anderson | Wired Magazine

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:15:32 GMT

Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution. It's definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities. Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter who the best people work for; if the project is interesting enough, the best people will find it.

No Tech Magazine: Bookbinding: a tutorial

emmineb — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:52:04 GMT

Step-by-step instructions. More tutorials can be found here, here and here.

Recipe for Disaster The Formula That Killed Wall Street - by Felix Salmon | Wired Tech Biz

emmineb — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:38:59 GMT

For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before. With his brilliant spark of mathematical legerdemain, Li made it possible for traders to sell vast quantities of new securities, expanding financial markets to unimaginable levels.

Resilient Communities a SANER future - Sustainable, Asymmetric, Networked, Effective, Resilient

emmineb — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:14:39 GMT

We're committed to growing resilient communities. As the global economic and political system begins to devour itself, we need communities that can withstand those system shocks, and provide us the means to live secure, comfortable, and sustainable lives. Our goal is to provide a place where people who are engaged in this work can share their experiences, tools, and presence

Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), Network Centric Warfare (NCW) & Effect Based Operations (EBO)

emmineb — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:10:40 GMT

<> IWS - The Information Warfare Site is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce. It is the aim of the site to develop a special emphasis on offensive and defensive information operations. IWS first went online in December 1999. Since its launch it has undergone a complete redesign and many key texts have been added. In adherence to its founding principles IWS has developed several mailing lists to enable a more interactive debate.

Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!

emmineb — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:07:53 GMT

But the volume of data obscures more than it reveals; financial reporting has become so transparent as to be invisible. Answering what should be simple questions—how secure is my cash account? How much of my bank's capital is tied up in risky debt obligations?—often seems to require a legal degree, as well as countless hours to dig through thousands of pages of documents. Undoubtedly, the warning signs of our current crisis—and the next one!—lie somewhere in all those filings, but good luck finding them.

Severn Barrage Lagoons (pdf)

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:17:00 GMT

Tidal lagoons in the Severn Estuary could both produce more electricity cheapier and be more environmtment friendly than a conventional barrage