StickFigure Ben

Get Ready For....Vietraq II

because, ya know, Mission Accomplished on part the first and all that......yeeeesh "January 23, 2007 Today, the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) begins a week-long advertising campaign aimed at educating the American public about the growing threat posed by a nuclear Iran. The ad campaign consists of two 30-second spots that began running Tuesday on CNN, MSNBC, Headline News and the Fox News Channel in Washington, DC, Maryland and northern Virginia. " and then add this WP piece "The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort."

Cardiac Paper Computer Take One

Cardiac Paper Computer Take One Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

I printed out the PDFs for making a CARDIAC and crafted this of plain paper and tape..man this needs much better makings. The next version will probably be coated/laminated so you can write on it with a dry erase and then wipe when you are done with that run.

If you are wondering what this is....

"I had one of the real deal CARDIAC's back in 7th grade(1977ish) , I was already hooked on the bit tip but this thing showed me some of the ways and means of the root issues. I found mention of it a few years back on boing^2 but lost the scent. The desire to teach my little ones that computers are not all about bloat and legaly constrained guis made me go and find the makings. What I lack now is the orginal manual that came with it, there is a meatspace source for it that I am tracking down.

This was a paper trialto see if it worked, it does. Paper thoug is teh flimzy so I am goingto make the next one out of sturdier stuff, maybe cardboard with the text laminated on...I dont know yet. Any ideas?

For more info on the CARDIAC go to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_-_cardboard_illustrative_aid_to_computation "

What A Drag It Is Getting Old

It seems the CWN (community wireless network) group I am part of , that being the Personal Telco Project, is going through another bout of growth/contraction/selfexamination/reinvnetion that happens to groups . After 6 years of hard work and a shifting landscape this comes as no surprise. The thread linked to has some good WhereToNow ideas. Any ideas? Toss em in. Upshot of this, many of us will be at the Recent Changes Camp being hosted in Portland to see if we can do more than just post about things to the list(not that many are not already doing things, we just need more folks, myself included, doing more)