Sleeping Outside the Box

Just testing my new code for http://www.OwnYourPhone.com shared content users to add a little widget to their websites.

No Flash:

Make your own “Amelie” ringtone

I couldn’t sleep well last night. I think it has something to do with the home made blackberry/cherry/grape wine.
I just wrote my first dead letter (a letter to a friend in case of my death). I was planning on writing several but then I thought, “Hey, why not take a bunch of videos. They will be more entertaining while making it easier for the recipients to claim legal holding over my assets.”
Now, I just have to do it.
The letter was shorter than I wanted–but what do you say in a letter you hope nobody will ever have to read.

I finally found a good use for the ipirates.net and intellectualpirates.net domain names:

Intellectual Pirates: Information Dissemination for Sustainable Thinkers.
http://www.IntellectualPirates.net (we’ll have ipirates.net working soon)

I went and saw a movie (”The End of Suburbia”) showing in a coffee shop the other night about peak oil and the end of the suburban dream . There were about 20 people there and afterwards, we had a little discussion about ideas and solutions, concerns and questions. One of the big comments that kept coming up is that most of the people there didn’t know where to find information. Most of the people there had never heard of peak oil before and didn’t know how to get information like this fast enough.

The main purpose of iPirates is to share web resources in an effort to disseminate information that most people can’t find.
It works like digg.com (user submitted web links that users then vote on to promote to the front page–so we can be sure only relevant links get published and you can see how popular the resource is by how many votes it has).

Examples of Appropriate Content:

• News stories
• Tutorials on growing your own food or making wind turbines, etc…
• Blogs, discussing sustainability, peak oil, etc..
• Humorous comics relating to sustainability, politics, oil, humankind, etc…
• Organization websites (such as seattleoil.com–although I don’t want this to be a Seattle only resource)
• Links to youtube.com videos with interviews or protest footage

So, check it out, submit articles relating to peak oil, alternative energy, climate crisis, protests–anything that relates to information not readily acquired through mainstream media (but should be).
And don’t forget to vote on stories in the “unpublished” tab.
Let me know if it’s missing a category for an article or web resource.

Have fun and send this to anyone you think would like to know about it