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Sister Fa
Urban Soul and Hip-Hop from Senegal.
Thursday, January 12th 2012 5:42pm
Village Telco -- Mesh Potato
The Village Telco is an initiative to build low-cost community telephone network hardware and software that can be set up in minutes anywhere in the world. No mobile phone towers or land lines are required. The Village Telco uses the latest Open Source telephony software and low cost wireless mesh networking technology to deliver affordable telephony anywhere.
The project consists of two principal elements:
1. Mesh Potato – A low-cost wireless mesh device you can plug a regular phone into
The Mesh Potato is a combination of a low-cost wireless Access Point (AP) running mesh networking software with an Analog Telephony Adapter (ATA). Mesh Potatoes automatically connect with each other, forming a “cloud” of Mesh Potatoes. Each Mesh Potato relays the phone calls for other Mesh Potatoes, greatly extending the range of the network. Plug an ordinary telephone into one Mesh Potato and you can instantly make a phone call to any other Mesh Potato on the network.
2. The Village Telco Entrepreneur (VTE) Server
Based on popular Open Source applications, the Village Telco Entrepreneur (VTE) Server combines network management, upstream voice connectivity, and pay-as-you-go billing management to create a simple system for an entrepreneur or community organization to sustainably deliver voice and Internet services.
Tuesday, January 10th 2012 9:58am
Code Year
Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you’ll be building apps and web sites before you know it.
Monday, January 2nd 2012 8:07am
Tiger Mom Says
Saturday, December 31st 2011 8:03pm
Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream
“Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream” is a feature documentary film that takes the viewer on an intimate roller coaster of pain and joy as actor Donnie Faught climbs his way out of the backwoods of Arkansas to success in the city of Angels. Along this journey, passionate (and volatile) relationships are ignited, but some are agonizingly sacrificed, all for the ultimate dream of making it on the big screen. Faught’s unwavering determination to succeed in an industry that swallows people whole and spits them out broken, is a testament to his burning passion that refused to be extinguished.
Tuesday, December 27th 2011 11:20am
Anti-Christmas Cards
A Celebration of Everything That’s Wrong with the Holidays.
Tuesday, December 27th 2011 10:29am
Set List: Comedy Without a Net
Top comedians get a “set list” of never-before-seen topics - as they’re walking to the microphone - to create comedy on the spot, and under pressure.
Monday, December 19th 2011 4:12pm
Bank of Natural Capital
Natural Capital is something we all own, all share and all need to protect.
What is the perfect crime? A theft that’s barely noticed. Natural Capital is a communal wealth. It’s something we all own and benefit from. Each time an ecosystem service is degraded, we all lose just a little. Imperceptible until we account for it.
We wouldn’t let our bank manager off the hook if they lost our deposits. So why do we let our governments off the hook when they allow our wealth to be exploited? Why do we continue to trade with people who exploit it?
As citizens, it’s our responsibility to be aware of our share of Natural Capital. You can make a difference through the choices you make in your daily life as a consumer and as a voting citizen.
Wednesday, December 14th 2011 4:45pm
Econ4
The economic crisis we face today is not only a crisis of the economy. It is also a crisis of economics. The free-market fundamentalism that attained ideological dominance in the final decades of the 20th century has been discredited by financial collapse, global imbalances, mass unemployment, and environmental degradation. To confront these challenges, we need an economics for the 21st century.
We need an economics for open minds that breaks free of the closed-minded economic dogmas of the past. We need an economics that aims to secure long-run human well-being, not an economics preoccupied with maximizing short-run output and profits. We need an economics that recognizes that we need to safeguard the Earth for our children and generations to come. We need an economics for people, the planet, and the future.
Wednesday, November 30th 2011 10:37pm
Occupy Writers
We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world.
Monday, October 24th 2011 9:08am
