Over the past few months I’ve been tweeting about Treasure Island. Not the one from the movie, but an island in San Francisco.
What I’ve been doing over there is helping SF.Gov’s Department of Technology deploy a Cisco Wireless Mesh.
Instead of blabbing on about it, I’ve put together a 5 minute 27 second video, below.
Treasure Island [...]
Governments like control. All centralized media has been censored by Government in some form. James Joyce’s Ulysses was banned in both UK and US until the 1930’s. Book burning is an old practice. Most recently made popular by Hitler in 1933. Radio, TV, movies, and games are all censored through national ratings panels. Beyond that, [...]
Back in March a wooden mascot called Mr Pickle was stolen from outside of his shop. In The Mission, Mr Pickle was a bit an icon. A happy pickle about to spray some mayo, in front of a really really awesome sandwich shop. Some people used to walk a few blocks out of their way, [...]
Anarchy’s got a really bad wrap. There’s a lot of FUD, and general misinformation about the meaning of the term. In Decentralism: Where It Came From–Where Is It Going?, I found a great section discussing Anarchy:-
“Examining the root meaning of ‘anarchy,’ we find that ‘an’ means no or none, ‘archy’ means rulership. Thus ‘anarchy’ means [...]