Phoebe and I are active on Kiva providing micro-loans ($25/piece) to people elsewhere on the planet. Below is a video Kiva just released, visualising its first five years of activity. It’s become huge.
Author Archives: Arjen Lentz
Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime | ZDNet UK
According to a cable sent by the US embassy in Tunis on 22 September, 2006, Microsoft was so keen to get the Tunisian government to drop its policy favouring open-source software that it agreed to set up a “program on cyber criminality” to cover training.
Well at least we four are going to be ok – Blitz Toons
Monsanto’s BT corn reported failing in several states – GM Watch
Scientists sounded the alarm years ago, but now their predictions appear to be an encroaching reality: Monsanto’s biotech corn is showing signs, they say, that it no longer repels the pests it is engineered to kill.
Bristlebot: A tiny directional vibrobot – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/bristlebot
The BristleBot is our take on the popular vibrobot, a simple category of robot that is controlled by a single vibrating (eccentric) motor. Some neat varieties include the mint-tin version as seen in Make Magazine (check the video), and the kid’s art bot: a vibrobot with pens for feet.