Entries from January 2006

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

High as a Kite: Kite Sailing

http://www.sailinganarchy.com/innerview/2003/daveculp.htm After visiting your web site, www.kiteship.com you seem very focused on Commercial marine applications for kite use. How will kite use benefit the Commercial Marine Industry? DC In studying attempts to bring back commercial sailing ships in the 1980's, it struck me that they were doomed to fail for the same reasons commercial sail [...]

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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Fractional cruise ship ownership

http://www.adventurespacruise.com/ “The Price Prices starting at under $60,000 for outright ownership and rights to occupy and/or otherwise use your own cabin in any way you wish for the full life of the ship. Where else can you buy a home for less than $60,000? It sounds too good to be true, right? Well, it is [...]

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Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Need a Building? Just Add Water

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66872,00.html Need a Building? Just Add Water By Rowan Hooper Rowan Hooper | Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Mar, 15, 2005 EST In a world with millions of refugees, numerous war zones and huge areas devastated by natural disaster, aid agencies and militaries have long needed a way to quickly erect shelters on demand. [...]

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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Floating abortion clinic sets sail

[Women on Waves is early example of the kind of regulatory arbitrage that seasteads will be able to provide, once they're more widespread. ] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1382412.stm Monday, 11 June, 2001, 18:51 GMT 19:51 UK Floating abortion clinic sets sail The clinic has been set up in a shipping container A ship carrying an on-board gynaecological clinic [...]

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Nellie for hire

This is : I've read 's journal for over a year. She's funny, smart, and a good writer. And, for what I expect to be a very limited time, she's available for hire. So if any of my Atlanta peeps are reading this, as your attorney, I advise you to hire her post haste. With [...]

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Monday, January 16th, 2006

Loompanics going out of business

Via : Loompanics going out of business. Damn.

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Sunday, January 15th, 2006

What I've learned from failure

http://www.braithwaite-lee.com/weblog/2005/01/what-ive-learned-from-failure.html Friday, January 07, 2005 What I've learned from failure I have been fired from more jobs than most people have had. —Mark Cuban Why does failure matter? It's a funny thing. After almost twenty years of drawing a paycheque for creating software, people generally want to hire me because they want me to duplicate [...]

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Sunday, January 15th, 2006

Imperial Walker apartment

Via BLDG BLOG: Beton als Marmor! Turning abandoned buildings into works of art.

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Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Ferrocement boat design

Benford, J.R. & Husen, H. – “Practical Ferrocement Boatbuilding” 3rd edition 1972 Internationakl Marine Publishing Company, Camden, Maine 04843 USA Bingham, B. – “Ferrocement: Design, Techniques, Application” 1974 Cornell Maritime Press Inc. Cambridge, Maryland 21613 USA; Whitener, J.P. – “Ferrocement Boat Construction” – 1971 – publisher see above. This is all very old stuff, techniques [...]

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Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Del.icio.us

So, I've become an avid del.icio.us user. Nowadays, I post links to del.icio.us much more frequently than I post to LJ. So if you like my journal, you will probably like my del.icio.us feed. Willing to share your del.icio.us usernames with me? If so, post to the comments, or email me: crasch@openknowledge.org.

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