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Radical Mycology (click to download PDF)

“A new zine from the Spore Liberation Front exploring the numerous uses for mushrooms and their implications for ecoactivists and other Earth friendly folk. From food to medicine to paper and dyes to the amazing new field of mycorememdiation (the use of mushrooms to clean up oil spills and restore damaged habitats), this zine gives a thorough overview of the greater fungi with a novel, radical perspective.”

I’ve had a lot of conversations with people about pooping (online and offline), and only a couple of years ago did I realize the method to the perfect poop. It’s quite counter-intuitive at first (especially looking at some of the FFFFUUUUU poops), but once you try it, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

1. You sit down without spreading the buttchecks. If you have a tad extra booty, then spread just a tad, but not too much.

2. Sit up straight like your mother taught you and lean back a bit so you’re almost at a 90* angle.

3. Poop without straining yourself to push. Use the inner muscles to slowly ease it onwards on its journey out if you can, otherwise give it a gentle push at most and it should come out on its own time.

4. Try wiping. Once you get onto expert mode, you’ll be able to poop without needing to wipe if you have a normal consistency. Usually you’ll only have one or two wipes until you get the hang of it. If you have a wet poop, then this method also results in minimal splatter.

Congratulations, you have now performed the “King Edward/Queen Elizabeth”! If you wish, while doing step #3, you may raise your hand as if you are holding a goblet and shout out for more wine.

Enjoy.

uncertaintimes:

The Automata / Automaton Blog:

Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (c. 10-70 AD) was a prolific inventor and mathematician and is one of the first known creators of automata in the history of Western civilization. His original works were destroyed in the fire that consumed the ancient library in Alexandria, but some of his work survived by way of copies that were made in Arabic. Here is his work on Pneumatics, which included a working steam engine — an invention that was perhaps several thousand years ahead of its time.

The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria

Google Books: The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (full text)

The FederalJack Free Ebooks Archive.

Declassified Federal Docs, FOIA Requests, Fiction and Non-Fiction Books, Survival Manuals and more.

Stock up, 2010 is going to be a bumpy ride.

criminalwisdom:

WINDMILLS AND WIND MOTORS : HOW TO BUILD AND RUN THEM (1910)
From the Internet Archive, a book on how to build windmills and wind motors. Via No Tech Magazine.

24 Cool Steampunk Weapons from Another Era | Walyou

This steam punk “Aether Disruptor” is quite the weapon. Wonder if DARPA is building one…

• Here you will find hundreds of radical zines ready to print. You can also upload zines to the site ( zines with file sizes bigger than 7mb can be uploaded to http://indymedia.org and linked here). Feel free to comment and contribute.

Many categories, quite a resource for resistance thinking and doing.

Not Breathing Sound Systems & Carrion Sound

• this unit contains three crackleboxes, three preamps, a giant speaker, three control knobs, an on / off switch, and 22 brass contacts for human interaction - unit is played with nothing but pressure and human touch - here is an mp3 example

From this entire page worth of Found Sound Instruments with mp3s and videos of the instruments in action. Awesome.

criminalwisdom:

HOW TO THROW KNIVES
Image from Sideshow World’s Knife Throwing And Dangerous Acts collection.

Build The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Tesla Himself

Tesla’s Spirit Radio uses a simple crystal radio circuit connected to a computer sound-in jack to generate spooky sounds from all kinds of electromagnetic sources. As you will see, it creeped the hell out of Tesla himself. Needless to say, this would be a hit at a Halloween party. Hit the link for a complete set of instructions. [Instructables]

“My first observations positively terrified me as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night.”
- Nikola Tesla 1901

“The sounds I am listening to every night at first appear to be human voices conversing back and forth in a language I cannot understand. I find it difficult to imagine that I am actually hearing real voices from people not of this planet. There must be a more simple explanation that has so far eluded me.”
- Nikola Tesla 1918

2020:

Augmented reality medical app (via Mutate)

DIY Guerrilla Doctors are the next step.

Rfiddler zapper kills RFID tags dead, the hard way

• Sure, there may be a number of relatively easy ways to destroy or disable an RFID tag (tossing it in the microwave, for instance), but where’s the fun in that? There are plenty of good times to be had with this so-called “Rfiddler” built by Codeninja though, which disables tags (and potentially anything else in its sights) by emitting a strong electromagnetic field — not to mention some sounds that will cause anyone standing in its vicinity to take a few big steps back. Head on past the [link] for a video, and hit up the link below for the complete parts list if you’re interested in building your own….

I just re-watched “The Mindscape of Alan Moore” yesterday!Funny too is that I am working on a print zine with a friend - more details soon.

• Alan Moore, the influential comics visionary who wrote Watchmen and V for Vendetta, has taken up a new mission for our age of global depression: Bringing back the underground fanzine.
• The first issue of Moore’s print zine Dodgem Logic, released last month in the United Kingdom, is an engaging, educational and often hilarious read. The new publication is stuffed with subcultural snark as well as post-civilization how-tos on guerrilla gardening, Dumpster diving and surviving the econopocalypse.
• Perhaps most promising, Dodgem Logic’s spirit of triumphant creative individualism celebrates Moore’s individualist philosophy, delivering a perfectly timed message for a world filled with failing states and superpowers.
• “This might be the time in which big, centralized authorities prove that they are no longer capable of running the show, or even pretending to run the show,” the always eloquent Moore told Wired.com by phone from his home in Northampton, England. “Increasingly, it is going to be up to us if our culture gets through these next couple of decades in any shape at all.”