LedgerGermane

a recording of machinations in the flux. and having a good laugh every now and then too.
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[Additional Resources]

LedgerGermane Library a sampling of pdfs, to get yer head str8



The Sophia Project
this is a quick and easy way to give your mind some rigour, excellent intros, resources and ebooks

Ital Food
food is good. cheap tasty food that isn't from a drive-in is better.



[Bands We Like]

The BLOOD MUFFINS

Better than Aliens

Murder of Crows

15 Degrees Below Zero

Plutocracy

RoboCop 3

Sex with No Hands

The Feldmans

Officer Down

Devastate

Wombaticus Rex

[Contact]

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Wed Aug 27
The internet smokescreen | Open Democracy

a pretty solid article in favor of keeping hands off the net.

“Despite the convictions of three British Muslims for accumulating and transmiting terrorist material online, the internet should not become the focus of government regulation..”

ZIGGURAT: Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid will House 1 Million Just another crazy Dubai post. In October there will be a carbon-neutral pyramid that will sustain a million person community! “…Timelinks claims that their Ziggurat will be capable of running completely off the grid by utilizing steam, wind, and other natural resources. The tightly knit city will also feature a super efficient public transportation system that runs both horizontally and vertically, and plans are being drawn up to utilize both public and private green spaces for agricultural opportunities. According to the International Institute for the Urban Environment, the technologies incorporated into the Ziggurat project will make it a viable metropolis, and Timlinks has responded by quickly patenting the design and technology developed for the project. A number of European professors will be on hand at CityScape Dubai to explain how the Ziggurat project can be incorporated into grander plans, meaning that it may not be a one-off structure….”

ZIGGURAT: Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid will House 1 Million

Just another crazy Dubai post. In October there will be a carbon-neutral pyramid that will sustain a million person community!

“…Timelinks claims that their Ziggurat will be capable of running completely off the grid by utilizing steam, wind, and other natural resources. The tightly knit city will also feature a super efficient public transportation system that runs both horizontally and vertically, and plans are being drawn up to utilize both public and private green spaces for agricultural opportunities.

According to the International Institute for the Urban Environment, the technologies incorporated into the Ziggurat project will make it a viable metropolis, and Timlinks has responded by quickly patenting the design and technology developed for the project. A number of European professors will be on hand at CityScape Dubai to explain how the Ziggurat project can be incorporated into grander plans, meaning that it may not be a one-off structure….”

Mon Aug 25
No Picnic: Marketers plan for the future

…”In an interview at the Picnic website, Greenfield describes how a mobile device might present you with map, minus a route through a bad neighborhood. In other words, it has already done some of your thinking for you.

Greenfield, a former PSYOP sergeant in the US Army’s Special Operations Command, is now head of design direction at Nokia…”

Fri Aug 22
Wireless Electricity from Intel - For Real, But still not Free Energy

Would Tesla be proud? No, because the electricity still has a pricetag attached to it.

“It turns out the human body is not affected by magnetic fields; it is affected by elective fields. So what we are doing is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field.”…

“Initially it eliminates chargers and eventually it eliminates batteries all together,” analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group said of Intel’s wireless power system.

“That is potentially a world changing event. This is the closest we’ve had to something being commercially available in this class.”…..

Wed Aug 20
Tallest Skyscraper Photos Defy Belief
even the picture of this building is too damn big! Check it out, mind blowing.
Scientists to study synthetic telepathy
“A team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy.

The research could lead to a communication system that would benefit soldiers on the battlefield and paralysis and stroke patients, according to lead researcher Michael D’Zmura, chair of the UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences….”
RAND Review | Summer 2008

One of the older, more silly think tanks around. Looks like some pretty interesting essays this time. As the press release says:

“To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the RAND Corporation and to uphold its tradition of taking on the big issues of tomorrow, a call went out to all RAND staff around the world, inviting them to propose essays on “important policy issues not currently receiving the attention they deserve in the public debate” — issues, in other words, that might be on the back burner today but will likely become front-burner issues within the next five years.

More than 100 issues were raised. The final product: the 11 essays published here. These were selected either because they highlight major public policy problems that have eluded the mainstream media radar or because they point toward major public policy solutions that have been likewise overlooked — or both….”

Tue Aug 19
free Valle PDF: The Heart of the Internet

this book works with the questions:

HOW WILL THE GROWTH OF COMPUTER NETWORKS CHANGE THE WAY YOU LIVE AND LOVE AND WORK AND PLAY?

WHAT DO THE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGISTS REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THEIR CREATIONS ON SOCIETY?

HOW WILL COMPUTER POWER AFFECT YOUR PERSONAL POWER AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY - TODAY, AS THE COMPUTERS LINK UP?

Wed Aug 13
Air Force Suspends Controversial Cyber Command “The Air Force is about to suspend its controversial effort to reorganize its forces to “dominate” cyberspace. The provisional, 8,000-man Cyber Command has been ordered to stop all activities, just weeks before it was supposed to be declared operational…” or maybe it is just going into a Black Ops Budgeted program to avoid public scrutiny.

Air Force Suspends Controversial Cyber Command

“The Air Force is about to suspend its controversial effort to reorganize its forces to “dominate” cyberspace. The provisional, 8,000-man Cyber Command has been ordered to stop all activities, just weeks before it was supposed to be declared operational…”

or maybe it is just going into a Black Ops Budgeted program to avoid public scrutiny.

Mon Aug 11
Follow Denmark's Lead or Die
Denmark is a case study for real-world solutions to the US Energy problem.