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A handy drupal module for making nodes out of RSS feed items.
A handy drupal module for making nodes out of RSS feed items.
what to do about the missing simple pie include file when trying to install FeedAPI into drupal....
what to do about the missing simple pie include file when trying to install FeedAPI into drupal....
A super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom parser written in PHP.
A super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom parser written in PHP.
bookmarks posted by Paul B. Hartzog to http://del.icio.us/PaulBHartzog/for_panarchy.com
I was talking with Ryan Lanham today about his Ocean Thermal Energy Foundation:
As a futurist, I am very into alternative energy (like fuel cells), and Ryan starting telling me about the new OTEC design.
The older OTEC model uses thermal difference between ocean layers to power turbines, but the new design uses those differences to power desalinization and create raw Hydrogen, which can then be used in the emerging hydrogen economy.
This last week (and for a few weeks yet) I have been setting up and configuring a set of research tools for my work on panarchy.
One of the tools I'm evaluating is a special kind of wiki called Wagn. I fixed a few options and then customized the CSS; here's a preview:
What amazes me so far about Wagn is:
I saw this:
Viacom uses copyright to censor racism protestMadeline sez, "To protest the casting of white actors in Asian and Inuit roles for the live-action production of 'The Last Airbender,' (based on the animated series 'Avatar: The Last Airbender,' which features primarily Asian iconography, calligraphy, and fight choreography), fan Glockgal began making t-shirts that read 'This is not a tan' and "Aang can stay Asian and still save the world.' Viacom, one of the companies which owns a license for the series, has ordered Zazzle.com to take down her storefront.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/03/viacom-uses-copyrigh.html
I wonder about what would have happened during the civil rights era, if protesting had been vulnerable to copyright law. I wonder what rights we would not now enjoy.
This is why I am interested in the future of politics: because I feel that things like this matter. The future world is multicultural and likes it that way.
The bottom line for the civil rights is:
Is it still/really "free speech"
if the topic of your speech is copyrighted?
hmmm....