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Day 27 of NaVloPoMo.

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Ryanne learns to use a chainsaw as we prepare for the apocalypse.
Day 23 of NaVloPoMo.

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Day 21 of NaVloPoMo.
I took this video of a creepy TV evangelist this week when I flew to the East Coast on an overnight.
TV evangelists in the US were in their prime during the 80’s with Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton, and James and Tammi Faye Baker.  The style is simple: get a TV show, say that god has given you the power to create happiness, and keep asking for money.

This first group were all eventually convicted or humiliated off the TV screen only after their lavish lifestyles became too outrageous. TV evangelists have since become more sophisticated with James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Ted Haggard (recently uncovered). Instead of just asking for cash for their own pockets, they now help organize voting blocks that elect US politicians. Everyone knows this is where the real power and money is. Hook right into the vein.

Anyway, this guy is a throwback to the simple, "Give me money and god will reward you" days. He’s hypnotic like a vampire. I can only imagine the people who call to give money at 4am. Desperate, sad, confused.

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What do you do when you find yourself being recorded?
Record back.

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Several months ago I briefly met with the awesome Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive.
He was showing off the OLPC computer (One Laptop Per Child).
They were initially promoted as costing $100, but are now about $200 each.

The computer is designed to be bought in orders of 100,000 units by developing countries to jump start their educational process. If every kid has a computer that’s connected to the internet and each other, and is using open source software they can learn to program, then the kids in these countries can figure out their own solutions. This is the social techie dream.

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But there are many people who say the OLPC program is bullshit.
I just got into another heated debate tonight over OLPC.
The argument is that children in developing nations need clean water and food first.
Many children barely have proper schools to attend. How are you going to give a kid who lives in a hut a computer? The corruption in many developing nations is incredible, and this would be another waste of precious resources. Why give computers to kids anyway? Give them to the adults.

I believe in appropriate technology and trust that the right people will find their ways to computers.
I truly believe that there are those of us who love to connect and explore. The OLPC computer just lowers the barrier to having a machine that connects you to the greater web so you can find your own way. Computers are not the answer, but they are a tool.

It’s a pretty cool computer if you check out the features.
It runs on linux, has a video camera built in, an automatic mesh network is created through the antennae, and can be powered by a hand pump. Brewster is especially excited because he’s working on Project Gutenberg which is scanning thousands of books that can be read on computers like these. He has a dream.

I walked by a park where they were watching a movie.
It’s the totally crazy Cannibal Holocaust.
Kind of a weird movie to screen in a public park.

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This video is for the folks over here who are debating whether or not to ban people from raising chickens in the city limits of Missoula, Montana. It’s a great conversation, but I feel like the text comments were not being based on reality. So I decided to make a short video with some backyard evidence that raising hens properly is actually a really smart thing to do. This is also NaVloPoMo #15.

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Day 14 of NaVloPoMo.
I really do believe that all this video we record of our lives will be like gold in 20 years.
No one else may care, but you will.

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Day 13 of NaVloPoMo.

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This is why I love people. This kid has a shitty ass job as a breathing billboard at a depressing urban intersection. So he decides to have fun.

Day 12 of NaVloPoMo.

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