The car-plane weighs 1320 pounds and can carry a payload of one-third its weight. It has a 20-gallon tank and that lasts about four hours, claiming to get 30mpg in the air and 30-40mpg on the ground. The vehicle cruises at 120mph and needs about 1500 feet in order to takeoff. At last … we have reached the Age of Jetsons.
Affilipedia
The Affilipedia (see the end of this post about the name) is an open resource for affiliate marketers. This wiki contains new information on affiliate marketing, serving as both a how-to and an ecyclopedia. There is also an affiliate marketing blog by Shawn Collins that complements the wiki (or the other way around).
Affiliate marketing is [...]
Developing Capable Young People
Carter has spent the morning working with Lucy ripping up tile from our floor. He’s clearly having a blast, and is completely focused on the task at hand. Key to this endeavor is that Lucy treats him like an intelligent human being, and gives him real work to do, not busywork.
It reminds me of a [...]
Starting a local RootsCamp
I’m taking the plunge. The initial step — creating a wiki page — has been taken. RootsCamp for Bloomington, Indiana is now officially in the planning stage.
RootsCamp is a political form of BarCamp, where the focus is on political elections and campaigns. I’m hoping to use it to engage in local issues, spread the word [...]
I’m young again.
Yesterday, I took one look at the shoe hat pictured in the IDS and realized I officially don’t get the younger generation. That was yesterday. Turns out, it’s a kind of crazy that dates back a while.
Elsa Schiaparelli teamed with Salvador Dalí in the 1930s to come up with a shoe hat. This image of [...]
Appropriate Technology projects
Appropedia is a wiki for brainstorming and reporting on efforts to advance ideas in appropriate technology, tech that makes use of native and available materials to fill needs of local users. The Appropedia* wiki hopes to be an overflow repository for articles deemed “inappropriate” for Wikipedia. In additional to the project work, there is also [...]
Blogs and Community (and Networks)
The Knowledge Tree, an online journal on learning innovation that has been around since 2002, has an interesting entry on how blogs help create community in their current issue. Nancy White, a consultant at Full Circle Associates in Seattle, has published an article — “Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?” [...]