Win Wenger claims you can get an Intelligence Increase and other mental and physical benefits (Self Improvement) from Held Breath Underwater Swimming. This should be well underwater across the bottom of the pool, because we find a distinct difference in response elicited between people who do this and people who simply swim head-down across the surface... An hour's total time under water, 2-3 minutes at a time, per day, over 2-3 intensive weeks should add an eventual 5-10 points "IQ" to your intelligence and an immediate increase to the richness and span of your awareness. (more)

Dave Winer thinks this period in the War On The Net can be the trigger for a big future-accelerating response (toward P2P?). It's time to create again what we created in 1995. A place for people's thoughts and pictures, but this time, with an eye toward permanence. Create something that's independent and as protected as possible from governments and corporations. As safe a harbor as we can create. (more)

Mozilla Universal Inbox and Universal Outbox. (more)

Mozilla Raindrop is in *suspended animation while we use some of the things we (more)

The Mozilla people behind ThunderBird are working on Mozilla Raindrop, a Universal Inbox Fat Client (EMail, Twitter, FaceBook, etc.). There's a v0.1 prototype available to download. Python and CouchDB! A summary of the dependencies are: setuptools, twisted, PyOpen S S L, Skype4 Py, python-twitter, simplejson, feedparser and paisley. Hmm, what's the GUI? Ah, a Desktop Web Server built on Twisted Matrix. (more)

Mozilla Web Browser extension to make Social Media sharing of links easier. (more)

Mark Pesce thinks that WikiLeaks is just an icebreaker for a future system, like Napster led to Gnutella and BitTorrent. A few months ago I wrote about how confused I was by Julian Assange’s actions. Why would anyone taking on the state so directly become such a public figure? It made no sense to me. Now I see the plan. And it’s awesome. You see, this is the first time anything like Wikileaks has been attempted. Yes, there have been leaks prior to this, but never before have hyperdistribution and cryptoanarchism come to the service of the whistleblower. This is a new thing, and as well thought out as Wikileaks might be, it isn’t perfect. How could it be? It’s untried, and untested. Or was. Now that contact with the enemy has been made – the state with all its powers – it has become clear where Wikileaks has been found wanting. Wikileaks needs a distributed network of servers that are too broad and too diffuse to be attacked. Wikileaks needs an alternative to the Domain Name Service (DNS). And Wikileaks needs a funding mechanism which can not be choked off by the actions of any other actor.

HTTP request param sent by Web Browser (more)

Venessa Miemis interested in starting up a Resilient Community project. Maybe in Beacon Ny? We already have a great coworking space here in town, BEAHIVE, that’s been itching to be a catalyst to coordinate more real-world local initiatives and projects. It seems like we have a lot of the things necessary to be a prototype city for resilience building.

Ted Hope gives a CheckList of things a producer (Film Industry) should have ready for Marketing before seeking acquisition/distribution. *The problem is that most filmmakers still think of festivals as a step towards acquisition. As Ryan’s comment points out, that is only true for your first two or three festivals. After those, if you haven’t secured distribution, your chances of acquisition are diminishing with each festival play. (more)

Google Wave will now be an Apache project.

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was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications. Worked on Mac IE. (more)

In September Ted Hope gave a speech on the future on Independent Film (Film Industry). For the last fifteen years our Community has made huge strides at demystifying the production process and providing access to the financing and distribution Gate Keeper-s. Some call this democratization, but it is not. This demystification of production was a great first step, but it is not give the filmmaker real power; generally speaking we are still there with our hat in our hands. In some ways, understanding the great behemoth that is production is also a distraction. It has distracted us from making really good films. And as it has distracted us from gaining the knowledge and seizing the power that is available to us. We have learned how to make films and how to bring them to market. We now have to demystify how to market and distribute films, and to do it in a way truly suited to the films we are making and desire to make. (more)

aka Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Mental Health) (more)

*As of 2010, Bank of America is the 5th largest company in the United States by total revenue,[12] as well as the second largest non-oil company in the U.S. (after Wal-Mart). In 2010, Forbes listed Bank of America as the 3rd "best" large company in the world.[13] (more)

Critics of the giant banks....charge that Monday's rally-stoking mortgage-putback deal between Bank Of America (BAC) and FannieMae and FreddieMac is nothing more than a backdoor Bail-Out of the nation's largest lender.

another form of taxation (more)

Engadget reviews the Archos 7 Home Tablet. Android-v1.5, 7" screen (ugh, resistive, so no MultiTouch). 600MHz ARM 9 processor and 128 MB of RAM! No Google App Market! Just $200. (more)

System of getting "RealTime" updates to an RSS feed in your RssAggregator (rather than polling). (more)