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If hashtags were rice grains ...

memebake — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:28:22 -0800

Jake Davis, aka Topiary, was part of LulzSec. He was 18 when he was arrested in the Shetland islands on July 27 2011, after what The Guardian describes as 'one of the biggest manhunts on the planet'. He is currently on bail in the UK, but faces the possibility of extradition to the USA and several decades in prison there. As part of his bail conditions, he is barred from going online. Here, he describes what that is like. Bonus links: Anonymous: behind the masks of the cyber insurgents (Guardian) Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth (Wired) - an unrelated but similar hacker facing jail Topiary on twitter Previous mefi thread when other members of LulzSec were caught, March 2012

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cenoxo — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:29:39 -0800

Email stress test: Experiment unplugs workers for 5 days — Slave to your email? Wonder what would happen if you had to do without it?

Offline: One Year Without the Internet

secretseasons — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:45:48 -0800

Offline: Paul Miller, writing for The Verge, is taking a year off from the internet. Among other things, he can't install modern video games and he must figure out how to pay his bills.

Imagine there's no people

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:52:11 -0800

So you wake up tomorrow morning to find almost everyone on Earth missing. The Internet will continue to work for a few hours: what information could you download to ensure your survival and rebuild civilization? A few suggestions: The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Third Word Development (18 GB of information on agriculture, livestock, food processing, construction, water, sanitation, health and much more). The Global Village Construction Set (previously). Copies of Gray's Anatomy, Where There Is No Doctor, and The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide.

A few more that might be handy even in ordinary times: all of Wikipedia, or perhaps just a portion. (Ideally, of course, you’d already have a bound, printed copy), Offline Google Mail (Chrome) to save correspondence; SiteSucker to download sites you’d like to keep around while offline.

Visit your friendly local zine archive!

ethel — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:07:59 -0800

Housing, preserving, and providing access to these small-scale, homemade rags that document some corner of [often do-it-yourself and punk rock] culture, zine archives can be found via independently operated centers in Georgia (physical library in construction), New Orleans (myspace link, www address out-of-commission), Florida, Minneapolis, Denver, Cambridge, Olympia, Chicago, Seattle and... University libraries' collections in New Orleans, Wisconsin, Chicago, NYC, San Diego, San Diego again, Durham; Public libraries in Maryland, Oregon, San Francisco, Tennessee. also on line*. You can submit work (pdf) to some of these, and there's even a book about building a zine collection in your repository! *via Prelinger Library (also collects zines) Blog, and previously.

Run Wikipedia, Run

forwebsites — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:29:47 -0800

How to build a fast offline Wikipedia reader using open-source tools in two days

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ultradian — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:33:47 -0800

metapet: it isn't friday yet, but by tomorrow you could have some bio-engineered creatures working for you while you play...

We all deserve a data sabbath.

sheauga — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:43:27 -0800

We all deserve a data sabbath. A weekly shunning of modern technology, shopping, and work. Do you observe one?