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Revision as of 17:33, 16 December 2013

food

spironlina

spirolina is an edible algae that needs only water, urine and iron (from rusty nails for example). However, it needs quite a warm climate. In colder places it is only possible to grow it in a greenhouse in summer. A possibility could be to pump it through a wood stove or compost heater.

• Grow your own spirulina
• Sprirulina in sadhana forest this guide to growing sprirulina makes it seem amazingly easy, feeding it with urine and iron from rusty nails.
• Spirulina production FAQ pdf

aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA). apparently this has more chlorophyll than spirulina, needs less salinity, has more calcium, and importantly, can live in a colder climate. But it seems it only grows naturally (not cultivated). AFA and Spirulina Compared

tempeh:

Tasty indonesian soja with mould grown on it. The difficult thing is keeping the temperate constant. tempeh needs to be at about 32 degrees C for about 22 hours. Not a problem if you live in indonesia. If it gets colder than that for some time period, it seems it still works but takes longer, eg: on a woodstove which goes out at night but you light it again in the morning. but there is then increased risk of contamination with other bacterias. If it gets too hot the mould cannot survive.

electric incubators are easier to regulate temperature but less ecological and use too much power to realistically run from batteries. typically an isulated box (eg: an old refridgerator) and a heating element (eg: 40 or 60w light bulb). The simplest way to regulate it is with a dimmer switch (this works quite well). but leaving a dimmer set external temperature changes (eg: at night) and towards the end of the process the tempeh begins to produce its own heat and the temperature rises.

Another tricky thing is how to save the spore so you can make more and dont have it keep buying tempeh starter. you have to leave the tempeh in the incubator for longer (cut a thinner piece for more surface area and to not waste the middle part). the black powdery stuff is the spores. these can be scraped with something sterile to collect, or just take the whole piece of spore covered tempeh and dry it out (eg: on the stove) and blend it/grind it to a powder.

• kedai perantau sell tempeh starter from malaysia, quite cheap.
• how to make tempeh starter from scratch also recommends books and has facts about how healthy it is.
• tempeh incubator
• makethebesttempeh.org home made tempeh culture
• wild fermentation this site has good forums much info about many kinds of fermentation.
• grain mill for grinding the beans: look for porkert grain mill
• the book of tempeh, shurtleff and aoyagi (can be found on pdf)

tech

filesharing

 * torrent411 good torrent tracker (french)
 * rutracker.org good torrent tracker (russian)
 * zeropaid filesharing news and forum
 * tracker2.postman.i2p i2p torrent tracker (you must be running i2p to access)
 * imule p2p sharing software for i2p (also an i2p eepsite)

audio

 * hydrogen audio forums about audio software etc 
 * rockbox open source firmware for music players
 * cmus curses based music player
 * mpd music player daemon
 * beets music collection organising tool
 * Linux multimedia studio (LMMS) free music production software, with VST compatibility
 * [sox.sourceforge.net sox] command line sound tool.  can be used as simple synthesiser
 * diyaudio.com forums about diy audio hardware projects
 horn response - speaker enclosure design software.  can use with abaca? audio abacus

other

 * mighty ohm some open source hardware designs and a soldering guide in many languages
 * Use google translate from the command line with some extra features.
 * Google translate awk program very similar 
 * open frameworks c++ library for creative projects
 *  ronja diy laser
 *  ttfa.net/12volt
 * mattmahoney on data compression much info on data compression.  PAQ8 text compression, 
   while computationally expensive, could be very useful for low-bandwidth radio data networks. 
 *  pbx
 *  x25, a kind of packet switched network
 *  skype like conferencing system also ZRTP and SRTP
 * sdf.org sdf public access unix system
 * [www.eternal-september.org eternal september] Free text only usenet access (registration required)
 * [www.aioe.org aioe] free text only usenet access (no registration required)
 rsync
 unison file syncronisation
 retroshare

geeky linux tools

* awesome window manager
* terminator terminal emulator with many features
* midnight commander
* conky sytem monitor
* vimperator vi style control of web browser
* mutt
* aap makes it easy to download, build and install software
* calmar.ws tips and info on linux,vim, vimperator, awesome, other stuff
* vi cheat sheet
* vim tips
* refcards.com free quick reference cards
* vim mediawiki editing

* fcron.free.fr apparently good for running cron jobs on a system not always switched on.

local announcements websites

For buying/selling secondhand, etc.

• craigslist.org international
• freecycle international, free stuff only.
• le bon coin france
• gumtree UK
• quoka.de deutschland
• loquo.com barcelona

party

 * zone of the free all things 3, mp3s art etc... 
 * shockraver wheres that teknival?
 * teknoparty.are.free.fr
 * headfuk.net lots of tech info, good breakcore mp3s, party info
 * squatjuice idiots talking 
 * partyvibe
 * manor sounds

art/wierd

 * random artists UK based underground art collective, make temporary autonomous art 
 * 4chan.org anonymous image board
 * deviantart
 * jinyoung shin
 * blublu 
 * the porg
 * daytime televisuals
 * zoomquilt2
 * dissident island radio

squatting/travelling

 * squat.net
 * uk advisory service for squatters
 * uk land registry 192.com for researching buildings in the uk.
 * hitchwiki.org add info how to hitchhike in/out of your town
 

other

 biochar as soil improver 
 open source ecology
 plants for a future
 RAM pump using water flow to pump a small amount of water