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Will The Brixton Pound Buy A Brighter Future?

by Leo Hickman Tomorrow the Transition Town movement launches a currency designed to boost local trade and bring communities closer together A Brixton market stallholder . . . 'It's Monopoly money,' says one. 'I won't be having anything to do w...

The decentralisation of Pirate Bay filesharing

Following a suggestion by Rasmus Fleischer, a leading member of the Pirate Bureau, Torrentfreak concludes: “The Pirate Bay will dissolve, but in its place many “new TPBs” will return, just without the familiar domain name and pirate ship logo. Th...

Strawbale prefab building timelapse – Strohballen Vorfertigung Zeitraffer

Strawbale prefab building timelapse - Strohballen Vorfertigung Zeitraffer This clip is part of film material for a new film about strawbale building: "Houses of straw - Part 2". Become a sponsor for this project! More information about th...

Sheet Mulching: Greater Plant and Soil Health for Less Work

Sheet Mulching by Craig Elevitch and Kim Wilkinson - Permanent Agriculture Resources Why Mulch? Agriculture with mulch in the tropics promotes plant health and vigor. Mulching improves nutrient and water retention in the soil, encourages favorable soi...

Supporting a local economy….some observations

Last night I attended a gathering of merchants, service providers and others who support local independent businesses in our town. It was a festive affair of about three dozen featuring a pot luck dinner, good conversation, and a few announcements abou...

A French Twist On GDP

Sarkozy proposes measuring happiness. I'm starting to think that French President Sarkozy is a Sightline fan. Last week it was a killer carbon tax proposal; now it's something else near and dear to our hearts: a national measure of happiness as a...

Wewow Ltd. launch specialist, eco-friendly packaging arm – weEco.co.uk

[Bradford, UK - 7th August 2009] -- Bradford-based CD and DVD replication company, wewow Ltd., have announced the launch of their dedicated ‘green' media packaging arm weEco.co.uk. www.weEco.co.uk will showcase wewow's rapidly expanding range o...

Why use Compost Tea?

Compost tea is used for two reasons: To inoculate microbial life into the soil or onto the foliage of plants, and to add soluble nutrients to the foliage or to the soil to feed the organisms and the plants present. The use of compost tea is suggested a...

London Vegan Festival

The London Vegan Festival this year took place in Kensington Town Hall, and was absolutely heaving. Usually, the odds of bumping into another vegan are slightly higher than those of two Esperanto speakers meeting, so hanging out in a hall packed full o...

Hyperlocal file sharing: The Pirate Kiosk brings the Pirate Bay to the streets

Many sites and projects have rushed to the rescue ever since the Pirate Bay announced its intended sale back in June. Opentracker wants to take over the Pirate Bay's tracker duties, and Torrage wants to step in as an independent torrent file hoster, just to name two. And then there is the Pirate Kiosk - an exact copy of the Pirate Bay that's run out of an old newsstand and that can only be accessed via Wifi.

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From kioskofpiracy.org:

"(A) copy of the infamous Pirate Bay is available to the public, but – here comes the catch – offline-only. Yes, offline, the Kiosk is not connected to the Internet in any way, but the interested public is invited to use the service in a wifi-radius around it.

kiosk of piracy

You probably guessed it by now, the Kiosk of Piracy is one of the many projects exploring the intersection of art and piracy that have popped up on- and offline in recent years. This particular installation is taking place at the Kiosk of Contemporary Art in the Eastern German town of Weimar, which is usually home of temporary art exhibitions and installations. The Kiosk is officially on break until October, but has now been "taken over" by pro-piracy artists with a mission:

"We want to show in a very physical way that the Internet is neither a machine nor controllable in any way – it is just a system of agreements which work in any circumstances. We don’t need the Internet – the magic can happen anywhere."

The Kiosk of Piracy not only offers a free Wifi network to access its tracker, but also an integrated seed box to host files for downloading them at the speed of Wifi.

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