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Oct. 17 day of LPFM action

On: What Became of Low Power FM?

I just read an article on that. They are trying to organize hundreds of LPFM stations broadcasting on Oct. 17.

Break the Corporate Media's Stranglehold on the Free Flow of Information, News, Artistic Expression and Cultural Creativity http://www.counterpunch.org/dunifer07252003.html

See also http://www.freeradio.org/

ToonTalk -- Making programming child's play

On: Game Creation Software for Kids?

This game is actually very sophisticated with a natural way of expressing concurrency. www.toontalk.com The author is active in the capability based security world. By "capability" I mean the definition used in the security literature, not the linux bastardization of the term.

Rebel without a crew

On: Making Low-Budget Movies?

Read Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez

Harry and David

On: Seeking Interesting Sites When Travelling the World?

In Medford, Oregon the Harry and David plant has tours where you can see the packing lines and confection bakery. I work there, and it's really cool to see how you get a million pounds of pears individually wrapped and processed. The pears come to the plant in wooden boxes which are dunked in water to let the pears float out and then up a conveyor where they are mechanically sorted by weight and then packed. There is a lot more to the tour than that.

I imagine that other companies offer tours as well. Right next to us is Tucker Sno-Cat where they make those cool transporters.

We have a local company who makes trolleys. I called them up one day because I found out about an electric battery powered trolley they had made and the guy was more than happy to talk to me about it.