Not all is well in the land of open source. The first open source cellphone is no longer produced.

Read more here. What does this say? People are buying  iphones like crazy, no matter how bad Apple policies are (locking the device, control of the software) and how closed and tightly controlled their device and their software is. It seems that the general public does not care too much, as long as they have the most fancy device.

On the other side not all is dark, lone open source riders have ported Debian to G1 Android smartphone.

http://www.platform21.nl/index.php?lang=en Repair manifesto. Stop recycling start repairing!

Open source gasification:  http://www.allpowerlabs.org/

http://gekgasifier.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

A distributed network for global and local development of generic infrastructures incrementally developed by communities.

http://www.bricolabs.net

One of their projects:

http://www.oswash.org/ Open source washing  machine:

http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/community-forums.html?func=view&id=2248&catid=9

Fascinating. I am wondering how much functionallity does it have? Now that is a smartphone I would like to have.

Debian phone.

Can you imagine world where every child in poor trophical Africa or anywhere else in the world can get access to human knowledge in the form of ebooks that can be read on average mobile phone which supports Java? Imagine that those kids can now access library with thousands and thousands of books in Gutenberg Project library, textbooks, medical books, science, agriculture, crafts, anything possible…

Imagine how many Einsteins and Rembrants now live in some far away place without possibility to add their knowledge to the world AND get benefits that knowledge offers?

Now we are step closer I feel.

Project Gutenberg is working on providing all their free ebooks in format which you will be able to read on your average mobile phone.

Cellphone books

Thank you to Project Gutenberg!

“The world is my country, all mankind are my  brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809)

Skycar a flying car. very imaginative. Could this be the car of the future?

Man who saved a village. from nothing to an world art center thanks to a once very curious poor boy.
Reminds me very strongly on ” The man who planted trees”

PBS video

As explained by Robert Patterson
Unjobbing blog post

I am an unjobber for many years now, sometimes not very willingly. I need to work on this idea more.