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Saturday, October 11, is Dev/Tech day. Sunday, October 12, is new media day. And Saturday night there’s a party. Are you coming? I sure hope so!

Contractor Bryan Roberts is building Florida’s first Earthship right here in Manatee County — and if you’re a college student (or have part of this summer free, anyway), you can participate in a Greencamp and learn the ins and outs of Earthship building yourself.

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Local video genius Damen Shaqiri and I made this back in 2004. Totally loopy, an experiment in many ways. I forgot I had the file. What the heck. Maybe you'll get a kick out of it. (The book is totally obsolete, BTW. Desktop Linux has come a *long* way since 2004.
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You really want to read the text at Linux.com, too.

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Naturally, you’ll want to go to Linux.com to see the story links Lisa mentions. Besides that, this is a pretty good example of how to make a “talking head” video interesting enough to watch for over four minutes, which isn’t the easiest task in the world.

Few people in the Bradenton area know that a lot of the videos I make — the ones for my “day job” — are about computer software. This is a fairly good sample of narrated software screen-capture video. It’s #1 from a set of 3. You can watch the others at Linux.com.

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I own and wear a lot of Slashdot t-shirts, so it’s no wonder that people I meet here in Bradenton often ask me, “What’s a Slashdot?” Sometimes I try to answer them, but since this part of Florida is for the most part in about 1997 when it comes to IT & WWW technology, I [...]