Yearly Archives: 2013

Raw Cookie Dough without the Stomach Ache

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

My mother loved to bake cookies, and would make huge batches of cookie dough and freeze them.    This led me to develop a love of raiding the freezer.    While I could eat a dozen baked cookies, I would get a … Continue reading →

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When Market Rents Break People, Some Try Fixes…

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

We are very far from the local control and local ownership of housing that was the norm 100 years ago.   Not that everything was rosy then, but we can see the thorns of our current system.   Some are trying some … Continue reading →

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If the ‘safety-net’ that went from Church to Government now goes to Non-Profits then we have work to do!

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

From the middle ages through the 1800’s, the “social safety net” in the west used to be offered by “the Church” (which church varied by region).    Think about schools, alms for the poor, asylums, hospitals–  many or most were administered … Continue reading →

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High Stakes Testing– is Failing

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

Diane Ravitch’s book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education was a thoughtful antidote to the highly touted movie Waiting for “Superman” .   A clue that that movie was a … Continue reading →

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Article on Sharable about Foundation Housing

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

      I think the writer, Jessica Conrad, did a great job on this article about Foundation Housing for an interesting periodical Sharable, and also the same article was put up on On The Commons. Recommended.    

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Vanity Bitcoin Address for Me

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

Thanks the Mike McCabe at the Archive, I now have a cool vanity bitcoin address.   As in all things bitcoin, there is no central point of control, even on vanity addresses.   Basically one just computes lots of different addresses until … Continue reading →

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Our Foundation House now accepts Bitcoin for Rent in San Francisco

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

(covered by SFWeekly) Our Foundation House is now accepting bitcoin for rent.   Since the Internet Archive is having such fun with bitcoin, we thought we would offer this.   The Sushi place in our neighborhood accepts bitcoin, and Internet Archive employees … Continue reading →

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Bank Secrecy Act = Bank Surveillance Act

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

United States banks do not tell you this, but they are now spying for the United States Government.    I am now a chairman of a Credit Union (please join!) and as such went through Bank Secrecy Act training.    “Bank Secrecy … Continue reading →

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Phone Metadata Used To Find Informants and Kill Them

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

To help understand the impact of the current debate about “phone-metadata”, or records of phonecalls, a friend cited an article that describes how a Colombian drug cartel, in 2002, used phone metadata to find government informants and kill them.  Apparently, … Continue reading →

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Facebook Building Apartments for Employees

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Brewster Kahle

“The social media giant announced plans to erect a community development a mere 1.5 miles from the Menlo Park, Calif. sprawl. The $120 million, 630,000 square-foot complex will house 394 units including studio apartments and three-bedroom apartments, with a handful … Continue reading →

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