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Their videos on blow-out kit basics and hemostatics are worth a view. BFE Labs is not updated frequently, but the blog remains one of my favorites for practical skill and tool discussion.
Dick Griffith has pursued human-powered travel in the wilderness areas of the American West since 1946. He pioneered the use of a packraft in 1952. This book chronicles his travels.
The inaugural event made me proud to be part of ITS. I enjoyed meeting a part of the community around the site, and it was an honor to be included among the high caliber instructors.
Anne over at Hunt Gather Study Medicine discusses the problems with pre-packaged first-aid kits and reminds us that knowledge and experience are more important than gear.
When I first learned about the Bitcoin currency a few years ago, it didn’t excite me. A purely digital currency tied to no material good seemed an interesting project, but I didn’t see that it could have the practical value of, say, a digital gold currency. When the media blitz occurred last year I took another look and reached the same conclusion. A few months later I realized I was looking at the currency all wrong: bitcoins are not a value-store, they’re a means of exchange.
It doesn’t matter that Bitcoins are the digital equivalent of a fiat currency, with no inherent value. It doesn’t matter if their value fluctuates in relation to other currencies. There’s no reason to store wealth in Bitcoins (unless you’re a gambler). When you need to send money, purchase some Bitcoins and send them. When you need to receive money, accept Bitcoins and exchange them immediately for another currency. The value of the bitcoins only need to remain stable for the amount of time it takes to complete a transaction.
Every so often there are stories announcing the fact that emails are not legally protected or that G-men can access email older than 180 days without a warrant. There will be some minor uproar, complaining about how outdated the law is, but here’s the thing: it’s irrelevant.
You don’t need to trust your service provider. You don’t need to trust your storage provider. You don’t need the law to protect you. You simply need to take a little self-responsibility and encrypt your data.
Any private data stored on hardware that you do not physically control should be encrypted (and it’s a good idea to encrypt private data on hardware that you do physically control). Problem solved. Unless you’re in the UK.
I’ve been following the development of MediaGoblin and OpenPhoto for about a year. Both offer decentralized and federalized photo sharing services, and promise to be excellent solutions for when Flickr finally dies. OpenPhoto currently feels more mature, but MediaGoblin is more ambitious in scope. I hope to see both of them succeed. Today, MediaGoblin announced a crowdfunding campaign to fund development. I’ll be donating.
But I did get out for a ride along the Snohomish and Skykomish rivers on Saturday.
