2009 June 23

1200 1230 Booked flight SNA => SFO for Friday 6/26 (Virgin America 801)
          Miscellaneous readings:
            Jon Lebkowsky (worldchanging), A declaration of health data rights (declaration linked; also
              linked: new Journal of Participatory Medicine)

0030 0100 Prepared reimbursement request for prints and CHI registration

0100 0245 Finished Collaps-O-Meter and Bureau of Economic Interpretation subsections of thesis

0245 0345 Started next thesis section

1100 1500 Email; news; food
          Miscellaneous readings:
            Global Guerrillas blog (John Robb), entries from June 2 to June 23
              Standing orders 1 through 11 (for 'global guerrillas'):
                Break networks
                Grow black economies
                Virtualize your organization
                Repetition is more important than scale
                Coopetition not competition
                Don't fork the insurgency
                Minimalist rule sets work best
                Self-replicate
                Share or copy everything that works
                Release often and early
                Co-opt, don't own, basic services
              Quote: California's descent
              Not Cyber command, Network command
              Resilient community: energy/food IRA/401K
              Centralized or decentralized energy?
              Stability operations
              Nigerian amnesty? (MEND)
              Dual use technology (on deep packet inspection systems provided to Iranian govt by Nokia/Siemens)
              USA, Inc. (PDF; on the privatization of the nation-state)
            Temporary desert structures (Burning Man)
            Aaron Chatterji (Duke Fuqua), Generation Y is about to face its first test ("A dismal economy
              may force millennials to stretch - and that may be a good thing")
            wp: Alcubierre drive
            wp: Casimir effect
            Christopher Roads and Loretta Chao (WSJ), "Iran's web spying aided by Western technology"
            YouTube video, Anonymous Message to Iranian Government
            Forum, "Anonymous Iran"
            James McKinley, Jr. (NYT), War without borders: Mexican cartels lure American teens as killers
            Tara Parker-Pope (NYT), How the food makers captured our brains (on a new book by David Kessler,
              The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite)
            AnonNet
            Julia Levitt (Worldchanging), WeCommune: Tech Support for Communes
            Dmitry Orlov, Definancialisation, deglobalisation, relocalisation (talk presented to The New Emergency Conference, Dublin, 11 June 2009)
          Submitted reimbursement request to Dustin
          Talked w/ Claire Goldsby to figure out registration/graduation situation

1445 1530 Demo for GITA students

1530 1630 Post-demo meeting, misc. research discussion

1630 1700 Lab chatter, worked on this report

1700 1715 Returned 52" flatscreen to LUCI

1715 1730 Successfully canceled plane ticket to SFO (driving w/ Susan Sim)

1730 1930 Dinner

1930 2100 Brainstorming 'Green IT atlas' project; result:
            1. Compile a few dozen 'profiles' of 'green IT' projects/systems
            2. Tag profiles
            3. Use a faceted browsing system and/or graph visualization system to visualize the personal, institutional, technological, conceptual,
                 and material networks of green IT projects

2100 2115 Note to Jeff Wong re 'sustainability', 'resilience', 'descent'

2115 0000 Brainstorming, notes on 'collapse', 'descent', 'sustainability', 'resilience' (hand-written notes): dynamical system models

TODOS FOR TOMORROW

  Finish 'motivations, etc.' thesis section
  Clear inbox to various lists
  Carry over 'inactives' across daily reports
  Register for one credit during summer session so I can graduate
  Readings for STS workshop

INACTIVE

  Notes on 'sustainable software engineering' and 'equivalence classes': rearranging the deck chairs?
  Play Chess
  Play Go