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"rubbish...rub rub rubbish..." - DJ Rubbish (Oct 2002)

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" – R. Buckminster Fuller

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation... the hand is the cutting edge of the mind" - Jacob Bronowski

Welcome to my personal web page. This is a collection of bits and pieces; mainly links to external sites.  There's also some bits of computer stuff I have collected or cobbled together (although not too much at the moment) and other such detritus.

frost:
about me:
click here
pictures:
chubbygristle.fotopic.net - photographs live here at the moment
unix:
linux
solaris
general
mail:
exim
reverse dns verification - page of info

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"Eliminate your debt. Take your money off the table. Stop buying stuff that you don’t need. Live well on very little. Grow your own food. Participate in alternative and/or outlawed food economies for what you don’t produce yourself. Barter, or use cash. Support people who do good work. Finally, draw a line in the sand. Don’t tell anyone where that line is, or what the consequences will be if it’s crossed. Don’t wave a sign about it. Don’t twitbook about it. Let the fascists figure it out the hard way." - cryptogon.com September 27th, 2009

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external links:
peakoil:
peak oil intro - read this first (credit: J Atkinson)
powerswitch.org.uk - uk based peak oil news and forums site
localpower.org.uk - from the makers of powerswitch - LocalPower is an easy way to find community groups providing practical responses to climate change, peak oil and environmental crises.
uk.oildrum.com - uk / european extension of the oil drum site
act2: from the wilderness - peak oil blog - mike rupert is back
population, the elephant in the room - it all boils down to too many people
why is peak oil so difficult to explain/understand - good article about why this is a rate (flow) problem.
dieoff.org - the original peak oil / global resource depletion end of mankind site
jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com - peak oil (ish) blog
peakfood.co.uk - the food/oil link
globalpublicmedia.com - public service broadcasting for a post carbon world
energyskeptic.com - we're going back to the age of wood
the archdruid report - Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society
10 in 10 diet - the diet for climate change and peak oil
energy:
zerocarbonista.com - "how will we keep the lights on, what kind of cars will we drive (will we drive?) and how will we feed ourselves – in a post oil world" - dale vince of ecotricity's blog...
the lean guide to nuclear energy - a must read, downloadable as a .pdf for free
paranoia?
cryptogon.com - 'crypto' adj. Secret; covert. 'gon' suff. A figure having a specified kind or number of angles.
esoteric agenda - more interesting zeitgeist like stuff...
skepticism:
skeptico.blogs.com - skeptico
politics:
pirateparty.org.uk - "the law needs to change to match the realities of life in the 21st century"
afterdowningstreet.org - "a nonpartisan coalition working to expose the lies that create and sustain wars and occupations and to hold accountable those responsible"
tomdispatch.com - "seeking a deeper understanding of our post-9/11 world and a clear sense of how our imperial globe actually works"
money:
money as debt - because that's how it works...
a brief history of money - worth a read
short circuit - richard douthwaite's book on local currencies / economies. a must read. free online edition.
permaculture / environment:
permaculture.org.uk - uk permaculture organisation
transitionculture.org - rob hopkins permaculture / transition town blog
real seeds - possibly the best online seed shop
selfsufficient-ish - the urban guide to almost self sufficiency
woodgasstoves - wood gassifer stove, handy for emergencies and camping etc
an uncertain future - "Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change" report, pdf
population:
albert bartlett - eye opener of a lecture
common sense:
bartlett on whiteboards - an example of over-complication, consumption and modern-day bullsh!t
audiobooks:
librivox.org - free audio books (free as in public domain)
food:
local food:
big barn - find you local food producers, shop local and f**k the tescopoly
tescopoly - if you shop at supermarkets you positively support many many bad things...
pies:
pieminister.co.uk - pies, not cheap, not big but tasty (lots of flash)
maps:
open street map - the free wiki world map
google maps - very hand online map
gps co-ordinate converter and google map WGS84 co-ord, er, giver :-)
streetmap.co.uk - very useful due to being able to use both OS grid ref types etc.
music:
indiegestion.co.uk - york / leeds and area indie music blog
fire this time - docu-music-thing of the whole iraq war debacle
hmhb.co.uk - half man half biscuit official (?) web page 'satisfying the bloodlust of the masses in peacetime'
marillion.com - marillion
radiohead.com - radiohead, or what not to listen to when writing a web site
puressence.co.uk - official band site
video - page of links to various videos, mostly youtube
service providers:
hosting:
bytemark.co.uk - 'bytemark are often recommended as the UK "nerd hosting outfit of choice"'
isp:
thephone.coop - green cheap(ish) ethical phone / net provider
photos:
fotopic.net - free photo hosting
selling stuff:
ebay.co.uk - selling and buying stuff
uk.ebid.net - free to bid, free to list
shoes:
guatshoes.co.uk - handmade shoes in Sheffield
greenshoes.co.uk -handmade shoes in Totnes
computers:
hardware:
novatech.co.uk - one of the few remaining laptops providers not forcing you to pay the Microsoft Tax in the UK.
very-pc.co.uk - low consumption, microsoft optional pc supplier in sheffield
reference:
o reilly - handy
programming:
django - python web framework





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