Car-mounted kangaroo audio weapon
Car-mounted kangaroo audio weapon used on motorcycle protestors.
View ArticleIn the jungle in Colares
A friend of ours bought a small piece of land in the jungle in Colares, an island where the local mascots are stingrays and UFOs. Every mural or hair dresser has a stingray or an alien in it. He is...
View ArticleMotorscooter for wheelchair users
I was walking home on Christmas day this year in Belem, and saw this contraption. As I was looking, the owner and inventor came out. He realized I hadn’t fully grasped its use and was eager to explain....
View ArticleHusky, jungle, 3hrs, 55mph
Friends on vacation with dog and motorcycle. They were going to give the dog sleeping pills on the initial voyage. Didn’t seem like a good idea, and I think they bailed on it.
View ArticleChristmas in Bethlehem
Christmas Eve in Brazil is pretty amazing (santa would land on grilling meat). The game: stay up as late as you can at a family party until everybody gets sleepy and almost cranky. On the roads back,...
View ArticleGetting around NavegaPara’s heavily-blocked internet, for SMTP, IMAP, SSH,...
There’s a government agency in the state of Para Brazil called NavegaPara (surf Para) that offers pretty awesome internet connections in out of the way areas where commercial internet isn’t great....
View ArticleFacebook messages as email: an XMPP to POP/IMAP/SMTP gateway
I never want to look at Facebook.com again. Every one of their 2,000 very smart employees is focused on one thing: how to build the best machine to trick you into wasting your time. Everything about...
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