I Fell from the Moon

The Pirate bay has been assimilated into the legion of Anonymous. Why? To aid Anonymous in the fight against the harmful ways of The Church of Scientology. The Church of Scientology is a sinister corporation, using brainwashing and crime to exploit the followers of Scientology for money, and manipulation of authorities to hide their operations, until Anonymous combined effort, known as Project Chanology cracked their corporation wide open.

The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is a tracker and search engine for BitTorrent, a file sharing protocol where you use a file sharing program to open a torrent file. The torrent file contains instructions for how to connect to a central server. The central server keeps track of people sharing the file, allowing you to connect to these people to download the file.

The pirate bay are now linking to Operation Sea Arrrgh II on their home page. The Pirate Bay homepage is no longer linking to Operation Sea Arrrgh II. A pirate themed protest against the Church of Scientology. Many pirates have now been assimilated into the legion of Anonymous.

Anonymous

Anonymous is the name of a legion of anonymous Internet users with roughly the same goals. Anonymous has no leaders and no organization structure, and no specific center of operations, making them an virtually impossible target to take down.

As David himself writes:

We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us

While their operations have been mostly humorous and often misunderstood pranks, they've also gathered forces for great justice. Project Chanology is one of these efforts.

Project Chanology

Project Chanology is a protest movement against the Church of Scientology. It exists to uncover the sinister operations of The Church of Scientology, protest against its methods, and finally bring a stop to its harmful operations.

This is done by protests from Anonymous. They gather in various locations for peaceful protests. Often wearing Guy Fawkes masks and carrying informative banners about the Church of Scientology. Several successful protests have been completed. They've gathered a fair amount of media coverage and followers of Scientology are starting to wake up to their Church' harmful ways.

SeaArrrgh II - Protesting the Cult of scientology - June 13 & 20, 2009 -- from TheDonzerlyLight on Vimeo.

Related links

• The Pirate Bay Joins Anonymous’ Fight Against Scientology torrentfreak.com
• The Pirate Bay thepiratebay.org
• Project Chanology en.wikipedia.org

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Thanks to Encyclopedia Dramatica (Warning: Might contain objectionable content) for pictures of anonymous.

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The poor of our "rich" society are often overlooked. Every now and then we hear about disasters or crisises in distant countries that make thousands, hundred thousands or even more people homeless and poor. But we in countries that look at ourself as "developed" also have our poor people with low standards of living. And we need to help them, as well as poor people in other countries. So we're going to look at several technologies that can improve the life of poor people or help them lift themselves out of poverty.

Homes

Some times people without homes might find themselves sleeping outside or in provisional rooms. The living standards of homeless people might be improved by using shipping containers as housing. Many companies have excess shipping containers that just take up space they could use for other things. And a shipping container is a standardised container that is easily stacked, and easily moved which makes for a easily and quickly established home.

But maybe you're thinking, "a shipping container would be cold, dark and ugly". Not necessarily. It can easily be painted and insulated. Windows can be mounted as easy as in a regular house. The container could even expand to increase space available inside. Shipping containers could become cheap, comfortable and good looking spaces to live for both the poor and the modernist.

Water

A common trait in some undeveloped countries is that many people have limited access to clean drinking water. Half of the world's poor suffer from water borne diseases. As much as 6000 of these, mostly children, die daily. But cleaning water would be too expensive, right? Not any more.

LifeStraw is a straw that filters water, removes bacteria and viruses and makes unclean water taste better. It'll clean drinking water for one person for one year. It's easily mass distributed where it's needed the most.

Education

A common cause of poverty is lack of education. Education material and access to knowledge in developing countries can be very limited. Computers with a connection to the internet could solve this problem, but computers are expensive and so is the infrastructure.

The OLPC XO-1 is built to solve this problem. It's built to be a cheap, yet powerful, state of the art laptop, tailored to childrens education, especially in developing countries. At the price of $188 it hasn't reached its goal of becoming the $100 laptop yet, but will hopefully do so during 2008.

It's a robust laptop that can be carried like a suitcase when closed. The screen can be rotated and will work as a ebook when closed over the keyboard. The shell is specifically built to withstand dust and moisture. It contains no moving parts inside and thus is rather resistant to shock. The keyboard is sized to fit the hands of children.

The XO-1 contains a set of technologies tailored for education in developing countries. It comes with lots of educational software, a offline version of Wikipedia, has a very low power consumption and can be charged by hand, or with a car battery. XO-1 can make a so-called "mesh network" where many laptops work together to form a network with eachother over a wide area. If one laptop in this network is connected to the internet, it can share this connection with the rest of the mesh network.

Conclusion

Thanks to...

1. Atomische.com for Shipping Containers
2. Mr. Kimberly for Shipping Container House
3. Trav and Nan for An African Classroom 1
4. Walter for Galadima0.jpg

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