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Open kitchen clipart

2009-07-27T03:35:00+02:00

After the release of our Puerto Livre de Cuisine Kookboek, all the drawings and illustrations now are available as clipart on Open Clip Art Library.

Thanks to nitrofurano: download all files in one go with wget!
Download script and run from the commandline with: $ bash kitchenclipart.sh

Let's cook together :-)

Free Pink!

2009-07-07T06:33:00+02:00

"Green Dam Youth Escort (绿坝·花季护航: Lǜbà·Huājì Hùháng) recognizes pornographic images by analyzing skin-coloured regions, causing the barring of this image of pink color pigs."

The Chinese government has mandated that, beginning July 1, every PC sold in China must include a censorship program called Green Dam. This software is designed to monitor Internet connections and text typed on the computer. It blocks undesirable or politically sensitive content and optionally reports it to authorities. Green Dam was developed by a company called Jin Hui and is available as a free download...

Cookbook Launch

2009-06-22T07:56:00+02:00

22 June, 16:00 @ Puerto, Varkensmarkt 23, Brussels

Join us this afternoon for the long awaited festive launch of the Puerto Livre de Cuisine Kookboek: 70 delicious recipes, written, translated (Dutch and French) and illustrated in collaboration with the inhabitants of Puerto. Puerto is an organisation working from the center of Brussels, where they generously support anyone in need of a home. The book was laid out in Scribus, Gimp and Linux Libertine and is now available for only 12,50 €. If you're in Brussels, order your copy at: puerto@archipel.be or buy the POD-version from lulu.com! All benefits support the work of Puerto.

Some pictures of the launch:
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=33

Future Farmers Free soil

2009-06-04T12:24:00+02:00

A journey through the history and currents of free education, counter-institutional movements and the economy of information in Silicon Valley + beyond.

Free Soil presents a bus tour, exhibition, outdoor film/video festival & on-site exchange in conjunction with the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge in San Jose, California. This tour takes inspiration from the spirit of counter cultural activities prevalent in this region in the late 1960’s, namely the activities of the Mid-Peninsula Free University, Homebrew Computer Club,draft-resisters and the back-to-landers. These prototypical models of alternative education formed in reaction to the growing influence of the military-industrial complex on American universities. Courses were taught on topics ranging from intentional communities and sand-casting candles, to Maoist political theory , “To Be Gentle,” and "The Art of Giving Away Bread."

...Join 30 artists, scientists, curators on a 1.5 day long journey that includes small walks, lectures, mini-workshops and other particpatory events. The Tour lasts 7 hours and includes lunch, drink and snacks.

As part of the Free Soil Bus Tour Project a reader will be collated and printed by this occasion. This reader is primarily a resource for people engaged in experimental/alternative learning projects. Marthe is now working hard on this reader by trying Scribus. And OSP is willing to get on the bus at last stop, to share the joy of this journey in coming weeks, someday in sunny June.

interview at the airport

2009-05-19T19:31:00+02:00

on the way back from LGM Montréal - Trudeau airport. Sonore version will be coming soon...

Puerto Kookboek in progress

2009-05-19T16:05:00+02:00

A table!

2009-03-11T14:02:00+01:00

Un petit livre de cuisine en préparation... il s'agit un livret de recettes créées par les habitants de chez Puerto. Une association qui offre un soutien aux personnes qui sont en difficulté entre autres en leur proposant un repas équilibré à prix réduit. 3 services (entrée | plat | dessert) pour moins de 4 euro par personne, pour un total d'une quinzaine de personnes environs. Un vrai challenge! Le livret sera illustré non seulement par les les mains du graphiste mais aussi par celles des habitants . Une session de dessin a été organisée le 23 février après diner.

En attendant que les légumes soient découpés, le four préchauffe... on espère pouvoir vous faire les partager bientôt avant l'été.

Figlet...Cowsay...

2008-08-25T00:13:00+02:00

During the Polish Print Party, a scene performed silently behind the bar counter...

they are about :

=== FIGlet ==============================

Go to Synaptic to install the Figlet package
Find the pre-installed fonts: /usr/share/figlet
To add more fonts:/usr/share/figlet (That is for all users. Otherwise, you have to put the new fonts in a directory of your choice by indicated with -d(directory))

It will look like this

yi@core2duo:\~\$ figlet -f banner it will be looked like this

or like this

yi@core2duo:\~\$ figlet -d /home/yi/figfonts -f isometric2 or like this

Have fun with Frank, Ivan and Glen's letters!

=== Cowsay / Cowthink =========================

find out cow's home to start installation
then: sudo apt-get install cowsay
open file: .bashrc
add line
echo Bonjour \$USER

Sometimes it looks like this

yi@core2duo:\~\$ cowsay -d \$M like this

Sometimes it looks like that

yi@core2duo:\~\$ cowsay -p \$M like that

Or like...

yi@core2duo:\~\$ cowsay -f dragon.cow like...

A vous de jouer :)

one day, 'sausages - incorrect - ugly'

2008-05-30T14:01:00+02:00