Slow Down and Read Make
The comic "Over the Hedge" featured Make in its January 21st strip. Thanks to Poncho Alarcon of Monterrey, Mexico who spotted the turtle named Verne reading Make.
I'm working on a piece for the next issue of Make called "Slow Made," which points out similar ideas in the Slow Food movement and the Maker movement. The idea is to explore ways to become a co-producer, not a consumer. Verne is said by his creators, Michael Fry and T Lewis, to be "a true renaissance-turtle." Perhaps he's a perfect symbol for slow made.
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[aside to ed.s about the blogging software]
Your blog software is buggy in that the front-page count of comments still shows 0, though the preceding has been here for several hours.
The other semi-bug is the slow response time when posting a comment (as in click the submit button and then wait forever for the response page). From my own experience this is almost a feature because it definitely has the effect of causing me to think thrice before most comments. On the other hand, some of my own embarassing duplicates are a direct result of thinking the blog software just went off into space and, noting the frequency of double-postings of comments, I'm not alone in that.
-t
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Thomas Lord [01.22.08 05:24 PM]
I don't know much about the slow food movement per se but am moderately steeped in the food culture of Berkeley. If I may pimp I'll add a link here to The Edible Schoolyard Project which certainly seems in similar spirit to Make.
The food movements seem timely as consumer access to disposable income is stressed. People can (even if they don't know how) spend less money and about break-even on time/work while enjoying a much higher quality of life, if they are starting a position of heavy reliances on dining out or prepared food, etc. Some general principle is lurking offstage there about how through the self-investment of learning and skills people can leverage what they do have far better than many seem to.
-t