Notices by ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊ (dajbelshaw@mastodon.social), page 12

Steven Barrett's Version 2 is the first aircraft to fly in atmosphere using an "engineless" ion drive. It uses a set of electrified rails; the rail at the front has enough power that its field strips the electrons from atmospheric nitrogen atoms, and the rail at the back is negatively charged to attract the positive nitrogen ions, thereby pulling the aircraft through the air.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-and-simple-ion-engine-powers-a-plane-with-no-moving-parts/

Thanks to the generosity of @mcsweeneys and the authors, The End of Trust is also free to download under a @creativecommons BY-NC-ND license. https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

Link jumping this morning from @Downes video to Mozilla resources to beyond eventually brought me to the p2pforever site, and this set of values (see image file) -- a sort of manifesto to the shift towards a Distributed Web -- is much appreciated.

p2pforever: http://p2pforever.org/

#el30

Testing MoodleNet sign-ups: https://blog.moodle.net/2018/testing-moodlenet-sign-ups/

Want to help us test the way people register for MoodleNet? Here's what to do.

#MoodleNet #Moodle #testing

As I've been building and delivering the #el30 course I've been documenting the process in very detailed technical posts describing the design and construction - I'm up to seven posts now (and will probably double that by the time I'm done) starting here: https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2018/09/designing-e-learning-30-in-grsshopper-1.html

MozFest is awesome, if overwhelming. Went to @dajbelshaw's fun (yes really!) session on decentralising, met some great people there