With a little experimentation some years ago, I determined that this is the best way to slow-cook bacon…

The rest is here: Breakfast, slowly. Via Joe.

Hello, my name is Brandon, I work in the Bay Area as a Software Engineer and I’ve been living out of the back of a 16′ box truck
Thoughts from Inside the Box
via The Guardian

8m²! Non destinée a la location (hébergement jeune fille au pair)

Via huffingtonpost.fr

Il y a mieux: 6m²!

• Farm Hand’s Companion, an Online Companion to the Self-Sufficient Farm or Homestead. Youtube channel
• The Deliberate Agrarian
• Redeeming the Dirt
• Five Acres and a Dream
• Live Ready Now!
• On Just a Couple Acres
• North Country Farmer
• An American Homestead
• J & J Acres
• The Self Sufficient HomeAcre
• Backyard Farming Connection
• Countryside & Small Stock Journal
• New Life on a Homestead
• deborah jean’s DANDELION HOUSE and GARDEN
• Fresh Eggs Daily

Rick Falkvinge: When Authors Demand Payment For Every Copy, They Advocate Communism

• A study of active shooter incidents, 2000-2013.

• Le syndrome Shadok ou les failles du Renseignement francais
• how to beat islamic state (WSJ.com)

• Ursula Lindsey: The Ties That Bind Jihadists, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2015.
• Thomas Hegghammer: Why Terrorists Weep: The Socio-Cultural Practices of Jihadi Militants(pdf), Paul Wilkinson Memorial Lecture, University of St. Andrews, 16 April 2015.
• Robyn Creswell and Bernard Haykel: Why Jihadists Write Poetry, in The New Yorker, June 8, 2015.

H/t Dave Pell

Oui, Thoreau n’était pas si bien que cela.

Cody J. Crone, a.k.a. « Wranglerstar » (old FB – previous blog) is a modern homesteader and Youtube producer, from somewhere in North-West USA. One of those hard-working, God-fearing Americans who don’t rely on the State to protect their loved ones. A guy who would get a Hitachi EX 120 for his birthday. And before you ask, yes, he carries a weapon at all times. I find him (and his small familly of Ms. Wranglersar & Jack) far less obsessed with safety devices (« the Nanny State ») and hard-core survivalism than many. An he’s the only on I know to make AR-15 accessories out of second-hand car parts. Back in 2011 he was building a forest retreat for which he built a timber frame cabin out of treesharvested on his own land, for which he built saw ponies. Cabin got stolen (!), and Cody but seems to have backed up (or became more discreete) from that project. He claims loud not to be an expert, and to re-discover ‘old ways’. Not everybody agrees with his ways but his video are motivational.

Cody has a hands-on approach to foresting, resilience, farmtips, ram pump, beehive, gardening,… And tools. He occasionally makes his own:

Check his other own-made tools: a rake (1, 2) and a bark spud (1, 2). « Is it perfect? No. But neither am I, so we make a good pair ». This, is modern homesteading. « Righty tighty lefty loose »! [x] « There is no such thing as a cheap bulldozer » [x]