Badass Links
You guys sent me so many excellent links this week that I'm posting a supplemental links post this afternoon. All of these posts involve badasses.First badass: William Kamkwamba, a nineteen-year old living in Malawi, who built a windmill to generate electricity for his family's home. His blog discusses both the windmill and a recent project to upgrade the wiring and lighting in the home.
That sounds dry, but it's not--it's very poignant to read the blog and see the pictures of his home. And he is doing so much with so little, which qualifies him as a badass in my book. The blog is http://www.williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/-- start from the bottom and read up. Thanks to Michael O'Reilly for the link.
Badass #2: a five-year old who pinned a rabid fox to the ground to protect six other children. It bit him (and it was rabid), but he held it down for over a minute until an adult could help. Rayshun McDowell=badass, and you can read about him here.
Badass #3: Tarn and Zach Adams, creators of the astonishing Dwarf Fortress, are interviewed on the Gamers With Jobs Conference Call (hosted this week by Shawn Andrich, who is the Canadian flavor of badass). Julian Murdoch is the interviewer, and he does an excellent job as well. The interview begins around the 9:30 mark, and you can listen here.
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