On July 10th (two Saturdays from today), I’ll be running another Alternative Energy Workshop at Noisebridge in the Turing classroom, starting at 2pm. It’d be excellent if you could RSVP over on the Facebook page, or comment here on the blog if you want to come, leaving an email address I can actually reach you at.

More from the FB page:

DITCH THE DIESEL! Come build your own solar energy generator.

Dr Geoff Horne of Alternative Energy Zone brings clean energy to your houseboat, homemade platform, or deck camp with a hands-on workshop designed to get you rolling with an easy-to-build, very affordable solar kit.

This is a hands-on, information-rich workshop where you’ll get to build all the components yourself and ask as many questions as you can muster.

While this workshop is geared to support the total beginner, our resident expert, Dr Geoff Horne (organizer of Alternative Energy Zone, a long-running Burning Man Camp that requires all campers to bring their own non-diesel, clean energy generators), will be able to enrich even the experienced alternative energy maker.

This is a free workshop, donations to Noisebridge (a nonprofit hackerspace in San Francisco) strongly encouraged.

…wherein I more formally announce my schemes for the next 4 months.

First off, what I’m most excited about:

the MemeHacking branch of NotaCon

I’m co-organizing a separate branch of NotaCon this year dealing specifically with memetics. You can read more about it on the MemeHacking Conference page.

The call has gone out to specific persons and to the general public for interesting presentations and panel ideas. So far, the response looks utterly fascinating.

If you’re interested in memetics — i.e. the study of thoughts and ideas capable of self-replication and evolution by natural selection — check out the MemeHacking blog. We’re writing essays about recent scientific research through the lens of memetics.

MemeHacking gives damn good tweet.

You should should totally follows us on Twitter (@MemeHacking of course). We get retweeted by @Richard_Dawkins. You know, the guy who invented the word “meme” in 1976.

Relatedly, you”ll want to check out our sister site…

MemeWeaving.com

On MemeWeaving.com we’re collecting videos, papers, slideshows, podcasts, and all other content related to neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, cognition, behavioral economics, marketing, and the like. Why? Because we want to make it easy for people to surf through the stuff that’s influenced us and given us hope that we can discover the memetic operating system: US.

MemeWeaving has a little social networking doodad built in that we’re experimenting with. I added it because I think it will be useful for the Memetics Conference — people will be able to link up with and discover more interesting people who appreciate thinking about information, human brains, and culture through the memetic perspective.

Feel free to grab a free account!