links for 2011-06-16

• Kickstartup — Successful fundraising with Kickstarter & the (re)making of Art Space Tokyo — Craig Mod
  A detailed and wonderfully written explanation of how one guy used kickstarter to raise the money to fund printing his book.
  (tags: kickstarter funding entrepreneurship business startup)
• FreedomBox Foundation
  Interesting project to give people a secure, private "Internet appliance" that sits in their home/office/etc. and takes care of a lot of the stuff we're currently busy offloading onto "the cloud"
  (tags: privacy internet opensource software)
• Create a new box
  Haven't tried this yet, but a nice parametric tool for knocking out designs for boxes that you can feed into your laser cutter.
  (tags: lasercutting box design object)
• Pay as you go sim with data Wiki
  Suspect this will come in handy some time I'm off abroad and need mobile Internet access
  (tags: travel mobile phone data)