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Afghan War Rug

In a coun­try where most peo­ple are illit­er­ate, the tapes­try of his­to­ry is woven into the rugs.

FabFi — FabLab Jalalabad

Meet the home­made Fab­Fi mesh net­work. We are bring­ing some indus­tri­al equip­ment to replace the most used edges on the net­work. (bonus if you can spot the geo­graph­i­cal error in the pow­er­point presentation.)

Mullah Todd

This is Todd Huff­man, our house­mate in San Fran­cis­co and host in Jalal­abad. Mul­la Todd spent Spring Break work­ing with some of the boys in the FabLab on all sorts of high tech stuff. The boys gave him the “Mulla” han­dle because of the long chin whiskers which all the locals nev­er fail to com­ment on. He’s like a rock star in the Bazaar down­town. (via Free Range Inter­na­tion­al » One Step For­ward Two Steps Back)

Ahmad Zahir — most famous singer of Afghanistan

Wikipedia on Ahmad_Zahir I’ll like a few songs when I get to it.

Defense Language Institute Field Support Guides

I got their Afghanistan guide from here. It’s iPhone com­pat­i­ble! This is part of the recon giv­en to ser­vice­men on their way to Afghanistan. Some insights from here will make it else­where on the blog. Defense Lan­guage Insti­tute Field Sup­port Guides

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