Old news but worth repeating Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years ZDnet.com
Dear Democratic Presidential Candidates: Social networks are not the real world.
What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant
What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant by Randy Barnett (Reason.com) The assumption of natural rights expr...I know it is no longer fashionable to have statues of great people in our public spaces in America. But I would like to see more statues of Frederick Douglass in our parks and squares. A lot more.
Random Soft Drink Observations 3 July 2019
Diet Orange Crush does not have the bite I remember from regular Orange Crush. That was decades ago so my memory might ...Sorry, I just don’t see the British going for MLB. They already have cricket, which does not take up huge amounts of space, is hard to play and has a nap time built in for the fans, why bother with MLB?
Recycled Paper Roulette
Buying recycled paper products locally has become a challenge. Local supermarkets that 10 years ago had a wide range of ...I’m becoming addicted to the Apple News app.
Hotels/motels a lot of things like soap bars don’t need to be wrapped in plastic, paper will do.
I’m not quite sure what you can do about the plastic film covering the plastic drinking glasses. It denotes that the glass is clean and unused but there has to be something more environmentally friendly than plastic film to wrap them in.
Same thing for the fast food industry, utensils can be wrapped in paper not plastic film.
Traveling with an iPad Air 2 and an iPhone is a pretty effective, light weight, combination. The iPad has a cellular data card just in case hotel WiFi is bad. When WiFi is good, I can stream shows on the tablet in the evenings. Good kit.
I can now state, IMHO, that Nescafé Classic dark roast instant coffee tastes better than Tasters Choice.
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
– Henry David Thoreau
From the Archives: Using Webrings for Defining Sub-Communities on Micro.blog Um, I forgot I wrote this. I just did a search in the MB discovery section for “webrings”, which returned one of @smokey ’s weekly summaries which had the timeline thread about this article.
cc. @JohnPhilpin
The Best Review of the Danger Man 1960's British TV Series - Ever.
I stumbled across one of the best reviews/essays for a TV series collection on DVD that I have ever read. It’s a D...How to Start Your Own Webring on Webringo.com
Starting Your Own Webring on Webringo.com You need a ring host. I have used Webringo.com recently and everything there i...The, “It’s Interesting to Me File”: I’m surrouded by train tracks here but the line closest to were I live seems to have less traffic on it these days. I’m not sure if that is true for other lines.
Does train traffic seem lighter to anyone else?
I have not synced my iPhone with my car yet. I know it works but I generally don’t answer phone calls while driving so I thought I’d skip it. But I did try plugging in the iPhone unsynced and Apple Music came up. I couldn’t get it to play. Maybe I should download some songs to see if that would work?
PinePhone $149 Linux smartphone could support Ubuntu, Sailfish, Maemo, LuneOS and more - Liliputing liliputing.com/2019/06/p…
FDR's D-Day Prayer
On the evening of D-Day, 6 June 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresed the American nation with this prayer: &l...June 6th 2019 will be the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings. Here is a HeritageCalling.com post about D-Day.
heritagecalling.com/2019/06/0…
The cost in courage, blood and treasure was enormous, but fighting Evil is never cheap.
Just for the record, I’m pro Bakelite.
Singer Leon Redbone, has died. Bob Dylan was a fan. www.npr.org/2019/05/3…
RIP.
Notes from Iowa, 01
On a trip to Iowa, well off the Interstates. All two lane highways here. Here in the Heartland, it’s a mixed bag, some s...Google reportedly pulls Huawei’s Android license - The Verge www.theverge.com/2019/5/19…