War Plan Red: The U.S. Contingency for War With Canada & The UK This seems quiant today, with NATO but is made more sense back in the 1920’s.
Today, I’m sure we have contingency plans on how to defend Alaska and the Aleutian Islands in case of war with Russia or China. Preparing these plans is how you keep your military staff at the Pentagon busy during times of peace.
I firmly believe in Capitalism, but a well regulated Capitalism. Unregulated Capitalism leads to all sorts of Bad Things, like over consolidation in markets to where you only have one, two or three choices in vital products. That isn’t competition. That’s oligarchy and destroys competition.
Mornings on the Internets are best faced with coffee and a stout club.
Right. I spent a good good chunk of the afternoon after recieving this e foundation newsletter twisting myself in knots trying to decide between an eventual Linux based phone, an E Foundation version of Android phone or a frellin iPhone blinking XR deep in Apple’s walled garden.
Why is it so fricken hard to get one smartphone, that works on American networks that is not packed with Google spyware?
Wikipedia: Zombies Ate Burns Harbor, Indiana
I’m saving an old post of mine from a personal blog I had on Blogger, preserving this for posterity. The following...The real world is way weirder than anything out of fiction.
Bees living on Notre-Dame cathedral roof survive blaze All Creaures Great and Small…
New Life for Webrings
Webrings might have some life left in them if a new generation adopts them. Here is a new boilerplate for hosting your o...📚 I recommend the books by Eric Sloane. Particularly the Early American history books about wood, barns, and life in general. My favorite is Diary of an Early American Boy which contains lots of info about the life of settlers in 1805.
Murder In, French TV series
I’ve been streaming the French murder mystery series “Murder In…” each episode is set in a less...CIA spy Virginia Hall is about to become everyone’s next favorite historical hero Sounds like Hall was an amazing spy.
Back in the day, we used to get only blurry-cam photos of UFO’s, Bigfoot and USSR tanks. Okay so USSR aside, now that everyone is running around with a good camera, you would think we would be getting more and better UFO and Bigfoot shots. Instead nothing except selfies.
Tuxphones.com looks interesting if you want to keep up on the latest on Linux on phones news.
Is the EU Democratic?
Structure: The EU Commission: Commissioners, one per state, are appointed by each member state’s leader. They are...Om Malik: The Scourge of Robocalls The last paragraph is spot on.
My thought: Who shall guard the guardians?
Google and the Android Monopoly
This remains a problem: Google has locked up all the Android smartphone OSM’s with contracts restricting what othe...In reply to Charlie: Webrings If you are looking for something old school as a webring host try Webringo I’ve made a couple of experimental webrings there and everything works even though the site is very quiet. Good place to try out ideas. Webringo does not spam you either.
The cool thing is you can opt for good old HTML ring code and customize it if you want. Love me some HTML. Good luck!
I need to mess with the CSS on my hosted Micro.blog blog soon. I want linked text to be readily noticeable. I may go old school. Remember in the 1990’s when all links were blue? Yeah that, I don’t care what it looks like.
With phones, having the choice between only two operating systems, iOS and Android, is not a real choice. We need to get some more options and quick.
What the Heck is Populism?
What is populism? Is all populism the same? Is all populism bad? Is populism a symptom of governments, political parties...Back to privacy search engine Mojeek.com as my default for a couple of weeks as part of my ongoing tests. Normally I use DuckDuckGo, but Mojeek uses it’s own crawler which makes it very important, long term, in the search space and they are expanding their index so I want to see if I notice that. This is how search engine geeks have fun. :-)
“Video Killed the Radio Star” by Walk Off the Earth featuring Sarah Silverman I like the original but this is a good cover that brings the song back for a new generation.