🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
🔗 Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants Elon Musk to be his presidential adviser.
Oh FFS … just what we need …
🔗 I do like what Montaigne does - but I have no idea how I might really use it.
Not read much about Burning Man this year - except how it is no longer ‘hot’ (culturally speaking) - but in case you want to ‘sing along’ - 🔗 🎵 there’s a web site for that.
Spectacular idea of how just one person can stand up and be counted.
Apple Pay can’t beat Visa and can’t touch PayPal for popularity
I expected more from William Gallagher. And myself for that matter.
Please Read Comments Before Spending Time Reading This.
I could have deleted it - but leaving it as a reminder to be more careful.
🔗 I am exploring this more (Medium - sorry)
pUNk doesn’t ask for permission or seek forgiveness.
pUNk is and does. It is who we are in our being and our thinking and our action.
Yes — pUNk is notoriously brash but we need brashness now more than ever. We need the crazies, the ones who are positively disrupting, the thoughtful ones who are not hidebound by tradition or phased by the unknowns.
More to come as I bottom out where this is headed - but is one of three separate groups of people that have passed through the ‘Philpin Philters’ this week.
🔗 Kremlin denies Putin ordered plane crash to kill Yevgeny Prigozhin
… well they are hardly going to put their hands up and say “it was us” are they?
In just one week - another domain in my life is not renewed and the work there archived … not to the 🔗 BIG archive … no … 🔗 right here
🔗 The Real Republican Debate Winner Was Clear, in One Sense (Apple News)
Prior to the debate, his name recognition was so low among voters that he offered $20 gift cards to anyone who donated a dollar to his campaign to meet the threshold of 40,000 individual donors needed to earn him a spot in the debate.
Hashtag #Winning !
🔗 Subway sold to Arbys and Dunkin owner Roark Capital (Apple News)
Roark Capital, which has $37 billion under management, specializes in franchised businesses and owns multiple restaurant chains. Its brands include Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin', Jimmy John’s and Sonic.
Why is this allowed? Isn’t this the exact consolidation of power in a market that the FCC is meant to be watching?
If you were in need of a new source for good quotes … well, I just stumbled over 🔗 this.
Weasel Insurance
If your laptop is ruined by rain pouring in from a hole in the roof, you can get reimbursed. But if it’s ruined by floodwaters, your renters policy won’t cover it.
( 🔗Apple News)
🔗 Simon Cowell sells London home for £30m below asking price.
He was asking 45 million - he took 15 million. Now that’s a discount!
🔗 Someone Paid Almost $2 Million for the Rusted Shell of a 1954 Ferrari
Puts that $2.5 million electric sports car that Marques was testing the other day into perspective.
They used to be ‘deplorables’ Is ‘listless vessel’ a promotion?
🔗 Ron DeSantis calls Trump supporters ‘listless vessels’ in Republican broadside.
🔗 In photos: Tropical Storm Hilary unleashes flooding and mudslides California - The Washington Post
I guess WaPo had a photographer on hand in Coachella Valley. Hardly anything about LA.
That riverbed is normally dry.
David Merfield and Blot Once More Deliver. Simple Solution - but QUITE BRILLIANT
Blot Delivers. Again.
🖇️ Back in 2020 I wrote this. Then just a few days ago 🔗 I asked again … this time I also pinged David.
The nub?
How it would be really useful when on a public page on a blot site - e.g. this one - to be able to have a single click that takes you to the file in dropbox - which you could then edit and save, so updating the site.
The current method is to take note of whatever the content is - open up dropbox and navigate to the file, which may - or may not - be as easy as it sounds. For me - because of how I structured my dropbox - it is generally a pain in the neck.
No More.
Thanks to David I know have a bookmark that he wrote for me.
Now I can click on that book mark and voila - there is the dropbox file.
Let me know if you would like the code.
🔗 AI bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles
… well, they could hardly be worse - if I am any measure.