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Earthday, NYC, April 22nd 1970

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75% of the USA’s Red States are in the Midwest.


does the post id number that you see in micro blog mean anything - e.g. is it a chronological number?

So if i see post id ‘124’ does that mean it is an early page/post?

asking for a friend.


I’ve tried.

This doesn’t work - if you are trying to stop google doing its usual shenanigans.

You know : Stopping GoogleSoftwareUpdate.app from trying to run on your Mac

Has something changed since October?


Milestones hit. Wonder how quick the next ones will pass by.


Frum explains …

Why Mitch McConnell Wants States to Go Bankrupt.

”A state bankruptcy process would thus enable a Republican Party based in the poorer states to use its federal ascendancy to impose its priorities upon the budgets of the richer states.”


Data is the new oil, soil, water … written about this before - my take? **Data Is Energy. **

Anyway on a call with the internet identity warriors right now and Doc Searls just flagged a post of his from three years ago …

Data Is Love


The Numbers Behind Social Distancing.

NYC v CA as a comp to explain the calculations … so you can calculate yours.


Here’s a thought as the USA pushes to ‘open,

Rough figures mind you

Globally of all the COVID cases that are closed 20% resulted in death.

In the USA that goes up to 33%

There are some 800k open COVID cases in the USA



So much for entitled millennials – it’s billionaires such as Richard Branson who are begging for loans.

… which jogged my weekend thought … how boomers have messed it all up - leaving the millennials and subsequent generations to clean it all up.

Weren’t Hippies boomers?


”As an American, I should be VERY insulted by this… if it weren’t true.”

one of the comments on

Dylan Moran Riffing

He’s Irish - I take no responsibility.


The MarTech 5000…I mean 8000… is Updated and I Have Thoughts.

IMHO Constellation Research are increasingly famous for being masters of the bleeding obvious. This is one such piece - though I have to say - haven’t yet fond too many other places writing about it.


Doc Searls riffs on a post of his from 25 years ago

This is that post

I don’t think it has all happened. Not by a long chalk.

Looks like that he doesn’t either.


A request to the Apple gods.

Let us control how our phones display landscape or portrait when in a video call.


Radio Garden

OMG … so good … so clever.

Thanks to Doc Searls for the link.


Coronavirus has already killed more British people than the Blitz.

I can’t speak for the reality of the numbers calculated - but whatever the logic applied to the UK surely applies to the US … I mean we don’t have Miller but we do have Cummings.


Senate to Focus on Judicial Confirmations Once Chamber Returns in May.

I mean it’s important to get your priorities straight isn’t it? And really … what else would be going on?


Microsoft Word Now Flags Two Spaces After a Period as an Error

”Wake me up when Word starts flagging the use of Arial with “Did you mean to use Helvetica?”

John Gruber


” “It can’t happen here” is an enduring refrain in American culture, a reflection of the idea … “

American Exception .. alism under threat?