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
… 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
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
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.
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?
British soldiers to get insect repellant as Covid-19 protection.
No words. At a loss.
Not Scientific - But Interesting
You could be forgiven for thinking that all of the world's problems that were top of our collective mind as we celebrated the closing of 2019 are now solved.
Dear America
You know what you need to do. Or just stay isolated. The choice is yours.
When should you rotate your phone to landscape to make a video?
Ronan O’Rahilly: pirate radio’s godfather made a sea change in British pop.
For someone who had the idea, executed and changed the future of radio in the UK … it’s amazing how nuts his other ideas were. Or is it?
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American billionaires are $280 billion richer since COVID-19
Seems it’s working for them - what’s the big rush to get us all back to work?
In the same period, 22 million people are newly claiming unemployment in the USA.
… via Dave Pell.