Is The US Exporting Hate?

”U.S. officials are pursuing an effort to strip the word “gender” from United Nations documents on human rights."

Andrea Germanos

Read All About It.

Well now … the big corporate race to consolidate and absorb the Independant continues …

IBM to Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, for $34 Billion

Interesting variation on the self identification tags that some use … The Geek Code - Futility Closet

Interesting to note that the term ‘Denver Omlette’ was recorded to be first used in print in exactly the same year as ‘black power’, ‘bruschetta’, ‘cash-flow' and ‘Doppler radar’.

My thanks to @jack for the link to the Meriam Webster Site where you can learn this … then again - they also record ‘pasties' in that same year - but meanwhile here The Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550 specifically references ‘pasties’.

SO, either the site is American centric - which of course being MW - it likely is ) OR maybe they are referring to different pasties - which can be learnt about here.

How a Middle East Startup Took on Uber — and Won

Banned in countries and cities around the world, exiting certain geographies, losing to the competition .. and yet its ‘valuation’ - i use the word loosely - sits in the stratosphere.

What can possibly go wrong.

Why RSS … … for all the reasons we know and love.

Get a copy of the data associated with your Apple ID account

… added to my list of things to try out.

Sometimes truth leaps off the page … as with Julian Summerhayes

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

Henry Miller

”If you think this message is no better or worse than the horsesh*t you’ve been sold or you’ve bought into, only to be desperately disappointed, then I can see that but then again you won’t find me offering a 7-step programme or the like to come alive to true self.

Julian Summerhayes

Kate Kennedy … never heard of her until last Saturday. What a life.

Museum of the Bible says five of its Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are forgeries.

This after forfeiting 5,500 or so artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq following a federal investigation.

Sounds like the hobbyist needs a lobbyist.

Reprobates - All Of Them

But against all odds - live to tell their tale - and seemingly still going 50 years later - depite Norman Wisdom!

Is it the zeitgeist, coincidence or just that people don’t credit people.

Just read and followed multiple articles and links article on three different topics … in one case the very same quote pulled from the original article … but no reference to how THEY came across it.

Using dark mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave

… knowing how we all like to tinker with shiny things … strikes me as very simple.

I hope so …

No experiment is an absolute failure.

#iiw