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• 18-Jul-2024
  Timothy Snyder on Political Violence and History Elucidating. Political Violence: We learn that violence that starts on one corner of the far right often ricochets. We find that the important threshold is the enabling of the violence. And we realize is what we do afterwards that counts the most. None of this makes the outcome of a horrid act completely predictable. But...
• 29-May-2024

  
  The Web Is Better. When we old heads talk about how the web is much better, I wonder sometimes how it lands on the ears of younger people. The cliché of a parent saying “I had to walk to school, both ways, in the snow.” Here’s a datapoint. Here’s a chunk of code: It’s not great code. I can...
• 26-Mar-2024

  
  No, bridges don’t float. Some Coronado Bay Bridge history. I watched video of the Francis Scott Key Bridge falling this morning. It’s horrifying. There is a connection to The Wire. Season 2 was set at the ports. David Simon, humanist and writer and creator on The Wire, tweeted this: Thinking first of the people on the bridge. But the mind wanders to a port...
• 24-Mar-2024

  
  In 2009 I could use Twitter in Lynx. Can I do that in 2024? No. I am directed to the Help Center: Supported Browsers page. Here’s a screenshot of when I was able to tweet with Lynx in 2009. And the tweet I tweeted. Do you know what Lynx is? (from 2019)
• 19-Feb-2024

  
  Morse High School Dedication, 1963 From The San Diego Union, Saturday, May 11, 1963: 600 At Dedication Of Morse School Six-hundred spectators last night witnessed the dedication and open house of the city’s new Samuel F.B. Morse High School, 6905 Skyline Drive. Lelia Morse, granddaughter of the inventor of the Morse code and the telegraph came here from Hollywood and...
• 04-Feb-2024

  
  I woke up to find out a 4th great-granduncle was murdered in San Juan Capistrano A very weird email to start the day with. FamilySearch has the capability to attach news events to biographies in their genealogy data. Usually it’s about attaching US or British census data or Catholic Church baptismal or marriage data. Stuff like that. Today it was a news report about a murder. Today it was this...
• 26-Jan-2024

  
  Passing in Tempe? I’m in Tempe Arizona this morning. It’s a lovely place. This is alongside the river this morning. I like to swim. I can’t swim here. So where can I swim? There’s a pool at the hotel. There’s a YMCA. Those would work. But where’s the fun in that. In researching this I came up with...
• 08-Nov-2023
  More I didn’t learn in school The Wilmington insurrection of 1899: The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a coup d’état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. The white press in Wilmington originally...
• 21-Apr-2023
  A fine remembrance of the web as it was; and is ReadWriteWeb Turns 20 by Richard MacManus. Take blogging itself. People don’t have blogs anymore, now they have email newsletters. People used to read blogs in their RSS Readers, and you would visit the website to leave a comment — or write your own blog post in reply, which would show up as a trackback link...
• 05-Aug-2022

  
  Beaches in Los Angeles, 1970s/1980s I thought this was great: TOD PAPAGEORGE: from “The Beaches, Los Angeles” 1979 – 1982