article archive - 04/2014 - all archives
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Earth Day 2014
- April 22, 2014
When environmentalists proclaimed the first Earth Day, on this date in 1970, the air was filled with doomsday predictions. At the initial rallies to mark the day, people warned of overpopulation, a denuded planet, hundreds of mil...
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2 min read
- May 27, 2014
- #climate #activism #politics #moronism #blog_jr
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Economics graduation speech in under 300 words
- Apr 19, 2014 - Vox.com - This graduation speech teaches you everything you need to know about economics in 297 words
In 2011, Thomas Sargent won the Nobel prize in economics. But in 2007, he gave a graduation speech to Berkeley undergraduates tha...
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2 min read
- May 27, 2014
- #economy #politics #business #math #blog_jr
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Designing for everyone
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7624189
#design
- Apr 22, 2014
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"How to be a great software developer"
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7627540
#programming - #howto
- Apr 22, 2014
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Toledo city councilwoman's plan to fund mural program
- (My Apr 22, 2014 comment posted at ToledoTalk.com)
Also from the 13abc story, :
Rachel Richardson is the founder of Art Corner of Toledo. Her group would get the $15,000 from the city and a matching $15,000 from Lucas County to fund this art wor...
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2 min read
- Nov 10, 2017
- #toledo #art #activism #politics
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Javascript editors
- https://medium.com/code-adventures/87a20f9cbfd0
https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor
- Apr 22, 2014
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More thoughts about Toledo voter turnout and elections - April 2014
- (My comment to an April 2014 ToledoTalk.com thread.)
Another user said:
"Give me a national holiday for election day ..."
Does that mean a day off from work? If so, would that be a holiday only on presidential elections or every November general e...
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6 min read
- Apr 16, 2014
- #toledo #politics #blog_jr
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2013 mayoral election results in Toledo and Perrysburg
- (from my ToledoTalk.com post)
Both cities held mayoral elections in November 2013.
Summary: most residents don't give a damn.
Toledo
Elections results - vote count:
Mike Bell 21,536
D. Michael Collins 28,002
49,538 votes cast.
Wikipedia:...
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1 min read
- Apr 16, 2014
- #toledo #perrysburg #politics #history #blog_jr
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My thoughts on accepting user-contributed content - April 2014
- At Toledo Talk, users can create only one account per email address. Even though users can modify their email addresses through their profile pages, the original email addresses that they used to create the accounts are stored in a separate database ...
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3 min read
- Oct 05, 2014
- #forums #comments
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Using an outliner for a presentation
- Excerpts from an Apr 5, 2014 Scripting.com post titled Jay uses Fargo :
Jay Rosen did something interesting today, he gave a presentation that was organized and presented in Fargo, not as a presentation but as a noteblog.
I have to admit I crin...
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- Apr 16, 2014
- #blogging #outliner #opml #blog_jr
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Beers that I like
- Jotting down beers that DD and I enjoy trying. This list may give us ideas for future beer brewing projects at home.
Left Hand Brewing Co. Milk Stout Nitro
North Peak Brewing Company Vicious American Wheat IPA
Rockmill Brewery Witbier
Founder...
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4 min read
- Aug 17, 2014
- #beverage #beer #blog_jr
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Land line phone usage
- Apr 14, 2014 - ToledoTalk.com - Do you have a 'home' phone
It seems that most responders do not have a land line phone at home, which is not a surprise.
We still have a land line. It does not make long distant calls. It can receive long distant ca...
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1 min read
- Apr 15, 2014
- #home #technology #mobile #blog_jr
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Creating new blog tool based upon Junco and Kinglet
- #todo - #programming - #blogging - #grebe
I created Kinglet from Junco code. I'd like to create a smaller blogging tool based upon ideas and code from both Junco and Kinglet.
App name options:
Modo
Veery
Tanager
Scaup
Grebe
update: I decided u...
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8 min read
- Jun 18, 2014
- #todo #programming #blogging #grebe
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Making Pizza - Plain HTML Instructions
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13 min read
- Apr 15, 2014
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Making Pizza - Plain Text Instructions
- Making Pizza
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These recipes make the "Margherita" style pizza. Each dough recipe makes four pizzas that are at least 10 to 12 inches in diameter. If using a rectangle baking stone instead of the more square-ish pizza stone, the pizz...
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11 min read
- Apr 15, 2014