article archive - 10/2016 - all archives
JR:
More toledo mayor election voter turnout numbers
- In Toledo's 2005 mayoral elections, 42,000 people voted in the primary and 79,000 voted in the general election, out of 190,000 registered voters, for a turnout of 41.5 percent.
If voters follow the same pattern this year, then the 37,363 people who...
more>>
- Oct 07, 2016
- #toledo #politics
JR:
Tt post oct 7 2016
- #toledo #politics
"I'm so done with politics I could puke."
Most people figured that out many years ago. Better things to do with one's time. That's why turnout for local elections is stunningly low.
2017 is a normal Toledo election year for the...
more>>
2 min read
- Oct 07, 2016
- #toledo #politics
JR:
Links fri, oct 7, 2016
- https://quitter.no/main/all
https://www.marketplace.org/2016/10/05/world/ev-williams-wants-save-internet-comments
css/js - amazing attitude.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jensimmons/status/784062421652672512?p=p
https://mobile.twitter.com/jensi...
more>>
- Oct 07, 2016
JR:
Toledo weather fri, oct 7, 2016
- 7:11 p.m. yep wind shift occurred. we've had little wind the past few days. it's a little breezy now. two living room windows are up. air coming in through the north window now. still at least a partly cloudy sky. should be a good movement of migrati...
more>>
10 min read
- Oct 07, 2016
- #toledo #weather
JR:
Links oct 6, 2016
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/06/facebook-is-talking-to-the-white-house-about-giving-you-free-internet-heres-why-that-may-be-controversial/
- Oct 06, 2016
JR:
Hurricane matthew update 5pm thu oct 6 2016
- BULLETIN
HURRICANE MATTHEW INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 35A
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL142016
800 PM EDT THU OCT 06 2016
...EYE OF EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE MATTHEW OVER THE WESTERN
END OF GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND...
...TROPICAL ...
more>>
13 min read
- Oct 06, 2016
- #weather
JR:
Southeast NC Coast
- https://www.facebook.com/thestateportpilot
- Oct 06, 2016
JR:
Slow News Movement and Charging for Content
- Slow News Movement
In July 2016, I thought of an idea called the Slow News Movement, patterned after the Slow Food Movement.
For consuming news, the Slow News Movement would mean focusing less on so-called breaking news and preferring stories that...
more>>
20 min read
- Oct 19, 2016
- #media #design #business
JR:
Northwest Ohio migrating birds in early October
- Wed, Oct 5, 2016: I observed Golden-crowned Kinglet and White-throated Sparrow around our home this morning. These short-distant or temperate climate songbirds have started their fall migration through northwest Ohio.
But in early October, we stil...
more>>
2 min read
- Oct 05, 2016
- #ohio #bird #nature #blog_jr
JR:
Toledo Talk editorial board endorses Bob Marley for president
- "Don't worry 'bout a thing 'cause every little thing gonna be alright"
Only one "person" exists on the Toledo Talk editorial board: our mutt.
But he has two versions.
Summer
Winter
Marley was a unanimous choice.
Robert Marley's 2016 ...
more>>
1 min read
- Oct 02, 2016
JR:
More static site and aws links
- https://github.com/cosmin/s3-bash
https://medium.com/@albertstill/building-a-static-site-with-a-web-application-framework-using-wget-aws-s3-cli-circleci-5b9285d1af1d#.b048khwd9
again:
https://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/20/static-blog-generati...
more>>
- Oct 07, 2016
JR:
Links to read oct 1, 2016
- #indieweb
https://indieweb.org/this-week/2016-09-30.html
https://aaronparecki.com/2016/09/30/12/private-webmentions
https://calumryan.com/blog/three-years-in-indieweb/
https://medium.engineering/simple-style-sheets-c3b588867899#.j63bfligf
Indi...
more>>
- Oct 01, 2016
- #indieweb