Having chased the news around in the 1960’s through 1980’s, the crap rolling-around today is mostly useless, though at times entertaining. That said, this week shapes up to be not-particularly interesting. Downright boring, in fact. The short version of what matters is this: In our 1929 Replay Scenario, we continue to edge up toward that … Read More
If you haven’t deduced it by now, Ultra-Make.com is likely the main deliverable nearing the end of my next book “The 100-Year Toaster.” The book is a critical view of the wrong-headed globalist resource squandering of the past 150-years and what we can do about it. Spoiler alert: We need to redenominate. Because everything together … Read More
Looking for a simple path to a stress-free life in 2020? Bubba, we gotcha covered! First, though, our usual run-down of a few news stories that matter and a longish anti-aging discussion. From there it’s on to our ChartPack. The news that matters, you see, may not be Iran, Meghan, or Pelosi. Could have more … Read More
User Changelog: Readers interested in fastest possible page load speed for Urban can usual sale 1-1.2 seconds by not just an ad-blocker. 1.4-1.6 second load times without ad-block, and 2.5-3.4 seconds in GTMetrix.com analytics (unthrottled connection out of Dallas and Chrome desktop. YMWV. Breaking News Jobs Report Still Up Just out from the Labor Department: … Read More
Changelog: Completed SQL database work, saving 1.8gb (55.8%). Speeded up chart loading (gold and silver charts at bottom of this page by removing embedded “size=” and “height-” calls, speeding up the html. Typical site load times are about 2-2.5 seconds now, down from 6-9 seconds before I went nuts attacking the speed issues. Logo and … Read More
Here’s a trillion-dollar idea for you – free of charge. Complete with some general specification and what such a unit could do for America. It’s all an outgrowth of our Ultra-Make.com website, which in turn is one of the “last chapters” of the online book for subscribers titled “The 100-Year Toaster.” I’ll give you all … Read More
Reader Changelog: I made a few changes to the website this morning that may speed-up page loading. For Your Inner Geek: we’re trying-out “lazy-loading” which simply means the whole page display doesn’t wait for a Google ad or the charts at the bottom to load. May improve performance slightly…Also the maximum size in Accessibility scaling … Read More
Whew! A looong-ass weekend of programming and writing for Peoplenomics, the new Ultra-Make.com site, and even doing a few tweaks here like that fancy Accessibility/Font-Sizer over at the top of the right column over this way somewhere >>> A great weekend, nevertheless featuring (*don’t mean to go on endlessly, but the projects done list is … Read More
Had an interesting reader note come in: Basically asked if I could please do an article on communications (for the SHTF scenarios) that would be simple and no “diode this” and “Morse that…” Yup, guilty as charged. Why, if I got a dollar for everytime someone said “Ask George what time it is and he’s … Read More
Turns out (surprising even me) that the final chapter of our “100-Year Toaster” book is not only a radical manufacturing idea, but a full-on website and business model, as well. Who would have suspected? Our “big project” for 2020 is to release a new kind of business model into the wild. Today, we take the … Read More
I don’t know if this is really a “woo-woo” topic, an extension of what will be on Peoplenomics tomorrow, where we talk about grassroots dispersed manufacturing (as a disruptive technology)… Or, whether it’s another chapter in my book Psychocartography. However it arises, the topic du jour today is fear. Let’s begin with who we are: Maybe … Read More
“F-CSI” Financial Crime Scene Investigations Many actives scenes this morning, starting overseas where a top Iranian general has been killed in a surgical strike on the airport in Baghdad, Iraq. Yep. Off-sides and planning additional attacks on the U.S. interests (and embassies) in the Middle East, the NY Times report on the drone attack is … Read More
A lot of the news media, are showing their bias against president Trump AND at the same time, carrying the water for the Digital Uprising – which moves us closer than ever to Digital Mob Rule. A short exposition of the headlines – the facts – and how to apply logic and 20-seconds of research … Read More