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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

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For subscribers, click over to: https://peoplenomics.com/inside/pod1.mp3 For logon issues, see the Subscriber Help sections on the Peoplenomics site. If you’re not a subscribers…why is that? Happy New Years from the East Texas Outback… George, Elaine, and the cats (Zeus wants a mention, damn cat…)

Just out  Housing numbers: YEAR-OVER-YEAR  The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 3.3% annual gain in October, up from 3.2% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 1.7%, up from 1.5% in the previous month. The 20-City Composite posted … Read More