How much cache?
Demento wrote today in an Ars Technica comment thread concerning the Cloudflare bug: How much cache would a webcache cache if a webcache could cache cache? It was so good I had to save it.
Corium
In this recent article from IEEE Spectrum on the Fukushima disaster, they mention something called CORIUM. I’d not heard of it before so I went to the Wikipedia page on Corium and became a little less ignorant about what it is and what this article really means. What the authors say in Spectrum isn’t really … [Read more…]
Rancor in 1877 – Inauguration Postponed
In searching for a suitable article to include in my “This Day in History” section, I chose the February 20th, 1877 edition of the Sacramento Union to try to find something interesting. There was column after column of reports on the volatile situation in Congress surrounding the contested 1876 election of Hayes and Tilden. The electoral … [Read more…]
Bernie speaks in LA – Feb 19, 2017
Sanders repeated many of the populist platforms he ran on, including rallying against the influence of money in politics and a financial system he says rewards Wall Street bankers while the American middle class shrinks. The key to a progressive resurgence, he said, could be turning The Ape In A Suit’s message on its head by persuading … [Read more…]
The True History of Fake News
L.M. Slackens: The Yellow Press, showing William Randolph Hearst as a jester handing out newspapers, published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, October 12, 1910 ” In the long history of misinformation, the current outbreak of fake news has already secured a special place, with the president’s personal adviser, Kellyanne Conway, going so far as to invent … [Read more…]
ALONG THE WHARVES.
Daily Alta California, 18 February 1877 The yacht “Minnie” is on the beach at the foot of Mason street cleaning. The bark “Tenby Castle” goes up to Vallejo City to-morrow, to load wheat for Cork. The schooner “Jessie Nickerson” sailed from Eureka on the 11th instant, for Tahiti. The bark “David Hoadley ” was towed … [Read more…]
Former ‘Border Czar’ Gives Real Facts About Immigration
ProPublica published a very insightful interview with Alan Bersin. He “served in several key posts in the Department of Homeland Security, including as acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, the force of 58,000 employees that includes the U.S. Border Patrol as well as CBP officers guarding air, land and sea ports of entry. He … [Read more…]
That outrageous humbug
Russian River Flag, 14 February 1867 Register. — That outrageous humbug called the Great Register has not yet received the names of nearly all the Democratic voters in the county and yet time flies rapidly, and all who expect to vote must be registered before the first day of August next. We hope and believe … [Read more…]
Kellyanne Devolves
Last night, over our Valentine’s dinner with friends, mention of Kellyanne Conway’s name quickly devolved into Cuntyanne Cuntway. As this twist on her name was howled at by all the women at dinner, it seems it has a female approval, at least, after a nice dinner with good friends.
A New Calculating Machine.
Daily Alta California, 13 February 1857 We read in the Moniteur – “M. Thomas, of Colmar, has lately made the finishing improvements in the calculating machine, called the arithmometer, at which he has been working for upwards of thirty years. Pascal and Leibnitz, in the 17th century, and Diderot at a later period, endeavored to … [Read more…]