Tackle climate or face financial crash
from the Guardian 12/13/2018 Tackle climate or face financial crash …
Electrolux IQ-Touch Dryer Diagnostics
This is a scan of the tech data sheet found inside the dryer and contains the listings for the diagnostics and error messages. DIAGNOSTIC MODE 1 Press the “cancel ‘ button to enter standby mode and enable diagnostic entry 2. Within 10 seconds after pressing “cancel”, press any button (but cancel ) to wake up … [Read more…]
24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life – Guardian News
24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life
Selected Sounds of Space
From the University of Iowa Physics department sounds of space, recorded by University of Iowa instruments on a variety of spacecraft over the past 50 years. Featured Items Voyager 1 PWS continuation of shock-associated waves Voyager 1 PWS first interstellar audio recordings Van Allen Probes EMFISIS Waves or EMFISIS MAG audio samples Audio clips from … [Read more…]
The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally
Lest we forget … The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally — and violence erupted from the Washington Post Retropolis column, December 9, 2018. On Feb. 20, 1939, 22,000 members of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group, took over the venue that stars still consider a peak achievement if … [Read more…]
How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right
In a very scary posting, Bernard E. Harcourt writes in the New York Review of Books Daily: President Trump makes constant use of the language and logic of the “new right,” a toxic blend of antebellum white supremacy, twentieth-century fascism, European far-right movements of the 1970s, and today’s self-identified “alt-right.” And his words and deeds … [Read more…]
Digital Photo Future?
It’s Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are? – It might be the season, this topic was recently discussed with friends then the NYT comes to the rescue with a good history.
Modern Radio
In the same time frame of learning about old radios, I’m also pursuing radio in another way, the current trend of Software Defined Radio (SDR). I first noticed it while doing an update to a LINUX machine I was fussing with and wondered what all these libraries and builds were about, it is a large … [Read more…]
ex nihilo nihil fit
ex nihilo nihil fit – from nothing comes nothing.
The Rocketdyne Facility
At The LA Daily News an article about the Woolsey Fire in Ventura county focuses on the Rocketdyne Facility, or the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. The Woolsey Fire, an out-of-control wildfire that started in Ventura County and moved into Malibu, where it is consuming homes along the coastal community, began as a brush fire near … [Read more…]