Category Archives: Misc

The most visible instance of such degradation was the General Motors streetcar scandal: Beginning in the late 1930s, several automobile-related businesses, including GM, Firestone, and Standard Oil, created front companies to purchase and dismantle rail-based transit systems, especially inner city … Continue reading →

The Violence of Mexican Drug Cartels – YouTube.

How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency — New York Magazine.

CVdazzle – Google Search.

Census Dotmap.

A very odd essay from a 1922 issue of The American Magazine that seems to go against the general grain of most of the articles published then. There is also no name attached to it. via 1922: Why I Quit … Continue reading →

Unfortunately, CentOS doesn’t include a pre-packaged RPM, so I have to build it. I grabbed the source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/motion/files/, extracted it (tar -xzf motion-3.2.12.tar.gz), and then ran a simple configure (./configure) just to see if it picked up the ffmpeg … Continue reading →

They left a notice in my mailbox. Final notice, item from Hong Kong. This is actually the first time I’ve seen a notice from them. From my webcam, I can see they didn’t knock on the front door to try … Continue reading →

John Browett’s short tenure at Apple was marked by strife.

Sigh, useless cats.