by Minter Dial | May 27, 2009 | Politics
Aside from Iran’s attempts to block Facebook in the run-up to the election (they just lifted the ban, according to this LA Times piece), I have also noticed that there is an increasing number of spam scams on Facebook. In the most recent hack attack, you receive...
by Minter Dial | Apr 26, 2009 | Leadership, Politics
Macro and Micro Consequences of When A Recession Begins In a recession, timing plays an absolutely vital part at the macro level. Much of the debate about when the current recession will end is related to when it actually began. The “reality” of a...
by Minter Dial | Apr 23, 2009 | Politics
Gun sales in the US have gone [blasted a hole] through the roof since the end of last year. In November 2008, after the election win of Obama, requests for gun licenses in the U.S. spiked +42% to 1.5 million. The following months have seen year over year increases of...
by Minter Dial | Apr 21, 2009 | Politics, Travel
There are plenty of surprising deficiencies in the US, it being the number 1 world power (still). I have written previously about the poor state of education (at the high school level) in the US and the insufficient medical coverage (despite the disproportionately...
by Minter Dial | Mar 18, 2009 | Entertainment, Politics
It took a little bit of exploration on dead.net and Rolling Stone to find out — substantially after the fact — that the [revised Grateful] Dead played for Obama in the Mid-Atlantic inaugural ball (20 Jan 2009). No one I know was in attendance or perhaps...
by Minter Dial | Feb 17, 2009 | Politics
Here’s a juicy title for a thesis: “Curvature of Constitutional Space.” Is this thesis for a student of the law? Or Is it for a student of astrophysics? As I happen to be an amateur of astrophysics, the title certainly caught my attention.The full...
How do I delete all my photos from Google Photos (in bulk) without deleting my Google account?
