Last week on the PBS program Amanpour & Co., travel writer Rick Steves discussed his experiences hiking through Eastern Europe in the 70’s. He’s promoting a new book called On The Hippie Trail, but his primary theme in both the book and this interview is that travel can be a force for peace in this world.
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Who Cares if the Truth is Out There?
Photoshop is 35 years old.
Even people who have never used the software, are certainly aware of it. After all, the name itself has been turned into a verb meaning “to alter a photograph, often with intent to mislead or deceive”.
The Big Con Continues
Returning to the topic of crypto, here are a couple of resources if you’d like to learn more about this high-tech con game that everyone in the US is about to fall victim to.
First, is a segment from the excellent podcast Planet Money, in which they discuss The Memecoin Casino.
Let’s Try This. Again.
A smaller but still overly-large school district here in the DC area recently finished a test program to ban student use of cell phones.
The plan got “mixed reviews”.
A Few Bits of Travel Advice
As someone interested in travel, I tend to run across a lot of advice around that subject. I dig through pieces looking for something new, even though most of it is repetitive, or of little use to me personally.
One common example is all the advice around systems for stuffing everything into one small carry-on bag, regardless of the trip length. That’s just not something that works for me.