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This is not a good plan, in case you haven’t figured out that wishing and hoping isn’t going to make the virus go away. From the Miami Herald 3/23/2020:

“One of the most insidious aspects of this epidemic is that it draws strength from peoples’ skepticism and feeling of invulnerability,” the letter said. “If people need to personally experience COVID-19 by having a loved one or close friend infected in order to take this crisis seriously, then it will be too late and we will suffer the full brunt of this epidemic.”

#lifeintimeofcovid19

From the Sun-Sentinel. As we are in Florida in this time of life in a pandemic, we encounter (sadly) lots of people who see things this way. One can be cruel and wonder about who will get Darwin Awards, but goodness tells me to hope for their enlightenment instead.

Each Barbie doll will represent a sport from the Summer Olympics.

Barbie stays newsworthy....

#Barbie

Last week the Southeast Florida Climate Leadership Summit was held in Key West. Scientists told local officials that the region’s sea level is rising even more than first predicted, and that by the year 2060 it will be 17 to 31 inches higher than it is now. “These numbers are all big enough that you can see that South Florida gets in big trouble quickly,” said Harold Wanless, a University of Miami geology professor. “If you look out the window, like the areas in the Keys that are flooding for weeks on end, this not something that might happen, this is something that is already happening.”

Carl Hiaasen Opinion piece in Miami Herald 12/7/2019

“I don’t think having broadband is necessarily going to make a five-hundred-job factory move in to Owsley, but it certainly can make people’s lives better and keep them from having to drive a hundred miles a day, back and forth, to work,” Keith Gabbard said. “You can’t make everybody magically go from making twenty-five thousand dollars a year to seventy-five thousand. Broadband is not going to create higher-paying jobs for everyone in the county. But it can help education. It can help entertainment. It can help the economy. It can help health care. And I even think that people’s mind-set—how they feel about themselves—can be improved just by not always saying ‘We don’t have nothing here.’ In this case, we have something to be proud of. We have something everyone else wants.”

The One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S. | The New Yorker

A great story detailing how high speed internet improves lives in rural areas.

#digital divide #internet access #highspeed broadband #municipal broadband

Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, the World Wide Web Foundation empowers people to bring about positive change.

Time to get working on the Contract for the WWW

#www #internet #open web

I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise.

Tim Berners Lee has a new project to save the WWW. I agree with him that "governments should impose an immediate ban on targeted political advertising to restore trust in our public discourse."

#data-mining and database marketing #WWW #internet #Tim Berners Lee

No more pink frilly dresses, Barbie is now out in the field snapping away for National Geographic.

Barbie has a DSLR and a new job.

#BARBIE

The first phase of redevelopment was a residential boom than began around 2000, ending with the recession. Since, recovery has been slow and uneven. Here’s a breakdown.

Good analysis by Ed Zotti about the South Side.

Fundraising memos from Ron DeSantis’ fundraising chief reveal plans to collect money for golfing, dining and meeting with Florida’s governor

Comes near the Blago “its golden” bid to sell a senate seat.

(via Trump’s tweet about Greta Thunberg is one of his ugliest yet - Vox)

Trump is such a toad.

97 cheap and easy Halloween costumes. Halloween is just around the corner. Be creative and save money by skipping high-priced, mass-produced, store-bought costumes this year.

(via 97 cheap and easy Halloween costumes - Chicago on the Cheap)

(via 1. Where public confidence stands about eight groups that have positions of power and responsibility | Pew Research Center)

A report from Pew reviews why Americans fail to trust people who hold positions of power and responsibility.

#public opinion surveys

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#voqal #ebs

Crewel Needles

Hand Embroidery Needles: How to Choose Them & Use Them – NeedlenThread.com

The Kalamazoo Mall, recognized as the first pedestrian mall in North America, was dedicated on Aug. 19, 1959.

(via A guide to catching fall colors at Indiana Dunes National Park: Where to eat, sleep and hike - Chicago Tribune)

Good ideas for taking a drive along the lake to look at the fall colors. It lists good trails, a couple of diners, and more.

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