Why is Jack the Ripper still famous?

Jack the Ripper is still famous. That’s a clue!
Once you Ripperologists start thinking clearly about some of the clues it becomes obvious who this very unusual person had to be. Here it is more than one hundred and twenty years after his murders and yet, Jack the Ripper is still famous. That simple fact is [...]

It takes 10 times longer to do 100 things than to do 10 things.

I worked a lot on my 100 Top Museums blog today but it is taking a lot longer to do than the UNESCO – World Heritage List and probably won’t even be done tomorrow. Also, there are several other things I have been thinking about writing up which are going to be too big to [...]

Why do I consistently reach too far?

Why do I start things that I know are too big for the time and energy I can muster up to do them? Today would have been a fine day to spend on a long walk, but no, I started to do a blog about the 100 Top Museums in the world. This was intended [...]

How to speed up grocery store check out.

Standing in a checkout line is an unnecessary waste of time. It is obvious how a grocery checkout line could be sped up, so why hasn’t it been done? Why, I whine, do I have to think of everything?
The Universal Product Code (UPC) bar-codes have been printed on some grocery store items since 1966 and [...]

When should we follow obvious fools?

I have often wondered why so many people follow skinny old dudes babbling nonsense. Actually they don’t have to be old dudes but it seems to help. Come to think of it, really fat older women talking spiritualist stuff seem to attract quite a following too. What is the underlying message that is so attractive? [...]

We are living in Heaven or Hell?

The newspapers and other media seem to be trying to convince us we are living in hell. Just this week the economy was crashing, airliners were falling out of the sky, celebrities were dying, democratic countries were nearing civil war and there were reports of poor people being at risk for starvation in some poor [...]

UNESCO – World Heritage Sites – with links

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UNESCO – World Heritage Site
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GoogleEarth copy and paste
Country

Minaret of Jam
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
34.396,64.516
Afghanistan

Bamyan Valley
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
34.832,67.827
Afghanistan

Butrint
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
39.746,20.020
Albania

Berat & Gjirokastra
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
40.074,20.141
Albania

Qal’a Beni Hammad
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
35.821,4.789
Algeria

Djemila
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
36.321,5.736
Algeria

M’Zab Valley
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
32.489,3.675
Algeria

Tassili n’Ajjer
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
25.500,9.00
Algeria

Timgad
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
35.454,6.630
Algeria

Tipasa
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
36.595,2.441
Algeria

Kasbah of Algiers
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
36.784,3.059
Algeria

Madriu Valley
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
42.492,1.594
Andorra

Los Glaciares
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
-50.000,-73.249
Argentina

San Ignacio Mini
Flickr Youtube Wikipedia
-27.255,-55.532
Brazil

Iguazu Falls
Flickr Youtube [...]

The Earth is two different planets.

The Earth is two very different places depending on how you view it.
For example if you view Earth from directly over the North Pole it is about half land and half water with a large patch of deep ice over Greenland and only a thin shell of ice over the Arctic Ocean.
From over the South [...]

Air France Flight 447 crashed in the coffin corner?

The “coffin corner” may have killed flight 447.
Previously my blogs discussed some other airliner crashes.
Airliner crash at Buffalo that shouldn’t have happened
and
Airbus A320 needlessly sinks in the Hudson River.
I have a bit more interest in these crashes than most people because for several years I was a pilot in the USAF. It is interesting for me to [...]

What books should be discarded?

Never too many books? I have lots of books and it is becoming a problem because books are becoming nearly free and they are piling up. Here in Berkeley most of the famous old bookstores have closed and only the used bookstores are holding on. The easiest places to get books these days is at [...]