This is a great 1-hour special on the Military Channel – American Arsenal – telling of the City of Philadelphia’s role in winning World War II. It is on 4 times in December – at 8 and 11pm on 12/12, 5am on 12/13, and 4pm on 12/19. Certainly a well-spent 60-minutes of your time.
Posts Tagged: television
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Nov 09
Daily Links for November 14th through November 16th
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
- Take me back to Constantinople, by Edward Luttwak | Foreign Policy – Economic crisis, mounting national debt, excessive foreign commitments — this is no way to run an empire. America needs serious strategic counseling. And fast. It has never been Rome, and to adopt its strategies no — its ruthless expansion of empire, domination of foreign peoples, and bone-crushing brand of total war — would only hasten America's decline. Better instead to look to the empire's eastern incarnation: Byzantium, which outlasted its Roman predecessor by eight centuries. It is the lessons of Byzantine grand strategy that America must rediscover today.
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Jul 09
Daily Links for July 27th
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
- Unemployment: Great Depression vs Great Recession « Visualizing Economics – I created this infographic to compare the unemployment rate over the last 18 months to the Great Depression.
- The psychology of overconfidence : The New Yorker – Cohen and Gooch ascribe the disaster at Gallipoli to a failure to adapt—a failure to take into account how reality did not conform to their expectations. And behind that failure to adapt was a deeply psychological problem: the British simply couldn’t wrap their heads around the fact that they might have to adapt. “Let me bring my lads face to face with Turks in the open field,” Hamilton wrote in his diary before the attack. “We must beat them every time because British volunteer soldiers are superior individuals to Anatolians, Syrians or Arabs and are animated with a superior ideal and an equal joy in battle.”
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May 09
Daily Links for May 25th
- Download YouTube Videos as an MP3, WMV, AVI, MOV, WAV for FREE! – Farkie is a free online application which can do many neat little tricks and can be used to Download Youtube Videos, Download MySpace Playlists, Download Website Objects, and much much more…
- Op-Ed Columnist – State of Paralysis – NYTimes.com – California, it has long been claimed, is where the future happens first. But is that still true? If it is, God help America.
The recession has hit the Golden State hard. The housing bubble was bigger there than almost anywhere else, and the bust has been bigger too.
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Feb 09
Daily Links for February 1st
- Extend Google Talk Into A Remote Access Tool With GBridge | MakeUseOf.com – GBridge uses what they call a ‘Revolutionary VPN Infrastructure’ to extend Google’s GTalk into a secure collaboration tool. Once the product is installed (Windows Only), it simply asks for your Google Talk account and automatically displays the rest of your GTalk friends that may or may not have the product installed. If they do have it installed, you may collaborate with them, using each of the tools I am going to describe below. This is all done with a simple install, and no firewall configuration.
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Dec 08
Hollywood’s End
What passes for quality content from Hollywood’s music, film, and TV media complex is also getting squeezed. All of the above are going to be pushing more crap music, deemphasizing broadcast network TV, more reality-TV, late-night retreads, and more remakes and sequel movies from Hollywood. Should they capture the audiences’ attention, the cost cutting measures should result in a financial windfall for content producers, as the cost of production is significantly lower. If it doesn’t, expect audiences to leave, taking advertising dollars with them. People, it’s time to get acquainted with GarageBand, YouTube, podcasts, and some old, crude knowledge transmission devices known as ‘books’.
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Dec 08
Daily Links for December 8th
- Bush by the Numbers – ProPublica – The Bush legacy – by the numbers…
- The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words — Copyblogger – You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ~Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride It may be inconceivable for you to misuse a word, but a quick look around the web reveals plenty of people doing it. And it’s all too easy when we hear or see others use words incorrectly and parrot them without knowing it’s wrong.
