Covered this week; A fun fact about Labor Day… thoughts on the Falcon 9 launchpad explosion… Trump’s corruption runs deep… first looks at Jupiter… thoughts on Apple’s big announcement event… a new Kickstarter board game… how many of your online credentials have been PWNED? Mychal Judge in the aftermath of 9/11…
September 5, 2016
As people across the country enjoyed Labor Day, a small crowd gathered at the Pullman National Monument on Chicago’s Far South Side where the national holiday was born.
“The Falcon 9 rocket lies at the core of everything SpaceX wants to do. It delivers commercial satellites and cargo. It will deliver astronauts into orbit. It is the basis of proving the reusability of orbital launch systems. So if there is no Falcon 9, there is no business.” An op-ed piece by Eric Berger for Ars Technica.
September 6, 2016
Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?
“This week, scientists got their first look at images and data from the Juno spacecraft’s initial flyby of Jupiter’s polar regions, and they were thrilled to find an entirely different world than the familiar one which exists around the equator.“
September 7, 2016
The iPhone 7 has arrived… along with the Apple Watch 2… but all the conversation is focused around Apple getting rid of the headphone jack altogether and moving to straight up wireless connectivity between Apple devices and their satellites… Apple’s new AirPods the first of these peripherals.
A wrap-up of the 2016 Apple event.
September 8, 2016
An interesting looking new (Kickstarter) board game with a dubious name but awesome looking graphics and website.
September 9, 2016
In the online maintenance department… this is a really useful link regarding sites you may have an account on where you’ve been “PWNED”… which means you’ve had usernames, passwords, etc. compromised when those sites have been breached. Turns out I myself had been exposed on 5 different sites where I had accounts… I’ve just now finished deleting 2 of those accounts while updating the passwords on the other 3… for those that may use the same passwords on more than one site… once they have it, they have it… so this exercise is definitely worth the time…
September 10, 2016
John Gruber’s thoughts and observations from the Apple special event from earlier in the week…
September 11, 2016
A nice story regarding Mychal Judge in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attack.
