When?

I almost made this a Facebook comment in reply to an FF’s (Facebook Friend’s, i.e., not a traditional friend’s) post regarding this day’s most publicized shooting.

He essentially asked America when its tipping point was.

I was about to ask, “When will we start hearing about all of the mass shootings that were prevented through compassion or mental health treatment or just listening to someone or other nonviolent means of communication? I guess those stories don’t make money.”

Puuung1

I like this artist’s work, but [gender-neutral singular subject pronoun] should take another look at how guitars work. :)

guitar with neck on the wrong side

Why OpenStreetMap

comparison of four online maps

OpenStreetMap is in the upper left. Google, Bing, and MapQuest are all represented by comparison.

Here’s the link to the above map so you can compare for yourself! Who knows, by the time you check it out, Google may have caught up! :)

By the way, I’m the one who first modified the McCaslin DDI interchange on OSM. It has subsequently been refined by others.

Faxes From the Far Side • Damn Interesting

Fascinating; I did not know this: Billions of years ago, the moon rotated around its axis faster than it does today. But early in the moon’s history, the drag of Earth’s gravity caused the moon’s rotation to slow to what appears to be a halt from an Earth perspective. One hemisphere of the moon always faces the Earth, and the other always faces away, with Earth’s gravity acting as a tether. In other words, the moon revolves once around the Earth in the same time it takes to rotate on its own axis—a phenomenon known as tidal locking.