Or maybe Apocalypse Then. The Britannica Blog points out the movie is now 30 years old. Gregory MacFee blogs about the movie and the book “Dispatches” that influenced the movie:
None of those books, however, carries quite as much weight page for page, to say nothing of psychedelic weirdness, as Michael Herr’s Dispatches, which appeared 32 years ago and almost immediately changed the way countless Americans viewed the Vietnam War—which, for you young folk, was the Iraq of its day. It exposed the war as a cynical effort on its opening page…
I had a meal of three different varieties (and colors) of potato recently: Here’s the tomato version. Interesting photo.
Are you up on the proposed new standards for appliance efficiency? The standards first appeared 22 years ago. Here’s a link-filled post about potential savings. Elsewhere you’ll be able to find link-filled posts about how much it will cost.
You might be CYW at this one. Well, probably not, but at least you’ll give me a DYFI for directing you to a Welsh texting guide. Phil Marso wrote a book in textspeak.
Much of Europe leads the way with “feed-in tariffs” but the U.S. is starting to come around. The FIT guarantees that “anyone who generates electricity from a renewable energy source—whether they are a homeowner, small business, or large electric utility—is able to sell that electricity into the grid and receive long-term payments for each kilowatt-hour produced.”
Re-visit Woodstock. The Guardian provides what it considers the best Woodstock You Tube clips.
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