There’s a cool documentary at NHK about the Taiwanese bicycle company Giant and about how they became so successful. King Liu Surviving as the Only One! King Liu is the chairman and founder of Giant, the world’s top bicycle manufacturer. He is 79 years old and still going strong. This episode explores how he took…

For those lucky people who use Netgear’s DGND3700 V1 as their DSL modem/home router there is an updated firmware available at richud.com. It includes a number of security fixes and enhancements, updated components, bugfixes, and more.

Symptoms of Ebola include Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F) Severe headache Muscle pain Weakness Diarrhea Vomiting Abdominal (stomach) pain Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising) Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days. source: cdc.gov: “Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease); Signs and Symptoms”…

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In what amounts to total BS the Forest Service is planning on forcing people to pay $1500 to take photos or video on “public” lands. This really is appalling. It shows how sick and out-of-touch government has become. “Facing heavy criticism, Forest Service revises plan to charge for media access“

Most people probably know already that there is a major thing going on right now in America. That thing is inadvertently exposing a lot of the disgusting grime in the United States. The entity which is invoking this revelation is the vehicle manufacturer Tesla which makes famous, high-performance electric cars. Tesla decided to sell its…

Torture is still rife in Mexico and is routinely used to extract confessions, according to a new report by human rights organisation Amnesty International. Here was another shocking story in the news recently: In his trip to California last week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto praised the state’s policies that welcome illegal aliens from Mexico.…

People think that even though they are severely fucking the Earth up, that it will be resilient and things will one day, even if in a very long time, be healthy again. But that is not really true. The window in Earth’s lifespan in which complex life such as humans can be supported will not…

At the very end of the 19th century a guy from St. Louis named Thurman invented a primitive, gasoline-powered device intended for cleaning which blew air into a receptacle. After apparently seeing a demonstration of Thurman’s device given my Thurman himself in London another guy, Hubert Cecil Booth, came up with the concept of a…