JR: Possible answer to what is killing bees - Excerpts from a July 2013 Quartz story Scientists discover whats killing the bees and its worse than you thought As weve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimate... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #bees #insects #nature #chemicals #agriculture #blog_jr

JR: In 2013, academic dolts blame Craigslist for the demise of the newspaper industry - Years ago, I thought people ended their irresponsible blaming of Craigslist.org for the newspaper industry's declining revenue. I guess not. Eggheads released a study. Hey professors, the year 2000 called, and they want its stupidity back. First, a... more>> 4 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #media #web #moronism #blog_jr

JR: Aug 14, 2013 is the 10-year anniversary of the eastern U.S. power outage - Aug 14, 2003 - Toledo Talk - Eastern U.S. power outage Here in west Toledo, we had a strange power drain and outage at about 4:15 pm. The local AM radio stations, 1230, 1370, 1470, went off the air, and at 4:50 they are still off. Some of the local... more>> 4 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #energy #history #blog_jr

JR: Articles to read - 14Aug2013 - 16aug2013 https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-new-york-times/egypt-declares-state-of-emergency-as-scores-are-killed-in-crackdown/10150327583919999 https://code.google.com/p/etherpad/ -- Aug 13 A few from the pre... more>>
- Aug 16, 2013 - #toread

JR: Toledo area swimmers warned about toxic algae in Lake Erie, again - Aug 14, 2013 - Columbus Dispatch - Toxic algae spur warning at Lake Erie beach near Toledo Toxic blue-green algae have resurfaced in the western basin of Lake Erie, prompting Ohio officials to post warnings for swimmers. Water tests at Maumee Bay ... more>> 5 min read
- Oct 31, 2013 - #media #moronism #nature #environment #plants #lakeerie #toledo #blog_jr

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- Aug 14, 2013

JR: 'Toledo Scanner' August 10-11, 2013 Tweets - https://twitter.com/ToledoScanner Scanning Toledo Ohio Police @ThatShaggyMatt 10 Aug . @ToledoScanner You know it's bad when the cops just lump a call into "all kinds of things". Retweeted by Toledo Scanner - TPD - crews on foot pursuit working t... more>> 3 min read
- Aug 14, 2013 - #toledo #police #crime

JR: Some thoughts and notes about Ohio's white-tailed deer population - (My comments from old Toledo Talk threads.) September 2009 comment I assume it means thinning the herd. The growing deer population means deer move into human-populated areas where the deer are unwelcome. Or it's the other way around. The growing... more>> 6 min read
- Jan 15, 2014 - #nature #hunting #mammals #deer #blog_jr

JR: Amazing comfy cool mid to late summer 2013 weather continues - We are in the fourth week of below normal temps. Most days have had high temps in the 70s. Some days in the 60s for high temps. A few days around 80. We may drop into the upper 40s the next couple mornings. Upcoming Toledo, Ohio forecast: Toledo... more>> 1 min read
- Aug 13, 2013 - #weather

JR: Non-fiction writing optioned for movie rights - The non-fiction story that became the movie Argo: #writing - #media
- Aug 13, 2013

JR: Crafting an online media story - PolicyMic doesnt sound like a news website that could work. It peddles news and opinion pieces on serious topics, like North Carolinas voter ID laws, anti-gay policy in Russia, or Republican opposition to immigration reform all targeted at Millennia... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #media #writing #design #blog_jr

JR: More people reading news on tablets - No surprise to me. The tablet is by far my favorite reading device for long reads. For long periods of information consumption, I prefer the tablet over printed paper, printed books, laptops, TV, and smartphones. Aug 12, 2013 pandodaily article Why ... more>> 5 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #design #media #tablet #email #tv #web #blog_jr

JR: 2013 College Football Preseason Coaches Poll - Aug 1, 2013 Sports Illustrated article The first Coaches Poll of the year was finally released on Thursday morning, so why am I even keeping you from it? The complete preseason rankings are listed below, with the number of first-place votes for e... more>>
- Mar 03, 2014 - #sports #football #blog_jr

JR: HTML5 Semantic Markup Tags - Medium.com and the Ghost Casper theme uses: article section /section section /section /article Ghost also used the main tag Examples: reset in css: HTML reference updated with new HTML5 tags "HTML5 display definitions" article, aside, ... more>> 6 min read
- Jun 02, 2015 - #html5

JR: Javascript, CSS, and HTML demos - Attempting to demonstrate: HTML/HTML5 CSS - CSS3 JavaScript jQuery jQuery mobile minified.js Ajax May also play around with: Twitter's Bootstrap3. - site to view for example - another example AngularJS. HTML5 Boilerplate Demos jQuery... more>> 1 min read
- Oct 23, 2013 - #javascript #css #html