Gongol.com Archives: June 2014

Brian Gongol


June 28, 2014

Iowa Iowa's Highway 20 no longer has a 72-mile stretch with no services
It's a chicken-and-egg situation, of course. No services means little interest in traveling through...but nobody wants to build a gas station when there aren't going to be customers. A finished, four-lane Highway 20 across northern Iowa will be a very good thing.

News Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova sign "partnership" agreements with the EU
There's a stick in the eye to anyone who wanted to see the USSR (or something like it) resurrected

Computers and the Internet US Air Force bombing practice deliberately staged for social-media benefit
"Time" calls it "Twitter as a force multiplier"

Aviation News FAA: No Amazon.com delivery drones
The law needs to hurry up and get even with the pace of technology

Broadcasting Jeremy Paxman in retirement
Americans don't really know him, but he was the BBC's most fearsome interviewer

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