Part two in a three part series: Part one: Introduction – Why 1936? Part three: Reprint of a first-person account called “The Little Can That Could“ Part four (bonus!): Why Charity Water Wells May Be Worse For Women Than Long Walks With Cans Once upon a time I sailed half-way across the Pacific Ocean with … Continue reading The story behind the yellow Jerry can
Part one in a three-part series. You may have heard a story about the Jerry can. Perhaps it goes something like Hitler was such a brilliant strategist that in 1936 he personally called forth an engineer to create a nearly perfect fuel can, which we still use to this day. As a student of history … Continue reading The 1936 story behind the Jerry can
Over on a website called Genius I’ve made a few replies to some other peoples’ comments on an old story: “Mysterious ’08 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar” This Genius site offers the sort of experience where you have to believe a ton of pop-up scripts and cartoonish-bubbles are some kind of improvement over plain … Continue reading Cyberwar revisionism: 2008 BTC pipeline explosion
In private circles I was agitating for a while on the humanitarian crisis in North Korea. Although I have collected a bit of data and insights over the years it just hasn’t seemed like the sort of thing people were interested in or asking about. Not exactly good conversation material. Then earlier this year I … Continue reading The DPRK Humanitarian Crisis