Gongol.com Archives: June 2014
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.
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
US Air Force bombing practice deliberately staged for social-media benefit
"Time" calls it "Twitter as a force multiplier"
FAA: No Amazon.com delivery drones
The law needs to hurry up and get even with the pace of technology
Jeremy Paxman in retirement
Americans don't really know him, but he was the BBC's most fearsome interviewer