Gongol.com Archives: February 2016
February 24, 2016
The Republican Party might just be dead if forced under a Trump banner
You can't build a coalition around an extremist-leaning populist movement that lacks a philosophical core
Low interest rates are making Manhattan's skyline uglier
The flood of money available to real-estate speculation has incentivized the construction of some super-tall towers in New York City. People around the world are looking for investments and finding little that seems attractive, so it's spurred a bubble in skyscrapers. And, regrettably from a visual-aesthetic standpoint, the availability of materials that permit very tall, very narrow buildings is making that the design of choice for some of these new projects. These big, inelegant towers aren't remotely as appealing to the eye as the classic tapered skyscrapers designed to suit setback requirements.
WordPress hitches its star to the Google speedy-pages project
A new plugin for weblogs and sites using the WordPress publishing tool will create parallel sites that cooperate with Google's "AMP" project to accelerate the delivery of pages on mobile devices. WordPress and Google share a common interest in keeping people on the public Internet rather than behind "walled gardens" like Facebook.
How the world looks when men are Photoshopped out of politics
It's a lonely place for the women
Facebook keeps trying to wedge its way into search
What Google has, Facebook wants
