U.S. Used Missile With Long Blades to Kill Qaeda Leader in Syria

As previously reported India had rocket propelled swords in the late 18th century!

Coronavirus by country and US state/county - this post updates two videos daily that show increases in cases and deaths by day. Also more very local hikes.

I can't tell if Microsoft wants me to use Edge.

More ISS.

Previously:

• 2019: Bay View and Shoreline Trails at China Camp State Park
• 2018: Animation of a year of Global Cloud Cover
• 2017: Reading and Writing Office 365 Excel from a Console app using the Microsoft.Graph C# Client API

Cases and Deaths by Country Yesterday

Daily Incremental

Cumulative

Cases and Deaths by US County Yesterday

Daily Incremental

Cumulative

This post is updated daily with global and US county level coronavirus data from Johns Hopkins University. Four videos show both cumulative and daily progression of the disease together with four images that show a snapshot for yesterday.

Cases and deaths are shown simultaneously using blue for cases and red for deaths. Where both are high a region will be a shade of purple. Regions with no data are dark gray.

The daily incremental visualization is useful to see the history and current state of the spread of coronavirus. Each region is shaded based on the highest number of daily cases and deaths for that region. For example if the highest number of deaths reported on any day in San Francisco county is 3, then any day that has three deaths will be the brightest shade of red. This shows where COVID-19 is relatively bad but should be used to compare regions.

The cumulative visualization is shaded relative to the highest total death and case count for any region. This does show the relative severity between regions (based on total deaths and cases, not relative to population).

As the location and date of the peak in daily and cumulative cases and deaths change over time the videos will be different each time you watch. Bookmark this post and check back for daily updates.

(This is the third version of this post as I have changed the data source and methodology several times. I usually preserve the previous version of any post but the changes are large enough that in this case I have removed them).

If you're going to ask for something be direct, don't beat around the bush.

So I'm confused, Microsoft. Do you want me to use Edge? After installing updates Edge wants to 'Get started', on a nice modal with no cancel button or even any little x to close it. Must be some mistake right, not quite ready for prime time if they forgot the 'Don't get started' button. Maybe I'll try it when the kinks are worked out.

Ah, right clicking the icon and choosing close would work, right? Nope. Feels more and more like malware.

You can kill it from task manager so at least someone was paying some attention to usability.

Don't I remember some settlement with the DOJ after an antitrust judgement for forcing browsers on someone? That was a while back, must be remembering a different company.

The International Space Station passes over San Francisco (first crew bearing Dragon capsule attached). 14 stacked two second exposures.

37.2 unique miles in May. Photo is the fog shadow behind Grand View Park.

Hike starts at: 37.741726, -122.471298. View in Google Earth.

Summer Solstice 2020.

4K video of an International Space Station lunar transit on May 7.

Coronavirus hikes.

WTF Google Search Console.

Timelapse of stars over San Francisco.

Catfood Software updates: Earth 4.01 and WebCamSaver 3.21.

Previously:

• 2019: Tire Chalking Constitutional Amendment
• 2018: I just want to get rid of Windows 10 Notifications with one click
• 2017: Real Time