Back of the Book

• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 156,326,016 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 3,260,983 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 32,643,635 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 580,804 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 4,959.
• Covid~19 targets - New York City will "open up" on either May 19, or July 1, depending on who wins the pissing match between the Mayor and the Governor.
• Planet Earth - We talked about various scenarios where the planet will be destroyed, none of which rely on anthropogenic hijinks for the end result.
• The long arm of stupidity - We talked about a woman who discovered by accident that she had an outstanding felony embezzlement warrant out on her for 22 years, for failure to return a VHS tape in 1999.
• Another WBAI loss - WBAI producer Mary Ann Miller has died of Covid~19 and pneumonia.
• Our health - We talked about having contracted what seems to be a really bad cold, both of us. Pickles of the North talked about how robust cold germs are, as R. Paul tried to not cough too much.

This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
We talked about the various ways in which the Earth might actually end its existence in time frames from less than 2,000,000 years to trillions and trillions of years from now.

We talked about a woman in Texas who had a bogus felony warrant hanging over her for 22 years, and she didn't even know about it! She may have lost jobs in that time because of it.

• Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

• Barracuda - Heart
• Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

• I have a Web site.

• R. Paul is on Twitter.

• WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.

• If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.

• Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.

• If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.

• Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.

• For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.

• For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get the Tails OS here.