Day: November 11, 2006

Notes From JWR:

Today (11/11) America remembers our veterans. Wow! Our unique visits counter is about to surpass the 800,000 mark. (And a whopping 38.3 million page hits, but that is a far less important statistic.) Thanks for making SurvivalBlog such a great success! Please keep spreading the word. We recently changed ISPs, so we will no longer be checking our old Earthlink.net e-mail. But our more recently (and commonly) used “rawles@usa.net” e-mail address will still be checked at least twice a day. Please update your e-mail address book, accordingly. Thanks! Speaking of communications, we just switched to Vonage.com “voice over IP” long …


Another Perspective on Selecting Barter Goods, by OSOM

Dear Jim: The recent letter on barter goods caused me to sit down and organize my thoughts on the matter. Running a successful retail/wholesale operation, I can see some caveats and analysis that needs further exploration. What’s WRONG with Barter Goods As has been well emphasized before – forget about barter goods until you are squared away for your own logistics. Beyond that, remember that barter goods are much inferior to money or cash in a functioning economy, with a good division of labor. If you need to sell them to raise cash, it will take some effort, and you …


Odds ‘n Sods:

The second Medal of Honor has been awarded for heroism in Iraq.    o o o Rourke (editor of the Jericho Discussion Group) mentioned this article: Jericho, the most heavily “streamed” TV series on Innnertube, will sadly be “split” into two half seasons, to avoid repeat episodes. (The first eight episodes, BTW, are available for free download.)    o o o ‘Aliens could attack at any time’ warns former British MoD chief Nick Pope