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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCLX
I have no idea if this will post successfully, but it's worth a try
The Sinking of the Bounty - ”Haba had never encountered a situation like this. An hour and a half earlier, he’d been snoozing on a lumpy leather couch at the air station when the call came in: A large wooden ship was in
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCLIX
This seems like as good a time as any to point out that the US Secret Service don't like having their name abbreviated to "the SS"
The Dog and the Dinosaur - ”The epic true story of a war hero, his rescued dog, and their improbable quest to find a living brontosaurus in the Congo.” A
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCLVI
Not quite as hectic with meetings today though I still haven't had lunch, as getting your afternoon reading sorted out is clearly of much greater importance
The Case of the Missing Chacmools - Weird hippy tulip: ”Soon after New Age icon and bestselling author Carlos Castaneda died in 1998, a group
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCLV
Barely enough gaps for a sandwich today, never mind getting this lot together. Anyway, here's something to read while we wait to see if they cancel the project I've been working on since early last year
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCLIV
There are so few gaps between Teams meetings today that I'm not sure I'll have time for lunch now I've got this lot sorted out
The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice - Bill Pruitt was a producer on the show that created much of Trump's image as a successful entrepreneur. His non-disclosure
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCLIII
It's a long haul until the next Bank Holiday, but I've just booked the day after the election off to give me some respite
Anatomy of a Murder - Minnesota not-so-nice: ”Grand Marais is a quiet outpost on Lake Superior’s North Shore, set among boreal forest in the easternmost corner of Minnesota.
Monday Links from the Bank Holiday Deckchair vol. DCCLII
One of those days when the first article suddenly goes behind a firewall and I have to hunt around for something else. Good job I don't have any work to do
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCLI
I take it that's the warm weather over with for this year then?
Baghdad Country Club - How a chance meeting in an airport led a British contractor to set up a bar in occupied Iraq: ”He had never handled that much of his own money before—$150,000—much less handed it over to someone
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCL
Beset by triffids? Simply hide indoors and read this lot, possibly with the assistance of a screenreader
Death of the Hiker - Leyton Cassidy went for a solo trek up a mountain in Slovenia. Things didn't go according to plan: ”There is a moment—an imperceptibly fast one—when a human’s
Monday Links from the Bank Holiday Deckchair vol. DCCXLIX
Surprising lack of Bank Holiday rain here. Looking at the radar, I see not all of you are so lucky, so here's some stuff you can read aloud to the family as you huddle in a windswept shelter on the seafront
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXLVIII
Looks like we may get some actual spring weather by the end of the week, but here's some light reading to pass the time until it arrives - if it arrives
Oh great, the database is falling over again - take two… and take three… and take four… and take five… and take 23-1 I think it must...
Where's Nick? Monday Links from the Scrapheap vol. DCCXLVIII
Looks like we may get some actual spring weather by the end of the week, but here's some light reading to pass the time until it arrives - if it arrives
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXLV
Oh great, forum's broken again, so I need to change this bit to get past the "duplicate post" thing Another selection of excuses not to go out in whichever storm it is at the moment
Monday Links from the Easter Bunny's Secret Underground Lair vol. DCCXLIV
Some light (and some rather heavy) reading to celebrate the coming of the season of Bank Holidays
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - ”For years, a mysterious figure preyed on gay men in Atlanta. People on the streets called him the Handcuff Man—but the police knew his real name.” Dark doings
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXLIII
Short week this week, but you'll still need this lot to help fill the billable time up to COB Thursday
Fire. Dog. Life. Ice - Aimee Levitt felt like a change, and ended up in the Antarctic: ”There were so many things I could have done. I could have studied abroad in college. I could have tried
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXLII
Some stuff to while away the time until the Vernal Equinox
The Holocaust Angle - Some people on Alderney didn't want any development happening there, and turned to the notion of Nazi war crimes to bolster their case: ”It might have been left at that, another crackpot proposition in a supposedly
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXIX
February seems to be going on for a long time this year, so here's some light reading to take your mind off it
Inside Ukraine’s Wartime Salons - Ukrainians won't let Russian attacks come between them and their manicures: ”On January 2, like many Kyiv residents that morning, salon owner Ludmila
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXVIII
Feels like an early spring out there, with blossom already appearing on trees that produce it. Anyway, enough of that: there's stuff to look at on the Internet!
Fresh Meat - ”I am standing in the middle of a large, stark classroom… On the block in front of me are half a dozen dead pheasants. This
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXVI
I don't know about you, but I'm about ready for a Bank Holiday. But until one shows up, we'll just have to pass the time with these scrapings of the Internet
Mayday: Miracle in the Jungle - ”The race to find four children who survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon.” Means of local transport
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXIV
Once you've retrieved your trampoline from the railway, you can settle down with a cup of tea and read this lot
A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet - The USA's last official lighthouse keeper has retired: ”For 20 years, Snowman has served as the keeper and historian of the 307-year-old
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXIII
This is the start of my first five-day working week since the end of November. Thank goodness for all kinds of odd things on the Internet to distract me from the horror!
Damages - Dark doings in the world of privatised medicine: ”An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients
My brother gave me a stinking cold for Christmas, but it's improved just enough to let me get this lot posted so I can go back to wondering if I'll be able to manage work tomorrow
I've got to hop in my sleigh and head south to see the rest of my family but before I go, here's a selection box of stuff you can read to avoid talking to yours
Cloud Racers - ”The story of two rival pilots chasing a dream during the golden age of aviation.” The good old days when flying was fun,
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXVIII
Fed up with hearing lies from the Covid inquiry? The truth is in here, somewhere, maybe
A National Evil - ”At the turn of the 20th century, the Swiss were plagued by strange, interlinked medical conditions, which existed elsewhere to a degree, but in Switzerland were endemic in more than 80 per
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXVII
If it's anything like it is here where you are, it's perfect weather for staying home with the Internet for company
The Truth Is Out There - ”A father’s disappearance, dark family secrets, and the hunt for Bigfoot.” Katya Cengel on the strange case of a father's disappearance and his son's search
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXVI
Rainy day here, but who needs the real world anyway when there's all this stuff to read?
The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram - ”If three shipwrecked English sailors really did travel by foot from Florida to Nova Scotia in 1569 then it would certainly count as one of the most remarkable walks
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXV
Let's see if it works this time…
D for Deception - ”Over the next 48 hours he wrote 15,000 words, taking only two short breaks. To keep himself going, he smoked over 200 cigarettes and drank three magnums of champagne… Whether Navy, Army, or Air Force, they had all been taught at their
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXIII
Some stuff to read in the break between being flooded out by the last storm and flooded out again by the next storm
Two Thousand Miles From Home - The story of three women from Ukraine who all became pregnant at the same time as Russia invaded: ”Outside it’s a cold, pale winter’s
Half-Safe - In 1950, Ben and Elinore Carlin set out to circumnavigate the globe by sea and land in an army surplus amphibious jeep. This may not have been a good idea: ”The GPW amphibious jeeps were designed to putter through shallow streams for a few minutes
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXX
Let's try again
The Man Who Invented Fantasy - ”All those wizards, ogres, and barely-clad elf queens in the bookstore? You have Lester del Rey to thank.” How the fantasy genre was created in the 1970s by a publisher who realised there was a market for Tolkien derivates.
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXIX
Time to take a break from watching the world go to hell in a handbasket
Who Killed the Fudge King? - ”In the early 1960s, Harry had a string of Copper Kettle Fudge shops up and down the Shore. So revered were his stores that Harry was known far and wide as the Fudge King… He was savagely beaten
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXVII
I managed to give myself food poisoning last night, but we're in the final week of the project with a month's work left to do. Ah well, recuperation is for permies
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXV
Bit late today, for obvious reasons
Dead Reckoning - Disaster at Honda Point - ”There is a noise that, for a Navy captain, may well be the worst sound imaginable—worse than the boom of cannon fire, the whistle of a missile, or the whoosh of a torpedo. That noise is the long, piercing
Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXIV
Before anybody asks: no, I don't know why the forum was down
The Quest to Pick Up the Lost Lifting Stones of Ireland - ”For centuries, Ireland’s stones were more than just a feature of the rugged landscape: The ability to pick them up off of the ground had deep practical and spiritual
Monday Links from the Bank Holiday Deckchair vol. DCCXIII
You don't even have to be ready to quickly switch to Excel if someone approaches while you're reading this lot
The Leg - From 1982, Oliver Sacks on suffering a serious leg injury and the long process of recovering therefrom: ”The circumstances were slightly absurd: I was on a mountain in Northern