linkspam has learned the joy of packing early
The Secret Service has been chasing $40m in Double Eagles for seventy years.
Vintage Space has a carnival of Spaaaaace!
Grantland has an oral history of the Malice in the Palace, that epic bench-clearing brawl involving NBA players and fans.
These photos of underwater dogs must be seen to be appreciated. Amazing! My favorite is the Golden with just her nose out of water.
I've posted about this before, but this is a great write-up with an awesome picture at the top: Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967. And linked from that story, why women rule ultra-running. (It doesn't really answer that question, though.) (Also, if women rule, why am I having so much trouble on my 6 AM 5Ks?...)
Fun with Photoshop: Retronaut gives us The Enterprise crew in Victorian times.
Physics Today (not to be mistaken for Psychology Today, home of dubious evo-psych theories) has a piece on politics and scientific controversies.
MGK has an interesting post on the politics of Star Wars. (Yes, it has politics! Everything has politics!)
You know that widely-linked story in Mother Jones recently, about what it's like to work in a mail-order warehouse? Here's some related news, about a workers' class-action suit against one of those companies.
I haven't actually read this yet, but it looks interesting: I killed the internet. Seriously?
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In other news, the Shaker Lemon pie came out ... okay. Not great: the lemon is too strong, the skins too bitter, and the filling too goopy. The crust is excellent (naturally--it's the Cooks Illustrated recipe, calling for ridiculous amounts of butter). I don't know if I'll try it again: not sure whether it needs more sugar, less lemon, more egg, longer baking...
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Hmm, I look at this icon (S2 John Crichton, text: Billowy Coat King of Pain), and I realize that pretty soon nobody is going to get that reference. Huh.
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In Dunnett adventures, I have met Graham Mallett, and Jerott Blythe is kind of being a dick. And boy, did Dunnett ever loathe Juan de Homedes. And Sinan Pasha, who is never mentioned but she calls him "a renegade Jew from Smyrna". It's a bit disturbing.
On the other hand, it's nice to read it at a slow enough pace that I can pick up the foreshadowing and the clues that are ably dotted through the narrative.
I do think she could have done better by Oonagh O'Dwyer, though.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Vintage Space has a carnival of Spaaaaace!
Grantland has an oral history of the Malice in the Palace, that epic bench-clearing brawl involving NBA players and fans.
These photos of underwater dogs must be seen to be appreciated. Amazing! My favorite is the Golden with just her nose out of water.
I've posted about this before, but this is a great write-up with an awesome picture at the top: Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967. And linked from that story, why women rule ultra-running. (It doesn't really answer that question, though.) (Also, if women rule, why am I having so much trouble on my 6 AM 5Ks?...)
Fun with Photoshop: Retronaut gives us The Enterprise crew in Victorian times.
Physics Today (not to be mistaken for Psychology Today, home of dubious evo-psych theories) has a piece on politics and scientific controversies.
MGK has an interesting post on the politics of Star Wars. (Yes, it has politics! Everything has politics!)
You know that widely-linked story in Mother Jones recently, about what it's like to work in a mail-order warehouse? Here's some related news, about a workers' class-action suit against one of those companies.
I haven't actually read this yet, but it looks interesting: I killed the internet. Seriously?
*
In other news, the Shaker Lemon pie came out ... okay. Not great: the lemon is too strong, the skins too bitter, and the filling too goopy. The crust is excellent (naturally--it's the Cooks Illustrated recipe, calling for ridiculous amounts of butter). I don't know if I'll try it again: not sure whether it needs more sugar, less lemon, more egg, longer baking...
*
Hmm, I look at this icon (S2 John Crichton, text: Billowy Coat King of Pain), and I realize that pretty soon nobody is going to get that reference. Huh.
*
In Dunnett adventures, I have met Graham Mallett, and Jerott Blythe is kind of being a dick. And boy, did Dunnett ever loathe Juan de Homedes. And Sinan Pasha, who is never mentioned but she calls him "a renegade Jew from Smyrna". It's a bit disturbing.
On the other hand, it's nice to read it at a slow enough pace that I can pick up the foreshadowing and the clues that are ably dotted through the narrative.
I do think she could have done better by Oonagh O'Dwyer, though.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.