Setting up a Kindle account for a kid

I was trying to set it up so my kid could order kindle books using amazon gift cards. Bottom line, at least in 2019, was that there was no way to do this. The only way to order kindle books was with 1-touch, which required a linked credit card. The system that I finally had to use was to send books to her account as gifts, and do the ordering myself. Also she didn't figure out how to use email until a couple of years later, so her account is linked to one of my own emails which meant that I was sending the books to myself, opening the gift email myself and accepting it so that it would go to her device. Here is the trace of the research that I did on this problem two years ago.

This thread seems to indicate that it is possible to use a gift card to buy a kindle book, but the account still has to have a linked credit card which was a non-starter for my case: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116313

This YouTube vide seems to rely on some sort of glitch when setting up 1-click purchases and it didn't work for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVA5d9-jXeg

There are a lot of hits for my question. The answers from 2010 don't seem to apply any more. There were other variations on the theme of the youtube video which was "set up 1-click but don't actually enter a credit card" so there must be something to it. https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+kindle+no+credit+card&oq=amazon+kindle+no+credit+card

Lastly, because it's not at all clear how to send a kindle purchase as a gift, here's a page showing what it looks like to do it, followed by a sneaky advertisement for DRM removal software: https://www.epubor.com/how-to-gift-kindle-books.html

December 2019 diversions

Work:

The make and model of the PDU salvaged for the EGSE rack: https://www.google.com/search?q=Belkin+F5C350&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS753US753&oq=Belkin+F5C350

The realization that there have been several models of NI USB-GPIB dongles over the years, apparently A, B, HS, and now HS+
http://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/select/gpib-instrument-control-device?skuId=28506

ProCreate and other animation/drawing apps for T:

An adorable "Getting Started" guide filled with impossible looking examples: https://www.skillshare.com/blog/learn/procreate-101-everything-you-need-to-know-to-get-started

An artist's review of the iPad + ProCreate: https://steemit.com/art/@jillustrations/review-ipad-pro-apple-pencil-procreate-is-a-game-changer

August 2019 Diversions

Eternal Links:

Here is the twitter page of the guy who is constantly flying aerial spying missions at the Starship facility in Cocoa Beach:
https://twitter.com/John_Winkopp

The link to Unearth:
http://unearthcomic.com/

Politics:

The short lived news of the DC immigrant detention center plan: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/shocked-and-appalled-dc-leaders-attack-proposal-of-detention-center-for-migrant-children/65-1ffa8078-69d4-412e-a738-2288a2866a2d
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/feds-eye-takoma-neighborhood-for-detention-center-to-house-migrant-children/65-625711b9-10c7-4b54-8f6f-12c849a7ac73

Trying to find the story of when the jews fucked up an ICE station this summer. This isn't it, but interesting: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/its-not-what-america-stands-for-activists-protest-ice-detention-centers-outside-ice-headquarters/65-a78ed0a1-4c17-4a98-8661-fa5c6791d02b

Remember Parnas and Fruman? No of course not they've already been forgotten by the media circus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/10/two-giuliani-associates-were-just-arrested-heres-what-we-need-know/

Misc Links:

From scanning the news about Hurricane Dorian hitting Florida (and the starship facility there). It passed by missing the coast. https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dorian?src=hash

I missed this internal Apollo 11 celebration, although it looks like it was probably lame anyhow compared to all the Smithsonian stuff that I also missed: https://internal.gsfc.nasa.gov/sites/internal/files/sites/default/img/slides/apollo_11_archive.jpg

A company trying to pass itself off as an NI distributor. Probably a surpluser, but they fooled Google. https://www.radwell.com/Shop?source=GoogleShopping&IgnoreRedirect=true&ItemSingleId=34245400&scid=scplp34245400&sc_intid=34245400

A page of cut and pasteable "Thumbs Up" ascii art, some huge and complex, some simple and cute:
http://textart4u.blogspot.com/2012/04/thumbs-up-and-big-like-text-art.html

A Birdenstine zinger: "Falcon Heavy is ready right now."
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/dish5y/lol_rep_aderholt_what_if_commercial_rockets_arent/

Everyday Astronaut's astonishing interview with Jim Birdenstine:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/dghslj/a_conversation_with_jim_bridenstine_inside_spacex/

The PI for the Viking experiment for detecting life argues (unconvincingly) that Viking did not have a "false positive". This is in the run-up to Mars2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/us/nasa-life-on-mars-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

In honor of the issues being experienced by the Mole on Mars, here is a beautiful article about the little-known Luna24 mission:
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna24.html

Luna 24 was a follow-on to Luna 20 which was apparently the subject of a crazy CIA operation to photograph it after it was ill-advisedly sent on a tour of Europe:
https://www.popsci.com/cias-bold-kidnapping-soviet-spacecraft/

An astonishing scientific paper on the sample-return mission results from Luna16
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/Luna16Core.pdf

The Luna 16 (and later landers) were suprisingly beautiful: https://www.google.com/search?q=luna+16&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS753US753&oq=luna+16

From a search from actually a later month, the wikipedia page for Wrath Of Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan

Work:

Keysight's new nightmare website for the E3631x power supply series. No longer has links to get quotes, manuals, etc.
https://www.keysight.com/us/en/products/dc-power-supplies/bench-power-supplies/e36300-series-triple-output-power-supply-80-160w.html

October Diversions

Adventure Time links:

A complete timeline of the mythology of the show:
atchronology.com

A more concise timeline:
https://www.reddit.com/r/adventuretime/comments/66ku1x/complete_adventure_time_timeline_spoilers/

Undoubtedly the worst plot summary of Adventure Time: https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com/adventure-time-explained-1703199261/amp

Sim's remixes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtZ-k3KfeUI&list=RDTtZ-k3KfeUI&index=1

The original "Conversation Parade" clip:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_JbTHp6uzI

A nice collection of BMO clips:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=heHylvp05R4&list=PLRrcNeDY-Mq8fwy72vkn-5y37OGrgF4gY&index=6

The transcript of "Shh" which seems to be as close as I will be able to get to watching the whole thing:
https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Shh!/Transcript

The list of Adventure Time Episodes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Adventure_Time_episodes

The head of a search on the wiki for background about the MOs:
https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/MO_Co.

And this is also a good starting place for this search:
https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/MOs

Adventure Time is getting a four-part miniseries on HBO, crazily enough, after its ending in 2018:
https://tvline.com/2019/10/23/adventure-time-new-episodes-distant-lands-hbo-max/

Spiderman Into The Spiderverse links:

A great family costume set!
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dpyaiz/my_wife_finally_let_me_pick_out_the_outfits_this/

Everything from learning G-g-g-ghost:

The original Karaoke video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-clPKPBSoI4

The best chords:
https://www.e-chords.com/chords/misc-cartoons/steven-universe-g-g-g-ghost

Sadie Killer And The Suspects chords + video together:
https://chordify.net/chords/sadie-killer-and-the-suspects-steven-universe-karaoke-phizzy

Sadie Killer and the Suspects chords, but a confusing mix of guitar and uke chords:
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/misc-cartoons/steven-universe-sadie-killer-and-the-suspects-ukulele-2765257

Misc Articles:

I've tried reading this article several times about making a Turing machine out of Magic:The Gathering, and I can't convince myself that it's not bullshit:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/its-possible-to-build-a-turing-machine-within-magic-the-gathering/

Amazing discovery in Egypt:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50068575

A funny reminiscence about the dark storylines in the original MLP:
https://www.tor.com/2019/10/15/gormenghast-with-hooves-learning-the-art-of-dark-storytelling-from-my-little-pony

The U.S. is reduced to bombing its own abandoned bases during the Trump retreat from Syria:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/16/politics/us-airstrike-storage-site-syria/index.html

The killing of old timey TV shows by CBS and other networks in the late 1960's was known as "The Rural Purge". It led to the Mary Tyler More show and M*A*S*H:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge

Aside from a couple of classics, these are not actually great cat photos but eh:
https://www.freshedits.com/funny/cats-who-immediately-regretted-their-poor-life-decisions/40.html

There's been a burst of finds of sunken Midway battleships this year:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/battle-of-midway-akagi-ship-discovered-historic-world-war-ii-battle/

The FB page of the underwater exploration company that found the Midway ship shows a lot of fascinating discoveries that they've recently made:
https://www.facebook.com/rvpetrel/photos/a.2578421032193362/2578429078859224/?type=3&theater

This wasn't so much about lines of code or a scientific measure of effect on the world so much as a walk down internet memory lane. But it was a fairly well done and enjoyable read:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html

Breathless headlines betray that this was a fun mini house build by a kid who did a good job with it even though there isn't any plumbing in it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Luke+Thill,+an+8th+grader+from+Dubuque,+Iowa

A sweet tribute to Weird Al: he does a Tiny Desk concert for NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2010/06/22/127983640/-weird-al-yankovic-tiny-desk-concert

A nice explainer for the new Terminator movie, from the point of view of someone who liked it:

An interview with Arnold about the new Terminator movie:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-doesnt-care-that-terminator-dark-1839400170

The story behind the funny cake with the picture of the thumb drive on it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/17o4yi/a_friend_of_mine_ordered_a_picture_cake_and_gave/c87b615/

A great collection of comic-con costumes:
https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-very-best-cosplay-we-saw-at-comic-con-2019/

I didn't know that this meme was called "Woman Yelling At A Cat" but now I know the whole story:
https://www.truthorfiction.com/the-sad-backstory-of-the-woman-yelling-at-a-cat-meme/

The Terra Cotta Army and the First Emperor:

20 Outlandish scientific theories people used to believe:
https://historycollection.co/20-outlandish-scientific-theories-from-history/

The clickbait that lead to all my research about the Terra Cotta Warrior tomb. It was the tomb of The First Emperor whose rise to power is very interesting. He was apparently fascinated with mercury and the legend is that the central tomb had fountains and rivers of mercury:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=973104796380580&id=605447116479685&anchor_composer=false

A better article:
https://www.history101.com/orig/mystery-terracotta-warriors/

The Mausoleum's wikipedia page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emperor

The First Emperor:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang

A scientific investigation into the legend of the rivers of mercury, but it's behind a paywall:
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/flowing-rivers-of-mercury/8122.article

Will ever see the inside?
https://www.livescience.com/22454-ancient-chinese-tomb-terracotta-warriors.html

So many facts in this thought experiment of whether the rivers of mercury could have existed, including that the tomb was vandalized by the subsequent emperor!
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4566

Eternal Links:

Again from a previous month: The Crane Wife essay. A story about relationship failure and grief and dealing:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/

This is the CCTA semi-professional kids' theater group that we keep hearing about. They tour a huge amount of the year!
https://cctarts.org/the-young-columbians/

Politics:

An unusually clear explanation of what the Putin-Erdogan treaty actually does in Syria:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/middleeast/putin-erdogan-syria-deal-hodge-analysis-intl/index.html

I don't know why discovery of yet another one of Romney's secret liberal twitter accounts is news, but it is true that it's strangely fascinating:
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqOQgKIjNDQklTSURvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoTUtFUWp1elpPdmpvQU1FZjFoUXdUOG1ldHJLQUFQAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

This bit about Trump flashing the finger after being corrected by the female astronaut seemed true but so stupid that I figured nobody would pick it up. Boy was I wrong:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrGJackBrown/status/1185404612238438400

Rudi accidentally lets some of his dirty laundry slip out. He has so much of it that the author struggles to figure out which corrupt business it's related to:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-butt-dials-nbc-reporter-heard-discussing-need-cash-n1071901?fbclid=IwAR2lWICdVzpwLXtB_Slf350ZqIUmw9o4pwqJMmYnkFWGMDdunp3xQ63N5ZA

I can't quite decide if this article, now from ages ago, fully makes its point. But it's an interesting observation that "Conservatives" believed that they could constrain somebody with dictatorial ambitions, and also that people in the past are not that hard to understand:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/donald-trump-and-hitlers-rise-to-power.html

Work Links:

Here is the manual for the Stanford Research Systems DS345 function generator. It's a good unit:
https://www.thinksrs.com/downloads/pdfs/manuals/DS345m.pdf

One of our E36312A's was returning an ID of E3631. After some searching I was reminded that this unit can be set to emulate the older unit. More searching revealed that it's called "Persona Mode":
https://www.google.com/search?q=E36312A+persona+mode&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS753US753&oq=E36312A+persona+mode

How to set and unset "Persona Mode" is referenced in the SCPI manual for the E36300 series:
https://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/E36311-90008.pdf

The Glenair datasheets for the jackposts. IT HAS THE TORQUE SPECS!
https://cdn.glenair.com/micro-d/pdf/n/080-00-00-1xx-and-500-069-x-x-and-177-504-x-x-and-177-505-x-x-x.pdf

The Glenair datasheet for the microbands:
https://cdn.glenair.com/tools/pdf/c/clamping-bands.pdf

September Diversions

Informative articles about the Making of STTMP:
https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/star-trek/253838/the-troubled-production-of-star-trek-the-motion-picture
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/40-years-later-star-trek-the-motion-picture-remains-a-movie-making-miracle
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-beautifully-dull-paradox-of-star-trek-the-motion-p-1838018612
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Making_of_Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture
https://ascmag.com/articles/star-trek-50-part-ii-shooting-the-motion-picture

Today I learned that Kate Mulgrew has written two memoirs, the latest about the deaths of her parents being "How To Forget". Sounds worthy of a read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/life-beyond-star-trek-kate-mulgrews-poignant-sometimes-shocking-family-story/2019/06/06/3478e358-518a-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html

July Diversions

How to disable Smart Voice Recorder notifications from appearing on the lock screen: Navigate the settings for notifications and turn off the app specifically:
https://androidforums.com/threads/how-to-disable-easy-voice-recorder-from-displaying-info-on-locked-screen.928463/

More intentionally bad photoshops:
https://twentytwowords.com/guy-who-takes-photoshop-requests-literally-hilariously-strikes-again/

HC Pride, as recommended by Mark:
https://www.howardcountypride.org/

The piano score for Stronger Than You!!!:
https://musescore.com/user/8583531/scores/3376566

The less good piano score for Stronger Than You:
https://musescore.com/user/1539191/scores/1115206

How to play Wizards unite: How to get gold:
https://www.imore.com/fastest-ways-get-game-gold-harry-potter-wizards-unite

Takai's tweet about the Concentration Camps, for someone who couldn't get out of their own echo chamber:
https://mobile.twitter.com/georgetakei/status/1141174822619242496

Little girl prohibited from playing in a fountain for not wearing a girls' bathing suit:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/silver-spring/girl-told-to-leave-silver-spring-fountain-because-of-her-swimwear/

This article's headline promises a much better story than it actually contains, but it was slightly interesting anyhow: https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/f-22-maricked-iranian-fighters

A clickbait slide show about abandoned submarines which is probably still worth clicking through: https://finance180.com/journey-abandoned-submarines-bases?utm_source=outbrain-journey-abandoned-submarines-bases&utm_medium=004777123a68055b005d2ea397c8f3d804&utm_campaign=00b69eef7af0e1c88a3de765c111b5eb89&utm_term=004cb59b4987b4eae8eaa9a48ec3b3a0e9&utm_content=00e7790011a148c4cebad091bc3ba452c8

An interesting enough article that tried to make clickbait of all things about the Apollow Laser Ranging experiment: https://www.space.com/apollo-retroreflector-experiment-still-going-50-years-later.html?fbclid=IwAR05W9nWodFsiC_9x22_1aIcIZ0_q-VR680WVP1osMKfoJfzHCkp7Eczu_Y

The twitter post that somebody posted a screencap of must have been made a while ago, but AOC's feed by itself just today is simply inspiring reading: https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc

A fascinating article about brazillian monkeys who have been using stone tools for thousands of years, and how people are doing archeaology on the found tools: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-capuchin-stone-age-has-a-3-000-year-old-archaeological-record?fbclid=IwAR2St3VKUs5K8Gl9FsI2SADgEw9aCnPDn_AuPVwOUj8EAY2mLsBm23-sVw0&tb_cb=1

Interesting but ultimately condescending photos of women riding motorcycles in the 1950's: https://www.vintag.es/2018/03/1940s-bike-girls.html

A poorly written but accurate report about the D.C. Lights For Liberty event: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/12/lights-liberty-dc-immigration-vigil-hundreds-gather-protest/1710297001/?fbclid=IwAR1vimxA1zlCQVNWyV4n7RCltTE2oIUFs233-lO7ISIVkz3jnDtNU9YDVLw

An article about India's moon lander. It doesn't seem to go into real specifics about the instruments on the rover, but the article has lots of details I'd never learned before nonetheless (like there is a rover)https://www.space.com/india-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-science.html?fbclid=IwAR3ML9P1VofokhhZtKdKnmIbBqVQQl08XGCsTVGLLmbpswXlz0kL88e4_hY

Read this later about CoQ10: https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=10219478678574888&id=1151141007&anchor_composer=false

A salacious article about the salacious Blue Lagoon movie. It does sound as much like a porno as everybody said at the time like it was:
https://m.ranker.com/list/blue-lagoon-is-messed-up/donn-saylor?fbclid=IwAR0pG10FwzmrNDLeMruDyYJcBVFn2VppglEPmzJU2UXfscs3-maEvHHiPn4

The Tatra 87, which killed more nazi generals than battle. The comments are the best part:
https://www.wearethemighty.com/gear-tech/car-killed-more-nazi-generals?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

A clickbait headline for a relatively pedestrian issue with the Federation capsule. It's basically Russia's Orion.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/theres-a-slight-problem-with-russias-proposed-federation-spacecraft/

An miserably written article about the Lights For Liberty protest at Homestead, but there are a couple of photos:
https://floridadailypost.com/lights-for-liberty-vigil-homestead-temporary-shelter/

A well written article about LfL at Homestead:
https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2019/07/13/naples-residents-protest-detention-facilities-through-lights-liberty/1687083001/

SpaceX's release of the surprising Crew Dragon anomaly investigation results:
https://www.spacex.com/news/2019/07/15/update-flight-abort-static-fire-anomaly-investigation

I can't figure out if this article comparing North and South Korea is intended to be satirical or if I'm just not sufficiently perceptive to see the supposedly yawning differences between the North and South Korean photos:
https://www.cheezburger.com/a/lifestyle/photographer-shows-difference-between-countries-fb

A blogger's hyper focused analysis of Peggy Sue Got Married. It's been a long time since I saw this movie; I'm not sure if he has the answer to why I found it unimpressive but reading this made me feel like I'd seen it again and understood it better.
https://benjaminsmess.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-weekly-screed-917.html

A thoughtful analysis of Trump's post-tweet public appearance:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/trump-racist-attacks-ilhan-omar/

Another really good analysis framing media coverage of the tweets:
https://www.theroot.com/white-people-want-trump-1835458008

It looks like I need to watch See You Yesterday. This search helped warn me about the shaky pseudoscience and ambiguous ending:
https://www.google.com/search?q=see+you+yesterday+plot

TIL I learned the name for the beeps in Apollo audio files and the technical reasons behind them:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindar_tones

Finally some context for the role that the Kyoto Animation studio played to somehow make it a target for a mass murder:
https://kotaku.com/kyoto-animation-became-more-than-just-anime-1836517546/amp

The attacker does sound like a garden variety schizophrenic:
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/07/472c0398b5c5-update2-kyoto-studio-arsonist-repeatedly-caused-trouble-for-neighbors.html

Trying to figure out why the second Chinese space station was simply deorbited after just one (and a half) mission. No direct answers here, but the repeated mention that it was a "pathfinder" station bolsters my suspicions that it probably had expendibles in place of some closed systems:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-2

The just-released first trailer for the Steven Universe movie. It looks pretty rough for Earth in the movie:
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/tv/2019/7/19/20696763/steven-universe-movie-trailer-release-date-sdcc-2019

The first of hopefully many reports of this year's Steven Universe panels at Comic Con. Oddly a video report by the LA Times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzUnKS_lQg

We are up to 14 states that are going to send their electoral college votes go to the winner of the popular vote. It's not enough to make a difference yet and there is a weird technicality, but it's another step in the right direction:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/04/politics/new-mexico-popular-vote/index.html

Probably the only useful information that can be learned about the whole Area 51 thing:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/19/naruto-run-linked-area-51-10427664/

Just another sad story about teenagers going Lord Of The Flies on an innocent (in this case disabled) kid. Social media outrage did assist with finding the victim in this case:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-girl-beaten-viral-video-20190725-eynvybtt3vg4nbmtz3gi6sszsq-story.html?outputType=amp https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/juveniles-nabbed-brutal-chicago-mob-beating-mentally-disabled/story

A confirmed idiot on FB spoke up in admiration of Adam Schriff's performance during the latest Mueller hearing. It turns out he's a Representative who supports Mueller:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1155188807962112001

This article probably explains things well. I wish I could read it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-07-26/heffernan-robert-mueller-testimony-adam-schiff%3F_amp%3Dtrue

Teslarati's report on the first Starhopper flight has the best video clips and also a well written background section:
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starhopper-flight-test-raptor-video/

Anne Arundel County SPCA, where we got Nova from. Their shelter is super well organized:
https://aacspca.org/

Like most retrospectives on the makings of 80's movies, this one about Revenge Of The Nerds is both informative and a little vague, and discusses the movie's cringe issues:
https://www.gq.com/story/revenge-of-the-nerds-oral-history

Equifax data breach: I should claim my $150:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html

There is going to be a new Star Trek animated series; probably satirical:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-head-writer-of-rick-and-morty-is-creating-a-new-ani-1829997669

Archaeology: iron Roman scribe found in England has a joke written on it in Latin:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/joke-on-roman-souvenir-bloomberg-building-site-city-of-london

The absolutely horrible clickbait article about the 47 year-old Christmas present from the ex girlfriend: http://www.brain-sharper.com/social/unopened-gift-fb/

The better version on an actual news outlet: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4936326

In any normal world, saying that you were at Ground Zero when you weren't would be political death: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/29/politics/donald-trump-9-11-first-responders/index.html

Slide to Unlock is gone for any iOS over 9, and I miss it endlessly. This article is one of thousands describing the workaround that seems to have worked in iOS 10 and not in my current iOS. But interestingly it explains the reason for this terrible decision, that Samsung won a patent case for this seemingly applesque feature: https://time.com/4512982/ios-10-unlock-iphone-without-pressing-home-button/

There are ways to get a similar feature on a jailbroken iPhone: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2017/08/enable-slide-to-unlock-ios-10-lock-screen-jailbreak-tweak.html

We Are The Mighty has been doing a few Civil War pieces which are always about interesting fringe details, like this one about "Sherman's Bow Ties":
https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/sherman-neckties-civil-war-history?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4

Surprise, the NRA's narrative that they supported the Black Panthers is probably revisionism. Do more research from here: "https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act

Wait, they really were called Martha and the Muffins? Echo Beach: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQkIEkxm7k

We found Lisa's twitter! https://mobile.twitter.com/lisadic63797300

This article claims that I should be able to pair our old apple tv remote with our new apple tv, although the idea that our new apple tv is '4G' seems improbable: https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/974838

An amazingly bold protest, met with so many tut-tuts in this article! The article fails to answer my main question, which is did he really put a picture of Autschwitz on his sign? https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_829462a8-b2ef-11e9-b0d9-fbd4bfb5132b.htm

The subway operator who everybody on my feed seems to know. He did much more than just stop the train, and his own account is fascinatingly humble: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-train-operator-hero-g-train-interview-20190730-bxpipse2trf43eqqskqwwq65qe-story.html

A runaway's story. So much to unpack here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-vanishing-daughter-children-identity-20190311-story.html

Ben Carson talks a good game, but his record means that he is worthy of the treatment he received this day: https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/07/31/hud-secretary-ben-carson-baltimore-trump-tweets/

Nina's field trip location: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-US&q=American+Visionary+Art+Museum

Can hamsters eat watermelon? A surprisingly detailed answer and a resource for any hamster food question: https://petsolino.com/can-hamsters-eat-watermelon/

A super nice comparison of all the different lunar and mars rovers by distances travelled. All of the distances are surprisingly short, and the two apollo vehicles did most of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_2#/media/File%3ADriving_Distances_on_Mars_and_the_Moon.png

This story is an example of police in America:
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/texas-woman-killed-by-police-officer-attempting-to-shoot-her-dog-083943364.html

Apparently the document used to justify the Iraq war was declassified this week, and it's the piece of junk we all thought that it would be. My question is how did this get released before Chaney was in the grave, and why is this news source such a crappy one?:
https://newspunch.com/declassified-cia-document-reveals-iraq-war-had-zero-justification/

Hiberfil.sys is one of the files that is somehow eating up 500GB on T's hard drive. The rest of it are the dark 300GB that at one point I was doing research on how to fix: https://www.google.com/search?q=hiberfil.sys+large

It was just one day ago that the tape of Reagan calling African leaders "monkeys" came out. This article puts certain people's shock about this in the proper context: https://theslot.jezebel.com/presidential-biographers-absolutely-stunned-to-find-tha-1836898704

This 3x3 illustrating literature theory with images from Daffy Duck cartoons is both deep and funny:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/67887955_655212701628994_5731661924123279360_n.jpg

This article asking "Why isn't Cheap Trick one of the biggest bands ever kinda answers the question by trying too hard. The comments make me think that I might enjoy seeing the band live though:
https://www.culturesonar.com/cheap-trick-why-arent-they-one-of-the-biggest-bands-ever/

June Diversions

Politics:


Science:

I did not know that galaxy clusters are connected by thin filaments of matter!
https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-spot-mysterious-10-million-light-year-long-1835301269/amp

I did not know that robocall blocking was already available from Verizon:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/06/tech/robocalls-blocking-fcc/index.html

April 2019 diversions

Politics:

A detail-rich history of the defeat of ISIS by the Kurds:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-trump-betrayed-the-general-who-defeated-isis?fbclid=IwAR3DC9LYZQQP_2rgyLSkBofQiOrf1jnoPxqj7lgjvCrO_CUZJlcDfYmiHfw

Bad headline, odd for The Root. Story is about how Muller report gives extensive details on Russian misinformation ops during the 2016 election, including impersonation of liberal activists. Nothing not already known but now it's in the report.
https://www.theroot.com/mueller-report-reveals-how-black-activists-white-tears-1834150537?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=theroot_twitter&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR2_o0lQPZ3F7S4_6KeSUa2y4VWBeiK50PbUjR6PxQ3cQ8Z-l2ZVBVsjZxU

Weird Nixonesque corruption at the state level:
https://www.king5.com/mobile/article/news/local/spokane-county/lawmakers-respond-to-explosive-allegations-against-rep-matt-shea/293-34ec3bd6-5046-48f8-9655-fa2fa23c4ad3?fbclid=IwAR1VUoQVcZkBposSNxtcQhoyAdO0An4A_Q9EQZYs3extekl3E0GPgJ6rU-s

Why did I spend so long reading this long article about the bad actors in Parkland?
https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/parkland/


Best links ever:

The eclipse video from Columbia SC:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPgLK3ASHUQ

Sim Gretina These Lumps:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4QxCmNaNo

Sim Gretina Inside And Out:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUxaiZJGqU



Other interesting comics advertised on Gifts of Wandering Ice:

Middleways: I've seen this before, I think it's a spy/fantasy combination, fairly good art with some pretty rough edges: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/middleways/1

Just Another Day: lovingly drawn fantasy artwork that became too difficult to do as a comic and is now an illustrated story: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/just-another-day/1

Fragile, a mastery of manga art style so perfect that it is indistinguishable from any other similar comic: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/fragile/1

Out Of Time: A completely gorgeous website design for a comic with such rough art that I'm not sure I can read it. But I have to respect the artist for making it happen. http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/out-of-time-3/1

UNEARTH. Let's see what this classic has been up to recently: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/unearth-a-retro-sci-fi-graphic-novel/1

Ha ha blocked by GSFC for being marked as "gaming". The ad for this so cleverly mocked the comic's own art that I have to check this out later: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/mischief-in-maytia/1

Retroblade, a super-polished sci-fi time travel mystic crystals adventure with fun tech and characters. Too bad it seems to be on infinite hiatus: http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/retroblade/1

Diversions:

A video of starting a 1911 race car. The video is 9 minutes of agonizing fiddling, but from the comments I learned that what is being done is priming the engine and then hitting a "tremblor" button to produce a single spark to get the whole thing running. The car has been insanely over-restored; everything is clean and gleaming chrome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMa3_tT5mKA

The soil used to bury the Terra Cotta Army perfectly preserved their bronze weapons. Note the 4 month test compared to the effects of the same test using British soil!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/heres-the-real-reason-why-terracotta-army-weapons-are-so-well-preserved/?fbclid=IwAR3o3TgMu9EvjKfPfyKN9Bm-5LF1PI3c8gvzQLuOGAUw0tOaoDlAZcgAZUI

The fix for "your security settings do not allow you to download files from this location". Download options setting in IE: https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlname=Your-current-security-settings-do-not-allow-this-file-to-be-downloaded-in-Internet-Explorer

Another mind-bogglingly pristine Egyptian tomb discovered. It's astonishing that there are any left to discover:
https://www.boredpanda.com/4000-years-old-tomb-discovered-egypt-painted/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BPFacebook&fbclid=IwAR0cWL4miNsXbbNCa7Or671TNtXxnVxHN5C5L18YKO456Pyo85e96ob00E0

A fascinating article about how somebody realized that egyptian statue breakoffs were actually desecration and what it means:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-statues-broken-noses-artsy/index.html

Turns out home inspection is a scam, correlates with my experiences:
https://www.checkbook.org/national/home-inspectors/articles/We-Got-12-Home-Inspections-and-Were-Astonished-at-How-Poorly-Many-of-the-Inspectors-Performed-7029/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1555600861&utm_campaign=brand_awareness&fbclid=IwAR1pBIKRYgjlkEi9GpXVxiRE9fxXVsHnx13q7mhZIlhQW142gnmX9-22Q3A

There's a rabbit rescue in Columbia that has been operating since 1997?
https://www.friendsofrabbits.org/info/index

I discovered that Jeff Rowland's outlet these days in on Twitter. Man does he tweet a lot:
https://mobile.twitter.com/wigu

The Vikings combed their hair story:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/57736431_10157165809970917_5117842476832391168_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=7af4fcdaecc6208cb8e146e7812b2592&oe=5D7251CA

Raspberry Pi Beowulf cluster misinterpreted by commenters:
https://m.slashdot.org/story/354846

The Yodeller who sued Yahoo. Indie musician gets ripped off by Yahoo, gets a settlement and ends up as practically their employee until the company goes bankrupt:
https://thehustle.co/the-yodeler-who-sued-yahoo/

VI has a wiki page on fandom:
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_and_replace

The Firestone Primewell tires for the Echo:
https://www.firestonecompleteautocare.com/tires/search-results/
https://www.firestonecompleteautocare.com/tires/brands/primewell/ps830850/95872


Space news:

The destruction of the DM-1 capsule:
https://twitter.com/Astronut099/status/1119825093742530560

A great SpaceX overview video of a falcon 9 typical mission, amazingly still unlisted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4TXCZG_NEY

Info about the Bereshet crash. It was the IMU:
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/SpaceIL-reveals-preliminary-reasons-behind-Beresheet-crash-587117

The astronautix page about Nova, which is often misrepresented by space nerds. The actual story is much more interesting:
http://www.astronautix.com/n/nova.html

March diversions

Politics:

Trump's aides can't stop writing memos to protect themselves:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/trump-aides-keep-documenting-their-actions-safety-net/583966/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=the-atlantic-fb-test-822-1-&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1mttFGyV6rZoVNPsSdVILRCel0oT3lBz0zA3qXaNhufz_v4rPVVOkrEn0

Some analysis of the "He's not worth it" interview:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna982196

It's no surprise that McConnel and his ilk are using numbers they know to be fabricated to fight the New Green Deal:
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/03/10/republican-green-new-deal-attack-1250859

Just because there isn't a month where it isn't appropriate to check in with Fellow Worker Gritty:
https://mobile.twitter.com/fellowgritty?lang=en

Beto steps in it the day after announcing his campaign:
https://nypost.com/2019/03/16/im-incredibly-embarrassed-beto-orourkes-campaign-swing-turns-into-apology-tour/amp/

There was a livestream of the New Zealand shooting and people keep reposting it to YouTube:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/03/15/tech/new-zealand-shooting-video-facebook-youtube/index.html

What exactly it was that makes right wing idiots think that the New Zealand mass shooter was a leftist:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/15/killers-manifesto-reveals-white-supremacist-who-admires-communist-china/

The invisible hand of the free market suddenly proves inconvenient:
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trump-takes-aim-at-gm-google-in-saturday-tweets-11552781288

Making fun of mean-spirited conservative memes:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbwjxx/cropped-boomer-memes-best-of-twitter-baby-boomer-memes-turned-into-weird-versions-vgtrn?utm_source=vicefbus&fbclid=IwAR3h4--u2iJtN7Zv4sr3eiM2R1cKuCuM_iQvn6Ev-Kmcu2iRVKKmnaBlfiU

Reasons and methods for not being a tool:
https://blackyouthproject.com/how-targeting-ilhan-omar-instead-of-white-supremacy-furthered-both-anti-semitism-islamophobia/?fbclid=IwAR0hiqHrW6tXLOAbKdLEF4dwWtuBuUee2jWV2D3nuDf8kuhx2Z4lDtZSKCY

Another great artice from Teen Vogue cutting through bullshit:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fight-racism-model-minority-yassmin-abdel-magied?fbclid=IwAR258RPmx0BXY8iPYT2xkJ-20-UVMI-gYpGi6CH9aiAVYACiBxphcNqrohU

Interesting arguments in the renewed backlash against the Electoral College. Basically that it would blender izz everything:
https://www.thenation.com/article/elizabeth-warren-electoral-college-mississippi/?fbclid=IwAR0Bvch4QqsEJzVB7Zilb6dN9W1li9ApbnTeABZHZyqPI7Jv2sGKsSsKhJM




The Tragic Tale Of How NASA's X-34 Space Planes Ended Up Rotting In Someone's Backyard:
amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/the-war-zone/26546/the-tragic-tale-of-how-nasas-x-34-space-planes-ended-up-rotting-in-someones-backyard?source=dam&__twitter_impression=true

How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list (by faking their caller ID and using robocalling):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-robo-call-moguls-outwitted-the-government-and-completely-wrecked-the-do-not-call-list/2018/01/09/52c769b6-df7a-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2-VUrgPWeJwEYzi7VaV3asvk-p6D091yvd6FMFf6_IXSQfzXRX41srR4s&utm_term=.95f76471bf9a

The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer's Grows (are the bacteria the cause and not the side effect? This article contradicted a couple of days later by another article in the same news feed!):
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/the-case-for-transmissible-alzheimers-grows/?fbclid=IwAR0_iTszVTtQ9C567up7FgClmszRWbMcG0oLwO0AOQjZ0RTOU9tSUBRlWw0&sf207510540=1&utm_campaign=SciAm_&utm_content=organic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook


Halflight may be coming back!
halflightcomics.com/http:/halflightcomics.com/uncategorized/announcements-and-such#comments


Peace And Love remix by Sim Gretina:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r881yf3Mcvs

These Lumps remix by Sim Gretina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4QxCmNaNo

Explanation and original:
https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/These_Lumps

Funny gamer comic about a skeleton character:
https://m.imgur.com/84wQ2uD

The painting of Garnett in "Pool Hopping":
https://www.tvtime.com/en/show/270701/episode/6601757

the girl herself built a peaceful small house in the middle of the mountain forest:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=388171778426589&id=316888752221559&anchor_composer=false

The video is not from this chinese youTube's feed:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCoC47do520os_4DBMEFGg4A/videos?fbclid=IwAR0Oh8tEdtl9NR8l0fx41yrVw5l56yyjytAqbluO2zE-1_JyJKFrVxiZYfk


Lisa appears in the background of this photo from Rebecca's birthday party that I couldn't go to:
https://scontent.fphl2-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/53661802_10218608103183901_8815133037432930304_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-3.fna&oh=be6fd4e09bbef80519d1f6de2a432568&oe=5D2536BB

100 of the World's oldest color photos. These are amazingly cool.
https://www.boredpanda.com/first-color-photos-vintage-old-autochrome-lumiere-auguste-louis/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&fbclid=IwAR0ik_RHVLhsaM7mJLqXuzCUeDqrdKUxrlHBEBfiRmQo9CGo0S3o52UY8dA



This article about the symbols on the $1 bill does an incomplete job of backing up its assertions, but presents tons of actual historical background about the history of the bill and the symbols, including many that I had never even noticed before:
https://m.ranker.com/list/meanings-of-symbols-on-dollar-bill/hannah-irvine


The Geggy Tah video on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRNZucoCyw


Nobody seems to have done a Google-findable interview with Sim, but this MLP Wikia article has the most complete information I've been able to find so far:
https://mlpfanart.fandom.com/wiki/SimGretina

How to get to the parental controls lockout for our cable box:
https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/tv/programs-features/parental-controls

Russ's announcement of his father's passing:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2367218489976633&id=100000655161224&anchor_composer=false

This kid's movie was playing with no sound at the doctor's office. I was mystified by why it involved seagulls and a cute girl. It turns out they are storks, and the girl is supposed to be 18????
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storks_(film)

A pretty cool looking comic, "Gifts of Wandering Ice":
mildegard.ru/Gifts_of_wandering_ice/English/

Lasalle's Legacy:
http://lasalleslegacy.com/?comic=fallacy-page-26




A fascinating article about midlife crisis with a firm foundation in actual data and research:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis

A summarial article about the 737-Max crisis:
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/the-world-pulls-the-andon-cord-on-the-737-max/

More detailed reporting with some graphs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/world/boeing-737-max-ethiopian-airlines.html

Interesting article about a 3-D printable shape that has 100% audio reflectivity which has great implication for sound control:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90316833/scientists-have-discovered-a-shape-that-blocks-all-sound-even-your-co-workers

A rather weak article about one person's realization that they are an introvert and how they accepted acting accordingly:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/11/how-i-accepted-im-an-introvert-and-learned-to-refuse-invitations-without-guilt

The season finale of "Dr. Pimple Popper" was a nightmare fuel lipoma that I can't stop looking for pictures of:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwjrw9HW9YfhAhUhiOAKHZS9B7oQzPwBCAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Ffemail%2Farticle-6808521%2FMan-3-lb-boob-lipoma-arm-seeks-help-Dr-Pimple-Popper.html&psig=AOvVaw0ynRABoiJ9ccJxMPb33I2G&ust=1552868925473317
https://www.thisisinsider.com/dr-pimple-popper-tlc-show-season-finale-shoulder-bump-2019-3
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8637832/dr-pimple-popper-sausage-roll-lump/

The obituary for Russel's Dad:
https://www.hardestyfuneralhome.com/obituary/Russell-E.-Fink/Annapolis-Maryland/1838439

An article on devious attempts to fight the Milk Factory development:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/ph-cf-ho-scenic-legislation-0320-story.html

How Inuit parents teach their children to control their anger;
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger?fbclid=IwAR2GYGtM7_ZfFq5oIQPy1dGy1DDKhj4iw03fXmPAOOggWxNSy6aiwdDrvKI

SpaceX scrapped the composite tank mandrel!:
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-all-in-steel-starship-super-heavy/

Fresh Prince Of Belair as a melodrama:
https://www.fatherly.com/news/fresh-prince-of-bel-air-drama-short-film/?fbclid=IwAR1k6HyWtRL46uLZtaED1gxrrqPxkpaBaRKfKgYYQgNCe_gNsowCKzohXcA

With only one of the first three Raptors available for installation onto the Hopper, the obvious is spelled out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/b291sg/elon_on_twitter_first_really_short_hops_with_one/

When your kids are watching caroons from Korea about larva, you are at the end of the internet:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larva_(TV_series)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theslanted.com/2018/08/30502/netflix-larva-island-korean/amp/

Also there is a woman-centric cartoon coming out from the creators of Bojack Horseman:
https://theslanted.com/2019/03/32497/netflix-tuca-bertie-trailer-1/amp/

Women animators take down a serial harasser, as told in too-cute animation:
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/women-in-the-animation-industry-explain-how-they-took-down-chris-savino-171436.html?fbclid=IwAR1tTSwjigVFu2x7kic_jTcvmp_v5yc-a4uytyjBfRYyHRJHdt-fRMYRANs

Incredible photos of the (maybe yearly) Lake Michigan ice shards:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6831897/Lake-Michigan-covered-gorgeous-shards-ice.html?fbclid=IwAR3DtfEhjNXBKohmp8O4WA57K173zjjxDq2Kg4ezutxiMevS25EZhplAS6I

Amazing archeology of sunken ships in the Nile cooborates a contemporary description:
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-stunning-nile-shipwreck-provides-the-first-archaeological-evidence-of-a-boat-described-by-herodotus?fbclid=IwAR3En6kwN0ujN7Jd8CWwztySY2Y05GTRxioKJZIJPQFQq31lUmmEwSqs4Dc

Trainer with autism opens gym specifically for clients with autism (in Tampa Bay, Florida):
https://www.wtsp.com/mobile/article/entertainment/places/bobby-lewis-on-the-road/trainer-with-autism-opens-gym-specifically-for-clients-with-autism/67-16982a0f-65cf-4880-8c0f-0c9b72f25457?fbclid=IwAR3gGeR-lctAeMyJV-UheuUA44tcmToYMAmX3E7EcVCPpyw6rI_bonbNJiQ?fbclid=IwAR3gGeR-lctAeMyJV-UheuUA44tcmToYMAmX3E7EcVCPpyw6rI_bonbNJiQ

A Russian nuclear cruise missle has apparently aleady had a test flight??? (Not an ASAT weapon as reported in a Twitter thread by a conspiracy nut, but helka concerning anyhow):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/amp26214314/russia-new-test-nuclear-powered-cruise-missile/

Cheesy Pokemon joke, moronic stereotype humor, yummy art:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/54391511_982353558601693_2395652338741149696_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=4a1041aebbd3c6d10f41ea7d42965e0c&oe=5D13805C

FINALLY there is a properly cross-linked Girl Genius wiki:
https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Queen_Albia

Peak blossom this year:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cherryblossomwatch.com/peak-bloom-forecast/amp/
https://cherryblossomwatch.com/peak-bloom-forecast/

An informative review of another nice looking movie that I won't get to see this year:
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/23/18277617/shazam-movie-review-dc-comics-captain-marvel-zachary-levi-mark-strong

The upcoming electron launch, which shared an acronym with some kind of webserver software:
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/R3D2?src=hashtag_click

An absolutely bizarre "living fossil" tiny mammal that somehow I'd never heard of before:
https://www.newsweek.com/solenodon-venomous-mammal-survived-asteroid-killed-dinosaurs-848588?fbclid=IwAR25HbSHKqrplu14YKp1PhmxwbrS0Y_VOgbDS-

On top of everything else, Elon is giving talks at schools?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/b49zoj/elon_just_visited_a_school_in_flint_and_showed_a/

A historically fascinating look at a prototyping breadboard for the first iPhone software and accessories:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/19/18263844/apple-iphone-prototype-m68-original-development-board-red?fbclid=IwAR3di0E9D1DqbdbvZyYpMV5dPle_mohCrfnlUjEMOwzxDhpBFkDeqJTOa60

March Community Day:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2019/03/23/shiny-sceptile-pokemon-go-march-community-day-starts-at-a-different-time-than-usual/#4e816c106ede
https://attackofthefanboy.com/guides/pokemon-go-how-to-get-shiny-treecko-and-sceptile/


John Wolfgang Memorial Group:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/330157727859229?multi_permalinks=331389751069360%2C331383741069961%2C331347394406929%2C331149097760092%2C331341424407526¬if_t=group_activity¬if_id=1553398726741362&ref=m_notif


Postar photo with everybody:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/54523333_10156865604270673_7697582121811968_o.jpg?_nc_cat=106&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=3081a07d1ff7d8f63518a7861a071403&oe=5D190202




The Michael Cohen takedown of the William Barr memo. Look like another ghost write, but epic nonetheless:
https://mobile.twitter.com/speechboy71/status/1110658454266494977

Also, Barr's sordid history for those who forgot;
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/14/684553791/william-barr-supported-pardons-in-an-earlier-d-c-witch-hunt-iran-contra?fbclid=IwAR33pKBiaVfCqbkTWmirrP9_UQ3P_CVl7jAH5Gh4jqI1n6-KBoT0av7zWTI

Cats and Roombas:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155857179506790&id=59765426789&anchor_composer=false

Robotfest conflicts with hop-a-thon this year:
https://www.robotfest.com

The South Padre Rocketcam:
https://spadre.com

The other South Padre Rocketcam:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo1qWlo9v1Q

The crazy berzerk methane flare on Friday:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=47120.0;attach=1553770;image

The long and well thought out ios article about A Single Oale Rose:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/steven-universe-just-confirmed-a-wild-fan-theory-that-c-1825846053

Finally a guide to Stereolab, which I mostly remember as a chill electronica pioneer:
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/pan478/the-guide-to-getting-into-stereolabs-high-concept-pop

cherry blossom watch:
https://cherryblossomwatch.com/peak-bloom-forecast/

Some interesting research about the placement of Moai on Easter Island:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/scientists-think-theyve-solved-one-mystery-of-easter-islands-statues/?fbclid=IwAR3sYg7Lyd7fkp-WdPj99QW_YJoJEgRtV0-CTAiRvlKshoo_2BUU5RAwbqc

An amazing discovery of many fossils in the Hell Creek area which buttress the Chicxulub theory (the paper was suspiciously written by the same scientist who originated the theory):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/03/29/fossils-show-world-wide-catastrophe-day-dinosaurs-died/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.659fa0ca2617

February diversions

Politics:

Article about the hastily-arranged anti-Iran-sanctions conference, which was full of all kinds of contradictions since Trump and Pence are usually about caving to America's enemies.
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/2/15/18225218/warsaw-summit-2019-iran-meeting-conference

The tip of my research into Trump's national emergency, which revealed that strangely there have been more than 50 national emergencies declared in modern times, and about 33 are still in effect!
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/02/15/what-exactly-national-emergency-here-what-that-means-and-what-next/WvRZAgv1THUZLXTeAZQNUM/story.html

Work:

The article from Maxim for how the MAX1818 circuits in the load box are being configured as current regulators:
https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/4404

Diversions:

Breathless review of The Lego Movie 2:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/lego-movie-2-isnt-just-amazing-its-also-the-solo-we-always-wanted/

A nice photo of models of Pathfinder, Opportunity, and Curiosity together showing differences in scale (this photo posted as a result of the news that Opportunity didn't reboot after the last dust storm):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/PIA15279_3rovers-stand_D2011_1215_D521.jpg/1920px-PIA15279_3rovers-stand_D2011_1215_D521.jpg

Fyre Festival documentaries: https://newrepublic.com/article/153095/fyre-festival-huge-scam-netflixs-fyre-documentary-scam-too

Led Zepplin lawsuit: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/02/11/francis-malofiy-led-zeppelin/

Latest on the israeli moon lander, including some details on the star tracker problem:
https://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-spacecraft-launches-Beresheet-heads-into-orbit-towards-the-moon-581575

Newest thinking about adult-developing food allergies:
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/eved5w/why-do-some-people-suddenly-develop-food-allergies-later-in-life?utm_source=tonicfbus&fbclid=IwAR38mOLmGW6FgZEIMnfbQ4oRAgb07vLkZ_WbM3Tzd41pzmRHMJz8OJBNTRk

Crazy experiment which caused evolution of single cell bacteria into multicellular structures:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-witnessed-in-real-time-a-single-celled-algae-evolve-into-a-multicellular-organism?fbclid=IwAR3C4HjTOz084z6EPFh1FyNkF7KPeCtitIyExS-V3a52G7uHBHlIGCWHxCc

A deep review of some theories on the topic (it sonehow took half a billion years):
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-did-multicellular-life-evolve/

Everyone around you is grieving:

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2019/02/21/everyone-around-you-is-grieving-go-easy/?utm_source=NationSwellfacebook&utm_medium=outreach&utm_campaign=NationSwellOutreach&fbclid=IwAR0-sdzmajBUHgCaE9wt6V2bewDG_oOnG4Csf_ULcOX_9WXPlGLd5twjyUA


Do viruses age:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1t5u7s/do_viruses_age/


Sanders private jet usage during Clinton campaign:

https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/02/25/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-private-jet-flights-1182793

First and only cat in space (suborbital):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félicette

A fat rat stuck in a manhole cover. Amazingly, firefighters just released it back into the sewer:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna976626

The humpback whale in the jungle turns out to be in a mangrove swamp:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/26/world/dead-humpback-whale-brazil-trnd/index.html

Michael Cohen's incredibly ghost-written opening statement:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/02/27/michael-cohen-read-the-statement-about-donald-trump-here.html


Republican lawmakers ask for Cohen to be investigated:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/28/politics/house-criminal-referral-michael-cohen/index.html

Disney princesses with modern careers:

https://amp.thisisinsider.com/disney-princess-jobs-2018-5?fbclid=IwAR0Ia-MlRmmyUQwUUW7WL4U7CAWPS3SRaglWwS2fYSq9chveCDBS2xOqMOM