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
