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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXLII
Some stuff to while away the time until the Vernal Equinox
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXLI
Seem to have hit a lot of pay- or registration-walls today, but hopefully this lot will be free of any but minor impediments to your reading pleasure- “Please I Will Give Anything for You to Come Back” - ”Why did a mother with no backcountry experience take her sister and 13-year-old son
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXL
You could read "informed" analysis of all the stuff that will turn out not to be in the Budget after all; or you could read this stuff instead- Watch It Burn - A story of fraudsters extracting billions from carbon credit scams: ”Maybe he was paranoid, having built a multimillion-dollar
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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
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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
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXVII
The Internet may be full of American sports and Taylor Swift today, but luckily there's enough space left on there for other stuff too; like this:- His Best Friend Was a 250-Pound Warthog. One Day, It Decided to Kill Him. - Nature, red in tooth and claw: ”By the age of thirty, a time when most people
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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
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXV
Bit late because I've had a busy morning, but taking the time to read this lot should ensure you have a less busy afternoon- Rescuing the Rescuer: Saving Myself from a Lifetime of Hurt - ”How witnessing trauma after trauma on the mountain exacts a cumulative emotional toll on ski patrollers” Cathleen
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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
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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
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXXII
Bit chilly out, but of course you have more sense than to go there when you can stay in reading this lot- ‘Badass detective’: How one California officer solved eight cold cases — in his spare time - Detective Matt Hutchison adopts ingenious methods to get his results: ”Along with poking through
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Monday Links from the New Year Sofa vol. DCCXXXI
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- An Icelandic Town Goes All Out to Save Baby Puffins - ”Two small, round eyes glint like shiny black sequins
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Monday Links from Santa's Grotto vol. DCCXXX
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,
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Monday Links from the Recliner in Front of the Telly vol. DCCXXIX
I've finished with work for the year! Nothing but food and films for the next two weeks - and, of course, interesting stuff to read on the Internet- To catch a catfish - The work of Detective Constable Rebecca Mason, who specialises in uncovering romance fraudsters: ”Turner had sent £240,000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXIV
Would the last person to leave the government please turn out the lights?- Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure - Deb Chachra on Dinorwig power station and massive infrastructure projects generally: ”Collective infrastructures – water and sewage,
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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
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXXII
Back at work this week. When are they going to turn Halloween into a Bank Holiday?- Justice for Neanderthals! What the debate about our long-dead cousins reveals about us - ”They were long derided as knuckle-draggers, but new discoveries are setting the record straight. As we rethink the
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Monday Links from the Armchair vol. DCCXXI
I have a week off! Makes a nice change- 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
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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.
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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
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXVIII
If you feel the need for a break from riveting coverage of the Condemned Party Conference, I have just the things- The Inside Job: A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud - ”Robert Konashewych was a young police officer with expensive tastes, two girlfriends and a mountain of debt.
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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- Confessions of a Journalist Turned Weed Smuggler - After experiences such as being embedded with the US Marines in Iraq, John
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXVI
Soon be autumn, though the weather today seems to think it's already here. Anyway, no need to go outside when there's all this good stuff to read- The Wreck - ”A nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. When a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost
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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
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXIV
Before anybody asks, I'm not sure why the forum's playing up today, but I'm sure it'll settle down soon- 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
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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
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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
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXII
This time next week, it'll be a Bank Holiday! But for now, you'll just have to act busy while reading this lot- True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him - ”In 1981, Margy Palm was abducted by Stephen Morin outside a Kmart. She’s never told the whole shocking
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCXI
Still no Bank Holiday! I really don't know how much longer we can be expected to put up with this- Held Together - ”A filmmaker was producing a documentary series on the Iran hostage crisis. Then her father went missing overseas.” Lucy Sexton and Joe Sexton tell two sides of the story of Joe's
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCX
Bit late today; there was a surprising amount to catch up on this morning after I'd taken a couple of days off at the end of last week for my Mum's funeral- Swamp Boy - ”Judy noticed that Michael was unusually quiet. She glanced over at her adorable fourteen-year-old. He was tall and gangly,
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCIX
Been a busy morning here, but I've managed to snatch enough time to save you from having to do anything productive this afternoon- The Return of Superfly - ”Frank Lucas, once the city’s biggest, baddest heroin kingpin, now seems like just a very likable guy. But don’t be fooled.” This profile of
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCVIII
I've double-checked after last week's paywall irritation and, at the time of posting, you should be able to get to the end of all of these- The Battle of Fishkill - ”Domenic Broccoli, the IHOP kingpin of the Bronx, lives a good life… He owns a four-bedroom home in Pelham Manor, a house
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCVII
The government may be running out of ideas, but there's no need to follow their example - you're bound to find a few in this lotThe Man Who Pierced the Iron Curtain in a Flying Go-Kart – and Left Civilization Forever - The story of Ivo Zdarsky, who crossed the Iron Curtain in 1984, flying a homemade
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCVI
Busy morning for me today. Shouldn't be allowed on a Monday- The Gutsy Undercover Cop Who Took Down Chicago P.D.’s Most Crooked Crew - ”A Black sergeant was the only one willing to take on a risky FBI mission targeting drug-dealer-extorting cops. He reveals how he did it—and why it was
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCV
Some more stuff to pass the time until the next Bank Holiday, which is ages away- The Romance Scammer on My Sofa - Carlos Barragán tracks down the Nigerian scammer who duped his mother: ”Bro, that’s what I’ve been trying to tell you. Being a Yahoo boy is very stressful… Do you find
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCIV
There seems to have been an awful lot of news lately, so here's some stuff to take your mind off it- The Day the Lake Took the Edmund Fitzgerald - ”In November of 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Wisconsin for a routine shipment run. Neither she nor her 29 crewmen made it to their
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCIII
Some stuff to read while you wait for Nadine Dorries to actually resign- The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy - ”Swissair Flight 111 crashed on September 2, 1998 with 229 souls aboard. No one would ever put it all back together again.” Originally published in 2000, this is the story of the flight and
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCII
Take a break from watching the Conservative party ritually disembowel itself and have a look at this lot- When the Fire Came for Fort McMurray - As seen in New York last week, it's wildfire season. But it could have been worse: ”In 2016, a wildfire jumped the Athabasca River and headed straight
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCI
If you can tear yourself away from constantly rewatching the clip of the ITV morning show presenter on BBC News, here's some other stuff on the Internet that might be worthy of your attention- Can humans ever understand how animals think? - ”A flood of new research is overturning old assumptions
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Monday Links from the Bank Holiday Deckchair vol. DCC
Nice to have another Monday off, though the lack of invoicing is suboptimal- Life on Sark - Jonathan Parry on the strange, small world of the Channel island: ”Sark has its own parliament, its own taxes and its own traffic laws (permitting only tractors, bikes and horse-drawn vehicles)…
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCXCIX
It's a nice day out. Anyway, back to the Internet- Women wanted to fly jets in combat. Breaking that barrier would be the fight of their lives. - ”In the early 1990s, few corners of the military were as misogynistic as the world of fighter pilots. This is the story of the women Navy officers who
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCXCVIII
Not keen on this idea of Mondays that aren't holidays. Still, here's some stuff to help pass the "working" time- The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe - ”Ken Eto left the meeting at Caesar DiVarco’s club on Wabash knowing they were going to kill him. It was midday… He had to figure out what
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Monday Links from the Bank Holiday Deckchair vol. DCXCVII
Hope you're enjoying having extra time off because some bloke got given a secondhand hat- I Could Have Killed Him Twice - ”When it was her turn to address the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, the anguished old woman had to be assisted down the aisle and guided to a chair that had been placed directly
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Monday Links from the Bank Holiday Deckchair vol. DCXCVI
At the risk of sounding controversial, I'm going to assert that Mondays are better without work- The Titanic of the Pacific - The story of the wreck of the Valencia off the coast of Vancouver Island in 1906: ”The trip required sailing through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, part of the stretch of
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCXCV
Another week without a Bank Holiday Monday! How long do we have to suffer this indignity- America’s First Plane Bomber, and His Intended Victim - ”After buying the requisite tools and equipment, Jack sat down in the basement of his family home and got to work. He assembled twenty-five sticks
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Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCXCIV
Make the most of a billable Monday by reading this lot; with the current spate of Bank Holidays, it makes a change to be able to charge the time- My High-Flying Life as a Corporate Spy Who Lied His Way to the Top - ”I was just looking to make rent when I stumbled into a part-time gig stealing
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