Yet more keen links one might want to share

[Pico and ME]

fyi, somehow I have...idk...some kind of editing tool...on half my screen, with the reply to thread page on the other half.

[Pico and ME]

....OK....forget it

[Pico and ME]

...another one

[xoxoxoBruce]

An interesting view of Putin’s Real Long Game.

In between were a hundred other exchanges — with Balts and Ukrainians, Georgians and Moldovans — that answered my question and exposed the new reality on the Russian frontier: the belief that, ultimately, everyone would be left to fend for themselves. Increasingly, people in Russia’s sphere of influence were deciding that the values that were supposed to bind the West together could no longer hold. That the world order Americans depend on had already come apart.

From Moscow, Vladimir Putin has seized the momentum of this unraveling, exacting critical damage to the underpinnings of the liberal world order in a shockingly short time. As he builds a new system to replace the one we know, attempts by America and its allies to repair the damage have been limited and slow. Even this week, as Barack Obama tries to confront Russia’s open and unprecedented interference in our political process, the outgoing White House is so far responding to 21st century hybrid information warfare with last century’s diplomatic toolkit: the expulsion of spies, targeted sanctions, potential asset seizure. The incoming administration, while promising a new approach, has betrayed a similar lack of vision. Their promised attempt at another “reset” with Russia is a rehash of a policy that has utterly failed the past two American administrations.

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A really, really good article on Jason Everman, formerly of Soundgarden, formerly formerly of Nirvana, U.S. Army Ranger, Special Forces operator...

The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero

A good read.

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Ryan Reynolds’ Best Tweets

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I swear, you could NOT make this shit up.

The dog's name is 'Baby Girl' (I shit you not.). And she, according to police, is a "very aggressive" pit bull dog.

And Bradley Jean Hubbard is very fond of her.

[xoxoxoBruce]

For some 30 years, a collection of nearly 4,000 slides sat undiscovered in a university basement in Sheffield. The lost collection of photographs, found inside a forgotten pile of boxes, has since been digitized by students of the University of Sheffield.

Interesting look at England in the '60s.

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GAH!!!

Giant spider on the building!

Giant spider on the building!!!!!



from Bruce's link, above

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Brown Noise, 8 hours of it

[Undertoad]

There are a lot of those kinds of sites, the one I use is

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/wh...eGenerator.php

You can design your own white noise with their equalizer.

If you are using brown noise you must at all costs avoid the brown note.

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[Pico and ME]

Yeah, I don't like any of it. That stuff just keeps me awake.....wired. While married, I had to look for the quietest fan out there. He couldn't sleep without one.

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If you ever pay the least bit of attention to it, you can't not hear it. That's when it gets to me. I also have a fan on in the bedroom, for the ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory(your taxes at work) has issued a report(PDF) entitled, "Effect of Intake Air Filter Condition on Vehicle Fuel Economy". Actually that's misleading because they also get into performance pretty deeply. I found it interesting but it may not blow your skirt up.