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Link Salad, Groundhog Day Eve Edition
Feb. 1st, 2012 10:02 amA year ago today, we were bracing for a giant blizzard. Today, I'm trying to decide if I should cut back my rose bush or let it keep growing. So, in honor of our mild, dry and entirely-non-global-warming-related winter, have some links:
A) From the New York Times, Adolescent girl hysteria.
B) So, after the Civil War, a Confederate Colonel wrote to his ex-slave and asked him to come back to the plantation. The slave's reply is a thing of beauty.
C) Video reconstruction of how the Costa Concordia ended up on the rocks.
D) Closing on a global warming note, two relevant links. First, the USDA has changed growing zones. They've moved pretty much everything north. Second, an argument that the Little Ice Age was caused by volcanic eruptions. We know that 1816, the Year Without a Summer, was caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora the year previous, so it makes sense.
Since tomorrow is Groundhog Day, in honor of Bill Murray expect another helping of link salad, this time a political edition.
A) From the New York Times, Adolescent girl hysteria.
B) So, after the Civil War, a Confederate Colonel wrote to his ex-slave and asked him to come back to the plantation. The slave's reply is a thing of beauty.
C) Video reconstruction of how the Costa Concordia ended up on the rocks.
D) Closing on a global warming note, two relevant links. First, the USDA has changed growing zones. They've moved pretty much everything north. Second, an argument that the Little Ice Age was caused by volcanic eruptions. We know that 1816, the Year Without a Summer, was caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora the year previous, so it makes sense.
Since tomorrow is Groundhog Day, in honor of Bill Murray expect another helping of link salad, this time a political edition.
