Good interview with Chris Hannah (23:24)

Andrew Skurka's guy line tensioning system. I always used a quick-release hitch[1] instead of a bowline and a taut line hitch[2] instead of a trucker's hitch -- but the trucker's hitch looks like it would get and keep everything more taut.

1: like a halter hitch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halter_hitch
2: http://knots3d.com/knots/en_us/4/taut-line-hitch

A series of articles on better merges with dedicated patch branches rather than cherry-picking from feature branches, with good graphs. I use cherry-pick often on my one-man projects and have confused myself with merge-base in the past, so this is probably a good reference for me to remember.

NYT on the Alabama Rig.

More info: https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/alabama-rig-fishing.html

The time Maciej Cegłowski was assailed and almost robbed in Warsaw [2004].

A graphic account of the Haitian slave revolution.

"When I heard that 9.7% of San Francisco voted for Trump, I was puzzled, because does San Francisco even have that many cops?

"Turns out, no: 26k Trump voters, 2,100 cops. So the rest of them must work for Peter Thiel and his Brownshirt Combinator."

I just started reading Robert Paxton's book.

This is one of the more recent videos Rich "Beebo" Russel liked on youtube before stealing a plane and crashing it into the Puget Sound in a blaze of glory.

I'm just now finding out about this guy. Wow. What an absolutely legendary mix of character, courage, talent, and despair. And unlike Peregrinus he didn't have to talk about it for four years to get his nerve up.

Plennie Lawrence Wingo (January 24, 1895 – October 2, 1993) walked backwards from Santa Monica, California to Istanbul, Turkey (about 13,000 km/8,000 miles) from April 15, 1931 to October 24, 1932 at the age of 36.

7% of Americans who do NOT believe in heaven DO believe in hell. Those Americans tend to be poor, uneducated, immigrant, and very religious (evangelical protestant).

A Quaker anarchist podcast

I was catching up on some Occupy Wall Street drama (because what else to do on a Monday morning in 2018?) and came across this essay by someone who wants leftists to be better at organizing or something. I liked it enough to read the whole thing.