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Linkfest 2021-06-18: Picking something up on Sensors

Claremont Review of Books: There Goes Robert E. Lee I’ve never liked the casual dismissal of Lee as nothing but a traitor, and Christopher Caldwell puts this into far better words than I ever could. Methods & Madness: The individualism of modern D&D I’m not the

Linkfest 2021-05-24

Assume a spherical fireball “Simple but brilliant use of dimensional analysis by G. I. Taylor to estimate the rough yield of the first atomic bomb test by simply looking at photographs released in a popular magazine.” As the old physics joke goes: assume a spherical fireball…. Good enough is good

Linkfest 2021-01-30: Delayed Edition

Things have been busy, so I’ve delayed this edition of Linkfest twice. But no more! Here it is. Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Mark Bray) Charles at Worthy House reviews an insider’s look at the anti-fascist movement. John Gregory Bourke: Part 1 - Warrior Anthropologist First of a series

Linkfest 2021-01-15

Why America is haunted by Ancient Rome Historian Tom Holland [not Spiderman] correctly identifies the current moment as roughly equivalent to the time when the Gracchi were murdered. Working Off-Grid Efficiently The voice of experience with relying on solar power and spotty wifi to conduct business. Woo for its own

Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe by Hunt Janin and Ursula Carlson Book Review

It isn’t often that I bother to leave a negative review. For the most part, I close the book and move on. However, this is an interesting case. Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe [Amazon link] by Hunt Janin and Ursula Carlson is a book I have had for

Hopi Tales of Destruction collected by Ekkehart Malotki Book Review

HopI Tales of Destruction [Amazon link] is a collection of legends narrated by Michael Lomatuway’ma, Lorena Lomatuway’ma, and Sidney Namingha Jr, and translated by Ekkehart Malotki. As you might guess from the title, each story features some dramatic act of devastation. Malotki has also provided helpful commentary before

Linkfest 2020-10-30

I recently saw a listing of the bar tab from the United States Constitutional Convention, and it reminded me of this series of posts from 2012 on an attempt to drink like a colonial. There was a reason for the temperance movement. Sensor Sweep continues to provide some of the