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A Welcome Return – I’ve written before about Catherine Jamieson (more than once), and have long missed her presence on the web. It’s been nearly two years, and her various domains have long since expired. Today, by sheer chance, I stumbled across her return, and spent a most pleasant half hour “getting reacquainted.”

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Holiday Reading – I hope you are enjoying the holiday outdoors or with family/friends, but if you’re stuck inside, or looking for some interesting reading, there’s a collection of articles well worth your time.

From the Washington Post, Ambush at Takur Ghar: Part I and Part II, an excellent piece of military reporting: "What became a 17-hour ordeal atop a frigid, desolate and enemy-ridden mountain ridge cost seven American lives, more combat deaths than any U.S. unit had suffered in a single day since 1993, when 18 Rangers and Special Operations soldiers died in battle in Mogadishu, Somalia. How the operation was conducted revealed serious shortcomings in U.S. military coordination and communication in Afghanistan. How it unfolded highlighted the extraordinary commitment of American soldiers not to leave fallen comrades behind: The entire episode spiraled out of an attempt to rescue a single SEAL, who had fallen out of the initial helicopter and was quickly shot by the enemy."

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Dangerousmeta – Everyone seems to know of Professor Prolific, but I continue to be amazed at the output of Garret Vreeland, and he’s been at it since late ’99. Like all web logs, his focus is unique to his interests, but he never lacks for quality linkage. And lots of it. I count 32 links today, and it’s still morning in Sante Fe.

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Where There Once Were No Cameras .... now, there are photos. Shiloh Bucher of Dropscan started this collection of Post-Taliban images. A worthy idea.

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Powers Of 10 – Start 10,000,000 light years from Earth. Then zoom in towards Earth all the way down to the subatomic level of electrons and protons, one step of magnitude at a time (power of ten).

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