Getting back in the swing of things, and some of these links were collected, well, between now and the last FTTW post.
150 Minutes of Hell
SF Chronicle
Amazing piece about the Carr Fire. This article is a testament to the strength of journalism and the way traditional print journalism is adapting to multimedia. Unlike their ad-laden SFGate, the Chronicle-proper has a paywall. That said a) they give you a few reads free and b) you can do an end-round by pasting the link into an Incognito browser window. Shhh!
He was told his father walked out in 1961. Then he started digging up the basement.
Washington Post
What did he find int he basement?! Come on, of course you know what he found in the basement from that headline! But I love this because it’s so made-for-TV and yet so blase, so matter-of-fact. And in the end, while there’s evidence of a crime, it’s extremely unlikely we’ll ever know what happened – the people who likely have the answers are dead. Makes me wonder what’s next? What happens when you answer the question you’ve held for decades and now you only have a partial answer and that’s all you’re ever going to get?
Meet the Safecracker of Last Resort
The Atlantic
I freakin’ LOVE this guy. This is the kind of weird character that I can’t get enough of. I want to shadow this guy now!
The Mad Scramble to Claim the World’s Most Coveted Meteorite
Wired
When rocks from space fall to earth, people go a little crazy….
How I Started Making Fake Snow and Turned My Place Into a Ski Resort
Popular Mechanics
Finally, have I mentioned my man-crush for Ezra Dyer here? If I haven’t, let me explain I first came upon his writing when he was a contributor and then columnist in (the best) car magazine Automobile. His writing is casual, emotional, and always funny. Sure, he filed reviews of cars on the regular, but he also wrote a great feature about building his own WRC track on an empty parcel of land in New England. He’s my kind of crazy. Lately, he’s been the car editor at Popular Mechanics, and sometimes files crazy pieces like this. And by crazy I mean crazy like a fox.
