A Chinese spy balloon
Balloon go pop.
Bookmarked
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
https://www.0x58ed.com/blog/amtrak-southwest-chief
- It costs more than a flight to Europe, but seems incredibly magical in a way.
Glen Canyon revealed
https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.2/features-water-glen-canyon-revealed
- Both despair and hope are present whilst Lake Mead shrinks.
I Almost Bought a Scanner
http://leejo.github.io/2023/01/25/scanner/
- A tale of high-quality film scanning in an era of abandoned hardware. In fact, I've used one of these scanners and can back up the author's claim of superior, Hasselblad quality!
Crisis over the Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/crisis-over-the-atlantic-the-near-crash-of-air-transat-flight-236-671d3a0c4b04
- Aviation mishap post-mortems are worth their weight. This one is no exception.
Interactive California Reservoir Levels Dashboard
https://engaging-data.com/ca-reservoir-dashboard/
- As our local reservoirs near 100% of capacity this open-data project helps visualize.
February 6, 2023