Odds ‘n Sods:

From The Guardian in England: From the sub-prime to the ridiculous: how $100 billion vanished

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This one has been at my Links page for many moons, but is worth mentioning again: The Seismic Monitor

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Reader Bill N. mentioned that there is an instructional ice rescue video on the Discovery Channel-Canada’s web site. Bill N. notes: “To anyone who might be around lakes or rivers that are frozen over, you should check out this video on how to save yourself if you fall through the ice.”

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Eric S. flagged this: Timber theft is a growing ‘business’. Eric says: “a prescient article for those of us who have/plan on having unattended retreats with multi-acre size woodlots. “