Odds ‘n Sods:

Joe H. mentioned a site with an animated map of global air traffic patterns that was linked once before on SurvivalBlog. Joe’s comments: “Two key things to note are that you can see the ‘sunny side’ and air traffic seems to increase by a factor of five as daylight arrives, and there is not much air traffic routing around Cuba– a hole in the traffic.”

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C.B. was the first of several readers to mention this Popular Science article: How to Build a Propane-Fired Metal Forge

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Reader Michael G. wrote to mention that he noticed that Springfield Armory is having a 30% off sale. Mike commented: “I’m buying several XD-M .40 magazines saving $10 on each one, amongst other things. Time to stock up!”