Link roundup

1. "Drudge has a profound effect on America’s premier news outlets: it’s the top source for referral traffic to industry powerhouses like Fox News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Reuters among others."

2. Photo gallery: "Mount Sinabung looms above the abandoned village of Sukanalu in North Sumatra, Indonesia"

3. "Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser because he lived through the Napoleonic Wars."

4. From my wishlist, The Teleportation Accident: A Novel is $1.99 right now.

Link roundup

1. "dealers say despite this, there is one thing Isis still needs: ammunition"

the fast-paced fighting in between — mostly with Kalashnikovs and truck-mounted machine guns — can consume tens of thousands of bullets in a single day. Fighters say that ammunition trucks resupply various front lines every day.

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The jihadis’ opponents are intrigued by the group’s ability to move huge supplies of munitions quickly during fighting. In northern Iraq, Kurdish peshmerga fighters recovered detailed documents of weapons and ammunition shipments outlining orders that had been made for the battles that had just ended.
“Within 24 hours, the ammunition was sent to them by car,”

2. "Nuts-and-bolts Washington coverage has shifted to subscription-based publications, while the capitol’s traditional outlets have shrunk."

while political news is everywhere, coverage of the day-to-day inner workings of government—the slow, steady development of policy in Congress, in the administration, and in the independent regulatory agencies, and how those policies are implemented—has become increasingly scarce in the media that average citizens historically have relied upon.

The opposite, however, is true of the “paywall press”—that is, high-subscription, insider-oriented news organizations like the one I worked for in 2009 and the ones I have worked for since. This sector of the Fourth Estate is booming, and its coverage of government has never been more robust.

3. Spider-Gwen Marvel Legends series now available for preorder.

4. New movie-inspired travel posters in Steve Thomas's webshop (50% off posters right now, I think, with the code ZAZWEEKSALES ).

Syria tried to hide its nuke facility by making it look like a ruined Byzantine fortress

Photo comparison here. Via.

350 injured in a horrific 60 vehicle pile-up on the Abu Dhabi-Dubai highway

Photos here. Via.