A few links

Oh, hail... Seriously, go look at these pictures of what a hailstorm did to a town. The car dealership images are particularly amazing.

Google makes you forget.

How open data can save people money.

While I enjoy seeing "if you liked this book, try this other book" memes, I've only read four books from this one, and one of those (Serephina) is in the "try" column.

Mark Evanier's iPhone mystery.

Hitler's useless defenses.