After half a week of rain and a brutal pummelling of hail, the last two days have finally let up and delivered the landscape with snow! Not just a piddly little dusting, either; this is high-quality snowball-fight–grade snow. I wish Christmas had been this brumal.

Anyway, yes, the links.

• A mask that looks like you’re wearing your mask wrong, for if you want to make other people think you’re a tosser
• While aimlessly spelunking Google and MillionShort for personal blogs, i found out that Michael Rosen still keeps an old-school Blogspot blog, which is wonderful.
• POV: you don’t have dementia — the original samples from the Caretaker’s Everywhere at the End of Time
• The Carrington event and the near miss solar storm of 12012