[links] Link salad watches the sun come up on a sleepy little town down around San Antone

Wax Bullets: 1909 — A peculiar, steampunkish image from Shorpy.

History's first prank phone call was way back in ... 1884? — (Via danjite.)

How Facebook Saved Us from Suburbia — Research suggests social networks remedy the isolation of modern life.

Columbus' arrival linked to carbon dioxide drop — By sailing to the New World, Christopher Columbus and other explorers who followed him may have set off a chain of events that cooled Europe’s climate.

Tiny deep-sea life eats meals from dinosaur era — Populations of incredibly slow-living microbes live and feed in depths of Pacific.

Discovered: The turtle the size of a SmartCar - which would have hunted crocodiles in prehistoric lakes

?otd: What town are you talking about?

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5/18/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (brain break)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.0 (solid)
Weight: n/a
Currently reading: Light Breaker by Mark Teppo