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Shipwreck Is Everywhere
- ehnto 9y agoThat was extremely interesting! I learned many new things and really enjoyed the writing. I wanted to subscribe or leave a donation, but the form is non-HTTPS, so unfortunately I did not. If anyone from the Hudson Review is reading this, fix that, for the safety of all your users, and you'll make a subscriber out of me.
- j_s 9y agoIt looks like it collects payment info via Paypal but it does leak personal info (name, address, email) via HTTP.
- eadmund 9y agoI was surprised that it didn't mention the 'Birkenhead drill,' which featured in Kipling, Heinlein & Weber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Birkenhead_(1845)#Birkenhead_drill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Birkenhead_(1845)#Birkenhe...
- empath75 9y agoI don’t really have anything intelligent to say about the article, but I love rambling surveys of history and literature like this and I’m glad they get posted here from time to time.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoSame thought. Also, I'm in a playbypost pirate DnD adventure, so makes good reading