Blog Heap of Links for the day 11 March 2016

ISIS may have deliberately released personal information about 22,000 of its fighters in a desperate attempt to stop them from leaving, a respected counter-terrorism expert has said.…

A major step was taken Thursday in the U.S. government's plan to hand off oversight of the Internet domain name system.

A nonprofit international group approved a plan and forwarded it to the Obama administration Thursday for review and approval.…

ICANN officials said Thursday the plan should meet the U.S. government's priorities to protect the open Internet and to prevent any other government from gaining control. It also includes security and accountability measures, they said, and if the plan is implemented, Internet users should see no real difference. …

Keith Emerson, founding member and keyboardist of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and a prog rock legend, died Friday. He was 71. …police found Emerson with a single gunshot wound to the head, though they could not confirm that Emerson died by suicide.…

The Oklahoma House Thursday overwhelmingly adopted legislation that would permit gun owners to carry their weapons openly without a state-issued license.

House members voted 73-15 for the so-called "constitutional open carry" measure and sent it to the state Senate for debate and a vote.…

• The remarkable George Martin has died at 90
• Descendants of Rollo, Viking founder of Normandy, exhumed
Rollo is a cool name
• Luxurious College Apartments, Built on Debt…

I hope that Trump can sweep the March 15 primaries…so we can end this PAINFUL nomination process. We’re going to need a little time for wounds to heal, before we unify against Hillary.

And PLEASE no more debates!…

…On this day in 1888 the Great Blizzard of 1888 began along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people.…