There’s a doozy of a comment in Friday’s post on the Golden Spike architecture.
I’m busy, but I’ll toss the chum in the water here.
All posts by Rand Simberg
Green Energy
Why people are finally losing hope in it.
Because they’re finally coming to their senses.
Coconut Pineapple
D’oh!
Australian scientists have created a pineapple that tastes like a coconut. It took them ten years to develop, but the fruit dubbed as the “piña colada pineapple” wasn’t exactly what they were trying to create.
Scientists, from a government agency in Queensland, were initially trying to develop a new variety of a sweeter, juicier pineapple but instead, created a coconut flavored one and now call it the AusFestival.
I just noticed that both words in the title are combinations of two types of vegetation. Sort of like Palmolive™.
“Gangnam Style”
For the record, I’m apparently one of the few dozen people on the planet who hasn’t viewed the video, and it’s not (just) because of this.
It just looks and sounds stupid, from the clips that I’ve seen.
[Update a while later]
Also, for the record, I have never seen Rocky Horror Picture Show. It became a point of pride in college.
Harry Potter
…is better than Star Wars and Star Trek?
Well, it is a low bar.
Springtime For Stalin
More Golden Spike Thoughts
…from Clark Lindsey, with a lot of links.
[Early afternoon update]
Jeff Foust has a story at The Space Review.
The “Tax Cuts For The Rich”
Now that the election is over, they’ve morphed into middle-class “tax cuts.”
These demagogues are despicable.
The Racist Origins
…of gun control.
It’s not just a racist history. The policies advocated by the hoplophobes are murdering blacks in huge numbers today, in DC and Chicago.