A recent report on NewsMax describes the five weirdest snacks you can eat. Okay, I can see fried mayflies as odd; then again, some places eat all sorts of insects. (Just not in Texas, of course.) Eel soda sounds pretty disgusting too. Meat-flavored ice cream actually doesn’t sound that bad, especially if the meat is bacon. The rest don’t seem that strange; you decide, though.
In other news, a pair of burglars broke into a house where the family was away on vacation; they knew they had plenty of time. They trashed the joint looking for goodies, and eventually they found the family safe. With visions of megabucks dancing in their heads, they set about breaking into the strongbox. One thing led to another, and they couldn’t get in. The safe weighed 700 lbs, so there wasn’t any way they could move it, either. They grabbed some food from the pantry and settled in for the duration. Several snacks and sodas later, not to mention whacking on the safe with a fire axe, and they still hadn’t conquered the stingy box. So they gave up and left, carting off their other plunder.
The family returned to find their house in a shambles, but the sturdy safe was still there, closed. Too bad there wasn’t anything in it…
Finally, Felix Salmon of Reuters asks the vitally important question, the one you’ve all been wanting to ask (but were too afraid, maybe): How is Google like bananas? Felix then proceeds to burn a lot of column inches on the issues surrounding monocultures in agriculture, and how we’re about to lose yet another banana variety to a killer fungus. Yes, it’s a fruit-eating version of athlete’s foot, and nobody’s figured out how to stop it.
Anyways, Felix closes out with the thought that Google search is also a monoculture, on the Web. One algorithm, and many thousands of SEO sites trying to game the system so they’ll show up on the top of the first page. He maintains that what we get from this is a lot of “SEO Spam” instead of the info we search for. Rather like opening a banana, and finding only fungus…
Enjoy the (New Year’s First Follies) Heat!
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