October 18, 2020
Again, Today, He Cheerfully Searches For Coins
"I don't like the look in his eye as he watches me."
Three fantasy stories about magic, gender oppression, and fights that, as it turns out, aren't finished. "Many Mansions" by K.J. Parker, published September 2020, a sort of cat-and-mouse tale. "Charms" by Shweta Narayan, 2009: "Women's magic, she says, is like everything else. Not good enough for girls these days." "True Names" by Stephanie Burgis, 2009, is the most triumphant of the three: "The bell rings again while I'm still standing rigid as a rock in pure astonishment, right in the middle of the kitchen with a frying pan in my hand." [more inside]
The hydrogen economy is dead. Long live the hydrogen economy!
We know that in theory green hydrogen could be used throughout industry, transport, power and heating. However, it won’t magically happen in sectors that don’t currently use it, just because it is green. Hydrogen is going to have to win, use-case-by-use-case, but it will not be easy. Not only does it have to beat the incumbent technology, it also has to beat every other zero-carbon option for that use-case. This is where hydrogen hype really meets reality.Michael Liebreich writes about "separating hype from hydrogen": Part One: The Supply Side, Part Two: The Demand Side
This Post is Spoilers
From pen plotters to light installations
The Tunnocks Tea Cake
Biscuit or cake? Choosing not to make coffins, Tunnock instead developed several items of confectionary including the Caramel wafer (extremely popular in middle class Bristol), and the tea cake preferred by HRH.
Said tea cake is a small round shortbread biscuit covered with a dome of meringue, encased in a layer of chocolate and wrapped in reusable silver foil. Present in a cloche, and accompany with a nice cup of tea.
For a fuller meal, they can be deep fried. It's gotta be big, or quickly eat 14 normal ones. Terry in space. Another MeFite discovers cushions. Doughnuts and ice cream and masks are available, while the wrappers can be used in art.
Miss Cellaneous
24 Strange Beauty Queens and Pageants from the Past Beauty pageants are another way of worshipping beauty at the altar of the ramp. However, there are certain pageants that puts a spin on the more conventional varieties. Check out these 24 most bizarre beauty pageant queens of all time. [more inside]
Nothing But Bans
Election Profit Makers (Soundcloud) is back for the 2020 US elections, hosted once again by Jon Kimball, Starlee Kine, and David Rees. Ostensibly about betting on PredictIt, the show also reviews notable city skylines, remixes politics-related music, and has raised $20,000 for voting rights organisations by listeners paying to ban their friends from listening to the show, with the ultimate goal of reaching zero listeners by election day. [more inside]
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