POPULAR SCIENCE: Yes, let's design some aircraft that can never fly.



One observation, one question.

Observation: it looks like there's a little airplane struggling to get out.
Question: do the wings flap?

This one, at least, looks like it might fly. But at Mach 2?

FREAKING OUT OVER FRACKING: Yet they'll blithely park their car, with 15-20 gallons of highly volatile gasoline, in an enclosed garage attached to their house.

As usual, a high risk that I'm familiar with is my friend; a low risk I'm unfamiliar with is my enemy. Logic and rational thought has no place in the equation....

SHOULD SCHOOLS be able to ban Oreo cookies? Au contraire. The reverse should be true: parents (i.e., taxpayers) should ban schools who ban Oreo cookies.

As Instapundit would write: "Tar. Feathers." To which I would add "double the dose."

CONGRESS: Bipartisanship is busting out all over. "Which brings to mind the one person who is largely missing from the bursting out of bipartisanship -- President Obama."

So now we know who's been putting sand in the gears of government for the last six years. Harry Reid was just a tool. And a poor tool at that.

WANTED: Qualified workers. The key word is 'qualified'; there is no shortage of minimum-wage workers....

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, I've made a point of a series of weekly pictures as spring 'sprang' and the foliage emerged. This year -- I forgot. So here is what it looks like on a beautiful spring day.

The foliage is mostly out; only the tops of the tallest oaks haven't begun to fill out yet. Another week and our house will look like it's deep within a dark primitive medieval forest (which it is).

THE ULTIMATE IN DO-IT-YOURSELF: Nicaraguan villagers build their own electric grid. Essentially the beginning of a micro Tennessee Valley Authority.

STRAWBERRY FIELD HANDS FOREVER? Not unless there's a minimum wage for robots....

UNICORN DROPPINGS: the 'reality world' collides with the real world; unemployment ensues.

LAST WEEK I wrote a short post on 50 years of technology which got me to thinking about Moore's Law which observes that, in layman's terms, integrated circuit (read as computer) performance doubles every two years.

For those with an interest, here's an IEEE Spectrum web report with twelve links to more than you ever want to know about Moore's Law. All are interesting; and some are controversial (but the controversy seems to be between those who understand Moore's Law and those who don't).