Some good commentary at Joel’s Gulch: Thus conscience doth make honest men of us all [1].
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Bosko sent this: 15 Fascinating Observation Towers [2]
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Diana V. spotted this: Study Reveals That 1 in 10 Teens Suffers from Liver Disease [3]. Eat healthy foods, folks!
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Over at Backdoor Survival: The Coming Collapse of the Internet [4]
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F.G. sent: Five-star survival: The floating Ark hotel that will protect you against a Noah-style flood [5]. JWR’s Comments: Call me Mr. Dubious with a Capital D. This looks like a clear case of marketeers with computer-generated conceptual drawing tools run amok. For starters, it seems seems to lack propulsion to keep this glorified blivet pointed into the wind and to prevent it from going sideways in wave troughs during a storm. And the hexagon pattern on the hull might look sexy, but if those are individual panels then the drag would be considerable and it would surely be a nightmare to keep sealed. And with a draft that deep there are few ports that could accommodate it. What on Earth were they thinking? Most architects should stick to terrestrial designs.