From TFA:

(emphasis theirs)

Now, by all means call him a scumbag on the basis of his extortion and blackmail. By all means find actual ways in which the way he produces porn is scummy.

But the "barely" in "barely legal" means they're above the age of consent, and hence not "very young". Indeed, since he's in the US, and they're (barely) legal, they must be 18 (2 years older than the age of consent in many countries), and capable of making their own decisions.

Black pudding, white pudding, fruit pudding, haggis all on the same plate - tattie scones, bacon and egg.

What a treat; and I'm not even Scottish.

From that very article: "As of 2005, the market price of cochineal was between 50 and 80 USD per kilogram, while synthetic raw food dyes are available at prices as low as 10–20 USD per kilogram."

So most red things probably aren't coloured with cochineal.

You, me, and, um, about a third of the British population, based on my gut-feel and no other evidence :)

Unless you're going to covertly introduce ground insects to food, people will know. And if they know, they'll be grossed out.

Personal experience suggests to me that at least a third of people in the UK are grossed out by black pudding -- part of our culinary heritage! There's nothing outwardly unappealing about a slice of black pudding. But people have been told that it's made of blood, and that's enough to put them off.

Pretty much this.

I'll eat pretty much anything. I've had Japanese colleagues play "take the gaijin to the izakaya and gross him out with weird foods", and I won (not that shirako is exactly pleasant...).

But even I find the idea of eating insects a bit revolting. I mean, I'd give it a go, but I'd grimace a bit the first few times.

In order to make any kind of impact, insect-eating would have to become really mainstream. We live in a society where lots of people won't even eat tripe, trotters, tongue or black pudding. Good luck getting these people to eat insects.

That's some confusing branding, right there!

Thanks for the clarification.

That's why I said "just eat it very soon after grinding".

The demo video I saw (can't find the link now) showed a Samsung S3 (I think) with a normal Android UI on its touchscreen.

They plugged it into a monitor with HDMI, and used a bluetooth keyboard/mouse, and got a fully-fledged Ubuntu desktop on the monitor.

I'm not sure whether Linux was hosting Android, Android was hosting Linux, or whether both were hosted by a third layer. But they were able to share resources -- there were desktop apps that manipulated the Android address book for example.

It does seem potentially useful.

Just eat it very soon after grinding. Steak Tartare.

Perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by "millennial-class"...

But if it means "a tsunami of a kind that happens every 1000 years on average", then my naive feel for stats suggests that a facility expected to run for 50 years has a 1-in-20 chance of experiencing one. That seems like something they should be prepared for.

It seems to me that, given the impact of a failure, they should have been prepared for the 1-in-200 chance of experiencing the biggest tsunami in 10,000 years. I bet there are are other 1-in-200 chances that there are careful safeguards against.

I've seen someone say, with a straight face, "I'm a staunch royalist, but if Prince Charles ever becomes king, I'll become a republican".

"He probably made a full frame 5 minute animated short movie using high-level animation software then saved it as a .gif"

Which a brief look at the page itself shows he didn't.

Yes, speaking as a British beer snob who's travelled the US coast-to-coast, there are astonishingly good craft beers in shops throughout the US. They tend towards the very hoppy pale ale, which I absolutely love, and they have inspired more of that kind of beer in the UK.

However, Bud Lite, PBR etc. are definitely blander than any of the mainstream British/European lagers served in British pubs.

I think there are two aspects to appreciating node.js

  - you have to grok the Javascript flavour of functional programming. That can come from a background in "real" FP languages, or it can come from working with callback-centric browser-side JS.
  - you have to read the node.js core API docs. All of them. It's quite compact, so it doesn't take long. But once you've done it you understand what the framework can achieve.