Gongol.com Archives: January 2016
January 25, 2016
Lots of worried feelings emanate from Davos meeting
It's a strange thing; the world has achieved more useful things in the last couple of decades than can really be counted, yet there's anxiety all over
Lots of posthumous David Bowie material is forthcoming
The economics of modern music favor live concerts, but the long view of history would like us to squeeze as many new creations as possible out of our greatest artists. Too bad nobody's looked hard to find a way to reconcile the two.
Disney animated films have a disproportionate tilt favoring male characters
While we're fixing that, could we also do away with the whole "princess" paradigm? There are plenty of entries already in the canon, and girls deserve to see female characters depicted in a world free of hereditary monarchy
Dallas Federal Reserve: "Texas factory activity fell sharply in January"
The decline was dramatic and, it appears, somewhat unexpected
Johnson Controls and Tyco announce merger plans
A peculiar development, considering that Tyco has spent the last decade de-conglomerating itself
Minneapolis makes the case for demolition bonds
There have been a couple of thousand demolitions in the city since 2002 -- a worthy reminder that if we don't construct buildings to last forever, then perhaps we should be accountable (at the time of construction) for the cost to tear them down
