With the recent addition of Karachi, Pakistan, Houston now is a sister to 18 other cities around the world. Hair Balls is on the case - we studied all of them so you wouldn't have to. See the first half here.Sister: Luanda, AngolaHow we are sisterly: Houston's only African sister is yet another seaport/oil hub and its population (4.8 million) and hot climate are similar to ours. There is also this from Wikipedia: "Luanda's roads are currently in a poor state of repair, but are currently undergo
This just in from the Department of Suspiciously Timed Discoveries: The Daily Express in London, which is in some country that is not the US, is reporting that the original, long-thought-missing tapes from Apollo 11's walk on the moon have been discovered.As the tabloid paper tells it in a "World Exclusive," the original, "amazingly clear" tapes were found when "scientists looking for other data stumbled across a number of Nasa tapes in a storage facility in Perth, Australia."The original video
To think, I almost found myself agreeing with John Mayer.His response
to the simmering Britney Spears lip-synching scandal -- mocking those who
expressed outrage at the fact Spears was faking it during her concert in
Perth, Australia last weekend -- would appear to be dead-on. One could even
take this train of thought a step further and opine that getting conned out
of $1,300 (for some seats) might be considered getting off lightly for those
who continue to refer to whatever it is that Spears
