Friday Odds & Sods is Hard at Work or Hardly Working

Humans are, on the whole, expert at dealing with set categories and states.  These situations play to our ancient strengths: Present someone with a definite binary scenario, say whether to flee a sabertooth tiger or not, and 99 times out of a hundred they will accurately and concisely distinguish between their two options and make a choice that will result in the cat going hungry.  On the other hand, force an individual to distinguish between 17 essentially identical varieties of catsup (not to mention ketchup) in the grocery story aisle, and even the most stout-hearted soul will be reduced to the muttering of vile epithets sotto voce. Hence bewilderment of modern life, a plethora of options but none of actual consequence. Let us, my friends, act with firm conviction and turn to this week's Odds & Sods!

• To begin with, two articles from the Horseman section of the archive: the shocking discovery of the Volos Centaur and the bleak humor of Bojack Horseman (about which my own thoughts anon).
• And if one needs a further dose of bleak absurdity after the above, check out the Wikipedia editing wars on George W. Bush.
• Finally, happy anniversary to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, 40 years young today! May you still be playing as a science-fiction double feature for many, many years to come.