Tue. 02/16 - Del Monte Engineered Pink Pineapples for Instagram

The new fruit taking over Instagram. Why the winter storm sweeping the US is causing an energy crisis, especially in Texas. And a new-ish game that lets you take a virtual vacation with your friends.

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Links:

• Instagram Fruit (Grow)
• The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple (BBC)
• Hurricane Harvey vs. now (The Weather Channel, Twitter) 
• How Extreme Cold Turned Into a U.S. Energy Crisis (Bloomberg) 
• Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes (Bloomberg) 
• Texplainer: Why Does Texas Have Its Own Power Grid? (Texas Tribune)
• Storm updates & resources for helping out at the bottom (Texas Tribune)
• City Guesser
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter