I accidentally pushed “publish” while I was working on this, so here’s this weekend’s miscellany post a little early.
Economics
Market failure and government failure
If you’re paying, I’ll have top sirloin
Engineering
Engineering aphorisms
Evolution of complex systems
Math
World War II mathematician
Packing tetrahedra
Software development
11 wrong programming assumptions
Programmer competency matrix
The greatest program ever written
Classic software development mistakes
Wrong Correctness
Miscellaneous
Some ideas for visualizing knowledge
Why I like Twitter
Rhonda Tiption’s podcast list
15 Awesome Uses Of The Periodic Table
Comparing Avatar and Pocahontas
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tdstephens3 01.07.10 at 23:38
About the article under: if you’re paying, I’ll have top sirloin…
The author makes no room for products or services such as the Postal Policy. This is important when considering the merits of farm or Amtrak subsidies. It is my claim that the first subsidizes some of the most unhealthy food products in our diets, whle the latter may enhance our competitiveness as a nation.
Sue VanHattum 01.08.10 at 08:03
My comment is on that same post, which doesn’t allow for comments, btw.
>all the other extraordinarily expensive, underutilized public transportation systems
I’m sure I wouldn’t convince the author that public transit is worth it, but BART is definitely not underutilized. It’s packed to the gills for hours each day. It may still cost more than riders pay, but then so do highways (which I’d bet the author knows).
@tdstephens3, unfortunately, Amtrak has some serious problems with service, at least in the midwest and west, where I’ve used it. It’s a problematic example for the value of public transit.
Mat Roberts 01.18.10 at 12:29
Another periodic table for your collection:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/11/all-the-periodic-tab.html
Mat Roberts 01.18.10 at 14:30
And another
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/?nggpage=23&pid=159