Comments on: Weekend miscellany

By: Mat Roberts

Mat Roberts — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:30:22 +0000

And another
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/?nggpage=23&pid=159

By: Mat Roberts

Mat Roberts — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:29:51 +0000

Another periodic table for your collection:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/11/all-the-periodic-tab.html

By: Weekend reading « self-evident

Weekend reading « self-evident — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:41:47 +0000

[...] Avatar vs Pocahontas. (via John Cook) [...]

By: Sue VanHattum

Sue VanHattum — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:03:13 +0000

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.

By: tdstephens3

tdstephens3 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:38:48 +0000

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.

By: The greatest program ever written « programming musings

The greatest program ever written « programming musings — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:05:47 +0000

[...] greatest program ever written January 8, 2010 — jao I’ve just stumbled upon (via a post in John Cook’s blog) an old article back at kuro5hin entitled the greatest program ever [...]