Thursday, June 20, 2002
Report says rush-hour delays cost $68 billion a year in wasted gas, time
Jonathan D. Salant, Associated Press
The Texas Transportation Institute annual study of 75 urban areas found that rush hours last longer and are more widespread. The average urban motorist in 2000 spent 62 hours sitting in traffic — 2.5 days — compared with 16 hours in 1982. And more than half the major roads in those 75 areas are crowded during rush hours, compared with just a third in 1982.
Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action
Col John Boyd, USAF (Ret), coined the term and developed the concept of the "OODA Loop" (Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action). Perhaps most importantly, Boyd was instrumental in explaining and disseminating the concept of "cycle time" and "getting inside the adversary's decision cycle".
Public Protests NPR Link Policy
Farhad Manjoo
When huge, nameless, faceless corporations try to impose "linking policies" upon webmasters who want to point to the company's site, people usually react in a predictable way. They get mad, they spitefully put up dozens of policy-violating links, and they bemoan, once more, the fact that some folks still don't understand that if you don't want to be linked you shouldn't be on the Web.
Further commentary by Cory Doctorow
Version Fatigue
Glenn Reynolds
I'm tired of learning how to do new things. Well, not really. But I've noticed that my tolerance for reading the manual and familiarizing myself with all the aspects of a new product or piece of software is much, much lower than it used to be.
Discussion at Slashdot.
For the Spy in the Sky, New Eyes
Ian Austen
New technologies that produce steady images, even at high magnification, from unsteady craft like helicopters have added to the debate over aerial surveillance.
Discussion at Slashdot.
