News
1. Kenya: suspected source of recent crime wave, Simon Matheri, found & shot dead - we'll see if this leads to anything useful. Too bad the 200 armed police failed to complete an arrest. It's particularly poor that the rest of the gang were not swept up in the same violent raid.
2. Globalisation: world auto manufacturing history
3. Tea: Britney should've just had a spearmint tea. ;-)
4. Oh MUNI, how thee fails me...I find it very funny that the 67 Bernal Heights is rated as one of few buses 'on time.' Perhaps it has improved since I used it frequently last?
EDIT: To put that into context, the overall MUNI system of buses and trains is reported to be 70% on time...with overdue rates of 7 minutes or longer. As Ernst & Young point out from SBB data, Swiss trains are at 75% delayed by 0-1 minute, and 95% delayed by 0-4 minutes...which translates into a very low failure rate with a very low overdue rate.
Now for those who will mention BART's successes (91% daily on-time performance in 2005, with only 31% system utilization, and for only passengers), one should note the SBB is the backbone to a fully-integrated national intermodal transport solution, so these schedules reflect the fleets of busses and S-Bahns that harmonise to their schedule.
5. NYTimes follows up on the recent bloody rampage out of Utah - turns out the armed youth was a Sulejman Talovic, and the interviewed suspect the effects of surviving the violent Yugoslavian collapse.
6. George Dubya is like his dad Ronald Reagan FDR Lincoln George Washington. Sorry Dubya, you're just Dubya, the Village Idiot - now f*%k off!
7. Australia is phasing out incandescents, replacing with CFLs nationwide. I'd like to write it off as too little to late, but anything is almost better than nothing at this stage. I also can't help wondering what they plan to do about all that mercury.
8. Slate on the 'hookup' culture. I guess I really am very old school.
9. Transport planning for the 2012 London Olympics - apparently they're planning on a 16% reduction in normal summertime use. Interesting. Just how many Londoners have second homes in the Shires, Dover, Cornwall or the south of France to escape to anyway? ;-)
10. Lessons from Gilliam's Brazil
11. The Obama love - locally as well.
2. Globalisation: world auto manufacturing history
3. Tea: Britney should've just had a spearmint tea. ;-)
4. Oh MUNI, how thee fails me...I find it very funny that the 67 Bernal Heights is rated as one of few buses 'on time.' Perhaps it has improved since I used it frequently last?
EDIT: To put that into context, the overall MUNI system of buses and trains is reported to be 70% on time...with overdue rates of 7 minutes or longer. As Ernst & Young point out from SBB data, Swiss trains are at 75% delayed by 0-1 minute, and 95% delayed by 0-4 minutes...which translates into a very low failure rate with a very low overdue rate.
Now for those who will mention BART's successes (91% daily on-time performance in 2005, with only 31% system utilization, and for only passengers), one should note the SBB is the backbone to a fully-integrated national intermodal transport solution, so these schedules reflect the fleets of busses and S-Bahns that harmonise to their schedule.
5. NYTimes follows up on the recent bloody rampage out of Utah - turns out the armed youth was a Sulejman Talovic, and the interviewed suspect the effects of surviving the violent Yugoslavian collapse.
6. George Dubya is like his dad Ronald Reagan FDR Lincoln George Washington. Sorry Dubya, you're just Dubya, the Village Idiot - now f*%k off!
7. Australia is phasing out incandescents, replacing with CFLs nationwide. I'd like to write it off as too little to late, but anything is almost better than nothing at this stage. I also can't help wondering what they plan to do about all that mercury.
8. Slate on the 'hookup' culture. I guess I really am very old school.
9. Transport planning for the 2012 London Olympics - apparently they're planning on a 16% reduction in normal summertime use. Interesting. Just how many Londoners have second homes in the Shires, Dover, Cornwall or the south of France to escape to anyway? ;-)
10. Lessons from Gilliam's Brazil
11. The Obama love - locally as well.