Bad Design can kill

Bad design and weak communication can have profound consequences. Shows the situational awareness needed for a job designing more impactful products.

http://www.super70s.com/super70s/tech/aviation/disasters/77-03-27%28Tenerife%29.asp

(if only the exiting gate was not at that angle, i wonder if the designer of the runway had misgivings)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

So far it's true

So last winter was really cold (2009) and last summer was cool (2009). My theory about cold times during recession is still holding. It's nearly a 1 to 1 correspondence: reduced factory output = less pollution = less global warming. Very simple. Yet some doubt; dunno?

Summer 2010 : so far it's a scorcher (or a bit hotter than summer of 2009).

Why 7 days

So why is breaking up a month (lunar cycle) better 7/4 than 10/3 or 3/10 or 6/5. I would figure 5 weeks of 6 days is best for the proportional understanding/memory capacity of humans. So 7 proably happened by the flow of events thru history, not things like human cycles.

It's the friday before July 4 and twitter & fb are overloaded so I'm using this...

I got this offer in fandango for half-price tixx. My add made me buy senior citizen movie tickets. I hope they take it, it's all the same price. Or get fake ids.