This is why GM should die: ""We appreciate and respect Dr. Kaufman's innovative ideas," said GM spokesman Dan Flores. "If and when mass transit is expanded in the U.S., there are a number of capable companies that could take part in that expansion. At GM, we are completely focused on reinventing our company (and attending to) our core business of designing, engineering, building and selling great cars, trucks and crossovers.""

"Marketplace has seen it all when it comes to bad service, unsafe products and schemes. Over the years, we’ve seen companies come up with all kinds of tricky ways to separate customers from their cash. We call them the seven sins of the marketplace; a list of how companies try to reach into your wallet."

"I’ll go one step further – there are server-side software engines that can be used to stitch together PDFs from HTML files, so you could allow your reader to custom-build a magazine to their own specifications from your stock of stories and articles, and then buy a unique printed version. If nothing else, it would mean you could avoid paying for a magazine which contained a story by an author whose work you just don’t enjoy."

Excellent visualizations of legal and government datasets, with analytical discussion

"Rubx, a.k.a. Ruby Boobie, is your personal Ruby interpreter in Twitter. Whether you are trying to test some Ruby code, play around with it or see what's capable of, Rubx is here for you.

Think of Rubx as IRB (the Interactive Ruby Shell), built-in on Twitter."

"Most of the ag trials that I have read about seem woefully incomplete. They seldom do a competent job of characterizing initial conditions, and seldom do a complete analysis of the interventions they try. For example, they may amend soil with manure or compost, but don't have an accurate analysis of the materials applied, as if all manure or compost was the same.

Use of a SRB for trials could make the trials more useful, but offering biochar testing services might be even better. It would complicate subsequent cross-trial comparison and analysis, but would also yield information about the value of various char formulations. All of the trials would be improved by the use of competent testing to characterize soils, water and even seeds. Records of local micro-climates during the test period would be of value too. Not all places are the same and not all years are the same."