Random links
- Green lights for wet cyclists in Groningen
- "Groningen city council is to install sensors in some traffic lights which will reduce waiting times for cyclists in the rain and snow, Nos television reports." In Canada we'd need to start by first installing bike traffic lights - or perhaps here you could at least operate crosswalks more often in the rain or snow.
- Is Applying for Jobs Online Not an Effective Way to Find Work?
- The problems of resume keyword screening software: "Somebody told me that they had 29,000 people apply for a reasonably standard engineering position, and nobody made it through the screening process. The software told them nobody was qualified."
- Same-Day Delivery Test at Wal-Mart
- Unlike Amazon, who as I mentioned said this would be uneconomical, WalMart has enough stores kicking around already to actually do this.
- Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School
- The kind of addictive drugs that society doesn't wage war on though not usually taken to these extremes: "Dr. Anderson is one of the more outspoken proponents of an idea that is gaining interest among some physicians. They are prescribing stimulants to struggling students in schools starved of extra money — not to treat A.D.H.D., necessarily, but to boost their academic performance."