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- The Worst Jobs In Science:

11. METRIC SYSTEM ADVOCATE

The Metric Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has a bold, if Napoleonic, motto: “Toward a Metric America.” That is, a fanciful future in which we’ll buy decagrams of hamburger and liters of gas. Problem is, the Metric Program employs just two evangelists—hail, ye lone voices in the wilderness!—to convert 281 million recalcitrant American imperial-unit holdouts. Launched with much hope by the Federal Metric Conversion Act of 1975, the Metric Program 28 years later meekly soldiers on, advising federal bureaucracies and trying to pitch the system to—well, to anyone who will listen. The dynamic decimal duo, who declined interview requests, did say that they really work only part-time on metric salesmanship. So it would seem: A spokesman for the program, when queried, didn’t know his own height in meters.

- Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die:

8. Cosmetic Implants
There is something scarily aberrant about puffing up living human flesh by implanting large amounts of an alien substance. Not that people will sacrifice vanity—of course that is out of the question—but any truly advanced medical technology would simply grow the flesh into the desired shape, using the human metabolism, as opposed to injections of window putty. Silicone’s mimicry of flesh—and the same goes for gel, saline, and collagen—is too crude for genuinely cosmetic purposes. (Via Michael)

Anyone ever have that problem, where you’re trying to meet someone to discuss something important and you miss them (or they miss you) twice in less than 5 hours? That made my “Reasons I need your phone number” Top Ten List today.

And that fulfills my personal comment quota for the month.