Events

Via Bruce Schneier, confirmation of your suspicions about automatic traffic cameras: Faced with data showing that drivers pay attention to cameras at intersections — resulting in fewer ticketable violations and ever-shrinking revenue from fines — municipalities across the country are reconsidering red light cameras, which often work too well. ... Citywide statistics obtained by NBC [Dallas] affiliate KXAS-TV found that red light cameras do reduce accidents. That is a good thing. But they do it by...

'Nuff said.

From Chicago Tribune weather forecaster Tom Skilling: Chicago's 2007-08 snowfall tally eased above 153 cm Thursday, making it one of only seven season to reach or exceed 60 inches. ... Thursday's 4.3 cm at O'Hare became the city's 43rd day of measurable snow. No season since 1978-79 has recorded more days of measurable (2.5 mm) snow. Skilling yesterday gave the cheery forecast that the Cubs' home opener Monday will get rained out. Finally, did you know the U.S. government patented the atomic bomb? This...

From my co-worker MG, evidence that we're one step closer to making a Cylon:

From old college buddy JWL, Thirty error messages you never want to see:

The first—the most serious one—comes from David Brooks via my friend RB: Let’s take a look at what [Clinton is] going to put her party through for the sake of [a] 5 percent chance [of winning]: The Democratic Party is probably going to have to endure another three months of daily sniping. ... For three more months (maybe more!) the campaign will proceed along in its Verdun-like pattern. There will be a steady rifle fire of character assassination from the underlings, interrupted by the occasional...

Snow has started falling in Chicago this morning, with predictions of 25 cm by tomorrow: Northern Cook County and Lake County could see as much as 9 inches of it by late afternoon, according to Rich Brumer, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Chicago and the western suburbs could see 4 to 6 inches, while the south suburbs may get 2 to 3. The worst of today's snowfall, which Brumer described as "wet and heavy," should occur between mid-morning and early afternoon. "By the evening rush hour, things...

Let's review. I moved back to Chicago from Evanston. Between finding my new apartment and moving to it, I got a job in Evanston, across the alley from the old Inner Drive World HQ. Then yesterday, because my new company is overflowing, my team moved back to IDTWHQ. Today we looked at new space. The new space would combine space currently occupied by a friend's company (she was surprised to see me troop through) and my attorney's old office. In fact, my office would be my attorney's office. When I found...

From reader TLC, I don't know where I'd put it in my apartment, but I think Parker would dig this:

On this anniversary of our invasion of Iraq, do you feel safer?