July 2008
3 posts
Infinity is just a concept
From a piece in the New York Times on the staggering amount of garbage in the world’s oceans:
“Trash is clogging the arteries of the planet,” [said Sylvia Earle, former chief scientist of the N.O.A.A.]. “We’re beginning to wake up to the fact that the planet is not infinitely resilient.” For ages humanity saw in the ocean a sublime grandeur suggestive of eternity. No longer. Surveying...
How many IRS agents does it take to...
From a recent Times post on the unsurprising complexity of IRS collection procedures:
Between 2002 and 2007, the I.R.S. sent more than 83 million first notices over about $444 billion in taxes. By the end of fiscal year 2007, $79.3 billion was collected, the report said.
That’s roughly 1 first notice per thousand delinquent dollars collected (not counting the various other...
Spaces & Window Layering in 10.5.4
10.5.4 was released yesterday, and Spaces window layering is still broken.
Sigh.