While Six Sigma's goal-oriented blather and obsession with measuring everything was jarring, it was also weirdly familiar, inasmuch as it was strikingly reminiscent of my college Maoism I class. Mao seemed to be a good model for Jack Welch and his Six Sigma foot soldiers; Six Sigma's "Champions" and "Black Belts" were Mao's "Cadres" and "Squad Leaders." more ›

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MTA has a $3 million subway simulator to help train subway operators. It's a replica of Lexington Avenue subway car - just in front of a movie screen. Newsday describes it as such: more ›

There is a Quicktime video of the CFD being used to measure various products. Now, Gothamist has some issues with it, like the camerawork (get a better DP next time, James) and needing more information about how high the readings were for the products, relative to each other, plus needing a white paper or too, but we have to hand it to Patten: Constructing something out of "a discarded steel computer case, cut on a waterjet cutter and bent with a metal brake," with a "SaJe microcontroller and a Wasp barcode scanner," well, that takes some doing. [Thanks, Glenn] more ›