Lego will release a “women of NASA” set including Katherine Johnson of “Hidden Figures” fame — Quartz

Chris Swan makes a number of very important points that are relevant for any organisation.

http://blog.thestateofme.com/2017/01/23/the-politics-of-data

What Chris underplays is the needed cultural change. For this to work (and I’m convinced that it must) a large percentage of the population needs a background in logic and data. There needs to be a basic set of skills across the population to kick start this.

In the MOT example the DMV should set the MOT period at the age where an agreed number of cars fail. For example, if the threshold is 5% and that threshold is met at 38 months that should be the point for the test.

We could also set make and model specific dates. It makes logical sense and is how most large scale manufacturing organizations work; however I couldn’t see that making its way through Parliament!

Anyone know where I can find the same thing for Europe?

Unprecedented Spending Trends in America, in One Chart

Source: Unprecedented Spending Trends in America, in One Chart

I wonder how many of these there are in France?

Oxygen Not In The Budget – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-12-29 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

Putting this here for reference…

Source: Editing podcasts on iOS: A video example – Six Colors

Pourquoi, j’apprends toujours trop tard qu’il avait des événements au Proto204 après qu’ils sont fini ?

Want to know why people are telling you to be careful with your personal information. Well watch this…

Impressive demonstration of social engineering / Boing Boing