A letter to NPR on the Sarkozy carbon tax story:

While listening to Sarkozy Wants To Tax France's Carbon Footprint I noticed that the figure 24 cents per gallon was quoted. Given that no European country uses gallons for fuel (let alone US gallons which are different from UK gallons), I checked to see what people who weren't converting the figure were … continue reading

I've been trying to lose weight over the last few months and as such have had reason to review several tools for tracking diet and exercise on the iPhone. The first one I took a look at (because it is free) was Lose It. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the first screen as it's all US Customary units (no option for metric at all and lots of complaints in the feedback that seem to … continue reading

It's Metric Day. Please take a few minutes today to mail your senators and congress folk requesting they use metric exclusively when writing laws.

The best form for this is a story telling them of some way you've been ripped off or severely inconvenienced by customary measurements or our mixed use of systems.

Sally Mitchell gave a continue reading

Q: How is health care reform like metrication?
A: We're still stuck in the dark ages while the rest of the world has moved on to better, cheaper, ways of doing things.

Extended Answer:
Moving to state run health care similar to the UKs continue reading

Here is a letter I wrote to Vice President Biden. He has been charged with creating a Middle Class Task Force, to help bolster the middle class. Which we all know is the life blood of the country. Please consider following suit and writing him a letter. It can only help our cause. Here is a link to the website. continue reading

The first SF Bay Area USMA meeting will be held at Genentech on July 16 at 16:00 Pacific thanks to James Scott Hudnall This aims to be a bi-weekly meeting of those interested in … continue reading

The Obama administration has an open government dialogue initiative. This is currently being run via Idea Scale.

The site is taking submissions until the end of today. Here are the current metric submissions:

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Dear NASA, in case you'd missed it, President Obama's slogan for the last election was "Change we need" not "Going back to the dark ages". The last time measurement was mentioned in terms of NASA, it was when you were explaining to congress why you'd just blown $327.6 million of public funds and who knows how much in lost research … continue reading

NB: Voting stops at 09:30 Eastern (06:30 Pacific) _Thursday_.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions/ Search for metric and vote.

Sorry for the short notice, I only found out about it tonight.

Currently, the stimulus package is being reconciled by a committee appointed from the House and Senate.

This committee is made up of 10 members and in order to get metric into the package we need to contact them before the bill is reintroduced into the house.

The best way to do this is a personal phone call followed by a fax or email. Please do this as soon as you can and pass this note … continue reading