Julia found these ruminations on traffic. I couldn't find the related article I was looking for, but I did find this article on traffic math.

Many traffic researchers now view transportation systems as what complexity theorists call "self-organizing systems"--entities that manifest a cohesive behavior even though they lack a central controller. According to Rasmussen, traffic can be looked at a s a system of diverse elements widely distributed over space. "The elements that interact with one another are like biological systems. They are dynamical hierarchies with controls at many different levels, like organelles, cells, tissues, humans," he say s. The challenge for designers of transportation simulations is isolating and modeling the different elements, then bringing them together to operate as a whole.

(I'm remembering one that discusses a math problem of traffic that goes around a park from one corner to another, in both the clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, and how putting another street that cuts through the park connecting the two corners actually slows down traffic...)

When Ex-Lovebirds Can't Fly the Co-op. (Thanks Wetlog.)

Microsoft check sells for $7,100.

This laser LP player plays your LPs without making contact with the vinyl. I'd get you one, Dad, but I'd rather pay off my student loans. (Thanks Absolute Piffle. )