Slate provides a levelheaded assessment about nuclear reactor risk and safety lessons from the crisis in Japan. I hope, once the situation is resolved, we can still look at nuclear power objectively in the USA.

To head off the next nuclear accident, we need to rethink the parameters of plant design. Why do we build backup cooling pumps for reactors but not for spent-fuel pools? And we need layers of protection that are truly independent.

Man vs. Meltdown

Russ Roberts has good advice for anyone who wants to earn a decent living.  

You want negotiating power? Get educated. Get a skill. What keeps wages up in a world of 7% unionization in the private sector is that I have alternatives. So stay in school and study something serious that has value alongside whatever else you're interested in. Or study something interesting that has little market value. But if you do that, don't complain about your low salary and lack of a union.

Iisolani provides a thorough dissectin of how these new-fangled #! urls you are seeing all over the newest sites on the web are prone to breaking both the web experience and a site itself.  I think I see a hint of "we-know-better" from the developers rushing out these new sites and re-designs. HT: Jason Lefkowitz

Gawker, like Twitter before it, built their new site to be totally dependent on JavaScript, even down to the page URLs. The JavaScript failed to load, so no content appeared, and every URL on the page was broken. In terms of site brittleness, Gawker's new implementation got turned up to 11.

isolani - Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs