Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?

Previous discussion of this article at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772556 (slightly different URL, but same text).

resistors. do you know how annoying it is to misread the bands?!

Good stuff, hits one of my soft spots. Seems to be a 1998 piece - hunting up to the author home page and down the biblio page, this reference links back the posted page:

Data Visualization: The End of the Rainbow. B. Rogowitz and L. Treinish, IEEE Spectrum, 35, n. 12, pp. 52-59, December, 1998.

That's what set me off. But the author's page has more recent stuff (2005 or so, I think).

There's also the fun "what's the most recent citation" hunt in the references section of undated papers - I had noted 1998 in this particular one.