DanLivesHere

That's kind of what I was thinking. I feel like I could market it (it's what I do) but the margins could be too tight.

How much are you paying AMT workers?

Because of me, accidentally.

I found out about the story via Twitter. Someone I follow (cited in the original post here) mentioned it as an aside in a blog post of his.

I write a free daily email newsletter of interesting things I come across -- that's at http://dlewis.net/nik. The original post here is the issue from, I believe, Tuesday, but it's been a long week :)

I submitted the link to reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dstpi/til_tha... -- please pardon my misuse of "reverse engineered") and it went over very well, hitting either the front page or the second page. So a lot of people noticed it. I'm not surprised there are other submissions. I've seen pickup across a number of sites.

The title and timing?

Well, the title was straightforward -- I just took the one that worked so well on reddit and whittled it down to 80 characters.

The timing was accidental. I was queuing up today's issue late last night my time, and I was crediting the guy behind http://hackernewsletter.com for tipping me off to the story. Then I had an "a ha" moment and figured, hey, this would be welcome on HN, too. So I submitted it.

I intentionally left it out -- it would have made the email too long. The fact that it's valuable, I think, is obvious (450 tanks versus 1400). How valuable? Not as important.

For the same reason, I also left out that the Allies used the same mathematical tools to estimate supply lines. If you're seeing a "rate of production" in Berlin of 100 units/mo, and for the same unit type, only 25 units/mo in Paris, that's probably evidence that it's taking a really long time for that unit to get to Paris.

Having worked at a law firm and in the legal department of a large Wall Street bank, I don't think this is as huge of a freedom issue than you'd think. I don't expect this to get used outside that environment.

I think RSS will hurt him. I've had a hard time building my email newsletter readership (http://dlewis.net/nik) because I run in tech circles, and we all use RSS. However, I've had a much easier time when I get once step removed from RSS culture.

Basically.

By the way, this is from my daily "learn something new" email -- if you have any general feedback about the endeavor, let me know. Thanks :)

I actually relied a lot more on the Gilroy Gardens' website :)

Forget tech savvy folks -- what about just regular Farmville-playing people!

If you did, did anyone vote for Mickey Kaus? Does anyone even know who he is?

I intend to maintain it on my blog by keeping posts coming, and by blogging about other people who "host meetings". So the best thing you can do to keep it going is to host something and let me know!