There's a similar list on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement), where you'll also find a measure of information flow, the Dirac:
Physicist Paul Dirac <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac> was known among his colleagues for his precise yet taciturn nature. His colleagues in Cambridge jokingly defined a unit of a dirac which was one word per hour. —R On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: > Just in case you need a special metric.... > > > http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/13/strange-funny-and-baffling-units-for-measuring-almost-anything/ > > -tj > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
