This news falls most likely into the "bad news" category, but our metric system petition to the White House made the Time magazine. I'm looking at the print edition right now and it is listed in a ticker at the foot of the page among other petitions, most of which fall shy of being ridiculous. I have not yet read the accompanying article, but below is the link to the online version, which does not include to ticker.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/31/we-the-people/?iid=sl-main-belt
