Using Xcode and Interface Builder is like a bizarre, retro-futuristic dream, where Code Warrior for Palm OS has somehow evolved into the interface for the Great New Empire.

On the date of the last scheduled shuttle launch, I started thinking about return on investment.

NASA’s entire cumulative budget, from 1958 through the present, in dollars (adjusted to 2007 value), has been $843 billion.

Our little adventure in Iraq has cost over $1 trillion.

Which has done more for us as a nation?

Wikipedia page on NASA’s budget
Wikipedia page on Iraq war expenditures.