Public transit made easy

I've known that Google has had a "public transit directions" option on google maps for the iphone for a couple of years now, but I only really started making use of it today to facilitate a day-long adventure around San Francisco.  It is so amazingly useful.  In the past I tended to avoid SF's buses (and instead focus on the muni & bart trains) because the system was so complex that I needed a large map with me at all times to really navigate the bus system properly.  Ironically, the map needed to be large because the system covered the city very well. 

I don't know if the system is fully integrated with NextBus, which provides real-time bus positions via gps, but the times it gave seemed fairly accurate. 

Building up an intuition for the bus system in a new city often takes longer than building up an intuition for major streets.  As a result, having a little voice that (metaphorically) whispers in your ear to stand on a street corner, get on a particular bus, get off at a particular spot, board another bus, and then disembark at your destination, is incredibly useful and is likely to make me use the bus system a lot more in the future.

The psychology of sports fans who stick with losing teams

Even if football is totally uninteresting to you, the story behind the Saints fans is very interesting

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/sports/football/05bag.html?scp=1&sq=saints%20dress%20as%20woman&st=cse

Anything that convinces straight conservative football fans to cross-dress in public is likely a good thing.