“Excellent”:http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/01/31/things-that-have-not-been-quantified-according-to-the-new-york-times.aspx
bq. The _New York Times_ ran a nearly 2,000-word piece last week on the latest problem facing beleaguered first-world parents: what to do all the shoddily-constructed artwork their kids bring home. All over America, it seems, closets are overflowing with papier-mâché tchotchkes and beloved family pets are drowning in pages torn from Dora the Explorer coloring books.
bq. Despite the urgency of this issue, you may be surprised to know that
[no] one has quantified just how much art children create at school, said David Burton, a professor of art education at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
bq. It turns out that the _New York Times_ has identified lots of things that no one has counted–enough to fill a Borgesian library of Unquantified Objects. For example:
No hard data exists on how many people spend the hours before breakfast rounding up news and e-mailing clips and quick summaries. (From a “Jan. 17, 2011 piece”:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/us/politics/18early.html about political aides who synthesize the news for their bosses every morning.)
_und so weiter_