Similarly, as an IT manager, I measure (and get measured) on how upset people get when something major goes wrong.
If the network is in a state where it breaks regularly, minor problems are seen as major, and major problems are seen as disaster. Feedback to upper management is 'IT sucks.'
If the network is in a working state that rarely breaks, and communication to the company is good, then minor problems are fixed before people notice, and major problems are seen as minor problems. Feedback to upper management is 'Nothing ever seems to go wrong. IT is great.' That's the response we had a month ago, from one of our most vocal critics, in spite of the fact that we had a major server outage less than a week before.

Sounds more like some sort of sick, subtle branding exercise. Is nothing sacred?

Yeah, Think of the (dead) children!

Oh, damn... I think that's the most tasteless joke I ever conceived.

Except for that one. Nicely done.

I appreciate your conversion, but you left something out: Nobody in the UK uses UK gallons. Not even the car companies.
I can tell you that because my Passat gets 50 mpg in the UK. When I purchase petrol, I do it in litres. I then do a calculation myself, using the standard litre per gallon conversion, and get the same exact mileage that my Passat automatically calculated.

I don't usually reply to myself, but I contacted the owner and he's fixed the page.

Your fix implies effort on my part. The only effort I'm willing to put in here is to contact the site creator and tell him the page doesn't render in my browser, and therefore I can't view his wonderful experiment. Perhaps, if he gets enough of those emails, he'll redesign his page to be viewable for the large minority that don't use IE.

I find caffeine has little effect on me, so I don't bother. If will power isn't enough, then I'm meant to be asleep.

It should be noted that this proposal is for children aged 11 and under. That is, 5th grade and lower (British call it Year 6).
I don't remember studying much American history when I was that age. In fact, I mostly remember reading, arithmetic, and P.E.
The truth is that the UK has over-legislated what to teach, leaving little room for children to be children. These recommendations are actually a step in the right direction, in that they decrease the amount of mandated work that little children have to do.