I found this recent opinion article supporting NASA metrication on Spacedaily.com: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-03zz.html
Most notable for me is its discussion of the idea of units-checked calculations in programming languages: "DYNAMO was in fact a stunningly ugly language and has died a richly deserved death. But it had one feature I found very charming: numbers could be given unit types. Try to assign a certain number of pounds to a variable that was declared to be a length in feet, or a certain number of seconds to a variable that was declared to be a weight in tons, and DYNAMO asked you to please start making sense. "If you wrote a formula, you had to use the right units. But if you did that, you got an answer in the right units as a result. I thought this idea was Very Cool, even if it didn't make much of an impression on any the girls I dated in high school." David Shatto Los Angeles
