Purpose is to take a list of vectors, and intercalate their values
See also
Other jamses utilities: 
choose_annotation_colnames(),
contrast2comp_dev(),
fold_to_log2fold(),
list2im_opt(),
log2fold_to_fold(),
make_block_arrow_polygon(),
mark_stat_hits(),
matrix_normalize(),
point_handedness(),
point_slope_intercept(),
shortest_unique_abbreviation(),
shrinkDataFrame(),
shrink_df(),
shrink_matrix(),
sort_samples(),
strsplitOrdered(),
sub_split_vector(),
update_function_params(),
update_list_elements()