July 2011
$75.876 Billion Vs. $73.768 billion →
mikehudack:
evangotlib:
helms-deep:
evangotlib:
parislemon:
One of these numbers represents the cash flow of an entity that is perhaps the most well-oiled, fine-tuned cash machine the world has ever seen.
The other represents the operating balance of a broken machine tied down in bureaucracy.
(No, not Google.)
Wow.
Wow is right. Maybe Apple should buy the U.S. Government.
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Fuck and the law – Boing Boing →
This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck. The intersection of the word fuck and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education. The legal implications from the use of fuck vary greatly with the context.
“I don’t understand. Number one, I don’t understand a transgender, I don’t...”
– Mayor Rob Ford, Ladies and Gents (via behindthisbeard)
Out of a $700,000,000 deficit, he’s obsessing over a $3200 charge. Brutal.
Girls Go Geek… Again! - Fog Creek Blog →
From 1984 to 2006, the number of women majoring in computer science dropped from 37% to 20% — just as the percentages of women were increasing steadily in all other fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, with the possible exception of physics. The reasons women left computer science are as complex and numerous as why they had entered in the first place. But the most common...
BBC Publishes its social media guidelines for... →
The Unselfish Gene - Harvard Business Review →
Overcoming our assumptions about self-interest is critical to diagnose the risks that new business rivals pose.
Don't Be Evil →
For cyber-optimists and cyber-pessimists alike, the advent of Google marks off two very distinct periods in Internet history. The optimists remember the age before Google as chaotic, inefficient, and disorganized. Most search engines at the time had poor ethics (some made money by misrepresenting ads as search results) and terrible algorithms (some could not even find their parent companies...
“Country recovering from collapse of its banks and government is using social...”
– Mob rule: Iceland crowdsources its next constitution | World news | The Guardian (via billyb)
It's Time to End the War on Salt - Scientific...
It’s Time to End the War on Salt
This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Our Community Lead Arrives: Heather Leson Joins... →
So pleased for my friend Heather and Ushahidi. :-)
Vinyl record groove under electron microscope, at... →
So You Need a Typeface →
HOW TO: Undo "Send" in Gmail →
Guido Mocafico: Remarkably Moving Still Life... →
5 Technologies That Will Shape the Web - IEEE... →
The Nature of E.B. White - The Chronicle Review -... →
