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• Twapple? Let’s Recap a Dozen Other Apple Acquisitions That Aren’t Going to Happen | Technologizer – Other rumored "Apple is going to buy X".
• Facebook: On The Beat With Facebook’s Pornhounds – Newsweek reports that of the 850 employees Facebook has on its payroll, 150 are part of its User Operations division, which is charged with tracking down user-submitted violations of the site's code of conduct, which disallows nudity, porn and drugs. Fully exposed butts, visible crackage and nipples give your photos a one-way trip to Deletionville. Also, no calling anyone a "jerk." Seriously, that's also a code violation.
• Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » White riot – I think there are a variety of reasons why the Village is getting all hot and bothered about affirmative action type issues. One is that, with most other “cultural issues” fading away, it gives them a chance to attack liberals for being “out of touch” with “regular Americans.” Another is that a lot of the stronger affirmative action policies involve civil service jobs (personally, I think this is very smart—you’d have to be crazy not to think having an integrated police department is incredibly important), which are likely to be pursued by ethnic white northerners, and the punditocracy consists almost entirely of white ethnic northerners. As with many things, it’s all about Chris Matthews’ cranky uncle.
• Progress: A Graphical Report on the State of the World – About a year ago the United Nations announced UNdata, a way to disseminate data stretched out across 22 United Nations databases through one central application. While UNdata houses 66 million records, it's tough to get a sense of what's going on without a visual representation.

  Progress is an effort to make this world data visible. More than anything though, it was a chance for me to mess around with some data.

• Business & revenue model examples | The Board Of Innovation –
• Get Your Copy of Windows 7 RC1 – Wired How-To Wiki –

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