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- Getting Ugly –
- Reverting To Type –
- Which States Suffer When Gas Prices Rise? –
- GOP Lawmakers Use Christian Hate Radio To Concoct Conspiracies, Build Opposition To Health Reform –
- Bad Beat –
- Spring, warfare, bacteria, everything –
- Do Read –
- 10 Ways Social Media Will Transform Events in 2010 –
- The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter –
- Conscience Claws –
- 5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based Social Media –
- Pulling The Plug Redux –
- Google enhances the “Places of Interest” layer –
- Hacking the Car: Cyber Security Risks Hit the Road – One of the unintended consequences of "the internet of things".
- 5 Amazing Infographics For the Health Conscious –
- Hacking the Car: Cyber Security Risks Hit the Road –
- Saint Patrick’s day faux pas: Ordering a ‘Black and Tan’ –
- Tracking a century of American eating –
- Social Networking Usage Surges Globally [STATS] –
- Willingly Brainwashed –
- Digital divide closing with major mobile help –
- If You Tell Them On Facebook, They Will Come…Again and Again –
- Mind the Gap –
- Dr Teeth tattoo –
- Ranking Occupations by Ideology –
- Inside the Collapse –
- Report: America’s Middle Class Shouldering the Brunt of Health Insurance Crisis –
- 2009 Wage Taxes (Filing Jointly) –
- Mass appeal –
- Connecting the Schoolhouse to Your House –
- The “Next” Generation: What Chatroulette Can Teach The Social Media –
- Proof that social media DOES work –
- Twitter – less than 20% access through the web –
- LBJ Politics –
- Late Night: The Submerging of the White Race, Special L. Paul Bremer Edition –
- Whatever Happened to Web 2.0? –
- Lundry: Graphing the Stimulus –
- Raiding Eternity –
- Mark Dery: What do zombies Mean? –
- Mark Dery: What do zombies Mean? –
- The 20 Cheapest Cars To Insure [Car Insurance] –
- Google Alleges That Viacom ‘Secretly Uploaded Its Content to YouTube, Even While Publicly Complaining About Its Presence There’ –
- Insurance Losses from Natural Disasters –
- What Social Media Users Want [STATS] –
- CBO: HCR knocks $130 billion from deficit, extends Medicare solvency –
- Learning from Tufte: What NOT To Do in Information Design –
- Apple Patents Reveal Plans for Mobile Social Networking App –
- Pre-modern blogs –
- Pennsylvania's New Century –
- In Defense of Deficits –
- The Current State of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] –
- Comprehensive, eh? –
- Your reality is out of date –
- The Christianity Map –
- A History of Financial Instruments –
- Stagflation Versus Hyperinflation –
- Many Eyes: Tutorial –
- Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : SharePoint Conference – Building a SharePoint Designer Mashup (Part 1) –
- 6 Subtle Ways The News Media Disguises Bullshit As Fact | Cracked.com –
- Movie Makers and Professors versus Car Dealers and Oil Industry Executives –
- “What Caused the Financial Crisis? Still 22 Possibilities” –
- A Defense of the Unknown in Infographics –
- “Using Neuroscience to Understand the Bounds of Rationality” –
- Why Liberals (Suddenly) Love the Health Care Bill –
- Happy Meal is ageless: no decay in a year on a shelf –
- ‘Breathe Social’: The New Rules of Relationship Management –
- WP Blackberry: Version 1.1: Comment Notifications, Geotagging, Gestures, and more ! –
- Obama and the Reagan myth –
- Bill O’Reilly quotes false survey: 46% of Physicians May Leave Medical Profession: UPDATED –
- The Death of the Pageview –
- Generation I: Middle Children Of The Information Age –
- Culture Jamming –
- Insurer targeted HIV patients to drop coverage. –
- Social Media Statistics: TV, Multi-tasking, Online News and Your Brand’s Friends, Fans & Followers –
- America’s Eating Habits (1909-2009) –
- Catholic nuns endorse HCR in defiance of bishops’ mandate –
- Today in history: the flight data recorder –
- The 20 Most Expensive Cars To Insure [Car Insurance] –
- Report: Congressmen spending thousands of dollars a month to lease ordinary vehicles –
- The Legacy Of The Irish: Two Views –
- Does the Constitution Contain Article VI or Not? Views Differ. –
- Drupal: The New Gov 2.0 Site Builder? –
- Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard –
- Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050 –
- The 10 Uncanniest Irish Mythological Creatures –
- Photo –
- Is It Luck of the Irish or Something More? –
- Philadelphia Local News –
- “Shrinking Detroit Back to Greatness” –
- How to Be a Good Leader in a Recession –
- Tea Bags And Coffee Grounds –
- What is to be done? –
- Hitchens: The Great Catholic Cover-Up –
- Mapping Christianity –
- Internet of Things Explained (Video) –
- What If You Threw A Tea Party, And No One Came? –
- Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom –
- Ray LaHood: “The End of Favoring Motorized Transportation” –
- Media, Race, & Web 2.0 –
- Where USA Foreign Aid Goes –
- US: Census (Pew 3/10-14) –
- Rove-ing –
- College students mostly begin research at Wikipedia –
- Sunshine Week: EPIC Publishes 2010 FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Gallery –
- One Party Two Factions –
- Bank Competition Map –
- Smoking Grass –
- C-Span Puts Full Archive On The Web –
- The future of newspapers in an online world –
- News you can use –
- Former NHTSA Lawyer: Agency Was ‘Extremely Skeptical’ of Sudden Acceleration Complaints –
- Facebook and Twitter Making a Major Impact on Purchase Decisions [STATS] –
- Do You Mind If Mint Sells Data Based On Your Transactions? –
- Read the Bill Becoming the Norm –
- Brown v. Board? –
- 2009 Wage Taxes –
- Real Health Costs About the Same as Car Ownership –
- 8 Studies Demonstrating the Power of Simplicity –
- Outsourcing is Good For Us(?) –
- Feds Study Whether Toyota’s Problems Caused By Cosmic Rays [Beige Bites Back] –
- Soda Tax Failing In NY, Big Joke In Philadelphia –
- Video: How To Stop A Speeding Prius If You're F****** Stupid –
- The Complexity Machine –
- Out-crazying Nixon –
- Backup your shit! –
- A person…loses a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails…after the email is sent to and received by a third party. –
- Which child molesters would Jesus wait 30 years to suspend? –
- Father FOXy –
- Newspapers Applaud National Education Standards –
- Web Illiteracy: How Much Is Your Fault? –
- Reich: Health Care and the Political Lessons of History –
- Rippa! –
- Study: Hyundai customer loyalty upends Toyota, Honda, takes #1 –
- America, You Brought The Toyota Hoax On Yourself [Beige Bites Back] –
- Who wouldn’t blog for $80,000 a year? –
- Comcast SportsNet purchases sports blog The700level –
- Cinemetrics database of Average Shot Length –
- Four Infographical Morsels No. 5 –
- Birth order effects in relationships –
- Six Companies Pushing for Transparency in Healthcare Pricing –
- Larison is Shrill –
- The FedEx Universe –
- What is Motivating the Republican Party? The Strange Case of Health Care –
- Contemplating a Job Change? Think Long Term –
- New Full Text Report: The State of the News Media, 2010 Includes Some Excellent Reference Material –
- Beefscapes –
- Drunken Maps or Why the Netherlands is the World’s Designated Driver –
- The Myth of the Strong Center –
- White House Blueprint for revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act –
- Tufte Kills Kittens –
- 10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep End of the Invisible Web –
- Top 100 Websites –
- The Texas textbook two-step –
- Cheating The Honest Men –
- More Stupidity Over Guns –
- Is Innovation Fair? Andrew Keen Says No –
- Response to Newsbusters Regarding the Wonders of Catholicism –
- Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove –
- Calling all mental models –
- Profiles in Successful Law Enforcement –
- Why User Competency Matters in Social Design –
- Saving Ryan’s Privatization –
- Receipts? We don’ need to show you no steekin’ receipts… –
- If keyboard lag is “discontinuity in our selves,” what’s a JRun error? –
- Late Night: “Nonresponsibility,” Or, How to Set a Proper Papal Moral Example –
- Edward Tufte’s Introduction to Data Analysis –
- Twilight is the loneliest time of day –
- Universal Check-in App Confirmed: Brightkite’s Stealth Service –
- I have refrained from writing much about this because I'm so –
- Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity –
- Nearing Retirement and Unemployed or Underemployed –
- Security Clowns –
- New Rule: Let’s Not Fire the Teachers When Students Don’t Learn –
- Socialize Your Cause – Social Media for Non-profits, Charities, & Causes –
- 15 Awesome interactive maps from the New York Times :: 10,000 Words –
- Report: No AWD for Subaru version of FT-86 “Toyobaru” (w/poll) –
- SEIU to Congressman: Vote Yes On The Senate Bill Or We’ll Find A Primary Challenger –
- Repo [Leh]men –
- Consumer Reports Quantifies Waste Due To Stupid Packaging –
- Post of the Week: March 6-12, 2010 –
- Why Does a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac? –
- IRS Releases 2009 Data Book –
- Get Your Irish Up –
- Schumpeter–Standing for Convictions in a Democracy –
- Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking UK copyright –
- MySpace’s Mid Level Management Structure Is Crumbling –
- Who would be cast in a Coen Brothers’ Star Wars? –
- America’s Goats Need Your Help –
- Report: Over 2000 Bank Enforcement Actions in 2009 –
- Stuff White People Like Stealing –
- [from fritz] Five insights into the behaviors of social media users –
- Glenn Beck Responds to Cardinal George and Archbishop Chaput –
- FCC Launches Broadband Consumer Tools –
- While Facebook & Twitter Sit on Sidelines, MySpace Jumps Into Bulk User Data Sales – MySpace has taken a bold step and put a large quantity of bulk user data up for sale on startup data marketplace InfoChimps. Data offered includes user playlists, mood updates, mobile updates, photos, vents, reviews, blog posts, names and zipcodes. Friend lists are not included. Remember, Facebook and Twitter may be the name of the game these days in tech circles, but MySpace still sees 1 billion user status updates posted every month. Those updates will now be available for bulk analysis.
- Extinction’s Tipping Points § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM – Tipping points, as popularized by Malcolm Gladwell’s eponymous bestseller from 2000, are critical thresholds within a system where a small change or shift can snowball into a much larger one, rippling nonlinearly through the entire system and transforming it from one stable state into another. Examples include the boiling point of water, the spread of an idea (or a virus) within a population, and the slight shift in balance that can send someone from standing to sprawling across the floor. This week, several potential tipping points have made headlines. But unlike the relative triviality of brewing tea, catching a cold, or falling on one’s face, these critical thresholds concern the past and future of every living thing on Earth.
- Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest – To be blunt, the systems aren't set up to handle it. The paper forms have a space for the husband's name and a space for the wife's name. Married people carefully enter their details in block capitals and post the forms off to depressed paper-pushers who then type that information into software front-ends whose forms are laid out and named in precisely the same fashion. And then they hit "submit" and the information is filed away electronically in databases which simply keel over or belch integrity errors when presented with something so profound as a man and another man who love each other enough to want to file joint tax returns.<br />
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Speaking as a computery-type person, altering the paper forms is not my department. It's probably expensive and there are probably millions of existing incorrect forms which would need returning or recycling or burning instead of using. Or maybe it's simple. I don't know. The real question from my perspective is how you store a marriage in a computer. - Feb. 25: Carnegie Mellon Professor Calculates Real Risk of Driving a Recalled Toyota – Carnegie Mellon University – Consumers also may want to reconsider parking their recalled Toyotas until repairs have been made. "Replacing driving by walking really increases the risk of dying," Fischbeck said. "Walking a mile is 19 times or 1,900 percent more dangerous than driving a mile in a recalled Toyota. Driving while using a cell phone would increase risk much more than the chance of having a stuck accelerator."
- Massa v. Beck Celebrity Crazy Match –
- 10 Perfect "Snowicane" Cars [Snow Cars] –
- HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media –
- The formula for Hollywood movies –
- The Damn Kids Today Are Ruining Everything With Their Sex Slang –
- Very large numbers –
- Lawrence Lessig’s Wireside Chat on Fair Use, Politics, and Online Video –
- The Rise of Netbooks –
- How blast-proof suits work –
- Visualization of an Urban Cyberspace –
- Book: A Genius for Deception –
- How blast-proof suits work –
- Bank branches in high schools a good financial lesson –
- How Your Book Covers Get Designed (A: Quickly!) –
- Real Simple Selects Philadelphia as One of 21 Top Time-Saving Cities –
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