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Posts Tagged: graphs
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Sep 09
Daily Links for September 23rd through September 25th
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- The Death of the Newspaper | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice –
- MarvelWallChart_scale.jpg (JPEG Image, 3456×2304 pixels) – Scaled (34%) – A giant wall chart of the entire Marvel (Disney?) cast of characters.
- Calculation of The United States Credit Score | – Based on standard FICO criteria, we were shocked to learn that the U.S. credit score was…
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Sep 09
Daily Links for September 2nd
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- At Last, A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek – Chart porn – io9 – The time-travel line is especially interesting, less for what it indicates about the popularity of time travel than for what it says about the variety of stories being told. Although time travel is sometimes the focus of a show (as in Quantum Leap or Seven Days), it more frequently appears in a handful of episodes of a show that tells a diverse set of science fiction or fantasy stories. Shows like the various Star Trek series, Lois and Clark, and even Xena feature the occasional obligatory time travel episode.
But the graph's most striking feature is the boom all the themes apparently experienced in the 1990s, and which now seems to be on the decline. It seems to suggest a huge investment in genre television shows (and perhaps in television in general) that we simply aren't seeing any more.
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Aug 09
Daily Links for August 20th
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- The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare | Foreign Policy – As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public furor has featured increasingly overheated claims about everything from so-called "death panels" to the supposed prowess of America's homegrown medicine. Many of the most wildly inaccurate statements have been directed abroad — sometimes at the United States' closest allies, such as Britain and Canada, and often at the best health-care systems in the world.
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Feb 09
Daily Links for February 13th through February 14th
- Daily Kos: Ben and Jerry’s Bush Memorial Flavors [Suggestions] – - Grape Depression – Abu Grape – Cluster Fudge – Nut'n Accomplished – Iraqi Road – Chock 'n Awe – WireTapioca – Impeach Cobbler – Guantanmallow – imPeachmint – Good Riddance You Lousy Motherfucker… Swirl – Heck of a Job, Brownie! – Neocon Politan – RockyRoad to Fascism – The Reese's-cession – Cookie D'oh! – The Housing Crunch – Nougalar Proliferation – Death by Chocolate… and Torture – Freedom Vanilla Ice Cream – Chocolate Chip On My Shoulder – You're Shitting In My Mouth And Calling It A Sundae – Credit Crunch – Mission Pecanplished – Country Pumpkin – Chunky Monkey in Chief – George Bush Doesn't Care About Dark Chocolate – WMDelicious – Chocolate Chimp – Bloody Sundae – Caramel Preemptive Stripe – I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of thousands…with nuts
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Jan 09
Daily Links for January 29th
- The South Vs. Obama – The Daily Beast – The votes against Obama’s stimulus package came from a southern confederacy of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Their message to America? Drop dead.
- Philadelphia Magazine: 1978 Called. It Wants Its Newspaper Back – Ross also adds that in January, Tierney took to patrolling the parking garage, watching to see what time employees were arriving to work and asking managers about those who were late. “That’s what I’m getting calls about now,” says Ross. “He’s walking around the parking garage. If he gets hit by a car, it’ll be his own fault.” Tierney’s ownership group, Philadelphia Media Holdings, stopped making interest payments to its creditors over the summer. Thirty-five further editorial layoffs were announced in December. No one knows what tomorrow will bring — except that some tomorrow could mark the end of Philadelphia’s newspapers.
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Dec 08
Daily Links for December 4th
- Blodget to Spitzer: Welcome Aboard! – Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds — DealBook – New York Times – Back in 2001, who would have guessed that Henry Blodget, the high-profile Internet stock analyst, and Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general who banished him from Wall Street, would end up under the same journalistic umbrella?
