July 2010
25 posts
Unsolicited Analysis: The Average American →
We often speak in terms of the average American. This is particularly relevant to financial analysis. Do we know who that is?
The census gives us invaluable insight into household incomes. Your median household income? $67,609. There are 116,783,000 households. Employment of those households…
This sentence contains four words.
This sentence contains five words.
Exactly one sentence in this list is true.
…first you’re annoyed, then you giggle. Gotta love the Futility Closet.
What's your Tumblr's personality? →
The Rise of the Chinese Ghost Town
From the World Bank’s blog:
In February this year, Geoff Dyer wrote an article for the Financial Times, “China: No One Home”, in which he chronicled the eerie emptiness of this new town development near the city of Kunming, in southwestern China. He wrote:“Construction started in 2003 and the results are now apparent in 13 immaculate local government buildings, each clad in marble tiles. A...
“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they...”
– Abbie Hoffman
“That’s a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. If you say...”
– Gabriel García Márquez
There are benefits to an intellectual market with... →
From today's David Brooks article
A worthwhile thought about the advent of Internet reading on our learning curve:
The Internet-versus-books debate is conducted on the supposition that the medium is the message. But sometimes the medium is just the medium. What matters is the way people think about themselves while engaged in the two activities. A person who becomes a citizen of the literary world enters a hierarchical...
WatchCreate a BP oil spill on any website. Lovely.
...one in ten American homes uses electricity from...
In part thanks to the Megatons to Megawatts program. Pretty Cool.
Approved haircuts for Iran →
June 2010
28 posts
WatchDoes anyone else also find this old man extremely awesome?
WatchNot very informative, but very pretty.
WatchNifty.
Google Chrome Moves Into Third, Past Safari →
technipol:
Ever since the release of Google’s Chrome browser on 2nd September 2008 in beta form, the Internet has watched as its popularity has grown and grown.
This weeks statistics from web analytics company StatCounter now indicate that Chrome has taken third place from Safari in the US browser league. Obtaining a 8.97% share of the US browser market.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still...
WatchThe writer who couldn’t read.
(More at NPR.)
May I just say...
…there’s something about Tumblr that encourages people to create accounts with the most ludicrous names. Every fourth person has a tumblr about “musings,” “tidbits,” “dreams.” They’re “collections”of “cute things,” “beautiful things,” “things I find interesting…”
Somehow, half of my tumblr...
Traditional mainstream media beginning to use...
Why yes, yes they are apparently. (Good thing, or a bad thing?)
From readwriteweb:
For those unfamiliar with the service, Tumblr is a blogging platform that lets users curate images, videos, quotes, and other forms of media onto minimalistic personalized “tumblelogs.” Much like Twitter, there is a one-way follow function that lets users view a stream of entries from others of...
“Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
– Tolstoy
Analysis of the ruling on the Google v Viacom case...
WatchRobots!
“Jonah Hex is 72 minutes long. Just thought you’d want to know that you’ll be...”
– thegreg (via savingpaper)
The Green Lantern Theory of Presidential Power →
savingpaper:
Jamelle Bouie discusses why otherwise-smart liberals believe that the president of the United States “is a member of the Green Lantern corps, and that the only thing keeping his agenda from passage is force of will”:
For what it’s worth, I think a few things are at play in this warped liberal view of the president (and really, it’s not just liberals, most Americans see the...
Seth Godin, you are so wonderful.
“So far, at least, the US public seems to be demonstrating more patience and...”
– Clive Crook.
WatchGorgeous music video. Made from more than 2,000 water color paintings.