If Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) wanted to stir up public interest in broadband Internet connectivity when it announced a small-scale fiber-optic network project, then Google got what it wanted. Cities across America are coming to Google, hat in hand, to prove themselves worthy of the company’s attention.
The State of the Internet. In video Chart form!
Yesterday at the Honda dealer’s service desk I found myself in an all-too-familiar situation, craning my head for a glimpse of a screenful of data that I paid for but do not own. Well, that’s not quite true. I do have a degraded form of the data: printouts of work orders. But I don’t have it in a useful form that would enable me to compute the ownership cost of my car, or share its maintenance history with owners of similar cars so we can know which repairs have been normal or abnormal.
What does a metre sea level rise actually mean? This is how we visualised some of the data confusion.
PRINCETON, NJ — The recession and financial crisis have resulted in a significant change in the way many Americans feel about spending and saving. Six in 10 Americans (62%) now say they more enjoy saving than spending — while 35% say the reverse.
Every Ingredient In A Pizza Pocket.
Ah, the healthy nutritious snack that is a pizza pocket, laid out in a loving array of typefaces. I could really go for some modified food starch about now. Thanks Justin Perricone and Boing Boing!
Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a Debt Crisis (photo support for previous post, from the NYTimes.)
Apple Sales by Operating Segment and Products – woorkup.com
in millions, except unit sales in thousands and per unit amounts
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“A Decade of Unemployment,” graphic showing unemployment figures by state, 2000-2009, from VisualEconomics.com (Feb. 12, 2010).
Here’s a fascinating profile on radical Santa Fe Institute economist Samuel Bowles, an empiricist who says his research doesn’t support the Chicago School efficient marketplace hypothesis. Instead, Bowles argues that the wealth inequality created by strict market economics creates inefficiencies because society has to devote so much effort to stopping the poor from expropriating the rich. He calls this “guard labor” and says that one in four Americans is employed to in the sector — labor that could otherwise be used to increase the nation’s wealth and progress.
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