Wow. My gut told me it was a lot, but this study provides an irrefutable quantity:
935
Here’s the CNN report about the project:
CNN Report
And here’s the project itself, complete with a searchable database. Amazing stuff. Thank you to everyone involved.
Public Integrity Org
This is incredibly disturbing, but sadly unsurprising. At what point [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Convert Nordictrack revolutions to miles
13-Jan-08We recently purchased a Nordictrack elliptical trainer. The machine is pretty nice, but both my wife and I immediately noticed a major annoyance: there wasn’t any documentation about how many “miles” the elliptical travels over the course of a workout. We’re both accustomed to that form of measurement; the number of revolutions per workout was [...]
Facebook and trust
06-Jan-08I IM’ed a friend yesterday to let him know I no longer used facebook. He asked why, and I told him I no longer trusted facebook. The truth is - I never really trusted them; it simply took a while for that to sink in and for me to take action. I wiped as much [...]
Your MS Office License Fees at Work
05-Jan-08Snarky title aside, this telescope probably wouldn’t have been possible without the contributions from Gates and Simonyi.
http://snurl.com/1wngv
"… a three-billion-pixel detector" that will produce "…30 terabytes of data each night". Wow. My question, of course, is where will all that data get stored?
Tags: telescope, microsoft, stars, astronomy
This is pretty interesting. As the blogosphere started to get into this story, I (and many others of course) already knew the plot, the main characters, and the cliff-hanger ending to "today’s episode".
Kara Swisher: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080103/free-the-scoble-5000/
Techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/03/plaxo-flubs-it/
How? Twitter.
You mean this Twitter? Um, yes, that one. Twitter is about instant whatever.
Tags: twitter, scoble, facebook
