links for 2009-04-09
2009 April 9
- "This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy." Cory Doctorow, says it's a good book, and that makes me impressed.
- "Instead of defining degrees by the courses taken or the credits earned, the three states will establish what students must learn." Cool idea.
- "Some ascribe the difference to a confluence of health and beauty trends that have accelerated over time. But most manufacturers and lingerie shop owners say the phenomenon is due to the fact that more women are being fitted correctly." Bust sizes have increased or at least more bras in larger sizes are being bought.
- "With every new post, update, tweet, upload, comment, like, and link, we share a little bit more about who we are and what we stand for. This works for and against us."
- "The French group is also planning to sell its Wild Turkey bourbon whisky brand to Italy's Campari for $575m. " Wild Turkey is a really strong brand.
- "Facebook has basically launched a site-wide ban of Pirate Bay torrent URLs. Facebook’s censorship policies are not very consistent though. Mininova and isoHunt, two other large BitTorrent sites remain unaffected, even though isoHunt offers the exact same ‘Share on Facebook’ feature as The Pirate Bay previously did." I say that Facebook should let the torrent links be in Facebook, it's not Facebook's decision what their users do with the information.
- "US crew members have recaptured their ship after it was hijacked by Somali pirates, but their captain is still being held hostage by the attackers." Well damn.
- "For everyone else, it's no. The purpose of the site is to tell a story or to generate some sort of action. And if the user notices the site, not the story, you've lost." Sometimes you shouldn't build a site too cutting edge.
- "But can someone please explain to me why 14% of people who do not believe in a god call themselves Christian? And some, Evangelical Protestant?! " Huh?
- "Caps-Lock is FULL OF AWESOME!!1!" Lol.
- "Apple made headlines Tuesday by turning on tiered music pricing, with tracks at both $1.29 and 69¢ appearing, but the changes are industry-wide. Amazon, Lala, and Rhapsody are all selling tracks at these new prices (Wal-Mart is holding the line at $1.24), which seem to be an effort to both cash in on popular music and boost album sales." Really time to to go back to buying stuff on cd.
- Looks like the Daily Show visited Cern.
- What does Google have laying around for us to find out about.
- "Or making out while playing Halo – which, if you haven't tried it, is just tops." Lol.
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