Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The End of Oil?

The idea that oil is running out is fairly old, but seems to be getting more credence of late. More...

Tuesday, August 25, 2009


Sunset over Haghia Sophia and the Blue Mosque More...

Monday, August 24, 2009

Cable vs. Wireless

Contrary to what most people would expect, the cable business is growing faster than the wireless business. More...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Rebuilding New Orleans


Let's take all the resources available to rebuild New Orleans and use it to build this horror show instead. More...

Twitter Deflation

The Twitter backlash gathers steam More...

Monday, August 17, 2009

Import deflation


The price of imports is dropping. More...

Friday, August 14, 2009

Mad Men


For a show almost no body watches, Mad Men is getting an awful lot of attention. More...

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

US Self-employment


Somewhat surprisingly, the US is at the bottom of the OECD when it comes to self-employment. More...

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Yawning Gap


At some point, surely the deficit will matter. More...

Monday, August 10, 2009

NYC Without the Subway


This map shows the theoretical parking lots needed if New Yorkers all drove to work instead of taking the subway More...

You CAN sell content online

The latest from the Blog Maverick, Mark Cuban. More...

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Empire State Building August 9, 2009

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Six Months of Sun and Cloud


This is a six-month long exposure of Bristol, England. That streak is the sun. That's a lot of cloudy days, it seems. More...

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Friday, August 7, 2009


Empire State Building August 7, 2009 More...

Empire State Building August 6, 2009


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Thursday, August 6, 2009

The DSLR Lenses You Really Need


From Gizmodo More...

The End of Twitter?


Cody Brown argues that Twitter doesn't have a firm grasp on what it wants to be or why its users use it. Since it is used for a variety of functions, it is vulnerable to second-generation sites that out-do it in specialized fashion. In this way, it is like Myspace, which has been succeeded not only by Facebook but also by Last.fm and blogs. More...

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Angry White Men


Our latest entry in the "we white men are getting the shaft" category is this cop from Boston, who says that calling Skip Gates a "banana-eating jungle monkey" FOUR times - in writing - in no way justifies a suspension with pay from the Boston Police force. On the contrary, he's going for a hail Mary by claiming it's a liberal witch hunt that's the real problem here. More...

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

New Flickr Search


Flickr's new search went live today. Hooray! More...

Time Spent













This chart shows how unemployed people spend their day, over the course of a day. This chart is interactive so you see how other demographic groups spend their day by comparison More...

Monday, August 3, 2009

Empire State Building, August 3 2009



When it is required to appear in a movie, the Empire State Building gets lit up like this More...

Saturday, August 1, 2009

The End of Recorded Music

This chart shows the relative revenues of various music formats over time. You can easily see how deflationary digital music is compared with traditional music and why all those new online businesses like iTunes will never add up to enough to replace the absurdly lucrative CD business. More...