January 2011
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China to make largest city in the world by... →
climateadaptation:
Facts:
26 times the size of London
1/10th of China’s economy, growing at 4+%
Highly industrialized section of China - lots of pollution
Searching for a new name for the new city
29 rail lines, 3100 miles of track (NYC has 24 lines, and 800 miles of track)
42 million people -…
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Two Americas: Healthcare. →
jayparkinsonmd:
A few people have asked me to comment on Atul Gawande’s most recent piece in The New Yorker, The Hot Spotters. Here’s a snapshot:
“He found that between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in [just] two buildings in Camden, NJ accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars. One patient had three hundred and...
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Music Industry Braces for the Unthinkable -... →
mikehudack:
shaneguiter:
In each of the past two years, the rate of increase in digital revenue has approximately halved. If that trend continues, digital sales could top out at less than $5 billion this year, about a third of the overall music market but many billions of dollars short of the amount needed to replace long-gone sales of compact discs.
“Music’s first digital decade is...
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“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that...”
– Laura Stavoe Harm (via amberlrhea)
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Cathode, vintage terminal emulator for OS X →
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How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you... →
Yet another area where Apple design makes using their products such a joy.
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“Based on statistical data, Pleated Jeans has rounded up each of the 50 states...”
– Flavorwire » Awesome Infographic: The United States of Shame
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How iPad Could Transform the TV-Watching... →
Brilliant! I’ve had this complaint dozens of times while watching TV; why don’t they list or provide links to some of the stuff which was part of this program? The CW and previously the WB provide a call out for music feature in certain shows, but what about the cars, clothes, furniture, gadgets, etc? Hopefully something like this gets off the ground and we can have smarter TVs even if...
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Something for a living →
modernnerd:
Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month.
$5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff.
The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative people you follow who also pay to use the platform, up to…
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“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
Well when you put it like that…
(via spytap)
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NYT's "Emphasis" →
mrgan:
The nytimes.com team has released a pretty awesome new feature: the ability to link to specific paragraphs and highlight sentences on a page. I don’t mean just locally; these get baked into the URL you then share. The implementation makes the end result super-simple. You initiate the whole process by double-pressing the Shift button. Read more about what all it does and how.
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Is Facebook a giant ponzi scheme? →
maxistentialist:
Joseph Perla:
A ponzi scheme is an investment vehicle that promises large returns. For example, I could tell you that I have a brilliant currency arbitrage. Instead of actually earning real returns, though, I convince new investors to invest new money. I use that money…
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