July 2012
12 posts
“Avoid getting ‘homed’”
– Wonderful quote today from an entrepreneur about develop mobile apps so that users don’t hit the ‘home’ button after a few seconds
“That James Holmes is insane, few may doubt. Our gun laws are also insane, but...”
– Roger Ebert - Aurora Shooting - We’ve Seen This Before - NYTimes.com
(h/t daringfireball)
A World Without Coral Reefs - NYTimes.com →
wildcat2030:
IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional sense, and on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation. There will be remnants here and there, but the global coral reef ecosystem — with its storehouse of biodiversity...
What Facebook Knows - MIT Technology Review →
“…the world is smaller than we thought: four intermediary friends are usually enough to introduce anyone to a random stranger. When considering another person in the world, a friend of your friend knows a friend of their friend, on average.”
How LinkedIn Has Turned Your Resume Into A Cash... →
“ “Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and...”
– We Originated in the Belly of a Star, NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012. (via amiquote)
Stunning YouTube traffic stats →
- Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month
- Daily video views are about 3 billion per day (1 trillion in 2011)
- More than 300 million daily mobile video views
