Bureaucracy (1)
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Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Be Saved (1)
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blogoir (2)
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Remember Jethro Tull? They were the first rock band I ever saw, back in Oxford in late 1974 or thereabouts. One hit was Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Die. Now we have the largest European banks being "too big to fail, but also too big to be saved": ... the total liabilities of Deutsche Bank (leverage ratio over 50!) amount to about €2,000bn (more than Fannie Mae) or more than 80 ...
The Duchess (1)
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Craig Murray (2)
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I seldom venture into film criticism, but I suspect that like many men I was persuaded by my partner to go and see The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley. Looking at Keira Knightley is always a pleasure, but what a terrible script! The credits list three screenwriters and an original book author, so you would think they might between them have got some of the period detail right. Unfortunately, in a genre of costume true story ...
The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a... (4)
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Fred Wilson Dot VC (15)
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The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a ‘Post Turtle.’”Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle.’”The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “You know she didn’t get up there by ...
A Photo a Day for 17 Years (Video) (20)
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[Dan Hanna says these are “17 years worth of taking 2 photos a day as my head rotates in sync with the Earth around the Sun.” Via Andy.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: A Photo a Day for 17 Years (Video) | Comments][Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and feed.
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Matt said:
17 years and his expression never changed.... i mean look at those eyes! Weird
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Steve said:
The dedication of this guy to his project is incredible.
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jim.mor7 said:
cool
I Want the Builder Who Built the Yellow House (1)
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Oosah Hosts up to 1TB of Media Online for Free [Online Storage] (50)
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Web application Oosah hosts a whopping one terabyte (that's 1,024 gigabytes) of media online for free. In addition to hosting videos, photos, and music you upload directly to the site, Oosah also integrates with Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, and YouTube. Once you've connected your accounts, you can actually drag and drop photos between webapps—so, for example, if you uploaded a photo to Oosah that you wanted to add to a Flickr set, you can ...
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Ullash said:
load all ur stuff and sucide when this service goes paid
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devnet said:
Integrated Services? Fantastic idea and great way to extend things.
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Mook® said:
Wow.. interesting. I've just signed up for an account once i saw this. Let's see how well I can manage to use it..
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Sai Prasad Kothapalle said:
Who wants to BUY space?
EveryTrail (1)
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Category: Travel Released: Sep 19, 2008 Price: Free Description:With this geotracking application, you can record your movements, take geotagged photos, make notes and immediately upload it all to EveryTrail, the leading online community for travel storytelling
DeletionPedia: Archive For Deleted Wikipedia Articles (1)
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MakeUseOf.com (778)
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DeletionPedia is an interesting website that Wikipedia fans should find quite handy. The website is basically an archive for deleted Wikipedia articles. Here you can search and read pages that were previously removed from English Wikipedia. There are currently about 63,500 deleted pages in its database, and more being added on a regular basis. Features: Search and read deleted Wikipedia pages. Currently lists over 63000 previously deleted articles from Wikipedia. No sign-up needed. Note: It’s ...
PrintWhatYouLike: Convert Webpages to Printer Friendly Format (1)
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Printing a webpage isn’t always a great experience, especially when you find out that the printout has more unnecessary stuff like graphics and ads than the actual content. PrintWhatYouLike is a website which aims to solve this problem. It helps you to convert any webpage to a printer-friendly format within seconds. Just enter the url, configure the page according to your preferences and there you go! You get the print out which you wanted - ...
Google Points Out to Advertisers How Easily Ads are Confused With Organic Results (9)
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Google created a German microsite called Google Full Value of Search to advertise their AdWords program, which shows ads in search results. A PDF they include (labeled “Google Confidential and Proprietary” in the footer) talks about a Google-initiated market study by Eye Square and TNS Infratest analyzing the efficiency of sponsored links on result pages. One slide includes an eye tracking study, showing where users focus on in results during the first 5 seconds; one ...
Venture Capital Cartograms: All California, All the Time (3)
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed (248)
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To be somewhat less serious than I have been of late here, here is some lovely eye-candy of the venture capital business in the U.S. Check out the following two cartograms from the current issue of Nature (and click for a larger version):
DialMyCalls: Quickly Send Voice Messages to Entire Phone List (1)
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Have you ever looked at a list of phone numbers with horror, knowing you had to call each one and tell them the exact same message? DialMyCalls has an easy solution for you. It is an online service which lets you record a message and then send it out to a list of phone numbers all within a matter of seconds. How does it work? 1. Register, login and record the message to needs to ...
Top Search Engine Marketing Tools (35)
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Aaron Wall is a search engine optimization consultant at Clientside SEM and the author of the SEO Book blog. Aaron lives in Oakland, California. This time he takes a look at the top SEO tools. The number of internet marketing tools launched over the past couple years has been staggering. Many of them are both free and highly valuable. SEO, which was once considered a bit of a seedy niche, has grown with search to ...
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Gine said:
Imperdibile! In un unico articolo, tutti i tool più utili.
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The Mason Technologist said:
Great set of tools and websites for SEO
Photie: Host Unlimited Photos Online & Share Them For Free (1)
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Photie is an interesting photo storage and sharing site. Interesting because it offers two features which you probably won’t find on any other such site. First, it lets you upload and store unlimited photos online, for free…yes, for free. And second feature - there are no file size restrictions. Further you can organize your images using tags and also share them on your website or different social media sites. Photie actually claims to be your ...
AbouThiSite: General Information About Any Website. (2)
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AbouThiSite (about this site) as the name suggests it helps you find it out more infomation about the website. Find out who is the owner of the website (aka WhoIS check), the location of the server, and site’s IP neighbors (other websites that are hosted on the same server) etc. Just type the domain name and click on “Go weasel it”. Features: Quickly lookup general info about any website. Website owner info, server location on ...
LongURL Expands Short URLs So You Know Where You're Going [Featured Firefox Extension] (57)
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Web site (and Firefox extension) LongURL expands URLs that have been shortened by services like TinyURL, Ping.fm, is.gd, and tons more, so you know where the link is pointing before you follow it. The site itself is a decent tool to begin with, but the Firefox extension is what makes LongURL really useful. Once installed, the LongURL extension will automatically expand a shortened URL in the tooltip when you hover over the link with your ...
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yolly said:
Create a solution and then reserve engineer the problem you created by solving it in the first place . . . or something like that anyway
Monitor Your Monthly Bandwidth with Your Router [Bandwidth] (33)
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In the face of internet service providers like Comcast instituting bandwidth-capping, the Simple Help weblog details how to use a router running the open-source DD-WRT firmware to monitor your bandwidth. It's actually very simple to do, requiring no work on your part aside from installing DD-WRT on your router. DD-WRT automatically tracks bandwidth, so from there it's a matter of knowing where to look. If you're running the user-friendly Tomato firmware (we also showed you ...
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Srinvard said:
maybe worth implementing?
How Boulder Became a Start-Up Town (2)
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Ben Casnocha: The Blog (39)
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I have a ~2,600 word piece in the latest issue of The American, the publication of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, on how Boulder, CO became a start-up town. Excerpt:In the past 15 years, Boulder has gone from a little hippie college town to a little hippie college town also boasting an impressive and growing congregation of Internet entrepreneurs, early-stage venture capitalists, and bloggers. How did Boulder pull this off? And what can other ...
Map Your Name's Frequency Across the Globe [Family Tree] (73)
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Find out what countries your family name is most common in with Public Profiler's World Names search and map. Enter your last name and you'll get back a world map with the countries where your name is most common colored in. Unsurprisingly, my last name has the highest frequency per million people in Italy, Argentina (where there are many Italians), then the U.S.. Public Profiler will also list top regions (for my name, Vermont first, ...
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Matt said:
I love random services like this.
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Jason Ardell said:
Very cool. My parents' names are most prevalent in Sweden and US, although both have significant showings in Canada.
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MDRoz said:
This is really neat.
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J.Wo said:
Wolgamott as a name is huge in Oregon, Nebraska and Kansas. Top City: Mesa AZ.
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Reid said:
This is kind of fun for a few minutes.
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Chad said:
My last name only achieved the darkest color in the UK. Weird.
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Sermed said:
This is a mildly entertaining (but slow) site. Who knew I'm so popular in Sweden?
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Elia said:
Nifty.
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munir said:
This is pretty sweet. Just checked Squires and it shows you which countries the name is common in, etc. Canada's the most, and within it Newfoundland. Australia also has lots of Squireses apparently.
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