AT high schools and colleges across the country, students are hard at work, tilling their land and harvesting their vegetables.
Jim Wilson/The New York Times PLAYING Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, says his game company is profitable.
“It is clear this obsession with FarmVille is an issue, especially since it is taking away time from studying and [...]
New Design Rolls Out to the Rest
Update: YouTube says:
Over the past few months we’ve been hard at work redesigning our brand channel layout and many partners and advertisers have already opted into, and taken advantage of, this new design. Today we’re beginning the process of converting all remaining partner and advertiser channels still using the [...]
Today marks the 57th anniversary of the first patent of the barcode. It was patented by Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver, who sold the patent before the industry standard UPC ever took off. The Telegraph has a nice history piece here as does HowStuffworks.
Personally, I couldn’t believe that the bar code was invented soooo long [...]
Two helpings of Facebook shares apparently weren’t enough. Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies has gone back to the well for a third time, spending perhaps $100 million to buy still more shares in the social networking company.
Digital Sky first demonstrated its appetite for Facebook shares back in May, when it spent about $200 million [...]
If the number of your Twitter followers drops today, don’t sweat it. It’s not you, it’s Twitter.
Twitter is correcting data inconsistencies in user’s follower counts, the company announced today:
For some time, the follower and following counts we display have been incorrect for some folks. We’re soon to push a change that will address this issue. [...]
I really wish Gavin would put as much effort into getting the oddities with the GISTEMP dataset fixed rather than writing coffee table books and trying new models to show the sun has little impact.
This paper gets extra points for using the word “robust”. – Anthony
Solar trends and global warming (PDF here)
R. E. Benestad
Climate Division, [...]
By Nik Cubrilovic on Twitter
The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected. No personal accounts were compromised, and “most of the sensitive information was personal rather than company-related,” he said. [...]
Can Google be your phone company? The answer is yes. I came to that conclusion after I met with Vincent Paquet, co-founder of GrandCentral (a company acquired by Google) and now a member of the Google Voice team. Earlier today he stopped by our office to show the mobile app versions of its Google [...]
Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong
Published: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 – 11:45 in Earth & Climate
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No one knows exactly how much Earth’s climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists’ best predictions about global warming might be incorrect. The study, which appears in Nature Geoscience, found [...]
Though, a couple of the cheerleaders don’t look all that happy.
Left to Right: Dr. Gavin Schmidt (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Dr. Paul Knappenberger (President of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum), Dr. Wally Broecker (Columbia University), and Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert (University of Chicago) pose for a photo after the first of the Global Climate [...]
