Links 12/4/10
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Poorer nations ‘need carbon cuts’ BBC Sold for slaughter: The hundreds of Dartmoor ponies that nobody wants Daily Mail (hat tip reader May S) :-( 2 more rare red foxes confirmed in Sierra Nevada PhysOrg Site Scrapers Find Free Money on the Web Ed Harrison State Dept. warning prospective recruits to.. .. read more..
Temporary Help Services starting to slow, Small Business hiring \"Bleak\"
Friday, June 4, 2010
One more graph based on data in the employment report ... Earlier employment posts today: May Employment Report: 20K Jobs ex-Census, 9.7% Unemployment Rate for graphs of unemployment rate and a comparison to previous recessions. Employment-Population Ratio, Part Time Workers, Unemployed over 26 Week.. .. read more..
Gangsters > Government
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Johann Hari reviews Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition : By 1926, [Al Capone] and his fellow gangsters were making $3.6 billion a year—in 1926 money! To give some perspective, that was more than the entire expenditure of the U.S. government. The criminals could outbid a.. .. read more..
Hotel offers cultural \'night school\' for guests
Thursday, June 3, 2010
The global recession has made things tougher in virtually every industry, but it comes as a particularly sharp blow to those that were already highly competitive. Hotels, for example, have had to keep innovating to survive, whether by implementing the latest technologies or hiring a roving reader i.. .. read more..
Tummling, SideWiki, Twitter and the Tragedy of the Comments revisited
Monday, September 28, 2009
Says Marshall Kirkpatrick in Twitter is More Likely to Be Meaningful Than TV In one of those conversations, Kevin Marks (formerly of Technorati and Google, now at British Telecom) told me the following: he believes that Twitter is more likely to be interesting than television because we opt-in to pa.. .. read more..