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Monthly Archives: July 2008
The problem with YouTube…
You can’t be bothered writing a thousand words; after all you leave on holiday tonight. What can you do?
Make a video and paste it on YouTube! Quick and easy.Pity that within minutes of posting it, YouTube take it down.
http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2008/07/post-5.html
FAIL!
The perils of translation software…
AdFreak: Then we’ll grab a bite at 404 Not Found
Isn’t Darpa working on hand-held translation devices?When will the first war start because of a machine translation error?
Don’t rent a car here…
“Many locals pay substitutes to take driving tests for them; leaving many of the city’s new rich with big cars but only the most basic driving skills. Reverse parking their brand new Audi means summoning aid, usually from a passerby or, even better, a taxi driver.
“Welcome to China’s backwater – population five million | World news | guardian.co.uk
Just when you think that there are no artists left…
Google Docs goes down just in time for morning meetings…
Seems that ValleyWag doesn’t understand that Google Docs now works offline. However, that wouldn’t make a good story for them.
Breakdowns: Google Docs goes down just in time for morning meetings
Also of note; they don’t understand that morning meetings are occuring 24/7 a week because there are meetings that occur outside of the valley!
It never rains…
…it pours bad news!
“The article focuses primarily on three measures: the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI), the quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the monthly figure for the unemployment rate. Phillips convincingly demonstrates that the real unemployment rate in the United States is between 9 and 12 percent, not the 5 percent or less that is officially claimed. The real rate of inflation is not 2 or 3 percent, but instead, between 7 and 10 percent. And real economic growth has been about 1 percent, not the 3-4 percent officially claimed during the most recent Wall Street and housing bubble that has burst.”
Data Fudging 101. The History Of US Government Statistics Manipulation | MadConomist.com
It would be nice to think that one result of this mess would be real international standards for economic reporting. However, I can’t see that happening. Can you?
They’re still shipping and we don’t notice…
“OLPC has shipped over 300,000 units to kids around the world. They plan to ship at least another 50,000 more each month, and very likely more than that. It’s entirely possible that by the end of 2008, there will be a million OLPC systems deployed worldwide.”
New sport for the summer…
Spotting the compyright criminals on the silver screen.
“Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities”