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Terrifying Employment During Recession Comparison Graph

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The economy lost 36,000 jobs in February, not quite as bad as most forecasters had expected. The consensus forecast on Thursday had been for a net loss of 68,000 jobs, largely because of the snowstorms that battered the East Coast in February.

Comparing This Recession to Previous Ones: Job Losses [NY Times]

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FaceBook Harassment

Not everyone spends their lives on FaceBook.

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Best demonstration of Google Wave I’ve seen so far.


This video provides a very quick, yet very good demonstration of Google Wave with a touch of humor.  This may be the best Google Wave demonstration I’ve seen yet for the normal computer user.

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Retrospective: The Internet Will Fail.

From 1995:

Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet–which there isn’t–the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.

Found from a 1995 Newsweek article, Clifford Stoll doesn’t see how the Internet can be successful.  Looking at it from 15 years in the future, it’s hilarious how much he got wrong, but also sad how many of the problems he describes are still around today.

Why The Internet Will Fail (From 1995)

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Health Supplements – Worth It or Wasted?

It seems every other week there’s a new herb or substance that people should be taking to improve their health or performance. Many of these have little, if any, evidence that it helps at all. Others however have evidence and studies showing their benefits. Information is Beautiful has a useful interactive graphic to help you easily decipher which supplements are worth looking into. Reminder: Very few if any of these have been reviewed by the FDA.

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Snake Oil?  The Scientific Evidence for Health Supplements.

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