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How Many Vacation Days Do You Get Every Year? [Reader Poll] September 3rd, 2010, 03:55 PM |
Shared by TPRJones
With a long weekend ahead here in the States, everybody's gearing up for a little government-sanctioned R&R. But how about the rest of the year, when it's not a government holiday?
Regardless of how many vacation days you get, it's also worth keeping in mind that you still need to, you know, use them—something Americans are particularly bad at doing. Photo by biker germany. |
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Comic for September 1, 2010 September 1st, 2010, 02:00 AM |
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RT: head in the clouds September 3rd, 2010, 09:00 AM |
I'm posting today's comic from a plane, 32,000 feet in the air. Thanks technology! You win again!
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Darwin's secret September 2nd, 2010, 03:36 PM |
Shared by TPRJonesWhy Darwin's little-known "project" in the South Atlantic is still causing debate today |
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Mac indie dev asks The Pirate Bay to keep a torrent of his software August 25th, 2010, 10:00 PM |
As a software developer myself, I know how hard it is to see your product being ripped off. We have recently reported on how even $2 iPhone games (like Stardunk) or iPad games (like Aqua Globs HD) are not immune despite their low cost and closed platforms. Their developers have reported piracy rates as high as 38% and 50%, respectively.Mac developer Dmitry Chestnykh of Coding Robots recently came across a crack on The Pirate Bay for his journal keeping application Mémoires and decided to use different tactics. Out of curiosity, he downloaded the crack to see how it worked, and he did not like what he found one bit, ... but it's not for the reasons you might think. Reproduced below is a portion of the official complaint he has filed with the Pirate Bay, under the heading of "Notice of Ridiculous Activity" (keep in mind English isn't Dmitry's first language). Dmitry: for your vigorous defense of Quality, TUAW salutes you. [via torrentfreak.com] TUAWMac indie dev asks The Pirate Bay to keep a torrent of his software originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. |
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How does booze extend your lifespan? August 31st, 2010, 09:41 PM |
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People who drink heavily live longer than those who completely abstain from alcohol, according to a new study conducted by a psychologist at the University of Texas. How, exactly, does booze extend your lifespan? [more ...]
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Kitteh Graph of teh Day: OHMAIGUDNESSITSAKITTEH! August 30th, 2010, 06:30 PM |
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Source: XKCD |
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Charts: College Tuition vs. Housing Bubble vs. Medical Costs September 1st, 2010, 12:29 PM |
Shared by TPRJones ![]() This chart from Clusterstock (via Carpe Diem) shows the cost of college tuition comparison to historical housing prices and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the same period. The CPI is designed to track our cost of living by estimating the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households. Everything was normalized to 100 starting in 1978. While housing went up 4x at its peak (~400), college tuition has gone up over 10x. Instapundit Glenn Reynolds says the higher education bubble is about to burst:
The college tuition prices being tracked in the chart was done by the CPI for US cities for “College Tuition and Fees”. According to this BLS.gov link, this tracks actual expenditures by households, and not some measure of median college tuition, which is often just the “retail price” before various forms of financial aid and/or scholarships. Another hot topic is the rapidly rising cost of health care. Well, college tuition CPI beats that too, from this Wikipedia chart: ![]() I know that I’m scared to imagine what college will cost in another 20 years. Dealing with this issue will be tricky, with huge amounts of easy government credit being given to 18-year-olds that are being told by everyone (including parents) that it is totally worth it. For many people, it will indeed be worth it. For others, not so much. In my humble opinion, it also seems obvious that this trend can’t survive forever. But will it burst like a bubble? Perhaps if the government turns off the loans suddenly, but that seems unlikely. I like Reynold’s idea that there may be an educational revolution with the internet, online coursework, and changing educational standards. |
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Copenhagen's Bicycle Butlers - Park Illegally and get your chain oiled and tires pumped August 26th, 2010, 04:41 AM |
![]() Photo: Niels Ahlmann Olesen for Berlingske.dk / Urban.dk The City of Copenhagen has been on a 'charm offensive' since April 2010. The goal is to get more people to use the bike racks around the city's Metro stations, instead of leaning them up against everything else. Here's the simple trick. If you park your bicycle illegally, the City will move it over to the bike racks. Instead of finger-wagging, they will then oil your chain, pump your tires and leave a little note on your bicycle asking to kindly use the bike racks in the future. How brilliant is that? And the great thing is that the initiative has worked. "It's about getting people to stop parking their bicycles in areas that emergency service vehicles need to access if there is an incident at a Metro station", said Project Leader Poul Erik Kinimond, as his colleague Morten Schelbech oils a chain in the background. Twice a day they move bicycles at the city's largest Metro stations. "We're been called "Bicycle Butlers". People really like what we do". When the project started in April they were moving around 150 bicycles a day. Today that number has dropped to between 30 and 50. "It's been a bigger success than I had expected. At the beginning I wasn't keen on rewarding people who parked illegally. The idea was to tackle the problem in a way that wouldn't make people angry because we moved their bicycles", sais Kinimond. "But we haven't had one single person who was angry", added Morten Schelbech. He doesn't think that people will begin to park illegally in order to get a free oil and air service. "We can recognize the same bicycles that are parked illegally several days in a row. They don't get oil or air." The "Bicycle Butler" project will continue until at least January, 2011. Thanks to Rasmus, Lars and Charlotte for the link. Via: Berlingske.dk Copenhagenize the planet. And have a lovely day.
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Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010 August 31st, 2010, 04:30 PM |
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View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones. The final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system. Earth Cross |