This is my dumping ground for quotes and other stuff relating to the wonderful world of digital & communications.
ZUCKERBERG: The Musical! | cdza (by collectivecadenza) … seems an apt day to watch this :-)
Google Algo Changes - SEO Rapper (by m0serious)
Twitter-sourcing is the laziest form of research. It’s like going to the library, lying down on the floor, and asking relevant books to jump off the shelves onto your face
The Floppy Disk Icon means “save” for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
The Funniest Graph About Why the Euro Is Totally Doomed
If you spun a globe and stopped your finger 12 times on 12 random countries, they just might make more sense for a monetary union than the euro zone.
That’s the conclusion from this awesomely clever chart showing the difficulty, and maybe impossibility, of the euro experiment.Here is what this chart shows. Compared across more than 100 factors measured by the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report, from corruption to deficits, JP Morgan analyst Michael Cembalest calculates that the major countries on the euro are more different from each other than basically every random grab bag of nations there is, including: the make-believe reconstituted Ottoman Empire; all the English speaking Eastern and Southern African countries; and all countries on Earth at the 5th parallel north.
And here is your tweetable fact: A monetary union might make more sense for every nation starting with the letter “M” than it does for the euro zone.
Mexican internet portal Terra is encouraging dog owners to poop and scoop by offering them free WiFi in return. The company is piloting the idea at 10 parks in Mexico City… When people throw away their bags of poop in a special box in the park, it calculates the weight and Terra gives everyone free minutes of Wi-Fi in the park. The greater the weight, the more minutes are added
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. -JK
[via @tmbtx]
I love this, really clever concept and execution
(via xkcd: Ablogalypse)
(via xkcd: Reviews)
Amazing Anti-Thief Security Case! (by britishpathe)