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Can We Please Stop Pretending That Microsoft’s Bing Is Doing Well?

Over the past month or so, there has been a lot of enthusiasm about how much market share Microsoft’s Bing search engine is gaining.
One writer even went so far as to suggest that Bing will pass Google in market share next year.
The implication of thes…


Can We Please Stop Pretending That Microsoft’s Bing Is Doing Well?

Over the past month or so, there has been a lot of enthusiasm about how much market share Microsoft’s Bing search engine is gaining.
One writer even went so far as to suggest that Bing will pass Google in market share next year.
The implication of thes…


Rules for golfing during the blitz

This sign was purportedly posted in 1940 in a north country British country club, regarding the special rules of play for bombed-out golf greens.

Stiff Upper Lip

(via Neatorama)


Tracking Your Every Move: iPhone Retains Extensive Location History

Today, Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan revealed that Apple’s iPhone maintains an apparently indefinite log of its location history. To show the data available, they produced and demoed an application called iPhone Tracker for plotting these locations…


To understand the U.S. federal budget, divide by 100,000,000

Philip Greenspun divided the U.S. 2011 federal budget by 100,000,000 and wrote a little parable:

We have a family that is spending $38,200 per year. The family’s income is $21,700 per year. The family adds $16,500 in credit card debt every year in ord…