Being the Pope these days is like being CEO of Microsoft. Still grasping straws of old technology and beliefs. In charge of a shrinking user base and praying your remaining stock remains blind and doesn’t know there’s a better way out there.
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Deep Inside - A study of 10,000 Porn Stars ›
This is a fantastic data analysis of the porn industry. Ignoring it’s about porn, it’s a great example of how to study and present data about any topic. Well worth the read and the full infographic is available for download.
For example, what’s the average female porn star look?
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#data analysis
NASCAR blocks eyewitness video of Daytona crash, but YouTube reverses the takedown ›
Of course, NASCAR claims it’s to protect the victims.
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#accident
#daytona
#youtube
This picture is in time with the average heart rate. What you’re hearing is the sound of your blood pumping, which you aren’t normally aware of. This picture tricks your mind into making yourself aware of your heart rate, so you hear it.
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#Failing
Sometimes, late at night when I’m lying in the dark, I feel I’ve failed the Internet because I’ve never posted a picture of a cat.
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#internet
Royal Crown: Gene Tierney, Hedy Lamarr, Lauren Bacall, Claudette Colbert e Barbara Stanwyck
(via penguindelight)
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I guess it’s okay for CBS to show a 2 slutty, broke girls pole dancing commercial, but SodaStream can’t say that using their products will save bottles.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/willburns/2013/01/31/cbs-bans-sodastream-ad-wheres-the-outrage/
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#CBS
#Super Bowl
#Censorship
#Ads
Amazon’s price-earnings ratio is currently a mind-boggling 3,275x. Apple’s is 10x. Traditional valuation metrics are obviously pointless for Amazon, but if you were to use Amazon’s PE for Apple, the stock would be trading at $144,618 per share, for a market cap of $136 trillion.
Jay Yarow of Business Insider riffing on Mark Geimein’s post on Bloomberg about Apple versus Amazon in the profit department.
[via Warren Colbert]
(via parislemon)But is comparing these companies fair? They’re in different businesses. Apple’s in business to make money and Amazon clearly isn’t.
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Could These Crazy Intersections Make Us Safer?
Everybody knows, that four-way intersections are dangerous. So, what are the alternatives? Head over to The Atlantic Cities Blog to see some interesting proposals for alternative intersections.
“Geometry tells us that the traditional four-way intersection is inherently dangerous. When you plot all of the potential points of conflict on a diagram – and transportation engineers actually do this – it turns out that vehicles have 32 distinct opportunities to collide into one another at the nexus of two two-lane roadways. Cars can crash into each other while merging or diverging from a given lane. Then the worst action happens right in the middle of the interchange, at that perilous point where vehicles turn left across oncoming traffic. […] Engineers concocted some much more intricate intersection designs – and in a few cases actually built them – to improve road safety, save states money and generally stall the inevitable expansion of highways.
Interesting. But long slabs of concrete taking up more space.
(via emergentfutures)
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? ›
Pretty interesting website with interactive graphics.
The answer to the simple question in that headline is surprisingly hard to come by. So Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive. This data is necessarily incomplete. But the more people who are paying attention, the better the data will be. You can help us draw a more complete picture of gun violence in America. If you know about a gun death in your community that isn’t represented here, please tweet @GunDeaths with a citation. (If you’re not on Twitter, you can email slatedata@gmail.com.) And if you’d like to use this data yourself for your own projects, it’s open. You can download it here.
