Posted by: clickry on: January 17, 2009
A few weeks ago the 100,000th knol was published, and we figured now is an excellent time to reflect on the first five months of Knol’s existence. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Since the start of the project, we’ve seen articles written on everything from [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 17, 2009
We believe great ideas can come from anywhere and everyone. And we aspire to be an organization that reflects global diversity, because we know that a world’s worth of perspectives, ideas and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We have more than a dozen employee-driven resource groups, from Gayglers to GWE [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 16, 2009
A 50bn Zimbabwean dollar note was issued on Tuesday Zimbabwe is introducing a Z$100 trillion note, currently worth about US$30 (£20), state media reports. Other notes in trillion-dollar denominations of 10, 20 and 50 are also being released to help Zimbabweans cope with hyperinflation. However, the dollarisation of the economy means that few products are [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 16, 2009
Except for a brief spike at the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, President Bush’s approval rating has seen a steady decline that is clearly inversely related to the rise in the total death toll of U.S. forces serving in Iraq. His standing certainly hasn’t been helped by the continuinig Iraqi civilian death [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 16, 2009
The US Airways jet in the Hudson River A former executive producer at ABC’s Good Morning America and a senior broadcast producer at NBC Nightly News, Ben Sherwood has written a new book, The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life, that discusses, among other things, what you can do to [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 16, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME John Maynard Keynes, the trendiest dead economist of this apocalyptic moment, was the godfather of government stimulus. Keynes had the radical idea that throwing money at recessions through aggressive deficit spending would resuscitate flatlined economies — and he wasn’t too particular about where the money was [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 16, 2009
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision that was criticized by the government on Wednesday for setting a dangerous precedent. The Constitutional Tribunal ordered that Pablo Cayo be given his job back as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, which [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 16, 2009
I still haven’t tried the Windows 7 beta, but everywhere I look I see more and more people speaking very positively about it (our own Dave Freeman positively shines with happiness talking about it). Truth be told, I’m not very interested in operating systems these days: the overwhelming majority of things I use my computers [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 16, 2009
There’s a post title I thought I’d never write. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, posted a video of her cats on her official YouTube page and then promptly RickRolls viewers at the 37 second mark. “In honor of the launch of http://YouTube.com/HouseHub, Speaker Pelosi presents a behind the scenes view [...]
Posted by: clickry on: January 16, 2009
Burger King, through their insanely creative advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky (see their recent Burger King perfume launch), launches a Facebook application that encourages users to remove Facebook friends. Sacrifice ten of them and you got a free Whopper. 233,906 friends were removed by 82,771 people in less than a week. Facebook is overjoyed, [...]
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