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Orange juice here doesn’t have vitamin C in it. What’s up with that?

China’s state-run news agency made a gaffe Thursday when it published an “in space” conversation among the Chinese astronauts even before they left Earth.

Haha. Oops.

J Dilla mixed with the Beach Boys. Genius? More interesting than the “Grey Album.”

http://www.myspace.com/bullionness

UPDATE: He took down all the good songs recently, oh well.

This is a good one:

This chart is slightly less intuitive but still makes a point:

It’s quite clear whose interests each candidate is looking out for. Who’s the elitist?

The Freakonomics blog has more charts, as well as a brief discussion of the layout of the charts. Chart making is full of challenges from a design perspective.

The view from my office at work.

John Robb @ Global Guerrillas:

Google has filed patents to create deep sea floating platforms to house its massive data centers. Not only would these “barges” be economical (lower cooling and energy costs), they would be outside tax and enforcement jurisdictions of all nation-states. If this effort is successful, it could result in an effort to rapidly construct offshore facilities (spread out for robustness and built by a multitude of companies). Interestingly, since the core of most multinationals is now software (people are replaceable and/or interchangeable via outsourcing), the shift to offshore locations would make companies nearly invulnerable to state coercion.

Assuming feasibility, in some ways it could be a good thing, if it means avoiding stupid laws like the DMCA. But what about non-stupid, beneficial laws & regulations? How far does a “do no evil” motto go to curb potential abuses of monopoly power or legal invulnerability?