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How much sugar is in the stuff you’re eating? Kind of gross.

http://www.sugarstacks.com/

Koreans work too many hours. Some jobs in Korea operate on a 6 day work week.

This is interesting, Google is datamining search terms and their geographical origin to map out and graph flu epidemics. It matches up with CDC figures fairly accurately.

There’s a lot of data to be gleaned from search statistics, this seems like the tip of the iceberg, but interesting no less.

Also, this is part of Google.org — which “aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging disease.” Sounds good.

HAHA this is great. Dude tapes electrodes to his face and syncs the shocks to a music visualizer, so his face contorts with the various sounds of the song.

Exxon’s profits were nearly $90,000 a minute over the quarter, but it was less than Wall Street had expected. Exxon’s shares fell 4.6 percent, to close at $80.43. (The company calculates that it pays $274,000 a minute in taxes and spends $884,000 a minute to run the business.)

NYT

Vanity Fair maps the blogosphere. Part of it, anyway.

This graph from the NYT is interesting. Why do information and communications technologies tend to be adopted more quickly than, say,washing machines? Is one a luxury and the other a necessity? One is single purpose, the other  multipurpose? Higher value? Moore’s law? What of the lag in telephone adoption, versus the rapid spread of radio, way back when?