Top 50 in demand occupations
Occupations whose Median Wage is less than $20/hr were eliminated.
(tags: work)
Skilled-worker shortage: fact or fiction?
(tags: work)
No slowdown for U.S. tech industry
(tags: work economics)
Green collar jobs and the green/labor alliance
(tags: politics environment work labor)
What Nuclear Renaissance?
(tags: energy politics environment)
Kids pose as paedophiles online to scare each other
(tags: youth internet sexcrime)
Urban miners look […]
“Miranda is a black box-like arrest documentation device that records video, audio, motion, impact, location, and other data and streams it over cell phone data networks to third party observers such as the ACLU.”
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Is this a real, available device or just a design concept?
(Thanks Michael)
Storm Botnet disruption and national security
(tags: security global tech politics)
10 Impressive Parkour and Free Running Videos
(tags: video parkour urban)
Open Source Living
(tags: opensource tech enterprise2.0)
Info and more: Yanko Design
(via Grinding)
From Day to Day:
To combat the skyrocketing price of flour, several Massachusetts bakeries have taken on a project that’s part Little Red Hen, part World War II Victory Garden. The bakeries are recruiting their customers to till up their lawns and gardens and plant wheat.
Listen to it at NPR
This sounds like a better solution to […]
China becomes world’s largest Internet population
(tags: internet net trends tech global economics business China)
PHPmyvisits
open source web analytics software
(tags: business opensource enterprise2.0 internet)
Piwiki
The new version of PHPmyvisits: open source web analytics
(tags: business opensource internet enterprise2.0)
Circumcised men no less likely to get STDs other than HIV
(tags: sex)
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More new funk carioca at Fat Planet
The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence despite being watched by a CCTV camera.
Then, during darkness and hidden behind a sheet of polythene, he painted this comment on ‘Big Brother’ society.
Yesterday the scaffolding gang returned to remove all evidence - again without the camera operator stopping […]
Top 25 Settlements: Portland Police Incidents settled 1993-2008
(tags: police portland)
Mother Jones: Natural Capitalism
(tags: business economics environment)
Rob Walker writes about Despair Inc. in the New York Times
(tags: marketing work business)
Niche Dating Sites Grow Steadily As Mainstream Ones Flail
(tags: business marketing socialnetworks web2.0 dating)
Hesk - open source help desk software
(tags: opensource business enterprise2.0)
Johnny Brainwash rightly pointed out that food rationing isn’t really happening. But it’s scary to see the WSJ pushing food hoarding:
I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
No, this is not a drill.
You’ve seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, […]
Lack of skilled workers will lead to fiscal crisis, experts say
(tags: work economics business)
Knockin’ You Out Like Rocky Balboa
(tags: politics 2008 hillary obama)
SixApart Buys Social Media Agency Apperceptive
(tags: tech media business)
What to make of all this…
Google Profit Jumps 30% Despite Slowing Economy
Federated Media takes $50 million in VC
Six Apart Launches Ad Network
Meanwhile:
Food rationing is back.
Teen spending at 17 year low
Teen hiring has slumped by 5 percent since March 2007, with many mom-and-pop stores, which typically hire younger workers, laying off employees. Hiring in the overall job market fell by just 0.1 percent during the same period.
(tags: economics youth business work)
Palestinian girls, dating, and the mobile phone
(tags: culture youth global […]