Links for July 2nd through April 7th
April 7th, 2008These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 2nd through April 7th:
- The effect of Nuclear War on Climate Change : Weather Underground - Effects of a small nuclear war: Pro: worldwide cooling effect would offset global warming. Con: Crop failures, starvation, and holes in the ozone layer cause a decade or more of famine and suffering.
- Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin — Way Beyond - Amazing fact from this story: The human body contains nine bacterial cells for every cell of our own.
- Building a Wall 1 - Introduction | DoItYourself.com - tips on layout & construction. came in handy today
- IDC - Press Release - 1.6 exabytes (1,645 petabytes) of storage capacity was sold in Q4 2007
- IDC serves up top 10 storage predictions for 2008 - According to IDC, storage capacity is exploding at a rate of almost 60% per year.
- Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » YouTube Statistics - 78.3 million videos representing over 412 years of video time, as of March 2008
- Twitter vs. Blogger redux (kottke.org) - nice J curves
- Fed Shrugged as Subprime Crisis Spread - New York Times - Missed this in December, but it’s still shocking: people in the Fed and Treasury saw subprime problems as early as 2000, and nobody did anything. In fact, regulatory policy actually encouraged *more* mortgage monkey business