The factoid, from the June Harper’s Index, sent my blood pressure north and my fingers to the keyboard:
Amount of federal money that went to National Public Radio in 2010: $2.7 million
To Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University: $446 million
WTH?
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Grab This Twitter RSS Bookmarklet
One of the complaints (one of my complaints) about the new Twitter UI is that you can’t see an RSS link for anyone else’s feed. Alex Chaffee fixes that with this download. Go get it now!
Here’s a bookmarklet, written by @jacobrothstein and converted by @alexch using Gruber’sBookmarklet Builder script.
Tip to @marshallk
GoogleDoodle Taps 7-Year-Old Artist
Seven-year-old Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco CA walked away with the top prize in the GoogleDoodle contest. His vision of “Space Life” led the 107,000 entries. His goal:
[To] become an astronaut and explore space life. I want to wear a space suit, fly in space, walk on the moon and make friends with aliens in other planets.
Google Doodle : Space Life : Matteo Lopez
As the contest winner, Lopez wins not only a $15,000 college scholarship and a netbook, but his drawing is being featured on the Google U.S. homepage all day today. Moreover, Google is giving his school a $25,000 technology grant.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York will display the top 40 regional finalists through June 16; the exhibit will be mirrored at SFMOMA in San Francisco from May 20 through July 19.
Broadband Competition and Service: US versus Europe
The internet is not a toy, it is a strategic infrastructure. It may have at one time been envisioned as a defense strategic infrastructure, but today it nurtures global business and connection.
Why, then, does the U.S. have such lousy broadband when we look at our European neighbors? Or Japan? Or South Korea? Continue reading
Anatomy of a Facebook Spam: See Who’s Stalking You
It wasn’t how I planned to spend a Sunday afternoon.
I saw a “see who’s stalking you” genre post on a friend’s page and thought, “hmmm, is this still around?” A quick Google search revealed SEO-focused stories at Gawker (and other sites) … where the author shows you ways to legitimately see who has most recently viewed (“stalked”) your profile.
But I did not see any new (that is, within the past few days) posts, so I thought I would check it out. Carefully, of course! Curiosity, in this case, bit into my Sunday afternoon. But I’m sharing my experience (and lessons learned) so that you can safely exercise your curiosity!
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