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Colabs: too much money, not enough experience in Budapest - Eastist: Startups in Central & Eastern Europe

Thu, 24 May 2012 06:48:05 +0200

Colabs: too much money, not enough experience in Budapest - Eastist: Startups in Central & Eastern Europe

Success Tips: 6 Habits of Truly Memorable People | Inc.com

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:04:20 +0200

Success Tips: 6 Habits of Truly Memorable People | Inc.com:

Awesome advice to actually enjoy your life rather than collecting bullet points on your resume.

"Historically, bankers have gotten a 7% fee for tech IPOs. Facebook paid just over 1%."

Tue, 22 May 2012 03:54:08 +0200

“Historically, bankers have gotten a 7% fee for tech IPOs. Facebook paid just over 1%.”

- How The Media (Including TechCrunch) Is Wrong About Facebook’s IPO | TechCrunch

"Investing is a binary activity, and its practitioners are speed junkies. A New Jersey company,..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:28:25 +0200

“Investing is a binary activity, and its practitioners are speed junkies. A New Jersey company, Hibernia Atlantic, is spending $300 million to run a new cable across the Atlantic Ocean so that information can travel 5.2 milliseconds faster between New York and London.”

- Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle - NYTimes.com

"The prospect of willfully inducing creativity conjures images of an augmented future, one where..."

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:27:20 +0200

“The prospect of willfully inducing creativity conjures images of an augmented future, one where people carry around portable brain machines and give themselves a zap when circumstances demand an extra burst of intelligence. Maybe some people will choose to be permanently buzzed, at the cost of some verbal ability.”

- Eureka! When a Blow to the Head Creates a Sudden Genius - Brian Fung - Health - The Atlantic

"Google Trends, which monitors searches from around the world, shows that of the seven countries that..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:30:20 +0200

“Google Trends, which monitors searches from around the world, shows that of the seven countries that most frequently search the word “sex” on Google, five are Muslim and one (India) has a large Muslim minority. (The word “sexy” is even more popular among Arabs.) Google Insights, another trend spotter, shows that the most rapidly rising search term for Iranians so far in 2012 has been “Golshifteh Farahani,” a popular exiled actress who in January posed topless for the French magazine Madame Figaro.”

- The Ayatollah Under the Bed(sheets) - By Karim Sadjadpour | Foreign Policy

"Last time it was Republicans who were against a flip-flopping, out-of-touch elitist from..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 04:15:03 +0200

““Last time it was Republicans who were against a flip-flopping, out-of-touch elitist from Massachusetts, and now it’s Democrats,” Nyhan said.”

- Partisan Psychology: Why Do People Choose Political Loyalties Over Facts? : It’s All Politics : NPR

"I’M AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE INTERNET THAT YOU REPOST ON THE INTERNET"

Tue, 08 May 2012 04:26:13 +0200

“I’M AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE INTERNET THAT YOU REPOST ON THE INTERNET”

- How could I resist reposting this one? I cannot! Teddy Wayne: Sharing on the Internet : The New Yorker

'Avengers' conquer world box office as U.S. audiences wait - latimes.com

Sat, 05 May 2012 05:23:31 +0200

'Avengers' conquer world box office as U.S. audiences wait - latimes.com:

Yes, I’ve already seen the Avengers. It was playing in Malaysia last month. So there!

"Tehran is threatened not only by what America does, but by what America is: a depraved, postmodern..."

Sat, 05 May 2012 05:18:33 +0200

“Tehran is threatened not only by what America does, but by what America is: a depraved, postmodern colonial power bent on achieving global cultural hegemony. America’s “strategic policy,” Khamenei has said, “is seeking female promiscuity.””

- The Mullahs’ Greatest Fear: Kim Kardashian - The Daily Beast

MIT Project Aims to Deliver Printable, Mass-Market Robots | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:26:21 +0200

MIT Project Aims to Deliver Printable, Mass-Market Robots | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:

Okay. I am officially freaked out.

"Some two-thirds of companies from Germany and other countries operating in Hungary are very..."

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:00:18 +0200

“Some two-thirds of companies from Germany and other countries operating in Hungary are very dissatisfied with the lack of predictability in Hungarian economic policies and are worried about legal security, a report published on Monday showed. The report compiled by the German Chamber of Commerce in Hungary also found that 55% of respondents have negative expectations for the country’s economy.”

- German Companies ‘Unhappy’ with Hungary Policies - Emerging Europe Real Time - WSJ

"There’s now a large body of evidence showing that those who opt for the political left and those who..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:03:07 +0200

“There’s now a large body of evidence showing that those who opt for the political left and those who opt for the political right tend to process information in divergent ways and to differ on any number of psychological traits.”

- Liberals and conservatives don’t just vote differently. They think differently. - The Washington Post

A few days ago The Pirate Bay announced that in future parts of...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:10:43 +0200

A few days ago The Pirate Bay announced that in future parts of its site could be hosted on GPS controlled drones. To many this may have sounded like a joke, but in fact these pirate drones already exist. Project “Electronic Countermeasures” has built a swarm of five fully operational drones which prove that an “aerial Napster” or an “airborne Pirate Bay” is not as futuristic as it sounds. (via World’s First Flying File-Sharing Drones in Action | TorrentFreak)

gulfnews : Dubai's iris scan helps arrest 54,000 suspects last year

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:20:38 +0200

gulfnews : Dubai's iris scan helps arrest 54,000 suspects last year

"One killer asteroid we’ve been monitoring is Apophis, which is large enough to fill the Rose Bowl...."

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:52:58 +0200

“One killer asteroid we’ve been monitoring is Apophis, which is large enough to fill the Rose Bowl. On Friday the 13th, April 2029, it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. If its trajectory on that day passes within a narrow range of altitudes called the “keyhole,” then the influence of Earth’s gravity on its orbit will guarantee that seven years later, in 2036, on its next trip around the Sun, the asteroid will hit Earth directly, likely slamming into the Pacific Ocean. The tsunami it creates will devastate all the coastlines of the Pacific Rim. If Apophis misses the keyhole in 2029, we’ll have nothing to worry about in 2036.”

- We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won’t Be Easy | Wired Science | Wired.com

“[i]t has been said that ‘he who controls the moon controls the...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:48:14 +0200

“[i]t has been said that ‘he who controls the moon controls the earth.’ Our planners must carefully evaluate this statement for, if true – and I, for one, think it is – then the U.S. must control the moon.” (via Who Controls the Moon Controls the Earth (1958) | Wired Science | Wired.com)

"This is certainly one of the metaphors for what our future is going to look like: a bewildered human..."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:24:43 +0100

“This is certainly one of the metaphors for what our future is going to look like: a bewildered human stands in the dark as hundreds of quiet robots route around him doing all the work. And a marketer looks on.”

- Welcome to the Real Future: Labor Bots and Pothole-Filling Machines - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

The Pirate Bay Claims It's Going To Host The Site Via Drones Flying Over International Waters | Techdirt

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:15:34 +0100

The Pirate Bay Claims It's Going To Host The Site Via Drones Flying Over International Waters | Techdirt

today’s spring breakers — at least some of them — say they have...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:59:57 +0100

today’s spring breakers — at least some of them — say they have been tamed, in part, not by parents or colleges or the fed-up cities they invade, but by the hand-held gizmos they hold dearest and the fear of being betrayed by an unsavory, unsanctioned photo or video popping up on Facebook or YouTube. (via Spring Break Gets Tamer as World Watches Online - NYTimes.com)