!= != != != != != != != != != != != != != !=

Don’t be accidentally on purpose evil. gOfficialblog: Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted us to [...]

The Guardian (formerly known as Teh Grauniad but since displaced by the NY Teims) does a number on HM:

The “International Institute for General Systems Studies” (IIGSS) valiantly undertakes to visualize systematic thought: Highlights include: But of course the devil’s in the details:

Here. (hk)

Greenspan’s body count (Angry bear)

“Keeping track of hosted services as they lay dying.” See also: Fucked Company, Disobey’s “Ghost Sites,” 427(?) “screenshots of farewell web pages of failed dot-coms and other dead web sites,” archive.org’s 1 Aug ’01 dupe of projectme’s “dotcom screenshot graveyard,” and the Business Plan Archive (4,064 entries).

This NYT graph (from late May) claims that, over the last century+, the worldwide number of disasters ranges from close to zero to 390 in 2006. We’ll leave the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disaster’s methods and other specifics for later, and make one general observation. If indeed variations in lots of things [...]

The entry on Waste Management, Inc.: Like wind and solar power, landfill gas is a natural resource that can be harnessed to produce clean energy[citation needed]. Waste Management’s landfill gas-to-energy program is a vital and important part of North America’s drive to develop alternative energy sources and promote environmental sustainability.[citation needed] Found in the search [...]